The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-17
STRANGERS FILL UP
minneapolis HOTELS
LID POLICY HAS NO EFFECT ON
BUSINESS.


Minneapolis hotel men are wearing
the broad, satisfied smile that the coal
men wore last winter and for the same
reason. Business is rushing. Every
day in the week, and especially on Sat
urday and Sunday, the hotels catering
to frst-class patronage, are doing a big
business. All the best accommodations,
the desirable rooms with baths and the
better rooms without, are taken all the
time and the business has reached q
point where travellers making the city
regularly, especially for the end of the
week and Sunday, are making reserva.
tions ahead to make sure of the sort OF
accommodations they desire.
- Lid Has No Effect.
The point has been raised in the 1ast
few months that the lid policy of the
present city administration is running
the hotel business, but the actual condi.
tic ton Of affairs puts a different story to
city drawing the better class of trade,
and the medium price houses as well
was filed close to the limit and some
were full and turning people away,
Since the first of the year business haa
been. better, it is said, than the cor
responding season last year with the
exception of the cold, rainy weeks thii
points Turnout the northwest. With thu
advent of real summer weather thu
business at once picked up and has beer
phenomenal since. r
The patronage Of the hotels is drawn
from two principal sources: The com
merciI travellers and visitors. both bus
mess and tourists. from the northwest
The patronage from both classes is in.
creasing. More travelling men than evei
before aree making Minneapolis thei1
Sunday headquarters. The calamity
| howlers prophesied that this business
would be driven from the city by the
| lid policy, but on the contrary it haa
| increased. d
Outside People Come.
general business outside of the com,
mercial travellers. More business men
from points in the state and the north,
west, country merchants and shoppers
are coming in than have ever come be.
fore. The same is true of tourists who
are stopping en- route while travelling
east and west and of sightseers who
come to Minneapolis as point Of in
terest. AS with the commercial men,
the lid has made no difference with thii
business, and every Sunday shows a
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hotels. -.s
Most of the hotel men are willing To
admit that they are doing business ia
the limit or close to it most Of tbs
time. There are nights when half the
hotels are compelled to turn away tran
sients away because everything u
taken. The hotel men who are I'M
willing to admit that their business. il
rushing belong to the "kicker' class
that has joined hands with the saloon.
keepers to attack the present city ad.
ministration. The hotel men who are in.
terested with the respectable business
interests that are boosting the city al
the best on the map do not see ruin in
the lid. ' ..-... aA
Excursionists Are Numerous. ~
Since the first of the month, the
weekly excursions Of the railroads have
brought thousands Of visitors to the
city on Saturday and Sunday. These
crowds are bigger than ever before
There is also reason to believe that the
trans continental tourist travel will be
heavy this year and that Minneapolis
will be the principal stop-over point
The first large party Of the season ar
rives this morning from Yellowstone
park over the Northern Pacific. The
party numbers more than twenty PEG
pie and is composed Of Raymond ahi
Whitcomb tourists. They will spend
two days in the city, stopping at thu