The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-17

| Seats in the street stand to be erected at
| Thirteenth street sold readily at SO. Two
windows In the second story at No. 1856
/ Fifth avenue were rented for $3.50 for the
| two days, and s. 900 was offered and re-
fused for the building at Fifth avenue and
Twentieth street Two hundred dollars
| was the price of single windows between
| Twenty sixth and Twenty-seventh
streets and there was no grumbling about
| paying It lucky woman secured the re
1usli early in the morning of a window at
Ihlrty-fourth street for $3.50. Before
| night $3.50 had been offered for it, aud
speculator promised to lind a taker next
week al 1850.
Around Madison square store windows
were being rented all the way from $500 to
5000 All the seats in the Madison square
stand were sold long ago at from 50 to $40
Single rooms along Fifth avenue from the
square to Central park were readily rented
at 500 day-for double rooms double
money. Some of the rooms were rented at
500 for the first day and $50 for the second.
For some reason there is less demand all
along the line for the second day.
THE HOTELS WILL GET A SHARE, TOO.
The hotels will get the latest profits
Very few of them have an inch of room to
rent at any price At the Aston you can't
get quarter section of the billiard room
for love nor money. All the rooms were
engaged three months ago. The arrange
ment for rooms from which any view of
the parade could be had was S. day
FOR no shorter time than five days before
and four days after the parade, inclusive.
Most of the rooms have been taken under
these terms by downtown business men.
The hotel has the privilege of renting the
rooms up to the time Of the parade.
At the Metropolitan all the frs. and sec
ond floor rooms went long ago at $50 day
Rooms with two windows on the upper
floors brought $50, and those with one win
dow 1926. The Grand Central got 800 a
day for its lower rooms, and SIS and $50 a
day for the upper rooms clear to the roof.
At the New York hotel 500 oay was
paid for the best rooms. From that dizzy
hight the price descended to $25 a day for
rooms for which you can get glimpse Of
the passing show by cranlng your neck out
of side window.
The Fifth Avenue will be almost filed
with the committees, the invited guests and
other people of prominence. so that there
will be comparatively little for the outside
public. You can probably get room there
now and gaze on the parade to your hearts
content for $3.50 a day You can't do that
a. the Hoffman, because about 500
other persons have been before you, and
paid from $25 to $500 a day for all the
rooms in the house There is scarcely a
private hotel on the avenue clear to the
park that has a front room left even at 800
day, which is the price most of them got.
Rooms on the side streets can be had for
from s. to S25 day, and maybe you can
sac President Harrison anyway out OF your
side window.
THEY MIGHT MAKE MONEY, BUT THEY
WON'T.
The Windsor, the Brunswick and the AL
bemarle have withdrawn voluntarily from
the race. They have not rented rooms to
any except their regular customers, and
have not advanced their usual rates. All
their available space was engaged long ago.
The Wixdsor has since declined S400 day
for some of its rooms, and fabulous prices
for seats on its balcony and in its first floor
windows. These seats will be reserved for
the guests Of the house who have back
rooms, and will not be rented at any price
The Brunswick viii rent tle seats in its res
taursnt Windows. All t rooms at Del
monico's have been engaged at advanced
rates.
A question raised by several hotel keepers
yesterday was this-if the influx of visitors
from out of town is anywhere near as big
as it promises now to be, where will the
people be housel3 The hotels on Broadway
and Fifth avenue will have to be taken out
OF. account. Their accommodations nave
already been secured by New Workers who
want TO see the parade. The rooms a. most
of the other no els vera engaged bv out Of
town people long ago The only solution
of the problem that the hotel men could
ind vas that the great American boarding
house would have 70 come 60 the rescue.