The sun., 1904-11-20
NOW SHE MAY DINE AFTER 6P.M
NEW HOTELS REVERSE THE RULE
AGAINST LONE WOMAN.
Instead OF Refusing Her Food Because She
Has No Escort They Take Extra Pains
to Make Her Observation-Disclosures
Triumph Marking Woman's Progress.

New York's newest hotels have set an
example in chivalry to the other restaurants
which these many years have refused to
serve meals after P. NJ. to women without
male escorts.
One Of the new hotels provides two special
dining rooms for women, and will give
them the very best service, the head walters
having instructions to look out particu-
larly for the comfort Of women who are
without escorts. One Of the dining rooms
is called the French room and the other
is grill room.
Men are not barred from these rooms,
but women guests need no longer feel that
they are intruding II they dine there after
the fateful hour Of O, which heretofore
has barred them from q large number Of
the hotels.
Certain restaurants have never allowed
this rule against women to prevail. Others
have adhered to 1t for thirty or forty years.
Formerly, Of course, few women would
think Of dining in the evening at hotel
without an escort, but the great changes
that have taken place since those days.
especially as to the position that women
now occupy in the business world. make
any edict prohibiting them from hotel priv
ileges an unjust one.
While certain hotels have always served
women with dinner without question, this
is the first time that any manager has come
forward with the news that women were
to be specially cared for II they had no
escorts to look out for them. Said the
manager Of one OF the hotels
'We have instructed our doormen, head
walters and clerks generally to show special
courtesy to women who may wish to patron
ize our dining rooms after Q. We have
provided special rooms where they may
be served, and the question Of their hav-
ing escorts or not will not be considered.
we do not think that women would
care to have rooms set apart for them from
which men were barred, but we do know
that women should not be Disseminated
against, as nowadays they travel alone or
with maids to great extent.
Then there are women workers In vari-
ous professions who enjoy restaurant din
ners as a change from the ordinary routine.
Frequently they make up parties Of from
TO telephone about in order to find hotel
that will allow them to dine beneath Its
roof after Q.
TT is true that there are number OF
hotels in New York that have always made
the same rule for women as for men, serv-
ing desirable guests without question;
but there are a number OF other well known
hotels and restaurants where 1t has been
most embarrassing for women 10 present
themselves for dinner II they were unac-
| ouainted with the rules
"The new hotels that have gone up In
New York will not discriminate in any
| way against women, although ! do not
! know that anv house but ours has made
I special provision for their comfort, We
find in our experience that unpleasa mt
people will not present themselves for
dinner at quiet and well managed hotels.
.One Of the reasons why the rule has
held so long il that walters, while merely
told to discriminate, have eXceesed ther
instructions and made the rule absolute.
Women are not popular "a guests with
walters owing to the fact that they have
the r, putation Of being stingy in the matter
Of tips. But that iGea has been dying out
a gooI deal Of late. Women may not be
70 generous as men, but the class OF women
who would care to patroniae dining room
OF this sort will always fee the waiter.
sThe idea has proved an immensely pop