The Washington herald., 1920-10-29
HOTEL FIGURES
TAXCREDULITY
New York Boniface Tells Of
Accounts Involved IN
Management.
By RAYMOND G. CARROLL.

New York, Oct 2s-John McE-
Bowman was talking about the com
pIexness Of running q nock Of ho-
tells. The idea Of employing $40
men just TO cook food and another
, s25 just to wait on table, npdinS
need at the same time to call 10
an average Of 5000 walters a month
to help out with banQuets. and 3se
chsmbermaids to make beds" sale
Mr.. Bowman, must strike one
pretty much as Indicative OF eotns
business on a wholesale scale Mcs
than twenty trades arc rcprssenteo
among the workmen ] employ sp6
the $500 wage earners ! have osl
my payroll in themselves with their
families represent a city VIII
I population Of $4,000"
I Comparative Figures.
To picture a table 1000 miles
long and eight miles wide stretches
the Imagination. but Mr.. Bowman
last year fed 5,52l,OOO patrons II
would require a table Of that sise
TO seat them, a table that might be
graphically outlined by drawing a
line south from Muskegon, Mich.
TO Nashville, Tenn, thence west 20
Muskogee, Okla, thence north 10
Sioux Falls, S. Oak, and back 20
the starting point
What was served as represented
in a cup OF coffee as tall as a four
story building and forty feet in di-
SnRfgT HoH.
feet high and thirty feet in disme-
ter; a soup bowl thirty feet high
and forty feet wide; an ice cream
cone 100 feet tall and twenty-five
feet wide at the base; enough esgs
to keep 100 hens busy laying for iJT
years; a loaf Of bread twenty-five
feet taller than the Woolwos>h-
Building; enough pastry to roof -
building two and a half times as
large as the Biltmore Hotel; a buix
lock eighty-six feet tall and thA
other dimensions in proportion; y.
lamb sixty feet above the ground.
and chicken seventy feet tall
Water Would FIJI a Lake.
The water used in these hotels
would I'LL a lake one mile long. one-
third Of a mile wide. with an sver-
age depth Of ten feet, while the TOT :
4tL anu soap 70 maui NCAA1
require a procession OF half-ton
trucks three miles long. The lsuu.
dry spread out TO dry would cover
every roof on Manhattan Island and
the writing paper given free TO the
guests would cover forty city
blocks
People still lose their keys. Mt.
Bowman said. In the last year lie
replaced $4,000 keys that patrons
either lost mislaid or Jhoughtless-
Iy carried away. All Of which g:ves
some conception OF the colossal Job
Of running six Of the largest hotck
in the world
Own. kissing Fish.
Mrs. Ralph Williams, the pisnisr-
WI lives in Fourteenth street. IL
probably the only owner OF kissing
FISH" in the world. Her fnny pets
leap wildly from the water when
she leans over them and peck al -
lips. ~
over on Long Island recently
there has been a dog fight and !
c, cking main. each possessing Un-
usual features. At the dog hght.-
when the contest was at it's height
4 sheriff and three deputies burst
: into the building. They were sbodt
a Manhattan alder
man, noted for his nerve, jumped
into the center Of the ring. ana
, drawing two TevolverS. covered the
r new arrivals and shouted: You
shant stop u nOw-my money is on
the white dog. ! don't care what
D you DO afterward'" And he had his
) way, too. Yes. the white dog won.
, Cock Fight RAided.
At the cooking main the best pair
Of birds were hard at it when sud
( denly every window and door optn-
= ed into the place OF the atair
was flung open and stick-up men
E with revolvers appeared. AL hands.
I went up. The attendants at the
= cock fight were famed for their
money and valUables one by one.
! Maurice Dekobra- the French
: journalist and artist, is passing
! through a perfect series Of adven-
: lures. Ten years ago DekobrS
> came to fame in Paris by writing
Burglary Considered as a Fine
Art" an intimate satire on the
= ways OF criminals. This morning
there came TO the Frenchmsn -
. note in the post reading: We arc,
very glsd to have read the nics
, things you have written about our
= . much abused profession. We wish
to give you the assurance that
while you are in America we shall
u leave you unmolCsted.'
' The letter was signed with Two
i cross bones and a skull.
Icoryright, 1920. by Public Ledger Co)