The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-21

! Many features at St. Louis are entire
" new One is a hotel inside the
grounds. This is known as the Inside
Inn vast structure that will accom-
modate four thousand guests. 1 stopped
there, and 1t was crowded. The In
side Inn" interested me as much as
anything ] saw at St Louis. More
than two thousand people can be seat
ed IN the dining rooms at one time. and
hundreds of servants are employed. A
similar hotel was built at Buffalo but
was operated outside the grounds. The
Buffalo hotel was much inferior to the
one located inside the grounds at St
Louis, but the same man built them
both: u. NJ. Statler, a noted restaurant
man of Buffalo The rates range from
$3.50 per day for each person to 81 a
day, the latter rate including a room
with bath, on the American plan. The
rate for breakfast and lunch is so cents
mission to the grounds, each day. The
rate fro breakfast and lunch is so cents,
and rs cents for dinner. You can stop
at the Inside Inn" on the European
plan, if you see fit.
The scene in the lobby of the Inside
Inn is one of the sights of St. Louis.
And in the halls, there is a constant
procession of people. DuriSg meal
hours, I used to go down near the
kitchen, and listen to the rattle of
dishes. By climbing up a little. L could
I look into the serving room, and the
sight was remarkable one. A big or
chestra plays in the dining room dur
/ ing the dinner hour Girl walters are
tAABlOyGus ana lneN All dress tA1lhe- IN
4 black. The rooms are comfortably fur
/ nished, and are supplied with electric
/ lights ran into some sort of an edi-
torial meeting, and was given cut
Z rate: paid three dollars a day, Amer
/ lean plan, for d room on the office floor,
/ with bath. Guests always pay in ad-
vance. If you pay for three days, and
\ go away at the end of two, the excess
/ is refunded Everything is conducted
/ fair and square, and if you do not care
/ to go down town, the Inside Inn is
| a great idea, even if you do have to
pay a little more. 1t is the first time a
/ hotel was ever operated inside exposi-
/ ton grounds anywhere. Take a La
clede avenue or Market street car at
/ the union station, and you can go direct
/ to the Inside Inn;" as close as from
/ the Globe Office to The Byram. When
you leave the street cars, you are with
in plain sight of the Inside Inn;' tim
/ id travellers cannot possibly go astray. A
station of the intramural railway is
! located within a few feet of the IN
side Inn and the Kansas building Is
within a stones throw. 1 am going 10
St. Louis again, and intend to stop at
the Inside Inn" as the idea suits me.
I had the good fortune to meet Mr..
and Mrs. Frank p. MacLennan, and
! their daughter Mary, at the Inside
Inn,' and one evening we gave a din
ner party to Governor Bailey and
wife. w. p. Waggener and WIFE Char
ley Luling and wife, and Miss Rhoda
| Mcfarland of the LeavenWorth Times.
Messrs. Waggener and Luling are Kan
sas commissioners. We had Gxo ia
I bles placed together, and made up quite
! a merry party. We We're located near
the big orchestra, and there We're GER
tainly more than two thousand people
in the dining room while we were
there. Somehow. the Inside Inn re
minded me of a steamship.
That which was known as the mid
/ Way in Chicago. is known as 1.-The
Pike" in st. Louis. The Pike is
much like the old Midway" except
that it is on a more elaborate scale:
the shows are larger, better, and there
are more novelties. THE Pike" is 2.
mile long, and paved it's entire length
with brick. A line of fancy electric
light poles runs down the center of
1.-THE Pike on either side are 1.-The
shows" Some of these are great ex-
hibition enterprises within themselves.
One of the most notable is known as
1.-THE Naval exhibit. At one end, a. vast
auditorium, open to the weather, ex-
cept there is a roof. seating thousands
of people. A big band plays concerts
during every performance In front
of the audience. a lake: beyond the
lake a panoramic representation of
/ Santiago, with fortresses, and painted