Morning journal and courier., 1880-04-27
Hotel Prospects at the Chicago COnyeu-

ton.
 Correspondence of the New York Tribunel
 Inquiries that have privately made on be- half of friends in the East have revealed an in teresting state of affairs. It is true, as re- ported, that the propristors of the principal hotels intend to charge by the square foot, or, in other words, allot to each person a sleeping place only. Rooms that are capable of hold ing four persons will be charged for as if oc. cupied by that number. double bed must bs paid for at the rate of for two if only one sleeps in it. Ordinary single rooms are now classed as fit to hold four CT six, and if one man enjoys Q room to himself he must pay four or six times the usual rates. The man ager of one house agrees to deduct $1. 50 per day per man for day board from the price of each room, if any less than the allotted nurn- her occupy it. But while the price of day board has thus scnsibly declined in making deductions, the price of board and lodgings has advanced, In place or S4 per day, S4 50 and S. ars commonly charged. 4 room esti mated to hold four persons at S4 50 per day will cost SIS for four, SIG. 50 for three, S15 for two, and $13. 50 for ono. Persons who seek to be well and comfortably lodged at req sonable rates, and have no special reason for wishing to be near any of the delegations at night, woulddo well to secure quarters at some Of the hotels not chosen as political head quarters. The Grand Pacific Hotel, as the or dinary Republican head quarters of the State, has secured ma jority of all the delegations Here will be found Maine which has made great preparations for reception rooms, par lors and lodgings; New York, which has se- cured many parlors and the club-room Ohio, which is meagerly provided for Illinois, which is the home State, has the appellate court-rooms and special parIors New Hamp- shire, Connecticut, New Jersey Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Oregon and Colorado. Pennsylvania as a body goes over to the rival house. The dele gation have secured for headquarters Q new club-room, not in inc fire proof part of the house and between it and the main hall swings an iron vault door, suggestive of star chamber consultations, and gloomy prison chamber meditations. The club Is, however, large and airy, and will easily seat 150 to 200 persons. Smuggling up to Penn sylvania in suspicious way is Vermont, which is next door but one and a few other small delegations may be found at the same house. But as the agreement of the hotel men with the National Committee binds them to furnish free of charge parlor and bed room to the National Committeeman from each State, they are naturally not anxious to have small delegations thrust upon them. There seems also to be painful want of ri valry for the honor of entertaining the dele gates from one or two Southern States. Iowa and Kentucky go t5 the Sherman House. A part of the New York delegation, number ing 20 in all, under the leadership of Senator Wagner, and company of rising statesmen under the direction of Sheridan Shook will be at the Palmer, entirely severed from their friends at the Grand Pacific. There Is much speculation here as to what the cause of the division may be, but thus far no satisfactory solution of the mystery has been arrived at. Pennsylvania has also sent ''third house," 13O strong, under the leadership of Gov. Hoyt, which has secured rooms at the Fremont House.