The sun., 1897-04-25
STRANGERS FLOCKING In.
-HE VANGUARD OF THE GRlNT-DAY
most ALREADY HERE

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visitor. who VIII Nc in New York on
hpru 81 from n Quarter OF y Aaiilion 20
e.. saiiiion-Prepnrntions to Receive Them.
Now York's capacity for entertaining strangers
iii n present signs mean anything, be taxed to
M utmost capacity by Monday night. Tho
ord.breaking crowd at tho Columbian cole
hrotion is likely TO sink into second place when
ali the strangers In town on Tuesday have been
counted. Estimates as to the crowd are incon-
clusyo at this time, but 1t is rather interesting
thai tho lowest estimate made, that of the
Wholesale Merchants Association, is 100000
,,rangers from towns and cities more than fifty
miles distant. At the headquarters Of tho
Monument Association tho estimates run any
where from half million to million.
About the hotels are found the greatest signs
Of the influx OF visitors that has already set in.
All Of the principal hotels filling up rapidly,
and at least two OF them, the Waldorf and
windsor, with tho orders they havo for next
week. have reached their capacity. and are re-
fusing to take any moro guests. The Fifth
Avenue. Holland, Imperial, Nctherland, Savoy,
and Plaza. the Empire, Marie Antoinette Sher-
man Square. and st. Andrews have almost
reached their capacity, and already at the ends
OF dark halls can be seen piles of cots, the surest
hsrbingers of the hotel mans harvest. Already
the Broadway and Fifth avenue hotels are begin
ming to forward guests from one to the other
and at the present rate it looks as IL most of
those who arrive in town on Monday and have
not already bespokcn accommodation will have
before them a long and weary quest. All this
should not be taken to mean that New York,
with its hotels and boarding houses innumcr-
able, its furnished.room houses and its res
tsnrants, cannot house comfortably all
that may want shelter. The trouble will
be that most strangers know only of
half dozen or so hotels and II they fail to find a
ibis he "a, s
5oocO pamphlets which have been scattered
names. addresses, and rates and number OF
rooms of every reputable hotel and boarding
quest OF the association Chief Conlin ordered the
SaGouS s s 9 svss get The The
pacity Of 2O.9l7 rooms. Nearly score OF these
have over $50 rooms each, and five OF them have
1t may be safely calculated that between so
and 90 per cent OF these rooms are occupied by
the regular trade, but at that, with the usual
crowding hotel keeper resorts to in time of
visitors. 1t is only in the most desirable hotels
way and Fifth avenue and on the route OF the
parade. Even at these. at the last moment. a
room can probably be got If sufficient induce
the city will be chock full from cellar roof there
y plenty OF room left for the visitors. This
gives the names of 54S boarding houses. with a
total capacity Of 6,11 rooms. scattered from
undoubtedly represents only part OF the houses
where rooms can be secured. Last Of all. there
are the Rainos law hotels, and If worst comes TO
resi- orcrnig ight in them. As to restaurants, New
York couid easily supply the needs OF twice the
The enormous host OF visitors that is sure to
CONE TO the city will be due to a great degree 10
The efforts Of the Wholesale Merchants Asso-
1 \ haT ho hnta yvtl
net bc u" only ones to reap the resultant har-
vest Of dollars. 1t was the Wholesale Mer-
fer the low fares the railroads have made. They
also havc seen TO it that the dedication was weil
have sent inc pamphlets referred TO to their
customers IN the North. the East. the South.
@ sas In tas e street ,s q
Yesterday that one of the biggest business weeks
CT tie year was looked fo:. Large numbers OF
irS 10 New York. or hastened IL, so that they
co. III bc here on Grant Day. and very many who
had not expected 20 come at all havo decided TO
make combined business and pleasure trip As
consequence the force at tho headquarters of
@tAea7soeiat!on tie is kept busy answering tclcgrams
aGh letters regarding accommodations, rates,
ar so torth.
The aotabiii,ios havo already begun to pu. in
an appearance. One OF the first 20 arrive yester-
day vas Maior-Gen o. o. Howard, o. s. A, re-
tired. who vii! command the division OF Vet
eopposa@ q adii Gen sanesi balton. 'tsa Gems
ItoO'rt 4. BLOOD, lockwood HOar. Francis III.
hTp!c:on. and Curtis Guild, Jr.: Coils. James L.
Ctricr r Ei%ald .,!n y; Robbng. J; payson Bradley,
John d. Billings. Frank l. Locke. James T. Sout-
ter. c:,d Gordon Dexter. At the Fifth Avenue
GOV. Lloyd Lowndes OF Maryland with his star
arrived tast evening. Atthe Monument Associs-
ton headquarters n telegram received from
Ioleio, saying that the crack organization OF
Northwestern Ohio the Toledo Cadets, was on
It's way 10 the city and would arrive last night.
Tnc telegram did not state what route they had
taken.
Among the late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue
ItOtct last night were: Gov. Josiah Grout and
st!E OF Vermont Gov. II. c. Warworth of Louis
lana, Jesse Z. Grant and family. Gen. Buckner,
and ]. II. Manley.