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Show PARIS' Requisitioning Hotels for Peace Conference Triples Living Costs. AMERICAN QUARTERS Large Hotel Secured for Lansing and Other Delegates PARIS, Tuesday, Dec. 3 Paris is mica o ovcmowing. Knees or all' hotel rooms, following the requisition- ! Ing of twenty-five hotels for peace ' conference purposes, have doubled and i tripled and are still going up. Food I in restaurants and prices generally are j similarly mounting . A breakfast of coffee, bread and but- ter continues to cost between $1 and $1.50 at hotels. It ic virtually impos- , sible to lunch or dine for less than three or four dollars for a simple meal. , People arriving at the city frequently j go to fifteen or twenty hotels before they secure rooms for which the own- ( ers demand large sums and refuse to i lower their rates, saying they can get! the price. I The city is becoming more crowded ! daily, with the bulk of the conference 1 officials and others Interested In get- ' ting rooms, such as several hundred of the world's newspaper correspond dents not yet here. Where persons of I the latter class are going to find ac-! commodations, nobody in Paris knows." In addition to all the other arrivals,' officers and men of all the armies arc coming to Paris on leave In consider-1 able numbers. Sometimes as many as! twenty officers stand for an hour in front of hotel offices waiting for some-! body to leave, when they all demand accommodations. I PARIS, Tuesday, Dec. 2 Quarters j for SecreUiry of State Lansing and the! other American delegates to the peace! conference have been assigned at the Krillon hotel on Place de la Concord, i This large hotel has been divided up Into suites of rooms for tho delegates. Each suite will comprise living quarters quar-ters and a business office for each delegate and his immediate sccretar-' ies. The apartments overlook tho Es-1 planade of Place de la Concord which ! is now filled with war trophies and j where stand tho great statues of' Strassburg, Lille and Metz, each covered cov-ered with floral offerings and flags. Each suite is handsomely furnished and has paintings and tapestries. There are comodious baths and sleeping sleep-ing chambers. The delegates will probably dine togother in what was formerly the hotel restaurant. All ac- pPflsnnYG JnplllHlni- ihn hnr hnvn hoon removed. Most of the conferences between the American delegates will he held in the large saloon at the Hotel Krillon. Thc business offices of the delegation whero several hundred experts Ln international in-ternational law, geographical boundaries, boundar-ies, intelligence, etc., will work will be in a large building immediately adjoining. ad-joining. Joseph C. Grew, secretnry of the peace delegation, has established quarters there. LONDON, Dec. 5 The substance of the discussions in the preliminary! conferences this week between the representatives of Great Britain, France and Italy with regard to the coming of peace conference were cabled to the American government and It is believed the messages reached reach-ed President Wilson before he sailed for Europe yesterday, thus putting him in possession of full information re-Igarding re-Igarding the conference. I Router's limited says there Is rea-Ison rea-Ison to believe tho president's advis-! advis-! ers are of the opinion tbot thc views of the conference regarding former President Taft to coincide with those of the president himself. Responsible opinion, says this news agency, holds that the ex-emperor and othor persons guilty of breaches of international law during tho progress of the war should be dealt with by a tribunal of tho associated as-sociated governments. |
