Photograph fi-om S. H. Macfarlane 



one oi? new York's great hotels 



This structure is reputed to be the largest hotel in the world. It has 1,700 rooms. The 

 metropolis has half as much invested in hostelries as Uncle Sam invested in the Panama 

 Canal. Within a single square mile there are enough hotels to house and feed 50,000 people. 

 They employ three people for every five they entertain. No other great city receives so many 

 sojourners, who are both able and willing to pay for every creature comfort; and there is no 

 taste so expensive that a Gotham hostelry cannot fill its demands. Every night the food and 

 drink bill of the hotels and restaurants amounts to more than a million dollars. 



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