The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-23
GND FORKS HOTELS CAN FEED FIVE THOUSAND TRANSMITS EVERY MEAL

Grand Forks is city of homes.
But Grand Forks is also city of
hotels for it has been truthfully said
that no city in the northwest possess
4 es the hotel Accommodations, the mag
nificent hotel buildings and roOming
houses that are hers.
Geographically situated as she is in
the heart of the most fertile region in
the country, the key to the entire sit
uation, with the traffic of the east
passing through the portals, this city
has need of hotel Accommodations that
will make the visitor stare with open
mouthed establishment.
At every season of the year the
traffic is heavy and on this account
the various hotels cater especially to
the transient trade.
Grand Forks has hotels to the num-
Der of mountaineering to the most
important hostelries Of the city. These
hotels are provided with all modern
improvements such as elevators, cleo
tricity, bath facilities, electric bells
ETC., and do much to advertise Grand
Forks city as the most progressive in
the state.
Feed 5000 Neal.
The Grand Forks hotels, aside from
the restaurants of which there are
a large number, can feed in the neigh
borhood of fifteen thousand people a
day or at the rate of 5000 meal
this without going outside OF the regu-
lar routine work. In times Of neces.
sity for instance when Grand Forks
is entertaining large convention or
gathering such as the state fair, by
making special preparation the hotel
men state that they can care for an
almost unlimited number of people
Embodied within the twenty hotels
there are in the neighborhood Of APP
proXimately 1900 rooms giving rest
and comfort to the weary. In time of
need the capacities of many of the
houses can be doubled and with other
facilities open to the city, in the neigh
borhood of 5000 people can be cared
for without crowding or taxing the
quarters. This city has housed as
high as 10000 persons and did the
thing in first class shape.
Dacotah Hotel.
The Dacotah hotel of this city, I'M
questionably the finest in the land is
one of the most impressive hotel
structures west of Minneapolis. The
building itself is of red pressed brick
four stories with high basement, brick
construction, is trimmed viii brown
sandstone giving the appearance of
solidity and beauty which character
ICES it as a feature of the city. The
building was erected by Bacon &
Wood in the year 1898, taking the
place of the five story Hotel Dacotah
which was RACED by fire two years
before. The hotel was originally built
but three stories high, but taxed to
the limit at all stages of the year.
the proprietors in 1904 added fourth
floor bringing the number of rooms
up to $50. OF this number seventy
five are provided with bath equipment.
j. D Bell, manager of the hosiery
took charge in 1904 and since his ad-
vent into the official chair the hotel
has been conducted with even more
credit than before. The hotel has
twelve sample rooms.
Antlers Hotel.
The Antlers hotel is another hotel
to which the citizens point with pride.
The hotel is owned and is under the
management of T. E Burke and long
since was placed on the list of
Finest in the land" The shelter