The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-05-25

went to two other hotels and their
rooms were all taken. 1t was funny. 1t
did not seem as If there should be such
a sudden run on hotels. And then sud-
denly remembered that had heard that
many hotels in New York refused to take
unchaperoned4 girls. Patty. way back
yonder in the land of shamrock and
Icelleens, I had fighting ancestry. and
have had them every generation since,
they tell me. 1 don't doubt it. l was
mad clear through when that idea had
gradually seeped itself into my brain.
But there was one hotel knew all
about. I had stayed there several times
by myself. So 1 called up the McAlpin
and asked If 1 could have a room re-
served on the woman's floor, and received
an affirmative reply. over went. bag
and baggage, boiling with rage against
too full to take me in.
The woman's floor of the McAlpin IS
unique 1t is particularly for girls and
women travelling alone. Presiding over it
is a genius in the way of charming
and cultivated woman, with whom one
may register. and with the proper Gre
dentials, meet other Grub women, and
get in touch with club life in New York.
For instance, if you are U, D. c.
ard of course you are-or an F. F. ", or
and show your union card, and there YOU
are. The hostess of the woman's floor
puts you in touch with the president of
your club, and you meet other club
women and so on, ad infinitum.
She also arranges sightseeing parties
for you, or theatre parties. and secures
for you proper chaperone. However.
being unused to being dragged hither and
yon by even the most willing victims. l
did not go in for any of these diver
stems. Instead I spent my time that aft
ernoon with the hairdresser on the same
HsafV @5rocJ nd
manicurists and stenographers and la
dies maids and everything.
was very economical. so took a
room with hot and cold water. but with
out bath, and it cost me $3.50. But 1
spent a dollar more, dropping quarters
little toilet articles they have in all the
hotel bedrooms here.
But / was staring bankruptcy in the
face, by the next morning, SO I had 10
count my dollars. Somehow, long ago.
I had heard of the Martha washington
hotel So set out to find it. 1t wac -
East Twenty NTH street, 1 think It's
twenty mine. anyhow it's in the twenties
II never was good at figures. There are
three hundred rooms. and not single
man. or a married one either, for that
matter, is allowed in that hotel
Now and then one may see one, Ike q
lost sheep. or shopping about like roar
ing 1on, but they are just attaches-not
fixtures. They do not belong. All the
women get rid of them as soon as possl-
be And they cannot rent room at the
Martha Washington. Somehow that
seemed to sort of even up things, and l
was glad.
I got me a room for $3.50 and 1t was
dear in every wey except in price. Not
very big room. but oh, such nice
big closet The bed was white. and SO
was the dresser and the little reading
table and the rocker and the straight
char which were the only furnishings.
The big closet was fitted out with lots CT
hooks. and running hot and cold water,
end a place to put your shoes and And So
Forth, to quote Yours Truly. Lit. Harmon
of Golfers.
/ am going to stay here for while,
anyhow. Penny says she has always want
ed to stay here. and wishes she had
known. But I really think Penny is IN
clover where she is. We never do know