Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-26

IN PRICES NOTWITHSTANDING THE CROWD.
The hotels are beginning to show the signs
OF the times. Guests are arriving in constantly
increasing numbers, cots are being imported.
and the doubling-up process is being practiced
In all ways. or course, the great rush of Wis
ltors will begin in about five DAYS. but those
who have been fortunate enough to secure
hotel accommodations will mostly come be-
tween now and SATURDAY.
wTLLARD's OVERLOOKING.
Colonel Milford. whose face is familiar tn
! the numerous patrons of Wizards, smiled on a
STAR reporter this morning when the subject
| OF the Inauguration crowd was mentioned.
There has never been so many applications
Tor rooms during my long experience in this
city, he said. 1T goes without saying that
we have already refused many times more peo-
pie than the number we will actually accom-
modate. This house is fully engaged already.
There Is no room left"
Colonel Milford went on to say that if all the
available room in the house could be made use
OF that Wizards could entertain 200 people.
"Of course" he added, 1--WE can't interfere
with the comfort of our regular boarders."
BY the use of cot beds. he said, and placing sew
eral people in one room, the capacity of the hotel
will be stretched to its utmost. He thought
that during the inaugural period there would
be between 500 and 300 people living beneath
the hospitable roof of Wizards. In addition
to sleeping accommodations. the proprietor,
Col. o. G. Staples. has arranged to furnish
meals TO large number. 1t is estimated that
some 1000 people will be fed at Wizards
during the the first few days of next week. The
resources of this hotel rs far as accommoda-
tons are concerned, have all been exhausted
long ago, and applications that come pouring
In daily are refused. The location of the hotel
and its prominence in Washington causes many
who propose to come to Washington next
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has done his best to accommodate all his
patrons. but he has reached the limit without
providing for large proportion.
AT TIE EBBIrT.
Mr.. Burcbe, the manager of the Ebbitt
house. told STAR reporter that all the availa-
BILE rooms in the house had been engaged for
the inaugural period. 1T is our intention"
he added. Ito take in only such number as
we can comfortably accommodate. Our guests
VIII receive the same accommodations and
attention that they do on ordinary occasions
have made no effort to do anything else.
This has been the custom of the house and
one that L think pays. As far as our prices
ana accommodations are concerned. our guests
don know that the inauguration is going on.
have endeavored TO undertake only as much
as i can do. There will be some
500 people in this house during the inaugural
period. L have received applications from
over 5000 people, and if all available space
was used and people were crowded together.
could accommodate twice as MANY as | will.
But / think the guests will be better satisfied
under the present arrangement and the amount
of money that we would make by pursuing an
opposite course / don't think would make up
for the loss caused by the dissatisfaction Of
guests with poor service and crowded quarters"
TEE THRoNG AT THE RIGGS.
The great demand for quarters coming from
all parts of the country has been felt at the
Riggs house. They have refused four or FIVE
times as many applications as they have
granted At the present time the Riggs and
Its annexes is completely engaged and the sign
standing room only" could be appropriately
posted up. Mr.. John J. Rae the chief clerk,
states that the house will accommodate about
LOCO people during the inaugural period. He
SAYS that If they had the room that
this number could easily be doubled.
Their facilities for furnishing meals
are increased by reason of the large
cafe attached to the hotel. He expects that
altogether some two Thousand people will take
their meals at the Riggs during the early DAYS
OF next week. The large houses on q street
adjoining the hotel. and used as annexes will,
like the hotel. be filed to their utmost capacity.
MIR. lac says that the demand for quarters has
been greater than ever before on occasions of
this character.
AT wELCKER's.
Mr.. Felter, proprietor of Welcker's. thinks
that he will have about $50 guests, which will
be a large crowd for his house. He is not
going to do much doubling up. except on his
rates. which will have the effect of keeping his
hotel Iii comfortable condition during the
rush.
AT woRMLEYs
there will be about 200 guests. although the
ordinary capacity OF the hotel is but about 1875
or l5o. The extra crowd will be accommodated
by putting cots in the parlors
THE ARLINGTON.
1--WE are not going to make the slightest diff
ference in our arrangements" said MIR. Ben
nett, the head clerk at the Arlington. 1.-The
largest crowd we ever had was 2q7. and We
shall probably not have fifty more than that
number during the Inauguration. Those extra
people VIII be mostly the guests of those hav-
ing suites of apartments. We shall not put up
cot or double up room. or touch our rates
Everything will be the same. We are turning
great many people away every day
THE NATIONAL
has some $50 rooms. and ordinarily accommo-
dates 100 to 500 guests, but on Monday there
will be in the neighborhood of 1000 to 1,20O
guests. In many of the rooms cots will rein
force the usual sleeping accommodations. The
Plumed Knights. of Providence r. L. number
ing go. will arrive on Saturday. and the State
Fencibles, of Philadelphia, on Sunday. It is
expected that the dinng-rooms will be kept
going continuously night and day.
THE METROPOLITAN,
the successor to the Indian Queen. now under
the management of Col. W. H. SeIden. is rapidly
filling up. Extra cots will be placed in MANY
of the rooms. and some 500 transient guests
will lodge there. while many others will be
furnished with meals. Mr.. SeIden ia re-
receiving by each mail applications for room
and board. and the demand is largely beyond
anything ever known before. The Buffalo IN.
" republican league, numbering 100 men.
have engaged rooms from the 18th. and the
Badger-Gore excursion party from Massachu-
sets and Connecticut Will arrive on the Sd.
and the Indiana state republican committee.
headed by Major-Gen j. II. Carnahan will be
here on the LIST. The rates have not been adj
vanced. Gen. Beale, the Boston decorator. has
been engaged to ornament the exterior.
AT THE ST JAMES.
Mr.. Wheeler, of the st. James, expects
great rush of guests after Friday. He expects
to provide sleeping accommodations for 500
persons. Many of the front rooms. he said.
were already taken. The front rooms he said
would not be rented for shorter period than
five days, because they would get as much for
the windows alone as the five days board would
amount TO. They have received many orders
for rooms in advance. The orders. he said.
came from all sections Of the country. showing
that there will no doubt be a larger crowd here
than ever before. Some of the back rooms of
the hotel had not yet been taken, but he
thought It would be an easy matter to fill them
with half dozen people in each room, toward
the close of the week In order 10 acommo-