 | THE OTHER HOTEL STATISTICS. Saratoga in 1901 |  |
THE OTHER HOTEL STATISTICS.
Grand Union; cost $800,000; five stories high; 824 rooms;
1,474 doors; 1,890 windows; accommodates 1,700 guests; carpeting,
9 acres; length of halls, 1¾ miles; length of exterior frontage
1,280 feet. Owned by A. T. Stewart, and kept by the well
known Jos. H. Breslen and Peter Gardner—Wm. Leland and
Warren Leland having gone to keep a fashionable hotel in
Alaska.
The Clarendon is a large frame structure. No house in
Saratoga excells it in good repute. It accommodates 450 people.
Worth $250,000. Kept by Chas. E. Leland.
The American is the old city hotel—50 years old. Accommodates
300 guests. Charmingly situated on Broadway. Value
$150,000, kept by W. H. McCaffrey.
The Columbian, kept by Jerome Leland. Value $100,000.
Accommodates 150 guests (burnt Sept. 14th, 1871).
The other hotels are the Marvin House, by A. and D.
Snyder (150 guests); Continental, Harry De Mars (150
guests); Crescent, by Dr. Hamilton (100 guests); Pitney's (40
guests); Dr. Strong's. Now rising like a Phœnix, comes Jos
H. Breslin's new Hotel, extending from Dr. Hamilton's, away
over towards the Clarendon, and capable of accommodating
600 guests. Temple Grove House, Mr. Dowd (150 guests);
Mont Eagle Park Place (burnt Sept. 14); Mansion House,
Commercial, Washington Hall, Broadway House,
White's and the Pavillion.
“How is that for statistics?” I asked of my old statician.
He made no reply but bent his head low and cried for joy!
“O!” he murmured, “such a day with figures and the multiplication
table, is worth a life time of flirting and round dancing?”
His mind was so exercised, that as I left him he went on
repeating to himself, “6 times 1 are 6; 6 times 2 are 12; 6
times 3 are 18—.”
| THE OTHER HOTEL STATISTICS. Saratoga in 1901 | |