Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-29
is FILLING WITH VISITORS
Throngs of Dewey Celebra-
ton Sightseers Arrive
in New York.
ALL TRAINS CROWDED.
The advance Guard" Already Fills
the Hotels and Boarding Houses
From Cellar to Carret.

All Incoming Trains Crowded to the
Doors-Prices on Everything Adj
vance With Rush-Steamships
Converted Into Floating Hotels
Beautiful Decorations.
New York, Sept. 27.-All Railroad
trains coming into New York from dis
tant points are crowded to the doors
with visitors to the Dewey celebration.
Some of the roads are in quandary
how they are going to handle the I'M
mense press of travel and the baggage
men are already in despair.
The PENNSYLVANIA road with Its tour
tracks will run no freight trains on
Friday and Saturday, but devote all
of its transportation facilities to car
rying passengers. The rush on all the
roads has commenced i'll earnest.
The Waldorf Astoria Hotel crowded
to the roof. is serving 12OOO meals
day. Two thousand persons who nave
rooms there and 2.OOO who sleep out
side are being supplied, and 1t hasn't
room for another soul.
The same story is repeated at all the
prominent hotels. the Firth Avenue
the Hoffman. the Holland, the I'M
pcrial. Park Avenue, Plaza, Savoy ana
the Netherland and nearly all OF ulle
less pretentious obstetrics are already
crowded The establishments racing
Fifth avenue had all of their rooms
besDollcn weeks ago, and they are now
endeaVoring to make additional pro
vision for the demands that are still
being made. The Hotel Reeves at
Forty-second street and Broadway, has
600 guests. many of whom are sleeping
on cots. There have been more than
four hundred applications in the past
tIvrutv-fOur hours that could not he
filled Fancy prices are being demand
ed for all kinds of accommodations,
and those who wish to be taken care
of are obliged to pay handsomely for
the luxury. Several wealthy persons
living on Fifth avenue near the wal
dorf and in the cross streets have rent
ed their parlorS, not for the parade
day but for sleeping rooms during the
entire jubilee.
The overflow from the hotels is
quickly filling up the boarding houses
and private residences. not only III TINS
borough. but in Brooklyn. the Bronx,
Staten Island, Long Island towns and
Jersey City.
Many steamship lines are turning the
craft into floating hotels. Steamers
tied up at the foot of West Twenty
third street will be so utilized. They
have on an average berths and cabin
accommodations for 600 persons each.
and already these accommodations
have been eagerly gobbled up.
And the coming of Dewey has NJ
up prices all around. Every means of
TRANSPORTATION has largely appreciated
in value. except the street cars. which
will have more than they can do to
transport the trongS at Il nickel head.
Extra clerks and cashiers. most in
demand Mt business places, Will he paid
$40 day. \ well-known caterer who
has hired 100 extra walters for the day
of the land parade will pay them So
each.
Fifth avenue has begun to take on n
radical change. Bunting has broke out
along the fronts of hundreds of houses
that twcnty-fOur hours ago showed Sc
we're brown fronts. Stands are spring
ing up before clubs and private resi-
dcnceS and the air Is full of the sound
of the hammer and saw. Thousands
of sightSeers fill the avenue, walking
around Instructions. lodging out of
the way of danger and looking at the
residences of the millonaireS. The
y
arch mt Madison Square to the Park
Plaza and back again.
Among the decorations. especially in
the stores. are greetings to Dewey and
his mon.
Despite all that has been said. ii is
now certain that the Grand Army of
the Republic will take no active part
in the land parade of the Dewey cele-
hration Some 600 or 100 g. \. Il. men
probably will parade, but it will not he
as representatives. of the G.. y. II
They will parade as Independent or
ganiZationS of Veterans of the Civil
War Already five such organizations
have applied for places in the line, and
il is eXcppcled that n sufficient large
number Of unattached veterans will
form on Dewey Day to make an i'm
posing showing