Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-02-25
TO SEE THE PARADE.
What 1t VIII Cost to Occupy Windows on
Pennsylvania Avenue.
Room for rent?''

What 1t Will Cost to Occupy Windows on
Pennsylvania Avenue.
Room for rent?''
"Yes"
"For Inauguration day?"
Yes
How much?'
$500"
"what!r'
sYes"
"Good morning."
This brief but pointed conversation took place
between q STAR reporter and q man who owned
a room facing Pennsylvania avenue. 1t was q
warm. cozy-looking room, with three windows
looking out upon the avenue. just such a room
as would accommodate in luxury Q party who
desired to view the procession with all the com.
forts Of home. There was a restauran, hard by
from whence could be imagined issuing about
noontime covered tray. and the cover thereof
slightly raised in the middle like circus tent
by the main pole. The man who owned the
room thought he had a cinch, and he wa
exerting it.
In this praiseworthy effort that man is not
alone. From LIST street to 18th street along
Pennsylvania avenue-aye, and further west
ward still, every other house along the
line Of march Of the inaugural parade offers
front rooms, front windows and front balconies
for rent on the 4th of March.
UNANIMIrY OF PRICES
A STAR reporter who started out to find &C.
commodations for an imaginary party Of Wis
tsors found all sorts Of rooms, all sorts Of win
dows and balconies. but wonderful unanimity
Of prices. 1t looked like everybody had re-
volved in their minds the outside limit Of price
to be charged, that is, a limit beyond which not
even their fondest hopes could carry them, and
had paused at that.
This limit usually els for . second OF
third-story window to accommodate four per.
sons; from 500 to $500 for entire rooms-S30t
seemed to be the limit, and the STAB man found
no one who had the nerve to raise it another
dollar over the first named man with the cinch,
while advantageously located balconies were
priced on the basis of their accommodation q,
about % per head.
The owners and proprietors of the windows
rooms and balconies were very independent IL
their manner. 1t is yet early in the game, YOU
know. They all expect to make big money or
Inauguration day. So it's take it now o,
leave it.
SPACES IN SHOW WINDOWS.
Even the storekeepers have become possessed
with the idea that q harvest is to be reaped
from window letting. A great many stores or
the avenue offer to rent spaces in their show
windows to people to view the parade. They
propose to erect platforms in the windows
whereby their patrons can be elevated above
the heads OF the crowd that will line the side
walk and at the same time be incosed within
glass case, secure from possible Indictment
weather. The prices for these windows range
according to their capacity at about the rate OF
~ per head. One enterprising man who has g
vacant store room along the line OF march
with a good frontage of windows has converted
the room iuto q reviewing stand and expects q
crowded house.
The hotel keepers are rubbing their hand,
with pleasant anticipation, for they all expect
to fill every nook and GRANNY of their estab.
lishments for at least three days and have an
unusual run of business for a week or more
The larger hotels are pretty well bought ur
already, although each is reserving some space
to be given to persons coming in at the las,
moment and begging for accommodations
There has been no pronounced increase in
prices. The average rate is "a per day for eact
person, but from two to four people will b.
placed IN room. The man who wants board
and lodging for himself and wife in q room
that would otherwise accommodate four per
sons will pay SIC per day and the room will moi
be given to him for less than four days
The lone wayfarer who applies at Washing
ton hotel on the night Of March 8 for shelte,
will deem himself lucky to get a cot. for b,
won't get q room unless he can stand e12 or Slt
day for 1t, and he may not get it even ct tina