From: "Industries of New Jersey: 1882

Cosmopolitan Hotel, Mrs. E. Marsh, Proprietress, No. 299 Market Street. — The Cosmopolitan is of that character of houses which we cannot do without. Here one may get a good meal, well cooked and unstintingly served, careful attention, a clean, comfortable bed, with fresh air, all without pomp, parade, or show, and, indeed, a modest, home-like fix for a very moderate sum of money.

Mr. Ellis Marsh founded this house in 1874, and successfully conducted the same up to the time of his death in 1882. The business is now continued by his widow, with Mr. Frank Statts, a progressive young man, as the manager. The house is of brick, four stories in height, 50x75 feet in size, and is well fitted and furnished through out. The bar occupies the right of the main entrance, is 25x60 feet, and is supplied with the best of wines, liquors, ales, cigars, etc. There is a restaurant and dining-room to the left, where oysters, meats, vegetables, soup, pastry, tea, coffee, ice-cream, etc., is served to order at lowest prices.

The upper floors are used for bedchambers, some forty in number, and they are very carefully attended to, well furnished, and comfortable in every particular. Boarders are taken by the day or week, at $1.25 per day, with special terms for week. The Cosmopolitan is largely patronized by the best classes of people and furnishes abundant entertainment at a low rate.

Mrs. Marsh is an enterprising businesswoman, who keeps a general oversight of the various departments of the hotel and contributes to the comfort of her guests by her superior accommodations. Mr. Statts is a young man of progressive ideas, enterprising and faithful, and has contributed in no small degree to make the Cosmopolitan popular.