Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-12-02
A PALACE AND ITS USES.

A press dispatch thus described Sher-
US new hotel for plutocrats, recently
opened in New York:
"Sherry's great new palace on Fifth
avenue was thrown open for private
view Saturday. Rome in it's most re-
gally magnificent days never saw any
thing like it. Neither has New York.
The new hotel, designed especially for
the functions of society, has eleven
stories, and takes up 125 feet on the
avenue and 225 feet on the side street.
Right off the street are the Offices and
the restaurant, room of baronial pro-
portions, opulently finished in oak,
with gold trimmings, after the man
ner Of Louis Quantorze. The cafe is
carpeted in red and hung with green
draperies. The main cafe, another
huge room, is done in 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 It is an immense place,
done in cream and gold, with deli
cately frescoed ceiling. Attached to
the room is a regal suit of reception
rooms and coat rooms. Down another
fight and you walk into another ball
room, just as perfectly appointed and
lust as richly decorated. And yet it is
absolutely apart from the other. Go to
the front and there is a third ball
room. The first ball will be given De-
cember 2. The cost of the hotel was
81, $4,000 00."
1t may interest you, too, to know
something about those who will enjoy
all this magniflcence. Please note that
this great hotel has been designed
especially for the functions of society"
The first ball will be given December
2, says the Topeka Advocate, and 1t
has been decided that the printers OF
New York shall give it. They have
had more time to prepare than most
other classes for the introduction OF
the typesetting machines has made
them a lesurely class for some time.
The large number of unemployed print
ers in New York city makes it doubly
certain that the opening ball will be
worthy of the palace beholding it.
The sweatshop clsarmakers were for
merly compelled to work from in the
morning until and II at night, but
fortunately the machines have dis
placed them, and they are preparing
to celebrate their freedom with fitting
festivities. Inasmuch as two persons
working together making sWeatshop
cigars used to be able to make total
of 81 to $11 a week they have ample
means to draw on. Music for the
cgarmakers and their friends to dance
to will be furnished by Oscar Hammer
stein and other inventors of cigar man
ufacturing machines.
The section men Of the principal rail-
roads of New York are planning q 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 re-
turn of prosperity.
This hearty reception Of the new
Sherry'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 entirely to those whom
we were once accustomed to call "the
rich"-rich because they we're pos
sessed of considerable money. So re-
Gently as the time of the war for Cuba
was It impossible for the producers of
this country to reap anything from the