The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-18
NO sWELTERING NIGHTS.
Railroads Can Transport All
the Delegates and Spec
tatorS on Time.
WIRE SERVICE SUFFICIENT.
The Journey Across the Mountains
VIII Instruct and Delight
the Delegates.

The facilities possessed by San francisco
for taking care of vast throngs of people
are not.doubted by any one who surveys
The field of accommodation. In the line
of hotel convenience only two cities in
the United States surpass San Francisco,
and these two are New York and Chicago.
The quality of accom- modations afforded
is just as good in San Francisco as can be
found anywhere else New York has more
hotels, ana can therefore shelter a larger
number of persons than the hostelries of
this City can accommodate, but the ac-
combinations are not superior to those
provided here.
When it comes to providing meals for
multitude, San Francisco is not behind
any Eastern city. The restaurant facili-
ties of this town are unsurpassed. The
quality of food served is first class, the
service prompt and excellent, and prices
are so moderate that New York and Chi
cago people wonder at the cheapness.
The favor which the candidacy of San
Francisco has already enlisted has caused
some of the newspapers of the East to ex-
o. press doubt as to the ability OF the City
to care for the multitude. The point is
raised that hotel accommodations are in
transportation facilities are inadequate
and telegraph communication is uncer-
tain. The OBJ jections surely emanate from
persons who are not enlightened, because
the facts warrant the assertion that all the
facilities required are available. None OF
the objections pointed ont really exist.
No one is better qualified to Judge of the
hotel conveniences of San Francisco than
George B. Warren. assistant manager of
the Palace. He has lived here for twenty
six years and knows the capacity of local
caravansaries for affording shelter to
travellers. Replying to questions on be-
half of the CALL he said yesterday that the
principal hotels OF San Francisco could
easily entertain all the people that Ma
tional convention would bring to the City.
Apart from New York and Chicago"
said Mr.. Warren, "San Francisco is one OF
the best equipped cities in the world for
taking care of visitors. The hotels are es-
pecially adapted for the uses of convention
delegates. There is concentration of
leading houses that must prove highly con-
venient. The accommodations offered are
fully up to the modern standard. AS for
supplying people with food in restaurants
neither Chicago nor New York Is ahead OF
this City. II it became necessary San
Francisco could easily shelter in leading
hotels and boarding-houses 5000 people
over and above the ordinary volume of
local requirement. Aside from this an inn
mense number of people could be pro-
vided for in rooms outside of the hotels.
The capacity of the restaurants is so great
that no question could arise in this regard.
The accommodations of the leading ho-
tells are first class and not excelled any,
where"
Major w. B. Hooper, lessee and man
ager of the Occidental Hotel, expressed
views similar to those entertained by Mr..
Warren.
There is no question: said Major
Hooper, "of San Francisco's ability to take
care of all the people who would come here
TO attend the convention, and as for rates,
am satisfied that an agreement could be
reached to make them moderate.
"In hotel accommodations the City il
exceptionally well equipped. We have
aside from the leading hotels, great mum
Der of very large and well-conducted
boarding houses close to the center of bust
ness activity. Californians have beer
dominated SO long by the independence O.
servants that thousands of families have
abandoned housekeeping to board, and a:
result elegant lodging houses, with al
modern conveDiences of comfort and many
luxurious accessories, have been con
structed.
''If we should organize as we did wher
making preparations to receive the Crane
Army of the Republic, accommodation
for 1900 visitors could be readily OBJ
tanned. and this would by no means repre-
sent the capacity of the City to entertain
strangers. The equipment of our leading
hotels is first class and second to none il
the country. The Eastern idea that ou
hotel facilities are meager is absurd.
This City is away ahead of Baltimore