Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-02-25
THE CALIFORNIA TRIP
GETTING HOTEL ASSIGNMENTS.
First Glimpse OF san Dsigo Exposition.
lBY JAMES FAUX. /

" u"S NV dtttNtO. NOV GfNt ~
the same pronunciation out here
that we give the place in Cuba
where Cervera S fleet got bottled up
in the Spanish American war. That
is Santiago" or something so sim
liar to IL that when it first struck
cur ear we thought they we're talk
ing of the latter place. But looking
it up, we find the dictionary war
rants such pronunciation They
separate the word into syllables as
follows: San-de i-go' and compound
it, giving the ''d' the sound of It"
aud the ''e" the short sound, and
the ~ the sound of "a as in neigh
Dor from VIII Oh you can see we about
get 'San-ti ago, with emphasis on
the "a. Our party was met at the
depot by the representative of a
bureau of the hotels of the city,
which had signed our party up for
the three days that were to be there,
to be distributed around to the diff
ferent hotels which were in the 'bu
reau'' agreement, according to our
several tastes and the sizes of our
pocketbooks.
We were first carried to the st.
James hotel, one of the swell hostel
ries of the city. IN the rotunda OF
which the bureau" agent took our
names, made us our assignments and
turned US over to the taxi-cab man
to be whired away to our resting
places The ST. James could accom-
modate only a select number of the
party and their capacity was soon
snapped up. This writer and wife
did not mind going out TO one of the
other hotels to which we were as
signed, as it suited our price better
and the accommodations we're not so
crowded as in this hotel where some
were told that they would have to be
put on cots. There was no occasion
for them crowding up that way but ii
was nighttime and some got excited
and thought their chances for night
lodging depended upon staying there
and before explanations could b.
made by the hotels bureau agent and
our secretary they had signed up at
this hotel.
This city has population some
thing like about Mobile. That is il
had 49, 578 when the 1910 census was
taken. 1t had shown remarkable
growth since the preceding census
$1,000 was taken, as it had then only
II, 200, which was over doubling, and
in the four and half years that had
interviewed since the last count has
increased some and especially ac-
count of the exposition, but it can
readily be seen that their accommo
dahons could easily get crowded
during the expositions times when
large parties like ours swarmed IN
and there were some others here to-
night; some of the large masonic
bodies So some system was neces-
sarv to insure hotel Accommodations
else some body would have to tramp
the streets. Our secretary had pro
vided us against that and we were
thankful and more appreciahve OF
it when later on during our stay in
the city. we saw numbers turned
away from the hotel of our particu-
lar assignment because that they
had made no reservation ar
rangement in advance and how
weary and discouraged some did
LOOK. Our rooms were sold off long
OclOiO NC lGlbs dld We SdNb bubil up
several hours before leaving time
the day we departed in order to let
some such weary travellers get to
bed. In this respect this city dir
tered from Los Angeles and San
Francisco,as we did not hear at all on
the trip of any lack for hotel ac-
commodatlons in those two big cit
les, for if one got turned off from
one hotel he did not look far-before
he found another and there were
bureaus which would ascertain
where au opening could be found.
AS soon as we got settled into our
hotel, we made quick shit to get out
and get car and journey on out to
the fair grounds that night. We
had crossed the continent to see