Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-25

increases daily. Already the best quar-
tiers at the big hotels are taken, and ap-
plications for accommodations are coming
in by the hundreds. The question as to
how the city will take care of the crowd
is. in the minds Of many, serious one.
but.it seems to me that the arrangements
are such that there will be room and 10
spare.
st. Louis and It's Accomm Odn lions.
st. Louis is a bigger town than is gen.
orally supposed. Its citizens now claim a
population CT more than 600,000 and this
number is scattered over a territory of
more than sixty square miles, or of more
than 240 1G0-acre farms. 1t IS a city of
homes. A vast number of people own The
HOUSES they live in, and / am told that
hundreds of these homes will be throw
open to accommodate the crowd. A sys-
tematic canvass of the city is now being
made for the purpose. The committee of
arrangements and the Business Mems
League have a bureau of information at
the exposition building, where all who will
take guests are now registering, and quar-
tiers are already being apportioned to such
as apply for them. The work is being sys-
Iematically done. Each house is investi-
gated before it is registered, and if there
Is the least suspicion of its being anything
else than a place of good character Ii is
rejected. Fixed rates of board and rooms
are to be charged in all cases. and these
are given in to the bureau at the time Of
application. Good quarters with board at
private houses can be gotten for about
81 per day. and the economical man who
wishes to attend the convention and bring
his wife had better Apply for the private
house quarters than to go to the big hotels,
which will be more expensive and which
will be damned from cellar to garrett ST
Louis has beautiful suburbs. 1t has one
of the largest park systems Of the world,
and its three hundred-odd miles of electric
m fat mi fos
from any part of the city to the convention
hall
St. Louis Hotels.
The st. Louis hotel accommodations are
larger than are generally supposed. The city
has a half dozen first-class houses and
score or so of second-class ones. Before get
ting the convention the Business Mems
League called at the principal hotels and
made contracts with them that they were
rot to increase their rates per day. They
WILL however, put four persons and upward
into single room, and the man who does
not want neighbors will have to pay to
keep them out. The rates for single per-
sons at the best hotels will be from So to
81 per day. The ordinary small hotel room
will be expected to hold four, and would
hence cost one man from s12 to $50, accord
Ing to Its location. A large room, big
six. and will cost the man who wants it
all alone $50 a day Most people expect to
double up, however, at such times and
parties of four. six and upward are being
together-each paying about 81 a day
rate. Not few men, however, are en-
gaging whole rooms and paying s25 a day
and more for them.
Planters, the Southern, the st. Nicholas and
the Lindell. They are all centrally located
and all near together. These hotels will
compare favorably with the hotels of any
nP Tyr,If aI Gtof- MI.
has $50 rooms. and at least 1000 people
will be crowded into it at the time Of the
convention. 1t will have a number of
headquarters. and some of the delegates
others who have already contracted for
quarters at the Planters are Frank His
cock, Tom Plat, Chauncey Depew and
Hamilton Fish. which leads to the belief
New York crowd. 1t will have also Matt.
Quay. Tom Lowry, H. Clay Evans. J. Hub
bell and John c. New. 1t will have the
Pennsylvania, West Virginia. Tennessee,
and Indiana headquarters, and will be
one of the chief centers of presidential
schemlng. Its rates will be from 81 to 81
per day per person, and many a 81 man
will sleep on cot in the halls
The ST. Nicholas is the swell Euroneon
notel or the city. 1t has seventy rooms
and 1t will crowd about 800 persons into
them e, The Lindell will accommodate
wv
rooms, and the La Clede 600 guests in
about 100 rooms. All of these will have
state delegations and delegates There
are also number of smaller European and
American hotels in the ncighborhood. con-
tanning from so to $50 rooms and in other
parts of the city perhaps a dozen good
sized hotels.
The Heart OF the Convention.
The center Of the convention scheming
and plotting. however, will be the Southern
Hotel. This has the Mckinley, the ALL
son and the Reed headquarters. The
greatest number Of rooms has been en-
gagged by the Mckinley men. Mark Han
ma, McKinley's manager at Cleveland. has
engaged thirty rooms, the Tippecanoe Club
of Cleveland has the old restaurant. the
largest Of all the rooms and while / was
In the hotel the other day saw Mr.. Hahn.
the Ohio national committeeman, giving
directions as to the fitting UP OF a Nc
kinley headquarters in big room Just Off
the hotel office. Thomas B. Reed has. /
am told. the best rooms in the Southern
Colonel Joe Manley engaged them In adj
vance of the convention. There are six
teen of them, including the grand parlor
and balcony, which will be hung with
flags and Reed notices. The Illinois dele
cation Is also in the Southern, and the
Cook county crowd from Chicago have