The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-15

| for women guests. there being a ladies'
private dining room Several other clubs
are housed In New York hote.s.
Luxurious Southern and Western
Hotels.
The fame OF the great Florida hotels.
noticeably the Ponce de Leon and Cordo-
va, in St Augustine, and the Royal Poin-
ciana, at Palm Beach, Is world wide. In
the entire South. however, there is no
more magnificent caravansary than the
New ST. Charles, in New Orleans. What
the Waldorf-Astoria is TO the world the
st. Charles is TO the South. Owing to the
peculiar climatic advantages OF New Or
leans the builders were able TO provide
Injuries which are impossible farther
North.
The St Charles building, with site, cost
81 GOO, OO0 and it's furniture cost more than
500 000. Its highest regular rate is &25 a
day for corner suite accommodating two
persons, consisting Of a private parior,
bedroom and bath Provision is made,
however. for furnishing larger suites at
proportlonately higher rates great
open air promenade filled with tropical
plants and shrubbery, occupying the space
between the wings of the building on the
second floor, with entrances from the halls
and dining room. affords a delightful
Iounging place i'm sunshine or shade. This
is the show place of New Orleans.
Travelling westward to California the
luxury loving American comes eventually
to the Hotel del Coronado, at Coro-
nado Beach. II claims the distinction of
being the largest resort hotel in the world
1t covers four and half acres. A novel
feature is a court in the center Of the
building the size of an ordinary city
square, in which is revealed the floral
richness of a tropical garden, from giant
palms down 20 the rarest plants. The
ball room contains II, 900 square feet. The
dining room is thirty-three feet high, with
out pillar or post to mar its beauty. There
are $50 rooms and fifty-six of them are
sitting rooms The huge tanks for hot
and cold sea wa ter bathing inside the ho-
tel are a great feature.
Going north along the Pacific coast the
rich American finds the next monument to
his liberal patronage in the $1,000, 900 Ho-
tel Portland in Portland, Ore. Coming
back over the continent he will find sur
prising luxury in the Hotel Pfster Mil
waukee, which cost 81, 900. This house,
and the Planters Hotel, St Louis, and
the Auditorium, Chicago, stand for all that
is luxurious In the Middle West. A fea-
ture of the Pfster is the dining facilities.
The whole of the seventh floor. with the
exception of a ladies' waiting and billiard
room, is taken up by the main dining
room, a banquet hall and three private
dining rooms. Gorgeous dining rooms seem
to be growing features in the Middle West.
In the new Grand Pacific, Chicago, the
second floor is entirely devoted to a. series
of small dining rooms. each Characters
tcally decorated TO represent some Euro
pean country or period in history.
In Philadelphia the seeker after lux
ury may find all he wants in the Wal
ton, which is peculiarly adapted to the
entertainment of those who can afford
to live regardless of expense from the
fact that entire floors can be made into
suites completely isolated from the rest
Of the hotel This has been done on sew
eral occasions, and Noteworthy during
the stay of Ii Hung Chang in the City
of Brotherly Love. The rental price Of
suites like those which have been occu-
pied by President Mckinley and Presi-
dent Dias of Mexico is 500 a day.
In Washington, the capital city, there
is most luxury perhaps in the Arlington.
the hotel which proudly boasts of having
entertained every guest of honor to the
| United States and every potentate from
foreign lands for thirty years. This no.
tel has the most perfect arrangement of
| banquet hall, connecting parlors, receiv-
| ing and coat rooms in the country. Three
| hundred people can be properly dined at
| one table. In this great hall have been
| given some of the country's most costly
| and famous dinners, including that OF
| Secretary Gresham to the diplomatic
corps, and Secretary Of State Blaine's
| dinner and reception to the Pan-Ameri-
can Congress
! The Hotel Touraine Of Boston is the
most notable manifestation OF New Eng
land luxury. Everything about this house
8 superb A unique feature Is a library.
! This is a beautiful room on the main
! floor. containing about 1900 carefully Sc
| lectcd volumes encased in antique oak
| closets. II Is a hotel circulating library,
| the books being at all times at the dis
| nosal of guests, who find catalogues in
| their rooms
| The existence on a profitable basis of
| these Aladdn-l:ke American public pal
aces speaks eloquently for the volume
of wealth distributed among the Ameri-
| can people. II is a. business object les
son which, Invested of sentimental!ty
will do more than any other to reveal to
| the future historian the vast "a tural re-
sources of the United States at the end
| of The nineteenth century.
William Wesley Young.