Show J where wealth Is lavished wondrous Sp splendor landor of great new york hotel spent at the dinner tables every night special cori correspondence if you would see high life and yet lack the funds to p tinge it if you would kno V how millionaires and multi mill spend their wealth if yon you would actually behold the frocks and frills trills which the average person knows only through the col dumns of the fashion pages it if you would rub elbows with the most highly exploited actors artists and writers of the hour it if you v study the sharpest con I 1 ift lip i ya alif MOORISH MANTLE erasts between penury and wealth alth the underpaid hireling outlined against the overfed er if you are willing to sacrifice one by one your lifelong illusions concern ing the world of wealth fashion and art to a belief that mediocrity is the only pathway to happiness it if you would accomplish all these things in one short year and be paid for doing it get some kind of a situ alloa in the largest and most widely known hotel in new york city a multi storied dice box where human dice of many graces grales are shaken up together they all visit the place in time the in man a n who has toiled tolled for years ears to amass wealth and the man who has achieved his thousands in one sudden turn on the street the man who has been lucky on the nearest racetrack and the man who has struck gold in the mountain locked west he who has saved for months that he may enjoy a brief week or so in the me tro polis and the confirmed traveler the cosmopolitan to whom this mam main moth pile in new york and shepard s in cairo alike are home the man who makes money for the pleasure he ca can n buy with it and the man who spends money for what appearances are worth to him in advancing his ca reer and to these add the men and worn en indigenous to the metropolis the present generation of old fashioned families to whom the most fashion able hotel is bound to be more or less a meeting place from morning until night and from night until morning the kaleidoscope whirls unceasingly for the one thing lacked by this huge abiding place for 3 souls is perma nency its life is like the restless surf ever rolling in and out ever varying in form color and motion and always topped with mith foam one can burn money here without appearing vulgar if he so desires or he can be stamped as an easy one from his first interview with the room clerk his first appearance in ofle ove of the dining rooms the most liberal with tips are said to be the men of our own country the least generous in proportion to their im the foreign dignitaries am bassadore bass adors etc itinerary is ar ranged by their own government or the united states the policing of a house like this with its guest chambers its ac for 1300 gueste guests its force of 1 1200 servants its great cor riders and stately apartments open to all Is a problem equal in seriousness to the protection of a small city all classes forc foregather gather here the man mall who indulges in excesses and is willing to pay any price to have his indis cre eions overlooked and the man who be alieves that because he has paid a good round sum for his own turns the entire house should be run under the blue lews of od old new en eng 9 land to screen the one and kropi diate the other demands tact to bar suspicious characters and to guard the innocent victim of circumstances circumstance from false accusations would require a Sher lek holmes while each ho tel of this sort has its well organized detective force more or less detective instinct develops with ume time in every employed about tha th ent ablIs ament there is to invite crool s money is with prodigal hard and jewels dazen tho average cheal for a meal 1 lo 10 11 ond nd kalteis who receive a regular 1 ry of 05 5 a month carry abony knib 9 much in tips on new year years s night 3 people sit down to supper the tables overflowing the dining room into the corridors this means that at least 30 is pent on eatables drinkables and cigars between 7 ap p m and 1 la a in every day money will buy almost anything here A guest ma telephone to any shop and have goods sent on approval with a shop employed in attendance without stepping from the house a man may summon a valet who will clean press and tailor his garments a barber will come to his room to ad minister a shave stationery cigars and theater tickets will be sent up to him from the main floor and a maid will go down and select the flowers he would send to his lady fair there is one room formerly a pub lie he restaurant now known as the dl di rectors room it Is fitted up with massive furniture and he here re in secret conclave many railway and trust mag nates have gathered to put through deals that later have astonished the world nowhere in the roald can one see a more striking exposition of the modern commercial system the in wort worl the executive mind of the hot hoir r at work behind the scenes in this great hostelry are scores of men aej women who do I 1 ihrl but one thing unremittingly every day in the year there is one man who cuts ice into blocks as it comes from the ice plant and tosses it into a there are half a dozen who polish mirrors from morning un til night there are women who peel potatoes ten hours a day there Is one man who does nothing but make V V ay ifie 4 i Z dining room where Is spent at the tables in an evening and fit keys A man Is hired to do one thing and do it well it Is none of bis his affairs what the man on his right or his left iq doing his cm em prefers that he does not notice his neighbor or aspire to his neigh bor s position there is little or no civil service promotion possible in a mammoth hotel aid and employed emp loyes are lla ila ble to become mere machines or 4 irk J 4 ON E orth it COLONIAL wearying of the monotony they break loose into other lins lints of work |