The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-22
NEW YORK HOTELS PROJECT GUESTS
Women Are Safe in MetropoIi-
 tan HoSteIries
THE WOMEN ARE WELCOME
Are Provided Everything From Chap
 erone to Hair Dresser for Their Comfort-Young Women See New York.

hospitality of New York hotels to wo-
 men:
 Tt is a gross libel. The Imperial, and
 to my knowledge, every other first class
 hotel on Broadway, regards every wo-
 man who applies for accommodations
 and who comports herself properly, as a lady, and gives her accommodations without hesitation. If such a guest should later give us any cause for sus-
 picion that would put her into a different
 class, to be dealt with individually. And
 right here I want to say, that we have given accommodations to hundreds of single women travellers and have never had reason to regret our course in my single instance.
 'In fact, we have special and elabo- rate machinery just to care for women
 who come to New York alone to do their shopping or attend to business. Our pol 1 icy has been, and is, that this hotel should be a place to which a man might
 confidently send his young daughter. In fact, some of our men guests from the
 south and west who have daughters studying at eastern colleges, or travelling
 abroad, have made special arrangements : with us to have the hotel meet their
 
 duct them safely to the hotel, supervise their stay in New York, and finally put
 them on the train again to take them to
 their destinations.
 "To carry out such requests as these,
 the hotel has constantly on duty num-
 Der of chaperones to take unattended
 women guests out in the evening to theatres.
 There are also women shopping guides. wise in the values of specialtles in the
 great stores, who will see that our wom- en guests find what they want and pay the right price for it. If a woman guest
 wants to drive about New York, she Is
 sent out with a hotel chauffeur, and a complete record of the taXameter cab is kept in the office.
 Our transportation bureau has a spe- cial department for women, under the direction of man of family and his daughter. How this bureau works for women may be illustrated by concrete case. At half-past twelve one night, the hotel was called up by young woman. She stated that her train had arrived 1 five hours late and she had missed con
 nections to a suburb. She didn't know anything about New York, except that l her uncle had once stopped at the Inn l perial. Could we help her?' Instant 1 ly uniformed guide was sent to the de- i pot.
 He arranged for the transfer of her
 baggage to the Jersey depot, brought hel l to the hotel where the night houselSeeper
 met her and she was assigned to room Her friends in Jersey who happened to 1 have a telephone, were notified of her
 safety. In the morning, the transporta-
 tion bureau took her to the depot, saw
 that she had the right ticket and caught ] her train and then notified her friends tc
 meet her. If the girl had been going to | Japan the bureau would have secured l her ticket and berth or stateroom, plan
 ned connections across the continent tc
 Seattle, and if at any point she could 1 noe make connections and would have to ] wait over night, would have wired to 1 a reliable hotel in that place to look out i for her and would have later received a
 report to just what was done l To illustrate again suppose a woman 1 guest, dining with friends in Brooklyn
 found she would arrive in Manhattan or
 the subway rather late. A courier fir
 uniform would be at the Thirty-thirc | street station to meet her and escort hei 1 to the hotel.
 l "Once in the hotel the woman guest l can dine with absolute comfort in the l public dining room, or have her meals 1 in her own room. There are ladies' maids l hair dressers and seamstresses to do re- ! pairing. The hotel makes 1t it's business l to see to it that its guests are not over
 charged, and woe be unto a cabman or l florist or anyone else who tries sharr l practice on our women guests, or, for ] that matter, on any guest. Our pro- l fessional shopping guides look out for l that.
 "The truth of the matter is that 8 wo- l man with baggage can arrive at a first
 class hotel any hour of the day or night and receive courteous treatment The l stories that an unescorted woman ar irving after nine o'clock at night has l to sit all night In a depot waiting room 1 or hunt up some special shelter for wo- l men is as foolish as it is malicious"
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 ware association, which meets in St | Louis on March "A.
 | MT. and Mrs. w. c. Deneen of Waterloo 1 la., are the guests of MT. and Mrs E. G. 1 Goldsmith on Avenue r. MT Deneen is | special agent for the Illinois Central rail-
 road and has charge of all the western 1 lines. He is much impressed with the | activity of the Steel City.
 l Mrs. A. IF. White, mother of Lee | White and Mrs. Evans Owens, who has | been very sick is much improved. Maj. A. c. Tice, who has been spend l ing several months in Pensacola, Fla, | returned to Ensley today, and will re- main in the district