ABSTRACT
The complaints which have appeared in the Times of the management of the Charing Cross Hotel must at any rate be satisfactory to shareholders in similar establishments, existing or projected; for surely, unless a business were abundantly prosperous, its conductors would not venture to display supreme indifference to the wants and wishes of customers, and to act as if they were conferring a signal favor by letting a bedroom or supplying a breakfast. It is fortunate that the meeting of Parliament has supplied matter to fill the newspapers, for otherwise the people should have had somebody else writing to say that he had had breakfast at the same hotel for the same price, and that one of the two eggs with which he was supplied was stale. Competition among sellers is so frequent and so eager that one is surprised to find competition among buyers necessary.
