Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-12-01


has ever been before. The city will be increased to
almost double its summer population, and its
lodging capacity will be tested to the utmost The
hotes have already received enough applications
for quarters to I'LL them two or three times over
Mr.. Burch, OF the Ebbitt house, says they have
this early received more applications for apart-
ments than they ever did during any inaugural
time in the history of the city-an immense num-
Der. 1T the Arlington, Riggs and Wormleys count
less applications have been received. Mr. Staples,
inquiry. At the National they say they have re-
cefved four thousand, and at the Metropolitan they
nave received too many to keep an account OF.
THE EBBITT HOUSE.
At the Ebbitt eight hundred guests can be ac-
commodated- They are receiving large number
of letters every day from wealthy merchants and
business men from the north and east, who want
to be provided for. Some want quarters for inau-
guration week, and some for the period covered by
the two events Of national ntereSt-the dedication
OF the Washington Monument On the 22d OF Feb
ruary and the inauguration. Mr.. Burch saws he
never In all his experience saw such demonstra-
tOn OF interest so far In advance. Many state that
they have not attended an inaugural for twenty
hVe years. The preparations for the accommoda-
tlon OF guests have been very thorough, but owing
to the large number OF their old guests they will be
called upon to entertain, they have declined to
make any engagements at this early date. The
house has been newly frescoed and carpeted and
furnished throughout, and preparations have been
made TO provide for an unusual number OF guests.
There will be no increase in rates and no bidding
for accommodations on that occasion. This is true
of all the first-class hotels.
THE ARLINGTON.
The proprietor of the Arlington has prepared
every comfort for the increased number OF guests
the inauguration Will bring. The rooms have all
been refitted, and large number OF handsome
pictures and wall decorations have been recently
hung throughout the house. and fifty new baths
have been put in. In the hotel proper and the two
large houses on either side, which have been at
tached to 1t permanently, something over four hun.
dred guests can be accommodated Besides this
the house, across the street, recently vacated by
the republican national committee, which they
have rented and are lifting up, will accommodate
about hundred and fifty more. They, too, have
been obliged to decline to pledge themselves to
accommodate any OF their many applicants until
later on, when they could tell better Just what
they will be able to do for them.
THE RIGGS HOUSE
can accommodate $50 guests, and have agreed to
take care OF the Sam Randall club, of Philadelphia.
numbering 130, but have declined to pledge them
selves further. Mr.. De Shields says he never heard
OF such rush as is being made for quarters Let
tiers and kilograms are coming from all parts Of the
country. They will make preparations to accom-
modate as many as they can comfortably and take
care OF them as they come. but beyond what they
already have they decline TO keep any rooms In re
serve.
No strangers at all will be taken at Wormley's,
as they have not room enough for their regular r
guests, who viii want to be provided for the 4th
OF March.
w1LLARDs
Mr.. Staples has rented four houses as anne xeS to
Willards, and will be prepared to entertain from
twelve to thirteen hundred guests. He has already
made arrangements with 800 besides his regular
guests. Attorney General Bryson and secretary
or State Chaplin, of New York, have engaged rooms
as have also the Cleveland club OF Buffalo, the
Amef1cus club, and the Cleveland club of Albany.
THE METROPOLITAN AND NATIONAL
Neither the Metropolitan nor the National will
make arrangements with guests thus far ahead
The National can quarter between twelve and flf-
teen hundred, and the Metropolitan nearly as
many.
All these hotels together will quarter about 5000
people, probably not One-tenth the number who
Will be here to attend the Inauguration. The rest
will be dispersed about the city and slowed away
as best they may be. Other hotels and restaurants
will accommodate some Many private houses will
De thrown open 70 guests for the occasion. the nu
merous private boarding houses viii be crowded to
the attic, and probably all the halls in the city
will be filled with hunks in order to give the peO
pie place TO sleep.
PLENTY OF FOOD.
AS far as food is concerned, the city can feed as
many people as can possibly get into it, The
Riggs house dining room can accommodate 400 peo-
pie at one time; the Arlington and the Ebbitt can
eacn seat 1uliy as many and WlllardS can seat 200
at once. With good corps OF walters they can all
serve as many as come. Besides there are hun
dredS or eating places all over the city. Mr.. De-
Shields Will have the House restaurant open and
well equipped with attendants, SO as to supply
those about the Capitol at all times. hundred
and fifty to two hundred thousand strangers can
be fed In the city. but where to lodge them all viii
be serious question, which, however, can prob
ably be satisfactorily settled.
THE B. & o. OUTLET FROM NEW YORK TO THE
WEsT.-It Is stated officially that there Is no
ground for the story that the B. q O. had COM
pleted arrangements for an outlet from New York to
the west by the Bound Brook road to Harrisburg and
then to Shippensbury and Hagerstown. AS to an
oficials say their new road to Philadelphia win be
completed within the next year, and that the