Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-27
A MULTI.STORIED DICE BOX
Where Human Dice Of Many Grades Are
Shaken Up Together.
MONEY BURNED IN GREAT QUANTITIES
Life as ~ f. Lived In the Most FamOus
Hotel In AmericR-Delicate
Task OF Policing the
Place.

the funds to plunge.
II YOU would know how millionaires and
ulti-millionaires spend their wealth.
II you would actually behold the frocks
and frilIs which the average person knows
only through the columns OF the Sunday
fashion pages.
II you would rub elbows with the most
highly exploited actors, artists and writers
OF the hour.
II you would study the sharpest CON
trasts between penury and wealth, the
undernaid hireling outlined against the
over-fed hnaneier.
II YOU are willing 70 sacrifice one by
one your life long illusions concerning the
world Of wealth. fashion and art to a be-
lief that mediocrity is the only pathway
TO happiness.
II you would accomplish all these things
in one short year-and be paid for doing
it-get some kind OF a situation In tho
largest and most widely known hotel In
New York City; a multi-storied dice box
where human dice Of many grades are
shaken up together.
They all visit the place in time-the
man WHIT has toiled for years to amass
wealth and the man who. has achieved
bis thousands In one sudden turn on the
s~treet-the man who has been lucky on
the nearest race track, and the man VINO
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
metropolis, and the confirmed traveller, the
cosmopolitan to whom this mammoth pile
in New York and Sheperd's In Cairo alike
are home-the man who makes money for
the pleasure he can buy with It, and the
man who spends money for what appear
ances are worth to him in advancing his
career.
And to these add the men and women
Indigenous to the metropolis. the present
generation Of old established families to
whom the most fashionable hotel ie bound
to be more or less Of a meeting place.
From morning until night and from night
until morning the kaleidoscope whirls un-
ceasingly, for the one thing lacked by this
hugo abiding place for 5000 souls In per-
manency. Its 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 II.
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, invaria-
bly, select the hostelry which will show up
best in their dairies, the house which is
noted for It's exorbitant charges. others
go on the principle that one might as well
die for a sheep as a lamb. and while spend
ing 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 impossible dowdy
frocks in the palm gardens after s p. m.
and who demand tea when their smartly
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tails or champagne. Artists, writer's, mu-
sicians and actors who have sprung sud
denly into public notice go there because
It gives them a certain standing, social and
financial. Western men who are spend
crs" byfbirth 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 APP
pearing vulgar. II he so desires, or he can
be stamped as an Feasy one" from his first
interview with the room clerk his first APP
pearance in one Of the dining rooms, The
most liberal with tips" are said to be the
western men Of our own country; the least
generous In proportion to their Importance
the foreign dignitaries. ambassadors. etc.
whose itinerary is arranged by their owl
government or that Of the United States
The local clientele may be divided into
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roomers and boarders, people who have
had the same apartments for successive
winters and who pay for these as much
as would maintain a handsome establish.
ment. This class Includes several wei
known widows with grown daughters ant
acknowledge social standing who appar
emily like the freedom from domestic re,
sponsibiliity; single men who possess NJ
desirable club Affiliations. but have enough
money to live luxuriously; men who fee
at home nowhere save In a hotel; womel
who have reduced to a fine art the worl
Of making excellent appearance on small
capital.
How = WOma Artist Climbed.
It Is said that a certain woman artis
took q top-hoor room here and lived Of
one meal a day that she might have tn
prestige Of receiving her mail and her call
ere In the showiest hotel in the city, an
thus impress upon prospective customer
the fact that she had arrived" Ho'
much this policy helped in the evolution @
her career cannot be estimated, but sh
has a large, profitable and fashionable fol
lowing today.
II one has no objection 70 long elevate
trips. he can room" in this establishmen
as cheaply as in q fashionable apartmer
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On the other hand, II he desires to motif
the world that the goods are behind II
blum, he can get the state apartment 4
t6 per day, but he must not forget ths
his tips must be in proportion to his roo
rent.
Second, come the fashionable folk who.
town houses may or may not be close.
but who drop in here in returning fro.
abroad and run in from their country hom
for q day or so In town. This Is know
generally as the town and country trad
and here lie where the hotel manager los,
money. rather than on his transient Gu
tom. Certain names, well known in socle.
At home and abroad. are invaluable on h
register. They draw the would-be soei
element, with money 20 spend, but iu
lacking certain qualities which alone c,
carry them into the inner circle whe
they would be. Now II the owner Of Of
OF these desirable names absent-minded
falls to settle HIS account, the prophet
OF the hotel does not push the delinquer
for the transfer Of his account and occ
sionAl presence TO another house wou
carry sway a certain number Of satell
ties. II Is said that one family OF eonsi
cradle social prestige owes the house Sc, OF
A third class includes those who ha
the meaua and who AZ roguIar g,4....