Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-12
Highways and By-W.ays
of Lii Or New York
By RA Y O N D C A RR O /

NEW YORK, June FTP to- date fig
ures obtained at the headquarters Of the
hotel association OF New York City re
veal there are about two hundred hotels
In the big town, divided into three
classes: Transient, semi transient and
residential. About seventy five are resi-
DENTAL The aggregate room capacity Is
70,000-or sufficient to accommodate from
10000 to 10000 guests.
The largest hotel is the Pennsylvania,
with 200 rooms, while to belong to the
hotel association the proprietor of a no.
tel must operate at least fifty rooms.
There are 113 hotels represented in the
association. Hotels with less than fifty
rooms are not represented in the hotel
association, nor are the boarding houses.
Included in the hotels that do belon g
are four hotel chains: Bowman group
Biltmore, Commodore, Murray Hill and
Ansonia; Boomer group-Waldorf Nc
Alpin, Claridge, Woodstock and Mar
Unique; Manger group-Netherlands
Great Northern, Grand Navarro, Cum
berland, Endicott and Martha Washing
ton; Knott group-Albert. Berkeley.
Earle, Holly, Judson, lie Marquis, Wei
lington and Van Rensselaer,. To be a
chain one must operate more than two
hotels, there being number OF men who
lave only two hotels.
The high and mighty attitude Of the
New York hotel men appears to have
begun some fifteen years ago with the
charging for bread and butter, the trail
blazer being James Reagan at the Hotel
KnickerbOcker; curious to relate, Mr..
Reagan has since retired from "hoteling'
and the Knickerbocker is now an office
building Several of the "chain'' groups
maintain house organs and have ex-
pensive business getting departments, all
Of which is paid for BY the hotel guests.
Years ago the theatrical kings dis
covered the people who kept amusements
going were the great middle classes. who
occupied the orchestra and the galleries
and not the smart set who took the
boxes. ! have in mind an instance where
a prominent society woman was asked to
leave a theater because OF the noise her
party was making In the two lower boxes
vas disturbing The common people in the
orchestra. In these days the fashion
n0las were always found in the boxes. In
n towering rage next day she called upon
the owner Of the attraction and the lessee
OF the theater. He listened quietly o her
complaint and then replied Il am sorry,
madam, but as far as am concerned
the boxes can remain empty-my money
comes from the rest Of the house"
Not ali the strangers who visit New
York ara mtllionaires. In fact, thousands
are buyers, limited as to expenses. Thou
sands Of the sight seers are equally
ordinary IN the sense of looking after the
pennies. With ons breath the New York
hotel men gre crying up the advantages
OF q holiday spent in the metropolis, and
with their next breath they are doing
that which will keep thousands away this
summer. And then they seem TO have
forgotten a population Of 100000" at
their very doors large proportion Of
which would enter and eat IL the food
prices were right.
People with ''one-way" pockets are
getting their moneys worth when seated
in orchestra chairs at some Of the New
York theaters. Down the center Of the