The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-30
Hotel RATES
TO Be GUT
Problem Of Feeding and
Housing Visitors Taken
Up By Committee.
THE BOARDING HOUSES
As Well As Private Houses
Are to Be Called On to
Open Their Doors.
THE BOARDING HOUSES
(By Irving G. Norwooti.l J

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The problem of housing and feeding
the Thousands who win journey to
Washington to witness the ceremonies
attending the inauguration of Taft
ana Sherman. March ., is being sue
cessfully solved by the committee on
public comfort, of which N. l. Weller
Is chairman. This isfthe largest of
several inaugural sub4committees and
Mr.. Weller has been its head in sew
eral inauguration periods.
There will be no ''gouging'' or ex-
tortion practiced by the keepers OF
hotels and boarding houses, notwIth-
standing the recent statement on the
floor of the House Of Representatives
by Representative Sims of Tennes-
see" Mr.. Weller explained eoday.
Except where there are front
rooms with Window looking out upon
the line of parade to be considered in
the Arrangement for quarters, the
Washington hotels have not advanced
their rates Cor the time when the
new President and Vice-President
will be inducted into Office. windows
along Penn. Avenue are being sold at
a scale Of prices extending from SO
upward"
Senator chauncey Depew. of New
York, has contracted for single
room in the Corcofan building. 18th
and Penn. avenue opposite the
Treasury Department, for which he
has agreed to pay $500 for single
day-March 4. In this apartment the
Senator win entertain a number of
his friends. Luncheon will be served
and there viii be ali the comforts of
home.
Another wealthy New Yorker has
contracted to pay 500 for two win
dows ina building on Penn. avenue.
Chairman Weller in discussing the
general proposition of caring for the
inauguration visitors said the hotels
here cannot accommodate 20 per cent
of the people who viii come to Wash
inston.
Therefore" he added. 1T viii be
necessary for the boarding establish
ments and private houses to care for
so per cent Of the strangers. But we
will have accommodations a-plenty,
because at previous inaugurations We
have always had many rooms left
over. No person will have to walk
the streets"
Mr.. Weller also said It was the
policy Of his committee to play the
boarding houses against the hotels"
so that there would be no over-charg-
ing by the hotel keepers. Away from
Penn. avenue, the great parade bouie-
ward. there will be lots Of rooms for
lodgings, with or without board.
As to the approximate rate that
will be charged, Chairman Weller said
that in the best hotels OFF Penn.
Avenue. regular So day rate win
prevail where one room can be oc-
cuptcd by two persons. Where a
room Is occupied by but one person
the rate in first class hotels will be
SO per day.
At good hotels the rate will be
from $3.50 up per day. The average
rate for lodgings in boarding houses
and private homes will be $500 per
night, or $40 per week for room and
board in boarding houses
1t was explained that in the down
town restaurants meals can be had
for 20 cents and up. There will be
lunch counter privileges for street
stands and the public halls and other
places where the National Guard and
other organizations will he quartered.
There will also be lunch wagons from
which hot coffee and sandwiches vii!
be dispensed. driven about the prin-
cipal streets March ., and 5.
Members of the committee on pub
/ lie comfort state that the rates for
living here in the period Of the in
auguratton ceremonies viii be much
lower than those that prevailed in
cities whore the big national political
conventions have been held and nj
exposition towns.
The Washington hotel .proprietors
will be under much extra expense
during the Inauguration period, as
they win have to pay higher wages
for help and win have to employ in.
creased forces Of servants. The no.
tel men also lose in many cases wher.
rooms are reserved for visitors in ad.
vance of the Inauguration. Man,
apartments have already been spolser
for by people in many states.
The Governor or Massachusett,
has contracted to pay a small forum
for the pariors of the second floor o
one Of the leading Pennsylvania ave
nue. hotels. He will entertain in tn,
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