Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-28
SCARCITY OF HOTELS.
Not Enough Rooms Can be Obtained
for Iron and Steel Delegates.
PEOPLE TURNEDAWAY EVERY DAY
Pullman Cars, and Cots in the Westing-
house Building to be Used.
MORE HOTELS NEEDED In pITTsBURG

The problem of finding accommodation
for the delegates to the Iron and Steel Insti
tute, which meets here next week, is becom
ing serious. According to the information
of the local committees there will be no
less than 1000 people to be cared for. t
add to the gravity of the situation tn
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers viii
meet here at the same time. Many of th'
members will be accompanied by their wives
and they will number not less thar
1000. These men are applying to th'
hotels for rooms, and are meeting
with Door success. During the weef
also the committee Of the Presbyterian
Church to revise the creed, numbering
about 80, will be in the city. They will b.
,quartered according to custom with th'
members of the various churches, but somt
of the wealthier ones who do not care to en-
tertain them at their homes have engaged
rooms for them at the hotels. 1t is the last
week of the Exposition, and it is expected
there will be grand rush of people to see
the show, so that there will be an unusual
crowd in the city. What to do with them
| is the problem.
MANY TURNRD AWAY.
For that matter, ever since the E1posi-
tion opened the leading hotels have been
turning guests away nightly, and it is quite
apparent to everybody, even to hotel men,
that the hotel accommodations in Pittsburg
are not sufficient. The hotels are will
ing enough to do what they
hA Nd Il or,6 IAN,
trail hotels have not yet promised to take
any of the iron and STEEL people. The
chances are that the Anderson will entertain
few Of the leading members, but no more.
The truth is that the hotels have their hands
full caring for their regular trade. The
Seventh Avenue has agreed to take 30, and
the Duquesne will furnish rooms for 20 of
Mr.. Carnegie's friends and 10 for J. P.
Witherow. The headquarters will be at the
Monongahela House. Arrangements have
been made with the Baltimore and Ohio
road to locate Pullman cars in the
depot, and the guests can be fed at the
Monongahela. In this way the Mononga-
hela House will accommodate 250, and the
sleeping apartments will not be so bad
after all. The Pennsylvania road will also
furnish Pullman cars, and it is estimated
now that about 40 cars will be used.
When the situation became so trying, the
Committee on Entertainment decided to fix
up 30 cots in the Westinghouse building
The aim will be to quarter those with their
families in the hotels, and to keep the cots
the men unaccompanied by wives.
The Schlosser will take 100 people, and
more, if possible. Many of the local iron
manufacturers as last resort will entertain
the delegates at their own homes. The
various club houses in the city will come to
tine rescue. and if the visitors are not too
fastidious Pittsburg will look after them
while they are here. There is no trouble
about feeding the people, the difficulty being
to find sleeping accommodations.
The engineers will have to take what they
can get. Fortunately, Pittsburgers are not
lacking in hospitality. and the members of
their era # will provide them with entertain
ment. Only last week several people were
compelled to sit up all night in the parlors
of the Seventh Avenue Hotel, and they
were glad to get even these meaeer accom-
modations. All the cots in the house were
in use.
AT THE SMALLER HOUSES.
While the big hotels will be crowded to
repletion, there will be some room at the
smaller ones. G. B. Deshon said he could
take some-not very many, and that while
his place wasn't large, it made up in quality
what it lacked in quantity. The Hotel AL
bon can also accommodate part Of the
crowd, at least, the proprietors at present
think So At the St. James about 80 have
been already booked and this house will
take all it can handle. It was stated at the
European Hotel that 125 could be accom-
modated provided some of them were sufi-
ciently acquainted to room together. Com
ing around on to Eleventh street, it was
stated at the Phoenix that Is or 20 people |
could be fed and bedded, and at the |
Manning House about 20 also, |
J. J. Mcclure. on Penn avenue, nearby, |
said he could take % or 80, but would take |
no contract to that effect, for experience had |
kept He secuted the idea that hotel room
would be insufficient, as he said he never
vet saw it so. The clerk at the American !
said that accommodation would be furnished |
to the full capacity of the house. but he
could not say whether there would be any
room, as they were at present obliged to
turn away people every night.
1t seems that between 200 and 800 guests
can be accommodated in the vicinity of the
Union station, and committee has been
operating to engage rooms where people
simply keep rooms. One was working on
Second avenue and thereabouts, but most of
The proprietors refused to contract, saying
hat they would fill their rooms with perma-
nent occupants rather than take chances on
transient ones, even at triple rates.
NEED OF BIG HOTEL.
Ex-Manager J. H. Flagler, of the Ma
ional Tube Works, was at the Union depot
asst evening returning to New York. He
lad had some experience with crowded
hotels here, and in discussing the subject
aid that what Pittsburg needs badly is a
irst-class hotel, centrally located, with
'oomy rotundas, where the people can go
md discuss the news and current topics and
nodated. If the city had such house he
ays it would pay, and it would have
tentency to attract citizens together in the
evening where they could post themselves
IN what was going on. Several OF the hotel
clerks interviewed declared that Pittsburg
reeds more hotels. One claimed there was
IN opening for at least two houses with "a
capacity of $50 rooms each and rates at So
ser day, while big hotel with 300 rooms
md furnished in elegant style would be a
,aying institution.
GUESTS TO WELCOME
John H. Ricketson and Captain Hunt
vent to New York last evening to attend
he meeting of the Mining Engineers and to
ssist in welcoming the foreign delegates,
Mr.. Ricketson said he was supposed
o get acquainted with them and
earn their names, so that he
ould introduce them in Pittsburg.
Tames ?. Witherow will arrive here from
europe tomorrow evening accompanied by
'ir Edgar Watt and family. Mr.. Watt il,
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