The Washington herald., 1920-07-25
New York City
By o. o. Mcintyre


eeming more and more acute and
Iirship travel established between
Atlantic City and Manhattan 1t may
be only short time before visitors
tc the metropolis will come as far
as Atlantic city and then fly to town
in the morning. returning to the
Jersey resort at night.
There is no question but that
Atlantic City is becoming a real
dangerous rival for New York in the
matter of hotel accommodations
The finest hotels in the world are
going up there rapidly,
The Carlton system is just
now building what is destined to be
the finest hotel in the world on the
board walk. The Ritz people never
spare no expenses in building or
operation.
1t is announced by Albert Keller,
the guiding genius of the Ritz
hotels in America, that the Atlantic
City Ritz will be fifteen stories high
and will front the ocean with wide
space on either side, The cafe Is
designed after the Continental
fashion on the first floor front over
looking the ocean with a large
PAVILION also for tables.
There will be an Arcade and a
group of shops on the right-shops
that will be as ultra and exclusive
as those of Fifth Avenue. The
clientele will of course, be selected
1t was Cesare Ritz who founded
the Ritz Carlton hotel systems He
came UP from the bottom working
in every department and now the
chain includes twelve hotels In
England. France, Italy, Spain,
Switzerland. South America and
New York.
Albert Keller who directs the
American hotels IS big strapping
young fellow with all the boyish
enthusiasm of a college coach. He
is rarely seen except by his employ
ees and yet he knows instantly the
name of every guest, where they
are, their tastes and their little
characteristics.
The Ritz hotels do not have large
foyers like the hoteds of an earlier
date. 1t is their idea that all of the
f ne things are for their guests
alone and not the lobby Ioungers
or casual visitors. Once behind the
scenes, however, one sees the mar
velous steps that have been taken
to assure the comfort of the guests.
Each employee is sGhooled in polite
ness.
1t is to be seen that Cesare Ritz
understood that the majority of
hotel Hobbies resembling as they do
union stations with people known
only by numbers hurTying in and
out could not give forth an atmos-
Phere of warmth and true hotel
cordially.
II ii is true that Atlantic CITY is
bidding for New York hotel patro-
mage it may be a good thing. New
York hotels have had too easy sled
ding in the past few years since
srEce has become as valuable as the
kOhiRoor. Hospitality in many in
stances is sacrificed for profit. New
York is properly the pleasure cap
ltal of America and unless its hotels
reflect the warmth that the city
feels toward the stranger within its
gates great harm is done. There
are too many hotels that seem to re-
gard guests as a nuisance and not
enough who regard them as high
paying guests.
Reign of ShopIiftinS.
The reign of shoplifting in large
New York stores is declared by
psychologists to be attributable to
the worlds moral breakdown due
to the war. The police say that
fairly capable shoplifter can easily
make way with $4,000 worth of
stuff in yea. Conviction for shop
lifting is very difficult. The shop
litter generally has funds and the
highest priced lawyers are secured
to prove the whole thing a mistake.
The stores are very careful. There
is always the danger of a mistake
and a damage suit The amateur
shOplifter costs the stores large
amounts. The amateur pliers only
small articles but in the aggregate
1t is expensive.
Gilt-Edsed Country.
Karl Kitchen. the bright star of
the Sunday World staff, is home
from a six weeks trip to Paris. Lon
don and Berlin-his first since the
war. He is now out on a friends
yacht transcribing his notes into
pungent articles for his newspaper.
Kitchen, who halls from Cieve-
land, has for years shared the dis
tinctiOn with Frank O'Malley of be-
ing the two best reporters on Park
Row. OMalley lately left the Sun
to write for the magazines and is
doing well. Kitchen and O'Malley
are the only two men in New York
who had rowing assignments
They wrote about what they
pleased and went where they
pleased-which is the great desire
of every reporter. On the La France
back to America, Kitchen
remarked, at the sight of the Statue
of Liberty, that it was great to be
back in the best country in the
world. He spoke to a gentleman
of Hebraic persuasion who hap
pened to be at his side.
"Ah yes! my friend" was the re-
ply, this is a gilt-edge countryw
Tad Outspoken.
Tad, the cartoonist, is outspoken
at all times. Recently he met Nor
man Lynd, the English artist, for
the first time.
80 you are Norman Lynd," said
Tad. Gee, l thought you was a
little runt. You're a big stiff"
Not all the theatrical stars are
popular in New York. Some of the
best have hard struggles reaching
Broadway. Walker Whitesde is
highly successful crossing the coun-
try, but In New York he does not
remain long. Julian Eltinge made
a fortune in his impersonations of
the feminine and although he has
a theater named for him in Manhat-
tan he has never had great popu-
larity here. California and Texas