Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-14
HARVEST FOR HOTELS.
A Prosperous Season for All the Pitts
burg Tavernkeepers.
GUESTS TURNED AWAY NIGHTLY.
Twenty-Six Thousand Strangers Monthly
at Leading Houses.
THE MONEY THEY LEAVE IN THE CITY.

Pittsburg's hotels, especially those best
known, are experiencing tide of prosper
ity, as gauged by their registers, which is
conceded to be phenomenal. There has
been an unusual pressure on the accommo-
dation for the last two months, and there
are evidences of this state of affairs con-
tinuing. The influx of travellers is not due
| altogether to the numbers of meetings and
conventions, which have been, are and will
be held, but is accounted for in q measure by
the growing business of the city and county
at large, and attracting commercial and
business men of all classes.
The deduction from this would be that
there is ample business for another hotel,
but the hotel men of most experience in the
city doubt this. Mr.. Crosby, the chief of
says that if the business now being done by
the hotels was to continue all the year
round, there would be no question of the
necessity of another large hotel. He points to
the fact that this is the busiest season in the
hotel year, and it is only when there is an
unusual inflow of visitors as in times of
conventions that the hotels cannot carry
the trade
SIXTY GUESTS REFUSED IN A NIGHT.
eff this condition of things were to con-
tinue all the year round" he said, referring
to the fact that some 60 guests had been re-
fused accommodations in one night, ri
grant there would be room for another hotel;
but it doesn't, and therefore you will find
people chary of considering any such
project. 1 think, however, that large
hotel on modern plans may yet be built. "
Frank Shreffier, the popular manager of
the Seventh Avenue, takes a similar view.
He thinks that, with the exception of times
when conventions are held, the hotels can
take care of all the trade.
Some idea of the amount of business done
by the hotels may be given from recapitu-
lation of the number of arrivals during a
month. 1t will surprise some people to
learn that over %, COG persons registered at
nine of the principal hotels doing the larg-
est transient business during the month of
September, and that S56, 1923 were turned
into the cash drawers Of the hostleries in
that period.
The average number of arrivals monthly
at the Anderson is $500. Estimating 50 30
as the average expenditure of each guest,
this hotel turns over monthly, from its
transient trade, about S11, 750.
Avenue during the month of September.
The number for August is 4,153. At 50 so
for each guest registered, the Seventh Ave-
nue. reaped a harvest of S14, ,007 from its
transient trade last month.
BUSINESS AT OTHER HOUSES.
Nineteen hundred guests registered at the
Monongahela during September, represent
ing on the same calculation a monthly busi-
ness of S4,75O
The Duquesne entered 816 guests upon its
books during September. The average ex-
penditure of visitor to this hotel is placed
at Sc, making the monthly transient bust
ness worth about 81. 1896. In this estimate
is not included the guests who use the
restaurant and dining rooms without regis
tering. Of this class there are about $50
served daily.
The Schlosser registers about 500 guests
representing, at 81 each, busi-
ness of 81, 900 from transients, besides casual
diners.
Three thousand five hundred guests in
scribed their names on the st. James books
during the month. Estimating for each
guest an expenditure of 81 80, the monthly
transient business is worth So, ,250.
The st. Charles carried 800 persons on
its register during September, making, at |
So, the estimated expenditure there, a busi- |
ness or $500
Eight hundred names were written on the |
Central book for the month, showing |
trade, at 50 80, of $1,000.
The average number of names registered |
at the Boyer is 5000 monthly. The average !
expenditure is based at 50 each, making the |
receipts $4,000.
In all the foregoing no account is taken |
of the wives and children registering with |
guests. If 10 per cent were added on this |
account the total number of persons arriv- |
ing at the hotels named would average |
monthly about % 000