New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-26
Overflow of Visitors IS
BiIleted on Board
ing Houses
HALL ROOMS FOR NAVY
AND ARMY OFFICERS
Visitors for Game Lose by
Failure to Make Reser-
vatiOnS Here

II sounds like a terrible reflection
upon New York's boosted ability 70
handle any number Of visitors to say
that thousands OF brave soldiers and
sailors, ranging in rank from lieuten-
ants 10 generals and from ensgns to
admirals, were compelled TO sleep in
boarding houses last night.
But it happened.
Many brave general and doughty
admiral sat in the ornate Hobbies and
the vivid dining rooms of the Waldorf
the McAlpin and the other big hotels
until a late hour, chucklng over VIC
tory or glooming over defeat. and then
took a taXicab to the West Side and
YEARLY climbed the stairs TO the third
floor rear.
Retreat 10 Boarding Houses
There was no other place TO put the
generals and admirals, and as for the
visiting public, it will require several
days to determine just where 1t did
sleep. The army and navy men, hav-
ing delayed making hotel reservations
until six months ago, had their choice
OF sleeping in the gutter or the board
ing houses. Being brave men, they
chose the boarding houses.
Every hotel in New York was crowd
ed 20 the doors last night. For the last
five days there hasn't been a vacant
room in any of the first or second
class houses, but requests for suites
and rooms kept pouring in by the nun
dreds. Hotel men say that the thou
Army-Navy game and those who came
back from New Haven, added to the
other thousands who had caused al
ready overcrowded conditions, made
the biggest crowd that New York has
had 10 handle in a great many years.
The Hotel Mems Association, which
handles the overflow on such occasions.
estimated that il has obtained rooms
for between 100000 and 100000 per-
sons within the last five days. The
larger hotels. like the McAlpin, the
Waldorf, the Knickerbocker. the Bit
more and the Aston, quit accepting res
ervatons ten days ago, and all re-
quests for rooms were turned over 10
the association.
Rates Raised. of Course
The boarding house people raised
their rates, swept OF the front steps
nut an extra towel in the bathroom and
responded that they would give every
body a place to sleep. BY noon yester.
day the Hotel Mems Association had
placed the last of the applicants and
reported that it would not be neces-
sary for any one. especially army and
navy men, to roam the streets all night
None of the Cabinet dignitaries and
high government officials who came up
from Washington for the game were
I forced 70 sleep in the boarding houses
however They all had first class rooms
and suites in first class hotels, having
had the foresight to make reservations
a year or 80 ago. The midshipmen and
the cadets, too. had rooms, although
not every midshipman or cadet occu'
pied his room. The middies were AT
/ the Park Avenue Hotel, the McAlpin
the Imperial and the Martinique, while
+ the football team had quarters at the
Biltmore.
The Army team stopped at the Aston
where about 200 of the cadets also had
rooms. The majority Of the govern
ment officials. including Secretaries
Lansing. Daniels and Baker, were at
/ the Biltmore.