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Show Where Wealth h lavished Wondrous Splendor of Grcst New York Hotel SJO.OCO Sftut It the Dinner Tables Every Night (Special C((ri-csnniidice !f you would s.-e hlih life and yet lack the runils to piungc. If you would kirn v how milllnnolres and tinilll -millionaires spend tbclr wealth. If you would actually behold the frocks and frills which the average person knows only through tho columns col-umns of the fio-liion pager.. If you would rub elbows with the most highly exploited actors, artists and writers of the hour. If you would study the sharpest con- THE MOORISH MANTLE treats between penury and wealth, the underpaid hireling outlined against 1 the overfed financier. If you are willing to sncrlflco one hy one your lifelong illusions concerning concern-ing the world of wealth, fashion and art to a belief that mediocrity Is the only pathway to happiness. If you would accomplish all these things In ono short year and be paid for doing It got some III nil of a situation situ-ation In the largest and most widely known hotel In New York city a mult I storied dice box where human dice of many grade are shaken up together. They all visit the place In time tho man who haa tolled for yeara to amass wealth and the man who has achieved his thousands In ono sudden turn on the street tho man who haa been lucky nn the nearest racetrack and the man who haa struck gold In the mountain-locked west be who has saved for months that he may enjoy a brief week or so In the metropolis, me-tropolis, and the confirmed traveler, the cosmopolitan to whom this mammoth mam-moth pile in New York and Klicpard'a in Cairo alike are hoinc. tho man who utul.es money for the pleasure he can buy with It, and tho man who spends money for whut appearances aro worth to blm iti advancing bis career. ca-reer. And to these add the men and women wom-en Indigenous to the inul ropolls, the much I" hi. o New Yeat'a ntrlit 3.HIMI pii p.. ail dow-n to supper, Ihn tables ""i-tHiei lug the dicing room Into the mrrliiors. This means that at less' II. -in in tpeiit on eatables, drlnkahb ni , e.Us between 7 p. m. and 1 ,n "cry da) . Money tin injy almost anything bore A n mm telephone to any shop and sirf goods sent on approval with a stioj employe In attendance. Without limping ti-om the house a man .v lanmoii a valet who will clean. I,r" tad tailor hla garments, a barber wilt come to his room to administer ad-minister itave. Stationery, cigars and thrat tickets win DO ,Pi up , him from tk main floor, and a maid will go dim and select the Bowers he would send to his lady fair. There line room, formerly a public pub-lic rostaiirut, now known aa the directors' di-rectors' 'mt. It la fitted up with massive fsmliure. and hero In secret conclave nuy railway and trust magneton mag-neton a rulhered to put through deals that Itl.-r have astonished the world. Nowhr li the world can one see a moro itrtklug exposition of the . .- .' fllli . - '"tl," lA'v 'Jtit -J C -,'f,iKrV'il. ---- 1 - ' - ' III " - Dining Room, Where f 30,000 Is Spent at the Tables In an Evening. present generation of old-fashioned fHinlllea to whom the most fushlon-nblo fushlon-nblo hotel Is hound to he more or less a meeting place. From morning until night and from night until morning the kaleldoscopo whirls unceasingly, for the one thing lucked by this hugo abiding place for 3,uuu souls is permanency. perma-nency. Its 1 1 To Is llko tho restless surf, ever rolling tu and out, ever varying In form, culor and motion and always topped with foam. One can "burn money" hero without appearing vulgur. if he so desires, or ho cun be stamped as an "easy one" from his first Interview with the room clerk, bis first appcarnrcc In ose of tho dining rooms. The most liberal with "tips" aro said to bo the western men of our own lountry; the toatit generous In proportion to their Importance, Im-portance, the foreign dlgiiltnrtes, ambassadors, am-bassadors, etc., whoso Itinerary Is arranged ar-ranged by their own government or that ot tho I'nited Hlatei. The policing ot a house Ilk. this with its 9K0 guest chambers. Its ac- eommodatlon for 1.30U guests, Us force of 1 ,20(1 servants. Its great corridors cor-ridors and stately apartments open to all, Is a problem equal In serlousuess to tho protection of a small city. All classes foregather here the man who Indulges In excesses and Is willing to pay any price to have his Indiscretions Indiscre-tions overlooked and the man who believes be-lieves that because be hus paid a good round sum for his own accommodations accommoda-tions the entlro house should be run under tho bluo Irws of old New Kng-Innd. Kng-Innd. To screen the ons and propl-tiuto propl-tiuto the other demands tact. To bur suspicious charaetera and to guard the innocent victim of circumstances from false accusations would require a hberliK k iloliuea. While each hotel ho-tel of this sort has Its well -organised detective force, more or less detective instinct develops with tltno In every employe about tlu establishment. There is everything to Invito crooks. Money is spent with prodigal hand ami Jewels itu.l-s. The average check for a nuul In lit, and waiters who receive a rei.itlur rrliry of L'5 month carry awuy three tlxae. as modern ( mmricrc la! system, the epo-clallrsll"" epo-clallrsll"" la work, the executive mind of lit hour at work. Ilchlnd the scene in a t s I m grent hostelry are scores of rin anJ women w-bo do but 'no ttliiK uiirrm It imply, very Uny in tljft nr. Tlicru tu una man who cuts In Into Mnrki an It mm.- fnun the lt plant fcntl in. It Into ft Ijiilvcrlzi r. VImto arc hulf a dozen who ivoUt.ti iiirmrH frmn morntiiR until un-til nielli. Tlf i m am wimii'U who perl potutoi'i tot I'. ,um a lay. Tlirrn 1a ouc man wko dma notliltiK tmt niakn and 111 kea. A man Is hired to to one thltK and do It well It Is nose of his id airs what the man on his right at hie lert Is doing. Ills employer em-ployer -refers that he does not notice his ni-ijtil.or or aspire to his neighbor's neigh-bor's ptaltlre. There Is little or no civil serrl'j. promotion possible In a riiamniots tinlo!, and empluyes aro liable lia-ble tu become mere machines or listl ONt 0 Trtr- tOLONIAl sunt wearying of thu monotony they break loose luts other lines ot work. |