El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-27

complisheG a great thing and is en-
titled tc the benefits naturally accru-
ing from mis- efforts, but it is strange
kitchen is the porch the stove consist
ing Of a bowl of charcoal inside a gal
vanized screen about two feet cube. or
of the size and shape Of a shoe box.
The total revenue Of the government
hotels, messes and kitchens amounted
last year to just about $1,z5O,OOO
which was almost 100000 less than
the year previous; and in keeping the
establishment it was found that there
was loss on the hotels and res
taupants patrOnized by the gold men,
but that the profit on the silver men
made Uncle Sam come out something
like $4,000 ahead
At the Hotel TivOH.
Outside Of this class of hotels and
restaurants devoted to the actual feed
ing Of the canal employees, Uncle sam
has a great establishment here where
tourists and high officials are enter
tanned and the richer Of the canal en-
ployes may live If they care to pay
the bills This is the Hotel Tivoli. sit
uated on the slopes of Ancon hill about
$50 feet above the level of the sea, with
a fine outlook upon the city of Panama
and the Pacific ocean
The hotel is great three story
building, part frame and part brick. II
is over 500 feet long and about 100 feet
deep, being built around the three
sides of a rectangle, with q porte
cochere extending out from the center
of the front IT has q lobby 60 feet
wide, with an II foot veranda, and has
other verandas running about the
building with galleries enclosed IN wire
netting. The whole hotel is so screened
that ii is impossible for flies, mOSqui-
toes or insects Of any kind to get into
the rooms, and il is one of the most
comfortable summer resorts OK the
world.
The Tivoli is built high above the
ground on concrete piers, giving cir
culation Of air underneath It has,
with the addition which has been
added this year, about $50 rooms, and
these are SO arranged that many Of
them can be thrown into two or more
suites. Some of the suites have private
baths, and there are also single rooms /
with public baths and toilets.
The dining rooms are immense, seat
ing hundreds at a time, and there Is a !
great ballroom, where all the fashion
able people of the canal and the tour I
lists have dances of a Saturday night
during the season
This hotel is managed like those we
have at the seaside al home 1t has its
clerks and office boys. and the system
of giving out rooms, serving the meals !
and taking care OF the guests is prac- /
tically the same.
Our Dollars Are Not Good.
1 have spent more than a month at |
I
the one hotel 1 know of where the I
charges are fixed and where one can !
not bride the clerks. The hotel has ]
been crowded all year and will be so /
from now until the canal is finished 1
To my table today came three rich Z
Americans, a portly dame in diamonds /
and two la-de-dah young men. They |
complained about their treatment all /
through the meal. The woman said !
that her room was no better than that |
of her servants at home, and the |
a room, were as mad as their feeble I,
minds would let them Said one of .
them to the woman:
Mother, we will go back tOmor- /
row. This is the only place I have /
ever been where our dollars are not !
good. 1 offered the clerk all kinds /
OF money, but he laughed at me and !
bribed. 1t is first come first served. /
and our money is of no account I I
never saw such place.
Five Dollars Day.
And still the hotel is not run at a
loss. 1t made a profit of $4,000 last
year and will increase $4,000 or more
this. I have the price list before me.
there is only one man in a room, or
$40 if two bunk together There are
some rooms as low as $3.50, but all the
best rooms cost 81 more. The week
ly rates are SIS for a single person.
with propOrtionately a.little less when
more people are put in one room !
mere are SlSuLy reQQCeQ rates Tor
but they are still too high
for the average government clerk
The above prices include meals. and
that on the American plan. The tran
silent rates for meals alone are 70
cents for breakfast and 81 each for
luncheon and dinner. Meals are also
served n Ia carte. Children under - I
if they require no extra beds or rooms
and are old enough to sit at the table,
are taken in at S125 per day or at 81
per day by the week or month, but all
over u years of age must pay full
rate.
Accounts are rendered every week,
and you pay on the dot or you go.
The New Washington Hotel
The Tivoh is on the Pacific side of
that Uncle Sam is now building a great |
hotel TO correspond on the Atlantic 1
side. This is the New Washington. sit
uated on Colon beach. half mile away
from CristObal. The hotel is being /
erected by the Panama Railroad COM /
pany, which. as everyone knows, is 1
the United States government It will /
cost something like $500, 900. The style /
of architecture is Spanish. The build
ing is to be of concrete and the walls |
and everything about it viii be ar
ranged to suit the tropics The hotel /
viii be 800 feet long. 1t will have /
Ioung1ng rooms and billiard rooms |
The ballroom is to be 50 feet long by 1
81 feet wide In the front outside, |
and surrounded by a concrete baluS-
trade will be made a concrete walled !
swimming pool covering about a quar-
ter of an acre. This will be from three