The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-25

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met by a committee from Washington. who
will escort him to the capital for the celebra-
ton there.
CAV TAKE CARE OF An WHO COME.
Hotel Men Say That Strangers Need Suffer
No Inconvenience During the Celebration.
nmay not be as difficult as some folks have
imagined to get hotel accommodations In New
York this week Every body believes that the
Dewey celebration will draw bigger crowd to
town than ever gathered hore before. but be
that as it may. it remains true that in hotels.
like omni busses there is usually room for one
more. This fact will prevent many stranger
in Now York from walking the streets during
the nights OF tho latter part OF the week.
SuN reporter visited the principal hotels yes
teriay to make inquiry on this point.
1t was found that between this morning and
Thursday morning forty or nifty persons can
secure board and lodging for twenty-four or
forty eight hours at nearly any hotel in New
York at regular prices. On and after Thurs
day the managers will make no promises. but
they sny they will probably be able to take In
limited number from night to night all through
the week also at regular rates. Not a single
reputable hotel in town has advanced its rates
in anticipation Of the big crowd.
D or course every hotel has had more applca-
lions for rooms for this week thai ever before
That is one reason for believing that the crowd
will be bigger than any other crowd that ever
gathered here But all the principal hotels
have been flied as nearly as any hotel 10 ever
nlled on manv other occasions The biggest
crowd that the Fifth Avenue ever had.
for instance. was during the Washing
ton Centennial. when $40 persons were
lodged there. Cots were put up then
wherever they could be. and some Of the public
int1 NOD haaE
Avenue hasn't so many bedrooms as 1t had in
1889. because new cafes on the GROUND floor
have taken the places OF some OF them. Then.
too beds will not be placed in any Of the public
rooms for this celebration. 1t was said at the
hotel yesterday that they would be able to take
care OF about seven hundred and fifty persons
each night during the week.
The Hoffman House took care OF moro people
during the horse show OF four or Ave years ago
than It ever did before or ever has since. The
Gilsey and Imperial did their biggest business
at the time OF the dedication OF Grants
tomb, while the Waldorf Astoria reached
its high-water mark several times last
winter. Most OF the other hotels fix the
date OF their greatest numb OF patrons as the
date OF the Washington Centennial. 1t was
said at the Gilsey House yesterday that tho
hotel would accomm odats comfortably about
four hundred and only accommo datons for
that number would be booked. Practically tho
same thing was said at the Imperial, whore
they can accommodate about seven hundred
and fifty. and at the Waldorf Astoria where
there are accommodations for about seventeen
hundred.
Mr. Boldt Of the Waldorf Astoria has arranged.
however. to furnish a certain kind OF lodging
for some OF his patrons who cant get better
accommodations elsewhere. He has divided
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sections by means OF curtains and in these
sections he has placed cots. II anybody in
sists upon staying at the Waldorf Astoria. after
all the rooms are taken. they may have the
cots.
Last night It was impossible to engage rooms
at any OF the larger hotels for any length Of
time after Wednesday and up to next Sunday
but practice observed by all hotel managers
will enable many OF those who come to town
between those days. determined to take pot
luck. to get lodgings. No matter how big
crowd q hotel manager expects to take
care OF for stated period. he always reserves
. certain number OF rooms for transient
business. 1t is law unto all hotel men that
they must always be ready to take care
OF a certain number OF "transients." those
who stop only night or two. Many persons
will come to New York. stop at hotels and
leave town before Dewey gets here and on the
days OF the celebration there will DO some de-
partureR from every hotel. Therefore. the man
who hasn't engaged accommodations may yet
see the show and have comfortable bed. II he
Is ready to take the room made vacant by the
fellow whose business won allow him to eel
citrate with Dewey.
Besides thi. off chance OF getting room.
nearly every hotel along Broadway and Fifth
avenue has requests for dodgers from persons
hnnaaa N NJ
the hotels visited by SUN reporter these re-
quests had been listed in the order In which
they were received. and each list had the
addresses OF from ten to thirty private houses
where dodgers would be taken. The total ac-
sommodation OF the houses in these eleven
lists is COO Most OF those who want dodgers
named eXorbitant prices for the Use OF their
rooms. when they sent their applications to the
hotels. One woman in West Thirty second
street, between Broadway and Fifth avenue.
sought some OF the expcctid overflow from the
Imperial. She said sh" had a suite which she
might be induced to let for $50 day. She was
promptly told that she need expect no one
from the Imperial.
As far as the hotel managers have been able.
they have sent some OF their offica staff to
look at the rooms thus offered. Where il has
been found that good rooms could be secured
at moderate rates, the street and number OF
the house were taken and those are the houses
that are on the lists at the eleven hotels re-
fOrred 70.
The Fifth Avenue will entertain Gov. Roose-
vslt and staif, GOV Dyer and staff OF Rhode
Island and Gov Bushnell and staff OF Ohio.
Mayor Carter Harrison and the Chicago city
government will be at the Gilsey House. Gov.
Tunnel and stafr OF Delaware and ex-Mayor
Hopkins OF Chicago will be at the
IMPERIAL. The headquarters OF tho army
in general will be at the Grand. Gov.
Hastings and stan OF Pennsylvania. Senator
Hanna and many fashionable folk from Phila-
delphia, Boston Chicago and Baltimore are ex
pected at the Waldorf-AStoria. while two or
three Governors OF Southern States have been
Professionally booked at the Marlborough.
where Southerners usually go.
FIkIRS GETTING RICH.