New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-14
TOO FEW LARGE HOTELS.
REGULAR GUESTS TO HAVE THE PRECE'
DENCE OVER CENTENNIAL VISITORS.

LITTLE PREPARATION MADE At THE PUBLlo
HOUSES FOR THE MUITITUDE ANXIOUS TO
BE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS or AP-
PLIoATIoNs DAILY REFUSED.
The great number of visitors who will he in
New-York during the Centennial Week Will De
forced 70 seek quarters in private houses or pitch
their tents on the public thOroughfareS. The no
tells OF the city will not be able to ACCOMMODATE
one-twentieth of the multitude In fact rev OF
the big public houses have made extraordinary
preparations for the great Influx OF STRANGERS
The rooms OF the majority Of the hotels nave o'eh
engaged for several weeks or even MONTHS ana as
the determination TO charge regular prices is al
most general, the preprietors have had htCie III
ducemsnt TO make great endeaVorS TO s'ow away
the travellers AT this season the hotels are orul-
parily fixed 10 their utmost capacity with CONNER
cinl people who come TO the city for business pur-
poses The owners of the hotels look upon 1t as
their duty 20 care first of all for these guests VINO
arc their friends. Since tho great dimensions OF
the celebration have become known the appiica-
tions for rooms have been innumeraole. CierkS
were kent busy in many Of the prominent houses
writing refusals declining the offers OF would-De
guests who appeared in person. At some OF the
hotels years income could have Decn maze IL
these requests for shelter had been granted But
the reaction and lack OF confidence resulting from
ovcrcrowding, the hotel men say, would cause
loss in time which would be greater than the tenn
porary gain This was the Substance OF the answer
given in almost every instance TO Tribune re-
porter Who made canvass Of the citys hotels.
UNION AND MADISON SQUARES IN DEMAND.
Union Square and Madison Square seem TO be
avorte and envable places for the sightseors, and
the hotels in those neighborhOods have been over
run by people DESTROYS Of lodging within their
walls At the Fifth Avenue about 1000 guests
will be accommodated. These will include num-
Der of delegations, with the Governors of twelve
States and their stats General Schoiied and stall
General Hartranft and staff the Court of Appeals,
the Presidential party, the Commissioners of OHIO
and Montana and the Legislature OF Maine will he
there Said the clerk, when asked in regard to the
! preparations which had been made: Two men
have been kept busy writing letters of refusal for
| several weeks We have received thousands Of mp
| plcations The majority of our rooms, however,
have been engaged for several months by our regil-
! lar guests We shall make no extra charge for
| them, believing it better policy not to do so. We
I shall have more people probably than nj any time
| in our history, and firmly believe that we could
have filled twenty houses
At the Albemarle the case was practically the
same. There, however, no organizations Will bc
/ received, rs the uuliulnS ~ NV 'N"P'O" w
receiving them. We Shall house 300
probably said the clerk, "wh oh will be abou'
| seventyhve more than we ordinarily receive, W.
have refused about fifty applications each dag
/ for the last three weeks Our front rooms were
engaged early in January. Many people have
departed and paid the regular price for the rooms
in the meantime, giving us the privilege of theiI
use upon the condition that they get them on Tho
centennial days. We have not rented our win
dows. few rooms have been let for $3.50 d
day and several others for 500, but in the main
we shsll have the same prices as upon any Other
week.
UNABLE TO DESCRIBE THE RUSH
The clerk of the Hoffman House could find ne
expressions strong enough to describe the rush fol
rooms at that house, the situation of which is
excellent 10 view the parade. Think he said
finally, A." of the biggest thing You ever heard Of
! then you will have some idea OF what l mean