The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-11-30
ELECTRICITY IS
LIFE OF HOTELS
Modern Hostelries Veritable
Museums of Marvels of
New Inventions.
IT EVEN PAGES GUESTS
Hotel McAlpin. in New York. Fur
nishes Hundreds Of Wonders and
Labor-Savins Devices,
1T EVEN PAGES GUESTS

Electricity Is the very nerve system OF
Americas palatisl hotels and this coun-
try leads the world in stupendous
achievements in hotel construction and
ingenuity in bringing comforts and con-
yeniences to those who make hotels their
home.
Famous hotel proprietors and managers
agree If electricity energy were suddenly
cut OF, vast hotel Investments estimated
at more than s., 900. 10000 in the United
States would come TO an immediate
standstiIL Without electricity the mod
ern hotel is impossible.
Spine of Hotel System.
The newer hotels in ell the larger cities
are veritable museums Of electric mar
wells. Upon arriving at a modern hotel, the
guest reaches his room in an electrical
elevator which is the last work In eff
cheney and safety. In his room he finds
extraordinary electric wonders which will
operate for his comforts.
A representative of the Society for
Electrical Development, who recently in
spected New York's gigantic hotels,
found new electrical wonders In the latest
Of these magic buildings
In the perfect hotel system, detailed
record IS imperative. The many uses to
which the electrically operated telauto-
graph is put make it the very spinal
column of the towering structures. It
transmits orders in writing with an cleo
trio pencil, reproducing the exact chirog-
raphy of the writer. 1t saves time and
errors.
When the guest leaves his room the tel
autograph operated by the clerk on his
floor furnishes a record to the room
clerk and to the housekeeper so that
tine office down stairs is advised and
the room may be put into order for the
next guest. Before the maid enters the
room she inserts an electric plug into a
plate near the door. An electric lamp
lights over the door signalling that the
maid Is at work in the room and at the
same time another lamp is lighted On
the telephone switchboard telling of the
location of the maid. BY another switch
board arrangement the housekeeper is
also kept informed. Messages, orders, in
formation are recorded at as many places
as may be desired. Guests arc PACED on
twenty floors by this instrument
Handles Million Calls n Year.
In an average day, at the Hotel Nc
Alpin, in New York, more than 1000
yards of telephone messages are received
from many of the 1000 telephones inside
the building. From wherever its source
through which a message travels. its
identity is firmly established by the aid
OF electricity. On the twenty-third floor
of the McAlpin Is the largest private
branch switchboard ever installed 1t is
said that the operators handle about
100000 calls each year.
Work in the kitchens, pantries and
Iaundries In the up-to-date hotel Is &C.
complished without dirt or noise and with
the minimum amount of waste. How
Mine Host Of others days would welcome
the electric machines that now do the
work OF dozens of dishwashers and by
which breakages are almost unheard! The
new kitchen maid works with an electric
egg boiler, the electric bread cutter. tie
electric pota to-scraping machine and the
electrically operated machines that never
vary a drop in measuring cups of tea
and coffee.
The housewife who laboriously COM
pounds the deliciously smooth mayor
naise witnesses with wonder the work.
inEs of a little electric servant that turns
the product out by the gallon. Another
machine cuts small cubes OF ice by
the thousands every minute. Electrical
sweepers and electrical busting machines
have driven the army of maids into
matrimony or on to the stage.
Modern Dairy Maid in Cities.
You. don't have to get to the country
TO see the modern dairy maid-and II you
did, the chances are you wouldn't find
her. You will find her in the modern
hotel-the electric dairy maid who presses
a button and attends to other duties
while tubs Of butter are made. The