The Holly chieftain., 1924-05-22
1924 G.. O. P. MEET
HAS EDGE ON 1876
Average Cost of Kotel Accomoda.
lions at 1876 Republican Conven-
ton, Was Higher Than Now

ana nule-dIaWn vehicles Were used,
paiatial lake steamers Wi,l suppiant
the very earliest type OF steam
boat and i'll many other ways the
Republican National convention at
Cleveland will outshne Ohios iasU
Republican convention in 1876 at
Cincinnati, but in the matter OF a
high price fol a hotel room, the lat
ter city, holds a slight edge over
the very latest thing in political
conventions.
The average cost of sleeping ao-
comodations for one in a iirst-cla.s
hostelry here in June VIII be from
$500 to $3.50, while the files OF the
Cincinnati Commercial back in 1876
show that $4CG was the fair price
paid by visitor to the convention
that nominated Rutherford b.
Hayes, as years ago.
While various modes of trans
portation, now considered crude
were used to bing in delegates and
visitors to Cincinnati in 1876, as
June 10 of 1924 approaches, high
powered automobiles from points
remote as Los Angeles will convey
guests to another Republican ma
tional convention in the Buckeye
state. Steam figured in rail and
water transportation to the Gin
cinnati convention of 1876 as it will
here but with one difference: this
year marks the centenary of the
launching of the first steamboat
at Cleveland, now leading lake
port
Following adjournment of the con
vention at Cincinnati the Cincin-
natl Commercial reported that the
convention hall held often as many
as 5000 at time, and, positively,
there was chair for every per
son. The auditorium here will
seat more than 10000 at the con
ventiOn
The Commercial estimated that
mot less than 5000 were in Gin
cinnati during convention week.
and that OF these at least 1000 re
NAMED eight days" Five thousand
stopped at the hotels. 1t is esti-
mated that multiple occupancy of
nearly 1l,000 rooms at public and
! residential hotels here in June will
be Inadequate to accommodate con
veDtion guests, and must be sup
plemented by quarters in clubs
and private dwellings.
Then, it was reckoned, strangers
in Cincinnati in 1876 spent $20O,GJJ
for food. drink and lodging. OF this
sum $4,000 was said paid for eight
days of sleeping Accommodations for
the l,G0O who remained the full
period. Total receipts of hotels and
boarding houses were estimated
at more than $125,000
A conservative estimate places
the probable earnings of hotel ac-
commodations, exclusive of all 9TH
cr receipts tor six days of the
coming convention period at $780,
600, or 100000 day. There is less
difference between the hotel rates
per person. The individual first
rate then was $400 at the cOnven-
tion here $500 to $3.50 will be re-
preventative rates per person charg-
ed for the best rooms at the lead
ing hotels. Guests may be more
crowded than their predecessors of
76 although cots were resorted to
even then.
The largest number reported to
have slept at single hotel at the
Cincinnati gathering was nearly 1000
at the Burnet house for five days
was S75 and that of the Gibson
house for three days nearly 900,
The largest number at the st.
James was on Wednesday night,
when 5S3 Strangers slept in the house
The ArlingtOn's highest number at
one time was nearly 300, and the
Walnut street house about the
same. The Crawford house entertain
+, ed from $50 to 800 and two or three
hotels had $50 or so, the CONNER
cial said in 1876.
Two of the hotels here have 1000
rooms each, and each room cnn ac'
commodate several persons.
Over the same Ohio that was ira