The farmer and mechanic., 1912-07-30

them can be thrown into two or mora
room suites. Some of the suites have
private baths and there are also sinst.
rooms with public baths and toiiets
The dining rooms are irnrnenSa
seating hundreds at time. and thara
is a great ballroom where ali ma
fashionable people Of the canal and
the tourists have dances Of a Satur-
day night during the season
This hotel is managed like thnCa
we have at the seaside at home u
has its clerks and office boys, ana III,
system OF giving out rooms serving
the meals and taking care of the
guests is practically the same.
Our Dollars Are Not Good
L have spent more than month at
the Tivoli during my stay here II -
charges are fixed and where one can
not bribe the clerks. The hotel has
been crowded all year and Will be -
from now until the canal is finished
To my table today came three rlth
Americans, portly dame in dla-
monds and two la-de-dah young n,er.
They complained about their treat
ment all through the meal Tho
woman said that her room WAS no
better than that OF her servants At
home. and the young men. who were
punched four in a room. were As rn if
as their feeble minds would let them
Said one Of them to the woman:
Mother, we will go back tenor-
row. This is the only place | have
ever been where our dollars are not
good. l offered the clerk all kinds
of money. but he laughed at me and
told me that Uncle Sam could not be
bribed. It S first come first serv, i.
and our money is Of no account
never saw such a place"
Five Dollars Day
And still the hotel is not run at ].
loss. It made a profit Of $26. 900 Inst
year and will increase ten thousand
Or more dollars this. I have the price
list before me. Transient guests
pay $3.50 per day if there is only ono
man in a room. or $40 If two bunk
together. There are some rooms AZ
low as $3.50. but all the best rooms
cost 81 more. The weekly rates are
Tol tionately little less when ,t"ro
people are put in one room. There
are slightly reduced rates for en-
pioyes. but they are still too high for
the average government clerk
The above prices include meals.
/ and that on the American plan. Tho
transient rates for meals alone arc
IS cents for breakfast and 81 each
for luncheon and dinner Meals
are also served a Ia carte. Children
! under twelve. if they require no ex
| ira beds or rooms and are old enough
to sit at the table, are taken in 1t
| S1.25 per day or at 5 per day by the
week or month, but all over twelve
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 TivOli is on the Pacific side OF
the isthmus. 1t has succeeded s.,
we'll that Uncle Sam is now building
a great hotel to correspond on the
| Atlantic side. This is the New
| Washington. situated on Colon beach.
a half mile away from CristObal. The
hotel is being erected by the Panama
Railroad Company, which as every
ernment. 1t will cost something like
100000. The style OF architecture
is Spanish. The building is to be oi
| concrete and the wallx and everything
about it will be ARRANGED to suit the
| tropics The hotel will be 800 feet
| long. It will have three stories and
very large parlors. lounging rooms
and billiard rooms. The ballroom
is to be 1lfty-three feet long by thirty
| seven feet wide In the front out
side. and surrounded by concrete
balustrade. will be made a concrete
walled swimming pool covering about
q quarter Of an acre. This will be
| - OA1 LII &C " I1IC 1ccl Ocep anu VII
be open on the sea side with wal
IN front to protect it from rough
| water. ~
In the New Washington the rooms
are to be arranged so that they car
De used singiy or en- suite. 1t will be
possible to throw from two to ifteer
| rooms together. the private baths be
ing entered by private passages anc
not from the bedrooms. Every bed
room will have either a private batf
or shower bath. and the whole
equipment Of the hotel will be mod
ern and up-to-date
FRANK G. CARPENTER