St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-05-14
Hotel Prospects at the Chicago Con-
YentiOu

Inquiries that l have privately made
on behalf of friends in the east have re-
vealed an interesting state of affairs.
1t is true, as reported, that the propri-
tors of the principal hotels intend to
charge by the square foot, or in other
words, allot to each person sleeping
place only. Rooms that are capable of
holding four persons will be charged
for as if occupied by that number. A
double bed must be paid for at the rate
of for two if only one sleeps in it. Or
dinary single rooms are now classed as
fit to hold four or six, and if one man
enjoys a room to himself he must pay
four or six times the usual rates. The
manager of one house agrees to deduct
$3.50 per day per man for day board
from the price of each room, if any less
than the allotted number occupy it.
But while the price of day board has
thus sensibly declined in making de-
ductions, the price of board and lodg-
ings has advanced. In place of $4 per
day $3.50 and SIS are commonly charg-
ed. A room estimated to hold four
persons at $3.50 per day will cost S18
for four, $l6.50 for three, SIS for two,
$3.50 for one. Persons who seek to
be well and comfortably lodged at rea-
sonable rates, and have no special rea-
son for wishing to be near any of the
delegations at night, would do well to
secure quarters at some of the hotels
not chosen as political headquarters.
The Grand Pacific hotel, as the ordina-
ry republican headquarters of the state,
has secured majority of all the dele
cations. Here will be found Maine,
which has made great preparations for
reception-roOms, parlOrs and lodgings
New York, which has secured many
parlors and the club-rooms; Ohio,
which is meagerly provided for; Hi
nois, which, as the home state, has the
appellate court rooms and special par
lors; New Hampshire, Connecticut.
New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ore
gon and Colorado. Pennsylvania as a
body goes over to the rival house. The
delegation have secured for headquar-
ters new club room, not in the 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 cham
| Der meditations. The club room is
however, large and airy, aud will easily
seat $50 to 200 persons. Smuggling uI
to Pennsylvania in suspicious way il
Vermont, which is next door but one
and Il 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 fur
nish free of charge parlor and bed
room to the national committee mel
from each state, they are naturally no
anxious to have small delegations thrus
upon them. There seems also to be
painful want of rivalry for the honor O
entertaining the delegates from one O
two southern states. Iowa and Kentuck,
go to the Sherman house. A part of th
New York delegation, numbering 20 il
all, under the leadership of Senate
Wagner, and company of rising states
men under the direction of Sheridan
Shook, will be at the Palmer, entirel
severed from the Grand Pacific. Their
is much speculation here as to what Tia
cause of the division may be, but thu
far no satisfactory solution of the mys
terry has been arrived at. Pennsylya
mia has also sent "third house, I3
strong, under the leadership of Go,
Hoyt, which has secured rooms at th
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