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Show HOTELS BOOSTING PRICES. Hotel charges in San Francisco once more are receiving consideration of the newspapers. Even the Call" loi nia press is taking up the matter i and thr Sacramento Bee is leading j in this agitation, much to the dislike I of the Western Hotel Reporter of San rYancisco. I The world B fair committee prom ised that when the fair opened, the ! hotels would not increase rates and I the hotel men entered into an acree mcnt to that effect, hut the first sign of a rush brought about an upward 1 .lump In pneee. which the San Fran-i Fran-i eisco papers excuse by declaring that j hotel prices, prior to the fair, were abnormally low and now are only moderately high. This twisting and squirming is a remindei of some of the explanations which have come out of the war zone in extenuation of outrageous acts. |