The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-03
TOWN IS S5,OOO,OOO RICHER.
THE AMOUNT or MOSET THE DEWEY
CROWD LEFT BEHIND.


THAT Is Conservative Estinate, for There
Were More IhHn Miunon straheeS III
Town curing ,he es'"prn''on-AHsn
WI '"e "e'' ''""'e'N wv" '"' N''"
Most OF the Dewey celebration visitors have
zone home, but many OF their dollars remain
behind Never I'm the citys history have such
prlccs been paid for seats in stands, residences
and other pointa OF view overlooking the line
of march The hotel prices too have scared
beyond the hlghwater mark and tho board
ing house keepers have reaped rich hnr-
vests from the overflow OF the hotels
Restaurants, livery stables and street
fakirs are the other benenciarics from
the three days crush OF visitors or how
many stranVers were in the city no two per-
sons estimates are alike. but striking an
average from the opinions OF the railroad men
who are in a position TO nudge as well as any
body, oven cautious rcck oner would be safe
in saving that there were more than million
Those that didn't have friends to stay with
could hardly have got through the experience
for less than So n head extended in food and
lodginE uulcss they pa,roniz ID the fifteen
cert Bnwrry Lodging honees and the element
thh; would ito that was not large In the crowds
So Il would seem con servative stimate to say
tina, the visitors left a memento OF $1,000 600
IN the pockets ~ Father Krickerbocker
The hotel poople rot most OF It, None Of
them would admit that they had put M their
rates for the orrasion, but II they didn't the
rntrs must have gone up automatically for the
average was about double the ordinary tariff
Nor was this the limit Of the hotels ain. for
the r = ,od-sized bed rooms were made to do
duty 10 the extent of the floor room for COTS
and any guest who had fancy for possessing
a room all 30 himself ueeded to have come early
witl,a large price IN his pocket As for the
ho 81 tnriogs. they were arranged on the hos
pitH ward principle. with long lines of cots for
which - night was charged in the first
cn - hotels, and 81 80 in those OF lower status
Omc item of profit these cheaper hotels missed
and that was the restaurant profit.
We reckon on a ratio OF restaurant profit to
The number OF guest" the proprietor Of one
OF these hotels explained yesterday to a Sun re-
porter. but we missed it badly this time The
class of trade that struck us Is the kind that
gets to New York once and talks about 1t the
rest OF it's life Those people don't have any
money to SPEND except what they use to keep
alive on, and though our restaurant prices
aren't stiN. they kind OF made the country
crowd look weak They'd eat breakfast in
their rooms Off fruit aud peanuts that they'd
bought the night before. and | suppose they
passed up lunch and had dinner in the bean
cries. know they didr't get 1t here"
Quite nun Der OF boarding houses gave up
their spare rooms to the large hotels at profit
able rentals. The rest did a big business One
on West Twenty-eighth street had ten extra
beds crowded in. and got So a light for each OF
them A hall bedroom brought So a night.
Hundreds OF disappointed bed seekers went
to Brooklyn. where the furnished room -to-le
slgn fourishes more lururiantly than any
where else in America, and the accustomed
evening Quiet of the streets was disturbed
until late hours by the tramp OF the home
less wanderers with money to pay for
lodgings. Yet, there were some hotels
In New York that had spare room
A Chicago visitor got two rooms in Fifth ave-
nue. hotel on Friday morning and paid SO
day for them. the regular rates His windows
ovcrlooke ed the line OF march Windows with
no better view were renting for $25. $50 and
even SIS. The proprietor OF the hotel said that
there had been no extra demand for rooms
there The probable reason Is that the house
docs very little transient business and is gem
orally regarded as more OF an apartment house
than hotel.
Next to the hotels the proprietors OF ths par
ede stands collected the most OF the incoming
dollars. In the naval parade they didn't do as
well as the propretors hoped. for the great
bulk OF the crowd dispersed itself comfortably
in Riverside Park and sat on the lawns free Of
charge. getting better view of the passing
ships than the average stand afforded. But on
the day OF the land parade the stand people
made up for this lack OF patronage. Many Of
the price lists quoted 81. 81 and So as the price
OF seats. After 10 O'Clock in the morning it
was next to impossible to find 81 seat on the
line OF march. The seats were still there the
price wasn't. 1t had gone up.
Haven't got any ST seats left" the ticket
seller would say Can give you a 50 seat on
the back row."
Similarly the So seats had climbed to So In
general the higher-priced stands. those In
which there was no seat for which So was in
tended to be charged. stuck to their SCALE But
people paid So and $40 for these seats Just the
same. for the keen wltted sp ecuator had fore
seen the demand, had bought right and
eft whe re he could. and then circulated
through the crowds. Even standing room be-
hind the last row was sold in some OF the
stands. and the possessor thereof received tho
right to sit on tho tor OF the rear wall OF wood
II he fell of and broke himself az one man did
that was his own lookout. source Of revenue