The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-16
HOTEL MEN DANCE AND
DINE IN TROPICAL WOOD
Brilliant Entertainment Given at the Bitmore Is AT,
tended by Many Guests From Out Of Town.
Whirled In by Way of Autos.

II an aviator we're fyinO high enough
yesterday he might have noticed great
streaks Of dust convergins toward Man.
haitian until our pan Of the Atlantic sea-
board looked like . wagon wheel. the
spokes lengthening out with . wis to-
ward the hub. which was the Hotel
Biltmore.
The eminent ". johnson Quinn. pro-
prietor Of Goshen Inn. started . spoke
Of his own far up At Goshen, Orange
counts and stretched Il out behlnd
his car, while country high c0hstAbles
dodsed aside from the dust spoke Just
in time and yelled their impotent rage.
And from east by north 1t the m
time Proprietor Eddie Fogg OF the Hotel
Copley Plasa was laying down another
dust spoke that started n the hub Of
thu universe At Boston hnroor n
wound up at the hub Of h wheel In
Manhattan.
From the southwest, to mention but
one Of the dust spokes whissing In from
that direction, Proprietor Dave Provas OF
the Hotel Adeiphi Of philadelphia vas
atreaking northeast across Jersey.
COMING northwest from the Hotel Mas
sau down at Long Beach was Proprietor
Barse's private spoke behind the Barse
car. And when they had arrived 1t the
Biltmore, they and about 1000 others,
to attend the hrst annual n OF the
Hotel Association Of New 10Th
Proprietor Tom Carroll oil the Hcrmit.
age, right here In Manhattan. wss just
,ominr under the wire also. Mr.. Car
roll had had an even break on the mat
ter Of a start with those who had come
from greater distances. but his car nso
TO carry a weight handicap.
When they all had been shot up 10
the nineteenth ~fioor-which In not 10
ho confused with the nineteenth hole
Of the B,ltmore they found that the
New York hotel man once they had de-
cifed to gtve q supper M q lone
that thing "a II had not been done De-
fore.
Tropical Forest IL shown.
whore once the Biltmorets grand BALL
room and surrounding dining n supper
rooms and foyers had had walls n
pillars and piiasters and lconi II
now had nothing to show except q forest
Of green which had something on any
tropical forest which even the Colonel
has brought home taies about. Dog~ood
in bloom, laurel and smilax and palms
and birds In golden cages might not have
Impressed the Colonel. had he been there.
sufficiently to cause him 10 admit that
he never had seen such a Jungle riot;
hut never had the Colonel seen IA forest
all lit up.
And this one was last night--with
very tiny green and blue ana PINK ana
orang. and red II white electric puipS'
Jack roses and orchids and a ~hullabal"o
- 49,. .~n.,a, s,sra an nd vYteOeO IN be-
tween ali these. And n place one
steppcd one was In grave DANCE OF step
ming upon n fifty piece self-star'ng
orchestra. A.
The only reason any space outside the
ballroom foor was left free at AL was
in order to place tables In positions
Jus, what time the first OF proprietor
john MrE. Bownan's Riltmcre supper.
got under way 10 not known oecAuse
the supper parties were overlapping s.""
before the press gallery had got TO the
seen. Of carnage Doubtless the supperr
nv this time are beginning to merge into
brcakfa ats between dances.
New York folk who 20 light on Inc
warmed over roast In the Nat NJ nome III
order 20 he in proper condition. lot an
after theatre supper party IN u Ncw
YORK hotel may ne curious 10 Know
VIVA, New York hotel proprietors oe'
cided to have for supper when tney oe'
clded to put in a highland morn'neI
r~io,ously by hurrytng away from theI.
own hotels to spend the evening". nient
and thenceforth in another ho'e' weI,
they started ont. following a su"'e'e"'
number Of dances. with this;
Caviar rrais sur csrApe
Consomme Richie au fumet de ce'eri'
Bouchee de Fruits he Mer, cancsle.
pigeon de.ass sAute, Verontau::
Jambon de virsin;e y Ia cunoeriand'
Salade Romaine.
Mousse aux fraises Mienardi-~s'
Cafe.
One must admire the se~lf-control OF
| John McE. Bowman: not once did the
menu say "a Ia Biltmore." not even after
that jambon conooction. where the name
| of the hotel might have been slipped IN
! quietly. And II Proprietor Bo~man were
long on Long Island duckiing or eet n
grow thin pickmeups, Or roast peer hash
! or anything else he never once tr'ed 70
get rid OF his excess stock on the nine
teenth floor He and Maitre d'Hotel Jean
| Malnati stuck right to h preparedness
programme engraved IN the menus scat.
! tered about and not once tried TO put
anything over.
Oscar 10 Present.
Dan Ritchey OF the Gregorian arrived
early and everything frightened up a,
once. out OF the elevator a moment
later stepped Mr.. n Mrs. Oscar OF the
| waldorf. and with the entrance OF os.
, car the First the function had attained
us proper amount OF dignity.
Just as Frank Case Of the Lambs
the Sixty Club and the Hotel Aison.
auin stepped out Of the elevator 90 Ole
detective William J.. Burns. Mr.. a
ducked into the jam around the elevator
doors. 90 did the great MT
Case emerged as unostnntatiousiy AZ
possible on the other side OF the crowd
So did Detective Burns. Just a pace be
hind the noted one stepper.
AS there seemed no way out or ~
Mr.. Case then went back and checked
his coat nervously, Mr.. Burns ever q
step behind. As the reporters were
leaving for Park Row toward midnight
Mr.. Case was dancing with the mos
besuteous lady OF all the beauteous ladlef
on the hoor-Miss Flora Zabelle. A.
most within humping distance DETECTIVE
Burns was also dancing with a iadS
to the press gallery.
The Hon. Tom White ROCK Mcfi'i
was added to the general decorative
scheme toward midnight. His presence
however. ~dissuaded no n from order
ing anything else he wanted TO haV'
around to help along the joyous Dam
penins of the supper Also al a late
hour Maurice and Nine, Florence Walto,
! Maurice danced upon the now trpiS