Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-03-08
RECORD jam IN
new YORK CITY
Bio Hotels Are Unable to Cone
With Unusual Rush Of
Visitors.
MANY WAIT LONG FOR ROOMS
Hotel Managers Hold Different View,
~ to Reason for the Jam, but War
Has Something to Do
With Il.

WIN u
New YOrk.-Thomas D. Green, presl.
dent of the Hotel Mems association,
says New York city has more 1irst-class
hotels than London, Paris and Berlin
combined. Despite the fact that the
hotel capacity of the city, built at Q
cost Of $500,000,O0O, is more than 1OO,.
GOO. 1t was difficult for visitors arriv.
ing late last night to find rooms, says
the New York Sun. In fact, up to ter
o'clock the demand for rooms just
about equaled the supply.
Investigation by reporters for the
Sun revealed that the overcrowding OF
hotels did not end with the football
season, but that the automobile show
found the hotels still more congested
The present week Is regarded by the
hotel men as sort Of lull prior to the
influx of buyers in greater numbers
than ever from all parts of the country
That gives an index of conditions
Every room taken used to be called 8
rush." Now, it is "lull." A "rush'
is the. condition which has existed near
~ oil winter. when guests sleep ir
bathrooms or are sent. to Newark and
Brooklyn.
"New York, the city of big things
said President Green, "has not enough
hotels to supply the demand, and al
though there are several hotels witt
n total capacity Of more than 6,OW
rooms in course Of construction they
will not be sufficient to provide fol-
the ever increasing number of visitors
to the city,"
Wait Long for Rooms.
Calls at number of lending hotels
last night furnished proof Of this fact
]. w. Rogers. assistant manager ut the
Waldorf-Astoria, said people hal beer
waiting since ten o'clock in the morn
ing for rooms; that for weeks every
private dining room and every small
meeting room had been utilized as bed
rooms. At the Belmont the same con
dition was reported and bookings have
been made for weeks ahend. Assist
ant Manager Woods at the Biltmore re
ported that hotel booked full from Sep
TENDER 1 until April 1, and said dozens
had been turned away in the course O,
the day.
The Astor, Vanderbilt, st. Regi,
Manhattan and other big hotels an
nounced they had all the guests they
could comfortably provide for. The
McAlpin managers said they had few
rooms left, but tllat was the first time
In days. At many of the hotels it was
said pe1ons inquiring for rooms hat
been referred to the headquarters OF
the Hotel Mems association, which has
sort Of clearing house for steering
strangers to hotels that are not over.
crowded.
At the Hotel Mems association II
was said the week had been exceeding.
~ busy. every night until twelve
o'clock scores of persons were calling
up and asking where they could get
rooms. ION Tuesday night" said one
Of the men ut the headquarters, "a man
called up and we referred him to q
hotel that only few minutes before
had told us it had five single rooms
left. He called back shortly and said
every room was gone"
Reasons for Jam.
Assistant Manager Rogers of the
Waldorf figured last evening that the
transient population in New York city
is easily $4,000, instead Of 100000, as
formerly estimated, and he said it is
constantly increasing. Various hotel
managers said the throngs seeking &C.
commodations in the hotels at present
were greater than at any similar time
in previous years. Automobile week
Of course is always heavy.
As to the reasons for the jam, the
managers held different views. One is
the presence In the city of hundreds
Of people who are shopping before
moving to the big hotels and resorts in
the South. Another'is the beginning of
the influx of buyers from every part of
the country. The stock market also is
credited with having attracted to the
city great number Of persons, but the
recent slump has tended to send away
number of those persons.
| Another manager pointed out that
countless persons who ordinarily spend
the winter in Europe or who live there
the greater part Of the time have re-
turned to America, and New York is
the only city with the life and gayety
to which they are accustomed. The
presence Of representatives Of foreign
governments interested in war con.
tracts totals up IN surprising man.
ner. Following the rush Of automo.
bile week have come many persons
who, reallzing that the hotels would
be jammed at that time, deferred their
business trips to the city until after.
ward.
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