The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-12-19
Costly Living At Hotels.

The two famous Mills hotels in
New York, one costing 81, 600, 900 and
the other about $500, 900, are profit
able investments. The price of the
sleeping room with bath and sitting
room privileges in either of these
houses is 20 cents day and meals are
10 cents each, making the totai cost
OF living 65 cents a dsy. The Mills
hotels are scrupulously neat. The
meals are served in courses and more
than he can eat is given to each guest.
Thus it would seem that everything
above 65 cents day is paid for luxurr
aud added comfort. New York firsl-
class hotel population of S0,9ce could
live in houses like the Mills hotels
for s32,50O day, or sl1, 1862. 500
year. Figuring on that basis $3.50, 900
e day, or s1O2, 200, 900 a year, is paid
for luxury. Notwithstanding this
the demand is for greater luxuary, not
only in New York, but propor.ionatc-
~ throughout the country. That
shTsga Esles !-sepers racoenize this ia
plainly evident. For, although the
number Of hotels costing tiem 81 ,000,-
600 upward, and in which the cost Of
living is 81 day or more, has dou-
bled within the past ten years, more
buildings Of shis type are now being
planned and constructed than at any
previous time.
The actual cost Of the Waldorf AS.
toria, the largest aad most luxurious
hotel in the world, has never been
made public, but it is estimated at
s12,000,000. When it was projected
almost every one said it could not be
made to pay. Yet to-day it is very
profitable property. It is hard to
imagine house with forty magnif-
cent public rooms, more than 1900
guests rooms and aocomodations for
between 400 and $500 people, being
practically filled all the time, but
these figures represent the Waldorf
AstoTia's Accommodations, and it is con-
stantly crowded. The payment ofS75
to 500 day for rooms, exclusive of
meals,i in New York hotels is by no
means uncommon. There are people
living at the Waldorf;Astoria who
pay 500 day for their rooms the
year round. For tho famous royal
suites $500 day has been paid on
several occasions for shor5 periods.
"A woman who died recently had paid
$75 day for year at the Savoy in
New York, for corner suite over
looking Central Park. Thee price did
not include meals, and, as she was
liberal entertainer, the aggregate of
her hotel bills must have been very
large.
Last fall we'll known millionaire
went to the Waldorf-Astoria to live,
engaging rooms b. the year. This
GUNNER he decided to establish his
private Office there also. Nearly the
entire royal suite has to. re given up
to provide the comfort Aud luxury
which this man demands and is willing
to pay for. Taking the rooms by the
year, he does not, Of course, pay rate
proportionate to the transient rate
Of $500 q day for that part Of the suite
which he occupies, but he probably
expends in the neighborcood Of $50
day for his rooms. In this suite he
is completely isolated from tho rest
of the hotel, the suite having pri-
vate hall. He has his meals served in
O private dining room. His guests
are received in. q private.drawing room,
furnishing as richly as a room in
kings palace. No other hotel guest
in the world lives amid such splendor.
He is lavish entertainer, frequently
having fifteen or twenty to lncheon
and dinner. It would not hs surpris-
ing if his bills at the hotel averaged
SzJU day while he is there. II main
tanned throughout the year this would
amount to s73, 600.
: Another multi-millionaire lives al,
moat as luxuriously at the Waldorf
Astoria, having occupied for almost
two years the private hall corner suite
fronting on 9th avenue and 34th
street. This suite has drawing
room, dining room and pantry, bed
rooms and bath rooms for the family
and servants; ia fact, all the advan-
tages Of private apartment combined
with those Of the hotel.
Probably these two men pay the
largest individual hotel bills in the
States. if not in the world. A million
dollars is invested in tn. furniture of
the Waldorf Astoria and l, 400 persons
all told are employed at the height of