New-York tribune., 1906-06-10
A CITY SUM MER RESORT
Park 40enue Hotel Unsurpassed
Centre for Sightseeing.

II one were asked TO name the greatest sum
rner resort Of this country. there would not oe
room for any difference Of opinion II the situa-
ton is considered with any care. To what point
IN this broad land do the great bulk of t's
population who travel tend when they lsaNe
their hones? Where viii they find the most
20 interest Them and where WI! they come lH
contact with the greatest number OF PsiSo'9
irtert on the same object as themselves: Ihese
questions can be most easily answered II II IS
res7emicred thai the great centres cf population
haze t, sreatos. attractive force f3r those cut
side ~ their inrreGiate circle OF influence and
that their drawing power is in proporuoh 10
their size Therefore metropolis OF louI
million people viii draw 10 itself more oI the
remaining geventy-six million of this land tnan
any other poiu- do Even If one or Two
hundred thousand persons are absent from y"
YORK Il one time Ia the summer. their places
are moro than filed by the transient visitors
VIII. MAKE longer or shorter stays within the
crty limits while on their way to or from thelr
,-atAes and who would think summer trip
incomplete which did not include this city 30
il may be said without contravening facts mat
The greatest summer resort in this country Is
here I'm New York.
And II the term summer resort is made 10
include places where the population gather TOT
recreation and enjoyment no place in TINS couH-
has the metropolis AS the only great city IN
the world with direct frontage on the ocean,
which This city has in its Coney Island and
Rockavay beaches New York possesses the
most attractive places for the outings OF the
people that are to he found anywhere Ana
these are an added magnet drawing TO the
metropolis the denzens Of other parts OF the
country.
In IT'S climate this city also has added at
trsctiveness 10 residents of the interior. us
proximity to the sea and the great tidal streams
which flow and counterfow twice each twenty
four hours between the boroughs into which the
municipality is divided afford a mitigation from
the intense heat which is often so much more
severely felt inland. The breezes which blow
over the adjacent bodies of water are usually
much cooler than those which come over great
stretches of sun baked territory, and afford
more OF less relief in days of torrid temperature
With the wondrous variety Of interesting
things for the visitor to see and the charms
which nearby resorts afford what wonder is II
that ample accommodations for summer visitors
10 the metropolis have to be provided? Nowhere
else In this great city viii sojOurners in the
summer season find more attractive and salts
fying surroundings than at the Park Avenue
Hotel st Fourth avenue and BID and 3Sd streets
This model among hotel structures has now
proved it's capabilities and capacities to so
many guests for so many seasons that II may
be said to hold a most firmly established place
among the great hotels OF the country. 1t has
the unique characteristic, now that the Palace
Hotel I'm San Francisco is In ruins from the
earthquake which devastated the city by the
Golden Gate, of being the only hotel IN the
country with a spacious interior court being
built as a quadrangle around the centre OF an
entire city block This interior court, with gay
beds of flowers plashing fountains, electric
lights and the balconies overlooking II thronged
with diners enjoying their meal al fresco. pre-
oft Us
impossible while admirtng and enjoying II, 10
believe that one is in the heart of this prosaic
metropolis. with trolley cars and subway trains
at the door, but rather that on an enchahted
magic carpet one has been transported to d
land remote from modern America ana is ENJOY
ing the realization of the vivid fancies OF
dream.
The Park Avenue Hotel. under competent and
experienced management, caters successfully TO
Vides that combination of comforts that insures
satisfaction. All of its arrangements are such
as satisfy the requirements of the most eX-
perienced and most difficult to please
No finer place can he found headquarters
for residents Of some other parts of the country
from which to do shopping see the sights. enjoy
the multitude of trips that can be taken around
New York and yet be within easy reach of all
facilities for comfort and convenience
The Park Avenue Hotel represents initial
outlay of over S30o00O0 in the construction
of an absolutely freproof structure, and all
the most advanced ideas in hotel building
Were embodied I'm a. 1t has been kept up to
date in every particular. The free circulation
Of air through the immense foyer and the high
and airy corridors conduce to the health and
delight Of guests. All the arrangements are
made with the studied purpose of Sparing
nothing that will contribute to make a stay at
the Park Avenue Hotel satisfactory TO the high
est degree. subway station at the women's
entrance affords the finest possible facilities for
reaching the hotel or in making trips TO any
part Of the metropolis and its suburbs, and in
sures delay in reaching the hotel from any
point TO which one has journeyed, as the sub
way is so easily accessible from so many places
IN the city.