Here Also We Found A Great Hotel, A Huge, Square
Building, Such As We In England Might Perhaps Place Near
To a
railway terminus in such a city as Glasgow or Manchester, but on
which no living Englishman would expend
His money in a town even
five times as big again as St. Paul. Everything was sufficiently
good, and much more than sufficiently plentiful. The whole thing
went on exactly as hotels do down in Massachusetts or the State of
New York. Look at the map and see where St. Paul is. Its distance
from all known civilization - all civilization that has succeeded in
obtaining acquaintance with the world at large - is very great.
Even American travelers do not go up there in great numbers,
excepting those who intend to settle there. A stray sportsman or
two, American or English, as the case may be, makes his way into
Minnesota for the sake of shooting, and pushes on up through St.
Paul to the Red River. Some few adventurous spirits visit the
Indian settlements, and pass over into the unsettled regions of
Dacotah and Washington Territory. But there is no throng of
traveling. Nevertheless, a hotel has been built there capable of
holding three hundred guests, and other hotels exist in the
neighborhood, one of which is even larger than that at St. Paul.
Who can come to them, and create even a hope that such an
enterprise may be remunerative? In America it is seldom more than
hope, for one always hears that such enterprises fail.
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