The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-21
A MULTI=STORIED DICE BOX.
Where Human Dice of Many Grades Are Shaken
Up Together
By ANNA JAMS ONNE.

If you would see high life and yet
tack the funds to plunge;
If you would know how millionaires
and multi-millionaires spend their
wealth:
If you would actually behold the
frocks and frills which the average
person knows only through the COL
umns of the Sunday fashion pages;
If YOU would rub elbows with the
most highly exploited actors, artists
and writer's of the hour:
If you would study the sharpest
contrasts between penury and wealth,
the underpaid hireling outlined against
the over-fed financier:
If you are willing to sacrifice one
by one your lifelong illusions con-
corning the world of wealth, fashion
and art to a belief that mediocrity is
the only pathway to happiness;
If you would accomplish all these
things in one short year-and be paid
for doing it-get some kind of a situa-
ton in the largest and most widely
known hotel in New York city;a multi
stored dice box where human dice
of many grades are shaken up to-
gether
They all visit the place in time
the man who has toiled for years to
amass wealth, and the man who has
achieved his thousands in one sudden
turn on the street.-the man who has
been lucky on the nearest race track,
and the man who has struck gold in
the mountain locked West-he who
has saved for months that he may
enjoy a brief week or so in the me-
tropolis, and the confirmed traveller,
the cosmopolitan to whom this man.
moth pile in New York and Shep-
erd's in Cairo alike are home-the man
who makes money for the pleasure
ne can buy with it, and the man who
spends money for what appearances
are worth to him in advancing mis-
career.
And to these add the men and
women Indigenous to the metropolis,
the present generation of old, establish
ed families to whom the most fash
ionable hotel is bound to be more or
less of a meeting place. From morn
ing until night and from night until
morning, the kaleidoscope whirls I'M
ceasingly, for the one thing lacked by
this huge abiding place for three
thousand souls in permanency. It's life
is like the restless surf, ever rolling in
and out, ever varying in form, color
and motion, and always topped with
foam.
why Tourists Crowd 1t.
Tourists are drawn to a hotel of this
stamp for various reasons. Those who
travel merely for appearance, to say
they have done this country or that,
invariably select the hosiery which
will show up best in their diaries, the
house which is noted for its exhorbi-
tant charges. Others go on the prin-
ciple that one might as well be for a
sheep as a lamb, and while spending,
be liberal enough to see all the lions.
Others still there are who love luxury
for its own sake. This class includes
the English women who wear impossl-
Bile dowdy frocks in the palm gardens
aften p. M, and who demand tea
when their smartly dressed neighbors
are INDUCING in cocktails or cham
payne. Artists, writers, musicians,
and actors who have sprung suddenly
into public notice go there because it
gives them a certain standing, social
and financial Western men who are
'spenders" by birth and often by the
unexpected accruing of riches, go there
to see their money melt like ice in dog
days.
One can burn money" here without
or he can be stamped as an easy
one" from his first interview with the
room clerk, his first appearance in one
of the dining rooms. The most liberal
with tips" are said to be the Western
men of our own country; the least gen.
erous in proportion to their import
ance, the foreign dignitaries, amoas-
sailors, ETC., whose itinerary is ar
ranged by their own government or
that of the United States.
The local clientele may be divided
into four distinct classes. First are
the regular roomers and boarders, peo-
PIE who have had the same apart
ments for successive winters and who
pay for these as much as would main
tam handsome establishment. This
class includes several Well-known
WIDOWS with grown daughters and ac-
knoWledged social standing who APP
parently like the freedom from do
nestle responsibility; single men who
possess no desirable club affiliations,
out have enough money to live lux
urlously; men who feel at home no.
where save in a hotel women who
nave reduced to a fine art the work of
making excellent appearance on small
capital.
How Woman Artist Climbed.
II is said that a certain woman art
Isl took top floor room here and lived
oH one meal a day that she might have
me prestige of receiving her mail and
her callers in the showiest hotel in the
CITY and thus impress upon prospec-
i've customers the fact that she had
arrived" How much this policy
Helped in the evolution of her career
an not be estimated but she has a
iaIse' profitable and fashionable fol-
lowing to-day.
II one has no objection to long ele-
Eator trips, he can room" in this
adjustment as cheaply as in fash
unable apartment house and have In
hultely better service. on the other
iEaha, II he desires to notify the world
mat the goods are behind the bluff, he
an an get the state apartment at SIS per
~ but he must not forget that his
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'oond, come the fashionable folk
nose town houses may or may not be
+sa' but who drop In here on re-
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