Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-08-10
rnc Centennial exhibition.
NEW HOTELS FOR CENTENNIAL duEsrs-A PROPOSED
LODGING HOUSE SYSTEM.

NEW HOTELS FOR CENTENNIAL w a L iAoiSoAA'5
LODGING. HOUSE SYSTEM.
PHILADELPHIA Aug. THE newspaper dis
cusslop of the want OF hotel acoomm odations
for visitors to the Centennial Exhibition has had
the effect of stimulating number OF enterprises
that promise to go far toward supplying that
want. Anxiety lest tho Exhibition shall be dam
aged by the failure of tho city to provide food
and lodging for her guests ID therefore measur-
ably relieved. Several new hotel projects are
beyond the first STAGE and may be now spoken
of as certain of accomplishment. The most I'M
large wooden structure, now building on
Belmont-aye., within stones throw
of the main Exhibition building. A
number OF city politicians-the only class with
whom money is plentiful in these hard nmes-,
have formed a company to build the hotel.
Within "a hours after the passage by the Coun-
ellis of the necessary ordinance giving permis.
sion for the erection of 8 frame structure on the
lot selected, the Company had their workmen
and materials on the ground, and since then the
rapidity with which the work has been pushed
has been almost as great as that d played on
the Centennial buildings. The Globe Will nave
O6O rooms and will, it is claimed, be the largest
hotel in the world. just west of 1t, and ap-
preached by two passages throngh IL oo ieeb "iue
each, will be tho great Exhibition station OF the
Pennsylvania Railroad, for which gronnd has
already been broken.
on the sharp triangle formed by tho intersec-
ton of Belmont and Elm Avenues, and FACING
the soutb portal of the main building, there Will
he a fine hotel Of brick, containing 45U rooms,
| put up by the proprietorB OF the Continental az
| a branch of that establishment unhke the
| Globe it will be a permanent structure. Ihese
| two hotels will go far toward ACCOMMODATING
visitors who come to stay two or three days ana
prefer to find lodgings in the immediate vicinity
Of the Exhibition. The situation Is : ex,
cellent not only ON account OF the
neighboring railway station, but from tpe e
| fact that all the street-car lines Will terminaIe
there Within a short distance of the eastern
portal Of the main building, Mr.. Il. j. Dobbins,
the contractor for much Of the Centennial WORK,
will shortly put up row OF dwellings, desigheo
| to be used for hotel purposes during the Cen
| tennial year. They will contain rooms for abon'
| 400 guests like enterprise is i'll progress neal
the Cathedral Cemetery, about half mile IRON
| the Exhibition.
The old hotels in the city will nearly double
| their present accommodations by leasing rooms II
| neiphboripg private houses for the use OF their
euests. Some of them talk of raising their rates
for board. II they do the public ought to avoie
them. There will not be the smallest excuse
for increasing prices next year. PROVISIONS VIII
not probably be any dearer, nor servants wage
higher: but il there should be an addition u
those items OF expense the landlords VIII b'
trebly compensated by tho great rush OF bnsin
ness in a season when their houses are usually
almost empty.
plement the hotel accommodations, which a
hest will be insufficient, by system of lodging
in private houses managed by central bureau
It is proposed, with the cooperation Of the raj
road companies, to sell at the ticket offices in TIN
principal cities of the country coupons Tor iodg
ing for any number of days required and at
filed schedule Of prices from 81 day upward
The purchaser of the coupons will come to Phil
adelphia with his room engaged in advance
On arriving he will be taken to the centra
bureau, shown map Of the, city
with the location of the Companys lodging
marked, and also a concise description Of tn
rooms available at the price he has paid, an
when he has made his selection he will be sen
to his quarters. No city in the world has 8
as Philadelphia, and it only needs system lik
the above to make thousands Of "spare rooms
available to Centennial visitors, and a source ol
revenue to their pnssessors.