The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-26

between 3lst and SD streets and 7th
and 9Th avenues in New York, will be
much larger. The Royal Poincians
mas 1,266 bedrooms and $40 bath
rooms. The proposed Pennsylvania
Hotel will have 200 bedrooms. The
Waidorf-Aastoria has over LOO bed
rooms. The main part of the Poinci-
ana is 934 feet long, but IL the wings
ana extensions were stretched out
| straight. it's length would be equal to
seven New York city blocks. You can
walk two miles in the corridors with
out repeating or going out of doors,
| and the cross-halls are $50 feet long.
The main piazza fronting Lake Worth
| is $50 feet long and so feet wide The
main part has six stories, the principal
wing Is seven stories high. There are
| $4,000 electric lights in the building
The company makes it's own light and
| ice
The dining room, which has the form
of the letter HI is the largest to be
found in any permanent hotel in the
world. 1t has a floor space of 2S,339
square feet and will seat 1900 people.
The kitchen and pantries have an area
of 17,136 square feet. The provisions
cost an average of $500 a day. The
daily payroll is 81, 200. There are 1,400
employees, including 400 dining room
walters. 100 cooks and kitchen help,
100 bell boys and thirty baggage por-
tiers. The men employees come from
New York, Philadelphia. Baltimore
and Washington and are mostly color
ed. The chambermaids and laundres-
ses are nearly all white, and are
brought from New England. The COM
pany brings its help down from New
York on a special train, and it costs
$4,000 to get the force here before the
hotel opens. The employees have to pay
their own expenses home and a portion
of their wages is withheld by agree
ment to be forfeited IL they leave be-
fore the end of the season.
All the meats and groceries are
brought by express from New York in
special refrigerator cars; the fish,
fuits and vegetables are bought in the
local market; the eggs come from
Huntsville, Ala, which is one of the
greatest egg markets in the country,
and are brought down by express
daily. The guests consume an aver
age of 400 dozen eggs per day during
the height of the season. The waste
is thrown into garbage cars which
stand on a track behind the kitchen.
and every night it is hauled twelve
miles out into the country and burned.
BILLS OF THE GUEST.
The Royal Poinciana takes care OF
about $4,000 people during the season.
For six weeks in January and Feb
ruary every room will be filed night
after night. About 60 per cent. of the
guests stay from three to six weeks;
about 40 per cent. from two to six
days The lowest rate is S. a day, but
you can pay $50 day If you like, and
even more. The average guest will
spend at least $40 a day for his hotel
bill, refreshments, cigars, rolling
chairs, bathing, fishing and other ex-
penses. But everybody is not rich who
comes to Palm Beach, and it is not
necessary to stop at the Royal Poin-
ciana At the Breakers you can get a
good room for 81 a day; and there are
a dozen lesser hotels and boarding
houses where accommodations can be
obtained for $40 a week and upward.
The guests of the cheaper houses are
admitted to the millinery and dress
displays without charge, and all day |
long the spectacle is enjoyed by hun |
dreds of disinterested spectators from |
1.-The plain people" who are
very much in evidence this year.