212 THE ISLAND OF NANTUCKET. 



and deposited the material at Coskata and Great Point. 

 "With all these drawbacks to her prosperity, what won- 

 der is it that the Nantucketer of to-day is inclined to 

 apathy? 



For historical facts not included in these sketches, 

 the reader is referred to Cemeteries, Distinguished 

 Nantucketers, Oldest Buildings, History of News- 

 paper, Whaling, and Steamboating. 



Hotels. 



What Nantucket lacks in the size of her hotels, she 

 makes up in numbers. There are six in the town, two 

 at 'Sconset and one at Wauwinet. There are rumors 

 that more are soon to be built, — at Surfside, at the 

 Cliff, and at other points. 



The place has otgrown its hotels; there is not a 

 public house on the island that is large enough to ac- 

 commodate its patrons in the regular summer season. 

 Every one of them at that time is obliged to lodge in 

 private houses a goodly number of its guests. At 

 least one large hotel should be erected, at the earliest 

 possible moment, and that in the immediate vicinity 

 of the water. If capitalists will examine into this 

 matter, they will find that the investment will be a 

 paying one. People who go to watering places want 

 to be near the water; and if a plain building of two 

 hundred rooms were built flat on the beach at the Cliff, 

 every room would be taken in twenty-four hours after 

 its completion. 



The prices for transient guests, at the different 

 hotels upon the island, range from two to three dollars 

 a day. For longer terms than a day or week, satisfac- 



