The Arvada enterprise., 1914-04-09
This is Some Hotel, Is it Not?
New York, March 27, 1914

New York, March 27, 1914.
Editor of The Enterprise:
New York City being first of all, a
city of big things, 1t may interest you:
readers to learn something of its big
gest hotel; the biggest hotel in the
world. by the way. 1t is the Hotel
McAlpin." located at the very nerve
center OF New York, viz. Broadway,
stu avenue, 33rd and 34th streets. The
McAlpin is twenty-four stories high,
above the sidewalk 1t is five stories
deep, below the sidewalk. The main
Office is one block long; one entrance
being on 33rd street, the other on
Saith street.
There are sixteen hundred and forty
guest rooms, together with dining
re oms, banquet halls, public parlors,
reception rooms, rest and retiring
rooms innumerable. On the oath flcor,
which is reached by ten passenger ele-
vators, there Is a magniflcently ap-
pointed Turkish bath establishment.
swimming pool in marble settings
and being 40 by so feet, Is one feature
of the plant. In the hotel tonight
there are housed more than seventeen
hundred guests; which is about the
average number night after night. Ar
rivals and departures average about
G ght hundred a day each. The aver
age price for rooms for each guest
is $500 per day. Individual rooms
costing from two and a half to five
dollars per day. Suites costing from
eight to seventy-flve dollars per day.
There are two thousand people en-
ployed in the hotel. 1t is estimated
that fully ten thousand people come
into the hotel during each twentyfour
hours.
A force of twenty-five private detec-
tives, both men and women, is employ
cd to protect the guests and their prop
erty While there is great force Of
clerks, cashiers etc, employed in the
main office, there is also completely
equipped office on each floor of the
hotel. These offices are presided over
by women clerks, who are responsible
for the conditions of affairs on their
respective floor. At these offices are
kept all the keys for rooms on that
floor All mail for guests is sent to
these Offices. Also all bell boy and
maid service comes from them. 1t is
marvellous how quickly and quietly
the wants of guests are attended to, as
| soon as made known.
There is a fully equipped hospital,
In charge OF n competent physician,
who has under his charge a corps Of
/ trained nurses. The entire sixth floor
/ is reserved for ladies travelling alone
| Ladies who are guests Of the hotel,
will, II they desire, have the service
Of expert shopping guides, who know
| all about the big department stores and
| the 9Th avenue shops, and are also
EXPERT buyers OF all the things so
dear to the feminine heart, and so
much sought for by lady visitors 10
| New York. The magnificent Grill
| room on the first floor below the side
walk shows wonderfully art site work
| and taste In its terra Gotta finishings.
Seven hundred and forty guest may
be seated and served at one time In
the Grill Room. Tho main dining
room on the first floor ohcvc the side
walk Is a place it for the Gods" 20
dine and wine IN II is finished and
furnished IN the French style Of the
time OF Louis IVX. This room viii
seat eight hundred guests, Il Is sim
ply gorgeously beautiful The cost OF
the silver china and cut glass used
In serving in that room would be suf-
hcient to furnish an ordinary first.
class hotel in an ordinary city. New
ork. however, is not an ordinary city,
nor is the McAlpin an ordinary hotel
The above are but a few facts pertHln'
ing to this modern hotel wonder To
tell all of them would require columns
Of space In the Enterprise.
Tango? Why this town is Tango
dippy So is the whole country fct
that matter.
J. b. NJ.