Arizona republican., 1909-03-22

it is not the city dweller. but the far mer and the country merchant who have played the largest part in the evolution of those expensive .uxuries The farmer in parti ,ular is the modern capitalist owning his own telephone system. having frequently his automo- bile, he insists on the best when he comes to the city and his money helps to swell the receipts of the big hos telries-the profits of many of which ire enormous. The company operat-
 ng the Auditorium and Auditorium Annex in Chicago has paid Is per cent dividends for years. good times pr bad. and this is considered a very modest profit. The new La Sale hotel. which will be opened this fall. is scheduled to make a profit of near v SL0O0.0O0 a year. So great has been the demand for hotel accommodations. especially in Chicago, that the profit
 n the hotel business and its stability are now generally recognized and se- curities based upon prominent hotel properties in the large cities of the country find a ready sale among dis eliminating investors. For example the recent offerings of the first mort gage bonds of the new Hotel Ia Sale oy d syndicate headed by the West arn Trust and Savings bank was quickly taken by banks trust compan- les and individuals over the entire country
 New York has set the pace for the est of the country in bringing the hotel to its present state of perfection Beginning with the Waldorf Astoria. md continuing with the Astor. St Regis. Knickerbocker and New Plaza, she broke ground for the twentieth century hostelry. which like the me diaeval castle is a city in itself and produces nearly everything it needs. from electricity to ice. Other cities now have followed her lead Take the case of the Blackstone in Chicago. which will be ready a year from now. or the nearly finished La Salle which will be the largest hotel ever built in America under an original contract. Built of Bedford stone and granite, the La Sale towers up 26O feet, in the heart of the financial district, dwarf ing all the older buildings that cluster
 
 twenty stories high themselves.
 The building contains 7.500.000 cubic feet of space and it's five score steel columns are supported on concrete caissOns which rest on bedrock no feet below the street level Accom- modations are provided for nearly 2.OOO guests and 100 rooms are devoted to the operating and maintenance de pertinent alone. Power plants for light, ventilation and refrigeration are installed in the basement. which con tains a laundry with total daily ca pacity of 60,00O pieces. Figures such as these give some idea of the enor- nous scale upon which the modern de- of the ancient inn and Eng fish road house is today operated. but they furnish only a hint of the in finite problems of maintenance and which brings lines of care to the face of the city Boniface. These would take volumes to tell and the volumess would furnish one of the most interesting commentaries that could be made on modern American life.
 One of the principal causes of the present wave of building is the same situation which now confronts the railroads. While new operations were during the panic and after. the growth of the population contin- ued unabated. but the accommodations did not keep pace with the nomadic needs of what is perhaps the most restless people on the globe. The ITrenchman stays at home, except when he has to travel, and then he gets back home as soon as he can. The American. on the contrary. loves to travel. and wherever he goes he de- mands the luXuries and conveniences of home. In the task of supplying him with these. probably as great eff forts will be made in the future as have been made in the past. but at present the men in whose charge this duty is seem to have brought the business to it's highest point of eff ciency. and will have to spend the next few years in catching up with the procession of Great American Travel CTS" who now find it difficult often to find up-to-date hotels enough in which to lay their heads.