The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-10
.PALATIAL HOTELS
On LAND AND SEA

The development of hotels and ocean
steamships runs along in somewhat
parallel lines, each new hotel or steam,
ship that makes pretensions to attract
the patronage of the wealthy and tho
fastidious being in some respect an
advance in size, or righteousness, or
the completeness and novelty of its APP
continents Recent accounts of the
new Cunard liner, Lusitania, have re-
vealed the fact that the great ship imi-
tates the best hotels of the land in the
style OF it's Furnishings, the scope of
its restaurant equipment and the ar
rangement of it's rooms. a floating
hotel is now a common phrase de-
scriptive of the latest transatlantic
liners. At the same time, the new
est fashionable hotels are conspicuous
for the effort made by their builders
10 surpass all the older houses in at
Effectiveness and luxury. The latest
bidder for the public favor in New
York cannot be in the least appreciate
ed by the mere consideration of the
statistics thrown at one by the man
agement 1t cost ST., 600; the furni-
ture alone cost 81, 200, 600; the servants
and staff number 1900 persons; the
rooms number 1900; the baths number
500-and so on and SO on until one is
hewildered by the statistical arrays.
All that may be taken for granted,
along with the Is stories above ground
and the four below ground. The flea /
lures" are the most interesting part
of the hotel These show the develop
ment being made in the competition |
for patronage. One of these are the |
numerous secondary kitchens" scat |
tered about the living floors up to the |
Nth story, from which patrons can be |
served with meals in their rooms, each |
kitchen being connected by dumb
waiter with the main kitchen far be-
low In the ballroom is a stage which |
can be made to rise up and join the |
balcony merely by pressing an electric /
button. In decorating the main din
ing rooms, there was study in the.
fine arts, which is related by the pro-
prietor with evident pride:
In planning our dining room decora-
tions, several members of the hotel
company visited many foreign and
American hotels. In London one of
the best houses has a dining room
done in pale green and
gold The result was that the fairest
woman looked poorly in the reflected
light Our decorations here in white
and gold, with an old-rose carpet, re-
iect a light which will give the palest
woman good color-and we thing
chat will help US some.
Yet there are to be plenty of $3.50
lndgings in that hotel. 1t is not pre-
tended that these are profitable in
but they help to fill up the
house and thus serve the same purpose
as circulation to a newspaper. The
managers expect to make their profits
put of the SO and s12 rooms and the
suites rented by the year to persons
,r couples who like hotel life-and such
people are becoming very common In
New York. Maintaining their own pri-
yate establishment on an expensive
scale is too great a financial strain In
hat extravagant town; these hotels
saahte persons of comfortable incomes
,ss enjoy luxurious living under one
-oof and still preserve such privacy as
.hev desire. The old-fasnioned home
life. under such conditions, is or course
lasted.-Springfield Republican.