Show HOTEL TRUST IS THE LATEST Fic of New No 0 Ou lied br Ii the tho Now York Nov tim tho open openIng openIng Ing ot of the tho new Knickerbocker Now ew York has hils waked up to the tho of nn an Astor hotel treat fling with the Astor tile lie havo put up the tho Waldorf aldor Astoria tho Hotel Astor stor und and the tho St Regis and now tho Knickerbocker Is 19 lidded added to tM the lIt hIt ot of hostel hostelries rh ries providing for tor the tho Rising 15 stories high thi lh Knicker Knickerbocker bocker with u a frontage of at 18 feet teet on and ic t fet H on Is a L conspicuous monument In the tho very center ot of Now New Yorks livell est cst district millions have been spent oil the Interior decorations I und and furnishings Col John ps As Astor tor ors and builders did not hot top at al outer appearances To make tile tho 1000 guests that the Knickerbocker can accommodate feel teel that they lire are as well us as lux housed the tho ot of the new hotel was made one ot of the pat pal features This Thill idea Idel has been so completely I tarried out that should t IL blaze blazo break out In n an any room It would simply burn up Inflammable the mater materIal lal Ial thero and then die dlo out The Tho floors anti partitions ot of form torm but through which fire 1110 and smoke lIoko cannot pass The Tho frame ramo work Is encased III terra terru cotta to warp warpIng Ing from lIra fire or sudden ludden collapse from the erects effects or of the corrosIon In Iii fact the perfection of the tho steel and construction makes malles tuG wh le building fO co nearly that there thero Is 18 no danger ot of n a great sak log Ing tip liP to that Ills hlA choice lIes between being roasted nil alive v or n a leap tram from tho or 01 fifteenth story tor EvIdent Evidently the da day ot of hotel lire trap III passing for eer every new hotel inuit keep up with the lie set ot by such s all ais th the r How the center of of Now Yorks hotel hetel population has hns changed Is III by bythe bythe the tact fact that with tin n a of at 1000 feet teet of at the there are 1110 lG 10 anti 21 1 clus Through th the basement runs the Subway withIn two blocks Is the Grant Grand Central station and n a short distance away aVOY the tho new P Pennsylvania Terminal is h being built hat liP used cd to be the northern limit o oth of th the ISnow the tho location ot of Its house |