The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-12-27
NEWS LETTER.

Chicago. December 24-Tables for
New Years Eve in Chicago cafes, in
Guiding the fifteen hundred in the new
College Inn which will reopen Christ
mas week in the new Hotel Sherman,
already arc taken. which presages
celebration surprising any witnessed
since New Years eve was seized upon i
by many thousands of people as an &C.
caSion to "cut loose" The estimate |
is that not less than one hunrded and |
fifty thousand dollars will be spent |
that night, che estimate being based |
on the fact that the classy" cafe end |
hotel dining rooms will seat seven
thousand persons and the expenditure
of fifteen dollars per person and then
some. Last yea: the average was ten
dollars per person but champagne is
higher. and bubble water is opened that
night as on no other night of the year.
The new duty makes the price four
dollars and fifty cents instead of four
dollars. Chicago's thirst is growing
thirty-five thousand cases is the pres
ent record of consumption per year,
and great part of it disappears be-
tween 10 p. M, December 81 and
o'clock the next morning. The esti-
mated fifteen dollars per person is
made up of ten dollars for wines and
othre liquid refreshments--in including
water-two dollars and fifty cents for
dinner and two dollars and fifty cents
for incidentals. In some cases the two
dollars and City cents. will not cover
the incidentals. In fact it may take
the entire fifteen dollars for that pun
pose. But there will be some economi-
cal spirits who will keep the average
down to fifteen dollars per. The ad-
dition of the College Inn to the possi-
BILE scenes of celebration is the big
news of the event for it will be the
largest grill room in the country ana
the original of the many college
inns" in the country. At the Hotel
La Sale there will be less restraint
felt than last year when the hotel was
new, and those who watched the de-
parture of the old and the coming of
the new years in its dining rooms. felt
trifie strange. The same may be
said of the Blackstone. 1t has had
year in which to get better acquainted
with its patrons, and it will shelter at
least twelve hundred and fifty in its
watch party. Then there are the
spatiOus dining roums of the Congress
and Annex, the Auditorium. the STRAIT
ford, the Wellington, Del onghe's, the
Bismarck. the Union, the Brevort. be-
sides such popular cafes as Vogel-
sang's, the Edelweiss, the Hofbrau,
Stillson's, the States, and Rector's.
The maritime cloth of Uncle Sam
moe ooyonloiond Of hx, Ch;oo1D
shippers to Alaska, who made Odious
Alaska coast and the safeguards which
the Inside route" The wreck of the
Olympia off Valdez was used as case
in point, in the odiops comparisons
made. On the authority of Premier
Laurier it is said that fifteen new
lights and other necessary equipment
will be installed along the inside route
from Vancouver to Prince Rupert, the
terminus of the Grand Trunk Pacific
Railway. Sir Wilfrid is among .the
many notables who in recent months
have ventured north from Vancouver to
the new Pacific port which because of
the reduced of the globe
near the poles is asid to be several
hundred miles nearer to the Atlantic
and to the Orient than any other port
on the Pacific. President Hays of the
national transcontinental in recent
months also has gone to n orthern
British Columbia where the railway
and mine activities have created stir
quite new to the vast solitudes which
were undisturbed by man up to a few
years ago. On Sir Wilfrid's return it
was made known that he would have
immediate action on the matter vi the
necessary protection to vessels on
those northern waters. 1t was quite a
season of excitement when the not
ables inspected Prince Ruert; one
party passing so close to the other one
near Queen Charlotte Sound that
President Hays and Sir Wilfrid waved
to one another. 1t is said that Prince
Rupert HarbOr naturally is the best
one on the Pacific Coast, being large,
lsndlUcked with deep water and no
shoals or oDstructions to navigation
and no strong tidal current. A great
grain elevator which is to be built
there by the government is significant
of the changes which are to take place
in the interior back of Prince Rupert
which only few years ago was un-
mapped and practically unknown ex-
cept by trappers and mine prospectors.
The statesmen for the ''get-rich-
quick" concerns and the mushroom IN.
surance companies, for whom Chicago
has been headquarters while they
claimed New York as home, ha Je suff-
cred a rude jolt from the crimps put
int he business of the concerns which !
they have helped to float" They are
already beginning to mourn for the |
'good old days" and those days GER
tainly Melted them handsomely, one
thousand dollars a week being nothing
unusual fo3r the smoothest of the |
tribe. The sums they made and the |
sums they spent. most of them spent !
at once. have not been generally real