The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-26
AN EVIL OF NEW YORK HOTELS.
Their InhospitaIity to Women Trav-
cling Alone.
Washington Post.

Washington Post
when it comes to cold-blooded inhospi-
tally to women" said bright young mar
ried woman of this town, 1.-The hotels of
New York city are what my husband would
describe as the limit A couple of weeks
ago my hubsand was in Boston and from
there he telegraphed for his sister and me
TO meet him i'm New York for a little whirl
around the theaters and so on. His sister
and I took an afternoon train and arrived
In New York about o'clock at night. We
took a cab and were driven to the hotel at
which we usually stop when we visit New
York. There l found dispatch from my
husband in Boston. saying that he was de-
tanned, and that he couldn't reach New
York until the following day, but instruct
ing us to stop at the hotel and await his
arrival there. Now. the manager of the
hotel, with whom l am well acquainted,
happened TO be away, and the night clerk,
a new one, by the way, whom i did not
know, told us that every room in the house
was occupied. He may have been telling
the truth, and he may not have been, but
didn't feel called upon to argue the matter
with him, but called another cab, and we
were driven TO another hotel about block
away. The clerk looked at my sister-in-
law and myself trifie out of the tail Of his
eye; noticed, no doubt. that we were both
young and passable looking, and informed
us that he hadn't single solitary room at
his disposal. This man really looked as II
he was not telling the truth. We drove
TO four other Broadway hotels and got the
no room. At the fifth hotel the clerk was
manly enough TO come straight out and
tell us in as nice a way as he could that
his house and most OF the other hotels in
New York made il a rule not to receive
young women unaccompanied by their
husbands, fathers, brothers or other male
kinsfolk, and that he would jeopardize his
position If he broke the rule in our favor.
BY this time it was nearly IL o'clock.
We were both ready to cry. but we got
into the cab and decided TO try another
tack. We concluded TO try IL one of the
hotels wouldn't receive Mrs So-and-so and
maid and We matched pennies to see
which OF us should play the maid My sis
other hotel and i very haughtily request
ed couple Of rooms for myself and maid.
The scheme worked like a charm, and we
We're treated with groveling consideration.
My husband arrived the next day and |
sent word to the hotel at which we were
to have stopped where we were-and he
was mad all through when he heard of the
trouble had had TO lind shelter for the
night. but it did not take him long to
ascertain that the rule Is exactly as the
straightforward clerk told us-no young
women admitted to the New York hotels
unless accompanied by male relative. or
unless she has letter from a well-known
patron OF the house vouching for her. So
that II respectable but unaccompanied
young woman, married or single. has no
friends to visit when she reaches New
York, / suppose she has to drive around
in cab all day and night. betake herself
TO some charitable establishment for
women, or camp out i'm one of the parks
L really don't know how else she can find
lodging. Ii is not so at all in Washington,
L find upon inquiry. AM unaccompanied
woman of obvious responsibility has no
trouble whatever in registering at any of
the hotels there. The hotel men have eyes
in their head and enough discernment TO
perceive the character of their guests,
male or female, at a single sizing up