Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-04-27
TO SEE THE GREAT SHOW.
Enormous Prices That Are Paid for Seats
Along the Route.

Enormous Prices That Are Paid for Seats
Along the Route.
tSpecial Correspondence
New YORK, April 25.--The great show
TO bc given here next week Is, Of course,
to be a free one, so far as the street pa
radcs go, but all the same, IL anybody Is
coming to New York TO see them 1t win
be advisable 10 include In tho estimate
Of expenses the item Of tho cost Of
good place from which to view the show.
There is no charge for looking ut it, II
you can find u place from which you can
SEQ IT. but rs all the desirable places on
the streets are likely 10 10 filled with
eager crowds, there has risen an extraor-
binary demand for windows along the
route.
Naturally, the first impulse of every
one il to go TO hotel, but the individual
who relies on that will almost certainly
he "left." Tho main hotels of the city
are, most of them, along the route of the
procession, it is true, but they are all
crowded now. and are likely to be still
more crowded day by day till the agony is
over. Store and Office windows, therefore,
have been rented for the two days, and
even, in some cases, private houses have
been sublet ut figures that have gone up
rapidly and are likely TO go much higher
IL IL safe to say that there Is not a win.
dow from which tho procession may be
seen which Is not already rented, but
many of them are held by spectators
who are holding for the highest prices.
In one instance, am told that $1,000
was paid two weeks ago for the ten front
windows of private house on Fifth
avenue, just above Twenty-sixtl street
In this case the speculator who hired
them arranged ten seats at each window,
and at first charged $50 u day for each
seat for tho two days. Nearly all were
taken. but he remarked cheerfully last
night in the Hoffman house that he
would not dispose of the rest und n 500
u day. 1t seems a tremendous price,
but he will probably get it, for the house
is one of tho handsonest in the neighbor.
hood.
a good many people have each paid
$40 in advance for each Of the two days,
for the privilege of occupying camp
stool on roof at the corner of Twenty
third street and Broadway. This il
the roof Is not high and it overlooks
Madison square, and unless the weather
il bad the camp stool people will be really
better oil than the window holders.
The notion of allowing trucks TO stand
at the curb lines at the corners of inter
secting streets along the route, which
was first Publicly advanced by Mayor
Grant, is likely to he a bonanza to the
truckmcn. Many of them have already
reserved their space and arranged for
placing chairs on the trucks, which
chairs they will rent for all they can get
Some have advertised their accoInmoda-
tions aud have already disposed of the
seats, clearing hundred or even two
hundred dollars for each day, but even
this is less than the more speculative
ones nre likely to make, for they are
holding off till the last minute, and there
is not yet any indication OF a fall in
prices.
Hundreds of instances like those cited
above could be mentioned, but the Sto-
ries would be all alike.
FALEs-CuG-is.