The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-03
NEW YORK'S HOTELS.
Surpass Those Of Any Other
City in the World.
MAGNIFICENT NEW HoSTELRIEs.
Annual Charity BaIl-ward MeAllister
Opposes . Rival and Is Now More
Solid Than Ever With Nobility.

NEv YogE. Dec. f6.--SpeciaI Cores
pondence. There IS no city IN the world
that can compare with New YORK IN the
number and magnihceace Of its hotels
The latest achievements n this line liter
ally ''surpass the dreams Of avarice," IS
the reader viii readily beiieve after living
in one OF them for 4 month and calling a.
the cashiers window 10 settle. Two or
three OF the latest hotels built here are fur
/ rished IN q style Of rnaEnI1cence not sur
/ passed by the palace Of , king. Indeed.
the imperial residence Of the car Of Rus
sia or emperor Of Germany look positively
shabby alongside Of some Of the newest
/ New YORK hotels. And some are being
/ built which will probably slrpass IN e-e-
gance any that have preceded them.
There could be no finer location for hotel
than the Central Park plaza, ct Fifth ave-
nue. and Fifty-ninth street, and
/ here, on opposite corners, Two hotels
/ are being constructed. The New
{ NetherIand, owned by William Waldorf
/ Aston. Will be RonanesqGe edi6ce seven
teen stories high and containing 80 guest
[ chambers The architect. William H.
/ Hume. has been given carte blanche. and
/ with the natural location 20 aid his az,
! y
/ architecture Is promised. The hotel on
! the opposite corner, which was begun N
/ the spring of 1850. and will be finished
! some time in 1892 viii not be second II
| elegance, and with 325 rooms will be but
/ little smaller. This Is being bullt By Judge
( P. Henry D1gro and Mr.. T. Wagner. Mr..
/ Ralph ;. Townsend IS the architect. The
I building IS in the Italian Renaissance and
( will be built Of brick, with Al entire facing
| Of Indiana limestone. This structure will
/ De twelve stories high, and Ike is elegant
/ neighbor. viii have two stories under the
! ground in cellar and sub-cellar. The IL
terror OF the house viii be marble, and the
+ decorations in white and gold. II IS es-
/ timated that the two buildings viii cost
} 100000
/ The Holland. in upper Fifth avenue.
| was opened 70 the public within the past
/ few days. II is at present the finest hotel
/ in the world, with the possible exception
/ OF Millionaire Flagler's Ponce de Leon 81
/ St. Augustine. Two Chicago men. kiusley
I and Baumaan, are the proprietors. They
/ pay rental Of $I+4.0o0 q year, aud have
/ entered into contract 20 pay that figure
| for two years. Itcost $4,000 70 furnish this
| house. the electric light plant and fixtures
| alone costing $Sl, 600. The building and
| real estate are valued st above s., O0O. 600.
and it costs in the ueighborhood of s., GO
| a day TO cover the running expenses Of the
| house.
| There are good judges Of hotels who
! claim that the old Murray Hill will have
no superior in the matter of interior deco
| rations and furnishing, even after
the new grandiose structures have
| split the clouds with their gables
/ 1t IS at least the largest hotel in
| town, occupying almost an entire block on
| Park avenue. between Fortieth and Forty
| first streets, and containing 5I9 guest
/ chambers The Murray Hill is still con-
| Quoted under the Old firm name Of Hunt
/ ing & Hammond. although Mr.. Hunting
| is dead. Fred s. Hammond, interested
| also IN the new Plaza hotel. is the spirit
| that moves this great establishment The
/ building alone IS supposed 10 have cost
/ about 81. 10000.
| The Plaza hotel. facing Central park. is
| the farthest hotel up town that is COM
! pleted and is among the finest The An
| derson estate, after experding in the
| neighborhood Of $780, 600, turned the IN
| finished structure over 10 its hacker. the
| New York Life Insurance Company,
| which concern has since completed
| II in order 10 get its money back.
/ This Is one of the investments for making
which President Beers, Of the New York
Life, IS being severely criticised bv his
| stockholders. If the Plaza prospers as
many other Of the New York hotels have
done, II may prove 10 be q wise investment
in the end. This building cost the New
York Life not far from s. 0O0. 900. The fur
nishing of the hotel represents an invest
ment OF $50 600. Fred 5. Hammond is the
10 - 81
! both the American and European plan.
! Hotel men tell me he will in all prohabiI-
ity settle down TO the European plan alone.
this method proving to be the most salts
factory TO the public, except in cases of
strictly family hotels. The Fifth Avenue
Is the only hotel in the city that has been
able 10 maintain the American plan exclu-
sively
The rental of the Fifth Avenue is sfa5O00
year. and Is said 10 be the cheapest hotel
rent IN town, considering the capital in
vested, which IS estimated az $500. GOO.
hitchcock & Darling have conducted the
Fifth Avenue for thirty years. The real
estate is practically controlled bv Banker
Emo, whose son levanted 10 Canada. leay-
ing debts 70 the amount of over s.. 600. 900.
which the father largely paid. doing all he
could 10 remove the stigma from An
hOnOret name.
The Imperial, owned by the rich Goelet
estate, IS one Of the latest creations. and
OF couIse, one Of the finest. The Imperial
and San Carlos, adjoining. under the same
management, represent an investment of
$4,000. The rental OF the Imperial Is
$4,000 and the san Carlos $4,000.
W. II. Daily came from California in 1874
to build the Windsor without regard to ex-
pense and conduct il on the most exclus-
i've lines. It is in the ultra fashionable
quarter Of Murray Hill. Jay Gould's win
Ter residence IS opposite. The BUILDING oF
tAls magnificent structure bankruDrpj
baiy and ne committed suicide. Cougtess-
man beIden, Of New York. bought r for
S5H,OO9, and spoiled II lIion in conplet-
Ing ana furnishing X. Ii IS one OF the
largest hotels IN the city, having 40
rooms. The rental is 900. The Windsor
was started exclusively on the American
pan. out AZ present IS conducted on both
the American and European methods.
another OF the big up town hotels j. tho
1&rk Avenue, built II Ie19 by A. T Stew
ar, as " orkinS Girls home. The hard
headed, intensely practical Irish merchant
!nQu.ged IN l topian dream on this occas-
Ion al least, and IN place Of the WORKING
0lrl Home Is a hotel as richly furnished
as Windsor Castle
The gray outlines Of the Grand and
Hi.sey loom above the neighboripg buiId-
12gs on Broadway. J. II. Bresiin h
bro, conduct the latter and pay the GiIsev
estate estate $4,000 q year for the nrivf
,eSe. here are -l6 rooms in the house.