The Advocate and news., 1898-10-05
A PALACE AND ITs USERS.


Here is a press dispatch from New
York, describing a magnificent new ho-
tel:
Sherry's great new place on Fifth ave-
nue. was thrown open for private view Sat
urday. Rome In it's most regally maBnih-
cent days never saw anything like It.
Neither has New York. The new hotel
designed especially for the functions of
society has eleven stories, and takes up
l25 feet on the avenue and 225 feet on the
side street. Right Off the street are the
Offices and the restaurant, room Of ba-
ronial proportions, Opulently finished in
oak, with gold trimmings, after the man
neT of Louis Quantorze. The cafe Is car
peted in red and hung with green draperies.
The main cafe, another huge room, Is
done I'm green. TO the side without any
street front Is the palm garden, lofty
room rooted with glass and trimmed with
white marble and greened iron These are
all public rooms. Up stairs are three ball
rooms The main one. forty feet high, is
on the third floor. 1t is an immense place,
done in cream and gold with dellcately
fresCOed ceiling. Attached to the room Is
rooms Down another fight and you walk
into another ball room, just as perfectly
appointed and Just as richly decorated.
And yet It Is absolutely apart from the
other. Go 10 the front and there Is a third
ball room.
The hotel will be opened October and
the first ball will be given December z
The cost of the hotel was $3,5OO,OOO.
It may interest you, too, to know some
thing about those who will enjoy all
this magnifCence. Please note that this
great hotel has been designed especially
for the functions of society"
The hotel will be opened October 8
and the first ball will be given Decem-
ber 2. It has been decided that the print
ers of New York shall give it. They have
had more time to prepare thanmOst other
classes, for the introduction of the type
setting machines has made them leis-
urely class for some time. The large
number of unemployed printers in New
York city makes it doubly certain that
the opening ball will be worthy Of the
palace behOlding 1t.
The sweat-shop clgarmakers were for
merly compelled to work from 6 in the
morning until and II at night, but for
tunately the machines have displaced
them, and they are preparing to Cele-
brate their freedom with fitting festiVi-
ties. Inasmuch as two persons working
together making sweat-shop cigars used
to be able to make a total Of 81 to $1l
week they have ample means to draw
on Music for the cigarmakers and their
friends to dance to will be furnished
by Oscar Hammerstein and other invent
Ors of cigar manufacturing machines.
The section men of the principal rail-
roads of New York are planning ball
for the holidays that they intend shall
eclipse anything Of the sort ever seen
in New York city. They will run spe-
cial trains from all over the State. Later
on the magnificent hotel will be thrown
open throughout to many miners Of
Pennsylvania, who, with their families,
will make visit to New York the special
celebration of the return OF prosperity.
This hearty reception Of the new Sher-
ry's by the plain people" of the vicinity
Of New York is extremely gratifying. 1t
was not so many years ago that the great
palace would have been given over en-
tirely to those whom we were once ac-
customed to call "the rich"-riCh be-
cause they were possessed of consider
able money. So recently as the time OF
the war for Cuba was 1t impossible for
the producers of this country to reap
anything from the erection Of a palace
like Sherrys other than the mere pit
tance of wages for the few employed in
the building. But now the toll and the
reward are both theirs--a true prosper
ity has come, and they have good reason
for rejoicing.