82 nAND-BOOIC OP WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON HOTELS. Hotels are quite numerous, but not sufficiently so, even now, to accommodate the public. With one or two unimportant exceptions, they are all situated on Pennsylvania Avenue. The names of the principal ones are the National Hotel, Metropolitan Hotel, (late Brown’s,) Willards’ Hotel, the United States Hotel, the Kirkwood House, the Washington House, Avenue House, St. Charles, and the Clarendon Hotel. All these hotels arc supplied with the best of a first rate market, and with numerous and generally accommodating servants. From the doors of each, the stranger may at almost any moment step into a convenient and elegant car, and go to almost any part of the city he may desire. The prices charged for board are not uniform, but the expenses generally are by no means lower than in such cities as Philadelphia, Now York, and Boston. Of private boarding houses thore are a great number, and by lovers of quiet those are frequently preferred to the more public estab lishments. In addition to these, there arc many eating-houses, where the visitor pays in propor tion to what he consumes.