The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1896-02-29
HOTELS IN NEW rOhN'
r.uxurious Standards That Hurt inc D''
ness Of Summer Resorts

IuNuriOuH ftnnuafbr Ina
mes. Of Summer Resorts
"The biggest sociaIistic experiments
In the world are going on right mere ~
New York, said hotel man. rake
that concern there, ;" nodding at huge
hotel M town. "Neitber the phalan-
stery at Guise nor any other socians'io
community compares with it, ana IL 10
only one Of dozen or score, Dig anu
little. in this city. The members Oh
quests, as you may choose to call them
put their money into common iunu,
and they live in style and comfort ,nae
would cost them easily two or three
times as much IL they didn't have CO
operation. They are in a fireproof Dulid-
ing. heated with steam and lighted py
electricity; the fittings and plumbing
are the finest that q millionaire couiu
get; they have private telephones ID
their rooms and trained servants are az
hand day and night How many OF tnein
could afford such things in private
house? That's what socialism Will 90,
docs it pay? Well, rather A hotel
In New York is either gold mine OF
bottomless pit to drop money into IL Is
generally the former il it is first class
hotel with plenty Of capital back OF IT,
Otherwise men wouldn't be so eager 10
invest millions in hotel property. one
firm is reputed to have divided sl5o' Ooo
the first year. The wife Of the manager
of another hotel is famous even III New
York for her diamonds. The number OF
hotels not particularly we'll known that
bring their owners from $500 TO
800, 900 a year is surprising, II haif
the stories told are true. These are no.
tells that do transient trade. The place
across the way expects to have 300 or
600 guests living there the year round
and paying something like $1,000 a
year apiece. Some pay a good deal
more All the proprietor has to do is
to take in the money and keep his guests
from kicking. That's where the brains
come in in the hotel misunderstanding
your guests from kicking. Why do some
hotel keepers fail? Well, one reason is
that some of them make so much money
that they want to be Astors or Wander
bits right away and SO listen &c
schemes their guests have to propose.
It takes brains to salt money away as
we'll as to make it.
"There is one thing about these so
cialistic hotels here in New York that
outside hotel keepers don't like. Thai
old joke about New York being thu
finest summer resort in the land is grin
earnest for them. New Workers WHIT
own places in the country are staying
at them longer and longer each year
but the season at summer hotels il
growing shorter and shorter. / know
one place that could reckon confdentl,
upon a season Of three months. Las
summer its season was not more thai
six weeks. People used to be crazy t
get into the country and sorry to com
back to the city. Now you'll find tina
husbands and fathers have to coax thei
families to go away at all, and the.
can't keep them away after the frs
cold spell gives them an excuse to com
back. l don't suppose that people lik
the country any less than they ever did
but the country hotels can't keep u
to the standard that people have bee
taught to expect here, and people won
put up with the deprivations and dis
comforts they have to suffer in the cour
try. So the luxury of living in Me-
York is killing the summer hotel bus
ness, and New York is getting to be
greater summer resort every year. -
New York Sun.