hotel-entrances

Updated: May 2, 2025

The hotel-entrances were crowded with loungers, in snow-white clothing, large Leghorn or palmetto hats, and fancy-coloured shirts, who smoked cigars incessantly, and generally discussed with energy the inroads of the Indians, or other leading topics of the day.

John Benwell - An Englishman's Travels in America: His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States