. The city of New York. III 1 F -i-l -ijcnj i Lin 111 t iff 1 Hotel Manhattan, corner Madison Avenue and42nd Street by boat and the automobile traffic is in-creasing. The daily commuting traffic is about150,000, so that the incoming and outgoingtransients will aggregate approximately300,000 daily—but the average number ofout-of-town visitors in the city all the timeis 200,000. It is estimated that the average stay ofthe 200,000 is four and a half days, and theirdaily expenditures are estimated as fol-lows: Dinner $520,000 Lodging, with other meals 800,000 Shopping 320,000 Theatres 200,000 Side
. The city of New York. III 1 F -i-l -ijcnj i Lin 111 t iff 1 Hotel Manhattan, corner Madison Avenue and42nd Street by boat and the automobile traffic is in-creasing. The daily commuting traffic is about150,000, so that the incoming and outgoingtransients will aggregate approximately300,000 daily—but the average number ofout-of-town visitors in the city all the timeis 200,000. It is estimated that the average stay ofthe 200,000 is four and a half days, and theirdaily expenditures are estimated as fol-lows: Dinner $520,000 Lodging, with other meals 800,000 Shopping 320,000 Theatres 200,000 Side Trips 280,000 $2,120,000Average individual daily expenditure,about Sio. The average daily number of arrivals ata big Broadway hotel runs about like this: Monday 450 names Tuesday 550 Wednesday 550 Thursday 450 Friday 375 Saturday and Sunday are the dullestdays of the week with about 300 names foreach day. A total of about 3000 names for 199. Looking North, Broadway, showing St. Paul sChurch. Post Office. Haans Restaurant inPark Row Building, and Woohvorth BuUduig. the week for one hotel. This average con-tinues steady from September i, to thefollowing 4th of July. The average at the Waldorf-Astoria fromSeptember i to July i, is 450 names average number of guests is 1000, butthis often reaches 1800. At the Astor,Knickerbocker or McAlpin, the daily aver-age registrations are 300 to 450 with a totalof 700 to 800 guests in the hotel all the time. These hotels, of course, only representthe cream. Thousands of people prefer thesmaller and quieter hotels, of which thereare more than 1200, to say nothing of hun-dreds of transient boarding houses. There are 215 hotels in New York withfifty rooms or more of which the followingstatistics are interesting:— Assessed valuation $153,054,500 Value furnishings 21,000,000 Daily running expense 150,700 Employees 42,000 Total number rooms S3,000 Daily guests 80,000 It is estimate
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