The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-02
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A TEN-ACRR CARAvANsARY.
Chicago Proposes to Build the Biggest
Hotel in the World.
From the Ne1o Yorl: Press.


During the Columbian celebration in this
city New York proved that it could lodg e
and feed 800, 900 people from other places
daily and have room for more. Though
the hotels were crowded to overlooking, as
was only natural, there was hardly a side
street from University place 60 Harlem
that could not have housed from fifty to 500
additional strangers.
Chicago wrestled with the same problem
last week, but with smaller degree OF
success. IL was proven during the dem
ocratic convention there that the hotels
we're entirely inadequate TO a great rush of
business Boarding houses, for some reason
or other, were not popular. The result was
the wild scenes OF pushing, crowding and
downright robbery every one rsmem bers.
Even now people are beginning to say,
where shall we go during the exposition
There is not a hotel of any pretentions IN
the Windy City to-day in which every room
is not engaged for at least the first month of
the exposition. The railroads can land
every one In Chicago, but what will become
of the crowds when they get therel
To answer that question i'll part half q
dozen western gentlemen have put their
heads together aud evolved an altogether
western idea. That is, to build mammoth
hotel to cover ten acres of ground, to fur
nish sleeping and eating accommodations
for is coo people.
Such men as ex-Gov. Beveridge, now
president of the Lincoln National Bank,
Chicago; Gen. Chetlain, president OF the
Industrial Bank of Chicago; Judge Tuthiil
of the circuit court and others are at the
head of the affair, which in one sense, will
be cooperative. The ground secured for
the proposed hotel is six blocks from the
fair grounds. A number of street car lines
pass the site and the Baltimore and Ohio
road has contracted SO run their tracks up
to, and build station at, the main entrance
Of the hotel.
ELEVEN FIREPRoOF BUILDINGS.
The hotel is planned 10 consist of eleven
buildings as nearly firsproof as yossible,
connected by covered passageways, each
four stories high, $40 feet long by thirty in
width For lighting and heating purposes
electricity and steam will be used. There
will be $500 bedrooms, and parlors and re-
csption Toons in proportion. The Corpora
tive part Of the business comes in here. A
man alone or party of men and women
wishing to 60 60 Chicago will be enabled to
go 30 the agent Of the company in the city
in which they live, and book themselves ns
members Of the cooperative bureau con-
trolling the hotel.
This will cost IS and insurss them accom- =
modations In the company's hotel and the
delivery of their luggage in the rooms as
ot6 nOO 10 JAbLl DSkOtS AtdNIuR tHS place. Oh
departure without delay or further ex~
pense. In this way it is proposed that q
man can go to an agent here. become a
member or the bureau on psymenB of the
fee, bave room assigned to him, travel so
the door of the hotel and have his baggage
in his room ten minutes after his arrival.
None but members will be furnished accom-
modations, and the uniform price will be 81
day per person.
TO ACCOMMODATE 5000.
The scheme is big one. but may prove
feasible. Accommodations for Is. 600 peo-
pie will afford relief to the overcrowdinR
that is sure TO ensue, and TO those who re-
member the Philadelphia exposition, the
idea of being enabled to step from the train
into ones room, with no worry about bag
gage, will be an attractive one.
Chicago has come out enthusiastically in
favor of the plan. 1t is big. like ths Windy
City. Gov. Beverage, the president OF the
bureau, in an interview on the subject. said
the affair would be managed strictly on the
lines laid down. The majority of people
are not expected to stay over a week, and
he felt confident that during the exposition
500,0 900 people would be accommodated in
the great hotel A general agency will be
established in this city, and the bureau even
promises to be represented in the European
capitals
II 10 OluIcuAb 10 Se5, uOWbFeFi uOW buo
numerous agents will avoid the error of as
signing dozen or more persons to each
room, unless q limit to time as to the stay
of the member is strictly enforced, and the
doubters may ask whether the $500 rooms
are 10 be locked and unlocked as in Joliet
prison simultaneously. or whether every
one of the $1,000 guests is to be furnished
with a key. ImaginotiOn fails TO grasp the
number OF "fronts" required to answer the
thousands of bells on thirsty morning.
These are matters OF detail, however. and
the genius of Chicago is looked to to pro-
vide for such trihes