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Show , t . . x . ' r ' ' v n - t y v O V Didn't fit llie Vto Lc:scd $123 a Day ' Hotel Apartment. - NEW YORK, Oct. 1. E. R. Thomas, banker, and owner of one of the finest strings of race horses In the world, is too long for the $10,000 bed In the royal suite at the St. Regis. This gem of the cabinet makers' art was built to accommodate accom-modate six feet snugly. Mr. Thomas la more than six feet, and It was almost a case of allowing his feet to hang over the rosewood footboard. 5 , For the past few lays, since Mr. Thomas and his wife became guests of the St. Regis, occupying the state suite, for which they pay $125 a day, or $45,000 a year, exclusive of the cost of apartments apart-ments for the valet and maid, friends of the young millionaire have been asking him how he enjoyed the royal bed. They bantered him about this until, finally, la an unhappy moment, he ad' mltted that the princely couch was. too' short. Since then his friends have not ceased to twit him about the' brevity of the $10,000 bed and his extravagant length of limb. . Fortunately for Mr. Thomas, there Is another bed In this royal suite which was built with an eye for a long stretch The suite which will be occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas is on the Fifth avenue side of the hotel and consists of a salon, library, dining-room, two bedrooms bed-rooms and two bathrooms. . ' It -is probably the most expensive and most handsomely equipped suite of Us size in the world, and Is provided with every arrangement and contrivance which human Ingenuity has invented for human comfort. All rooms are supplied with filtered air, which may be warmed or cooled to any desired temperature by merely turning the hand of an Indicator. |