A CITY OF HOTELS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10408, 23 July 1912, Page 2

A CITY OF HOTELS.

One of the first things a visitor to Hew York comments on w the “““ ■fear and excellence of this city s IjoS6 Is* ___ _Ann “I never saw so HaaJ /nndnn hotels.” said a man from London. “Don't the people in Vonr city 1 at boms, or is it tho pnmber cf New York’s visitors makes sue structures profitable?’? from - The visitor got two answers ftoux those who heard the * aH “ arK - f first was that the people of the Metropolis do like tho hotels, and although they W them permanently in *“ Bm ‘ * nn . agreeable places to take an °° cfsioniil dinner in and a con J e “*®“J place to stop for Innoh and meet friends The second answer was Sat no CUT >n B “* e, ,££ so many transient guests as New York, and guests who are abundantly supplied with money. A big New York hotel Is a commuuity In Itself. Every department is systematised. The buyer of food supplies each day purchases enough to feed an ordinary country town, and the cooks frequently prepare a jinmb r of dinners that would t ,3opply every citizen of an inland village with a meal. , , No oonceivable need of a guest Is overlooked, The whole world has been ransacked to provide him with table luxuries, while for his amusement artists and N musicians have been brought from foreign countries. There are no hitches in the service the wheels go roupd so smoothly that tha visitor to the great hotel does not realise that there are any wheels. Each employee has his part to play, and does bis share in the work. The guests sees the completed fabric, and seldom stops to think of the hundreds of men aud women who are engaged in weaving this lor him. , .. Newspapers from every large city in the country and from the centres of Europe are waiting for him in the reading room. A shows him' the minutest change in tho stock market, solicitors servants are ready to supply him with whatever he wants, All this is part of the routine of a good hotel, Ic would be hard to estimate the number of social gatherings, ban - ■quets, dances, and meetings that New York’s hotels house during one night in the busy season. A glance the announcement board of some of them will show the diversity of the activities of a single evening. In one room there may be a political banquet at which the President of the United States will be the mala speaker, while in another a debutante will be making her first formal step into society, whilo a third may be occupied by a college dinner. New York’s hotels have been called the meeting places of the world, aoo cam men ground for the travellers cf the world, and a constantly growing one,—-New York Times.