The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-27
Pennsylvania with 1900.
Rooms and 1900 Baths
Ready for Guests
SECOND LARGEST
OPENS THIS WEEK
These Two Together with McAlpin S
Addition Will Add $500 Rooms to
New York's Hard Pressed Hotel Re-
sources-Facts About New Hostelries.

NEW YORK, Jan. 27-The incandcs-
cent sky line over the heart of New York
received big addition to its candle pow1
er last week when on the gloomiest off.
shoot of Times square hundreds of win
dows were illuminated in the largest tav1
ern in the world the Hotel Pennsylvania |
Seventh avenue. which had been prae-
tcally in the hands of the receiver dur
ing years OF subway building, began tol
look as if it belonged on Manhattan Isl
kers in clothing, who have long predoni-
mated between Times square and the
Pennsylvania station, stand on the side
walks and in their shop doors, looking
at the outlines of the great structure,
with apprehension writ on their faces, cx-
pressive Of the fear that autonomous de-
velopment of their lowy traffic in the
heart OF New York was seriously threat
ened
The Hotel Pennsylvania, which has >
POO rooms and 1900 baths, is the largest
hotel in the world by 200 rooms and 200
baths. Second to il in size will be the
Hotel Commodore, which will open in
Forty-second street next TO the Grand
Central terminal tomorrow The Hotel
Commodore has a round 1000 rooms and
an equally imposing number of baths.
| The Hotel McAlpin tomorrow will open
its addition of 800 rooms, giving it a to-
tai of 1900 rooms. Thus in one week
there will be added to New Works hard
pressed hotel resources a total OF 1900
rooms and as many baths.
The Hotel PENNSYLVANIA will give New
/ York its first experience OF Statler hotel
management and service f. NJ. Statler,
who directs the chain OF Hotels Statler
at Buffalo, Detroit, and St Louis will be
| in charge of the Hotel Pennsylvania and
/ will run it in accordance with his own
/ ideas The three hotel openings which
take place within few days win be I'M
/ der the management of the three greatest
! hotel organizations in the country The
Il Commodore will he under. the management
Of the company headed by John Nee
Bowman, which conducts the Biltmore
Manhattan, Belmont, and Murray Hill
hotels. The McAlpim addition will be
long to the system of hotel propcrtie.
controlled by L. Coleman du Pont, untlel
the management of Lucius NJ Boomer
The Hotel Pennsylvania faces the Penn
sylvana station in Seventh avenue and ex
tends from Thirty second to Thirty-third
street There are twenty seven floor lev
els from the lowest sub-basement to tho
top floor The hotel is set back severa
feet from the property line, increasing
the width of Seventh avenue until IL
this block is slightly wider than Fiftl
avenue. This valuable real estate was
sacrificed to give a larger setting of oper
space for the hotel and the station fol
the sake of the architectural effect Tn,
first four floors of the hotel are built il
style to harmonic with the massivenes,
and dignity of the great railroad building
On those floors are the offices, Hobbies
dining rooms, cafes, galleries, and mos
! of the public rooms Above these foor
the structure is cut into by four deel
courts, which give light and air to al
the rooms.
Any one under the impression that be
cause he has heard OF the Statler manage
ment as an introducer of many novelties
. the Pennsylvania is to be sort of trick
hotel, will be disappointed It was sta
; ted last week by a representative of tb'
company that the art OF managing hotel
had been carried to such a point of per