New-York tribune., 1903-06-14

attractive in the warm season. No matter how
the weather may be, it is always com
Portable in the Park Avenue Hotel court, and
this fact seems to be well known to many New
Workers, who make 1t their daily dining place.
The playing fountain. the singing birds, the beds
OF flowers, The shady palms and the cool atmos-
phere make one forget that he is in the crowd
ed city, and that it is the heated season. An
orchestra furnishes good music for hours every
DAY. and when the meal is over the guests linger
and enjoy the concert.
Besides the garden restaurant there is a large
ladies' restaurant on the Thirty thrd-st. side,
with accommodations for three hundred: a cafe
the Thirty-second-st. side of the same size,
and large dining room on the first floor above
the office. There are also a number of small
dining rooms in various parts of the house where
small parties are served.
1t has been the aim Of Messrs. Reed & Bar
nett, the proprietors of the hotel, to make it not
only attractive and comfortable, but homelike,
and they have succeeded to such an extent that
there is probably not hotel in the city to which
the word home can properly be applied as to
their house. The Objectionable hotel patrons do
not modest the Park Avenue Hotel; they know
that they are not wanted, and that their stay
would be made exceedingly uncomfortable. 1t
is probably on that account that the house has
become popular with women who have TO travel
alone They know that they Will not be mo-
Tested there and that they we'll taken
care of as though they were at home In their
collection of letters commencing the house, the
proprietors have one from woman who writes:
'-One of the great inconvenences with which
women without male escort have TO deal when
they are in New-York is forgotten by the
women who stop at your hotel I want to con-
graduate you on this achievement. Ny daugh-
ter and l had our meals in the garden. re-
ceiyed our friends in the little parlors, and
walked about the house with the same feeling
of security from annoyance that we feel here
at home and when our visit over. when
our sbopuins was all done, we felt less like go
ing home because of the hotel home we were
leaving.
The mana cement of the hotel has. in providing
comforts and luxuries for the guests, not lost
sight of essential sanitary measures All the
floors are laid in mosaic tiling and flooded
regularly thus eliminating danger from germ
bearing dust Every drop of water that enters
the hotel is filtered by means OF a special plant
constructed for the purpose, and the refrigerat-
ing plant is one of the most complete in the city
There is one part of the hotel which is not
often seen by visitors. but it is one Of the most
i7terestjne and reflects credit the managers
of the house. This is the kitchen. 1t is light
we'll ventilated roomy space, and so scrupulous-
Iv clean so free from the features which make
many MOTEL kitchens inaccessible TO guests, tnat
one must admire it. This part OF the great es-
IA bIishn1ent is as free TO inspection the draw
ing rooms and the proprietors take oehght IN
showing their guests the place where the da1n-
ties which are served to them at the table are
prepared.