Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-10-03
MORE ROOMS
ARE NEEDED
Information Bureau Wants
Fifteen Hundred More
Beds.

Rooms for 1900 more visitors are
needed by the committee of the Com
mercial club, which Is looking after
that feature of the fair work The city
already is about filled with strangers,
as far as ordinary accommodations go,
and hotel keepers, travelling men, the
fair managers and the first arrivals all
Lewiston has there been such a crowd
of strangers in the city as will be here
next week.
Hotel men, instead of discouraging
the efforts of the committee, are urging
everybody to show his patriotism by
providing at least one bed for the
strangers.
Hotels are putting in extra beds in
some of their rooms, cots in others
and will fill the halls and corridors
with cots and if possible will get out
side accommodations for their over
flow. Rooming houses are doing the
same. But these preparations will
provide only for small proportion of
those coming to the fair which opens
Monday.
Every home in the two towns must
provide accommodations for from one
to eight visitors, if these people are not
to go away saying they were obliged
to walk the streets all night for want
of beds. Such a report will do the
town great injury. For this reason
the committee urges all people to
show their home pride and phone in at
once to the Commercial club Main 1856,
what accommodations they can fur
nish in pinch, giving their address,
their phone number if they have
phones, whether they have rooms and
if so how many beds or cots in a room,
or whether they only have such ac-
commodations as an extra lounge or
cot in the hallway, and what prices
they desire.
Many persons in the city say they
would not think of giving accommoda-
| tons in this way to strangers, except
| for the necessity of the case, and they
would rather do this, if at all, without
charge. This, however, the committee
urges them not to do, for the visitors,
in every case, will prefer to pay rea-
sonable price. All who can furnish
rooms or beds, therefore, are requested
to also give the Commercial club the
prices they will charge.
| All necessary precautions will be
taken by the information bureau to see
that proper assignments are made to
private dwellings, so that no undesira-
bic persons are sent to such places.
School Children Help.
So great is the emergency that Prof.
r. N. Wright today will have all the
public school teachers explain to their
pupils the situation and ask them to
urge their parents to give the Com
mercial club list of their emergency
accommodations Pastors of the local
churches will be requested to make
the same explanations next Sunday
from their pulpits e
| Charleston people are especially urged
to send. in a list of what spare beds
they can furnish in their hotels, lodg-
ing houses and dwellings.
| There are one or two vacant store
rooms down town which can be fitted
with cots for the coming week, and
the committee would like to have some
private individual or some church,
lodge or other society fit up such a
| place with cots or beds for the week.
II this is done, the information bu-
reau will do all In its power TO see
that every bed is filled each night.
Lewiston people have a reputation
for hospitality which it is determined
to sustain, no matter what the incon-
venience.