The sun., 1919-01-29
5000 HELP TO OPEN
HOTEL COMMODORE
Great Party Makes Merry at
Customary Christening Of
the Ballroom.

According to immemorial custom the
grand ballroom Of Hotel Commodore was
christened with champagne last night
when 5000 diners gathered to drink and
be merry In the new hosiery, There
were Caruso. Charles Dana Gibson and
Mayor Hylan among those present. &C
cording TO the press agent. The throng
was there TO have a good time and APP
parently had K.
The Commodore Club occupied a
prominent place near the space reserved
for dancing. and 1t was its members who
first discovered the Mayor. Some one
applauded and became discouraged. But
a Kaleidoscope operator In the ceiling,
taking the cue, turned the light from his
machine full upon the Mayor. The color
scheme would have delighted the Boil
shevik. for the violent red of the re-
Elected rays intermingling with the sun
set shades OF the Mayors crowning glory
produced an effect leaving nothing TO be
desired in yerm!llons.
Dancing followed the dinner and con-
tinued on into the night and overlapped
the morning, when many OF the guests
left for home to the accompaniment of
rafting milk wagons.
Thousands Attend Opening.
Thousands of persons inspected the
new hotel The cocktail hour found the
italian garden lobby filled with prettily
gowned women. An orchestra played for
their entertainment.
The earliest OF the guests was the
Duchess de Chaulnes, VINO insisted upon
being allowed to register Monday night.
when room 651 was assigned 10 her and
her son at 9 o'clock. A : Bowling of
Boston was the first breakfast guest,
having entered the breakfast room be-
fore the Duchess
We want TO generate purely honey
feeling here" said the manager Roy
Hubben We want TO have the spirit
here OF the old fashioned inn. a place
where the townfolk may congregate and
feel easy and comfortable, where they
can air their views and discuss them.
The public must be pleased is our
policy and we will make every effort to
please our pubic. We have men civ
culating around the building TO learn and
crafty the wishes of our guests"
While Mr.. Hubbell was explaining his
policy an unhappy young man who had
sat upon a bottle of medicine he carried
in his hip pocket approached the man
ager and asked If he could lend him a
room and bath for an hour
'Why. certainly Here's the key to
my room; help yourself"
I'm yours for life" the Young man
said. gratefully. as he sped for the ele-
Nator.
Not "13" In the Hotel,
Mr. Hubbcll said he had attended the
opening of nine different hotels. and that
the Cornmodore's opening was the best
he had yet seer.
During a conversation about the new
hotel the manager and reporters looked
In on covey OF ten white clothed mani
curists, evenly divided between blondes
and brunettes The anteroom adjoins
the barber shop, where the head barber
keeps an efficiency record. II a certain
high mark is lowered by any barber out
he goes
The hotel. with its many new APP
pointments still adheres to an old super
stition. There is not ia" in the
building. The thirteenth floor. the
thirteenth room and the thirteenth chair
along with the lesser thirteens are not
there.
THE public will not stand for it," Mr..
Hubbell said, "and-well. the hotel men
are not crazy about II either"
And now that the hotel has no thir-
teens, a black cat or a dog to the manor
born, Mr.. Hubbell can't sec anything
hpt fnr