Chicago by day and night . Authormakes his bow to the reader and tenders him aninvitation to accompany him through the followingpages. CHAPTER I. WHERE TO STAY. Strange THE question of location must ofdecided by the individualthe visitor. It would beindeed if, with a transientition roughly estimated at,000, the city did not pos-hotels of all grades anddescriptions, from whichthe most captious-mind-ed person might take hischoice and procure satis-faction. Chicago, at thepresent writing, containsat least 1,500 hotels, with constant additions eachyear. There is no more difficult task than to tell
Chicago by day and night . Authormakes his bow to the reader and tenders him aninvitation to accompany him through the followingpages. CHAPTER I. WHERE TO STAY. Strange THE question of location must ofdecided by the individualthe visitor. It would beindeed if, with a transientition roughly estimated at,000, the city did not pos-hotels of all grades anddescriptions, from whichthe most captious-mind-ed person might take hischoice and procure satis-faction. Chicago, at thepresent writing, containsat least 1,500 hotels, with constant additions eachyear. There is no more difficult task than to tella man with any accuracy what hotel will suit himbest. A caravansary that would delight one manwould disgust another and vice versa. The mostsatisfactory plan, therefore, and the safest, is togive a brief pen-sketch of the leading hotels, withsome idea of the special characteristics of each andthe style of entertainment they afford. The Lake Front hotels—the Richelieu, Audi-torium, and Leland—enjoy the cream of the new. ^5 transient patronage. By new, is meant thosepeople who have never before visited Chicago, andwho naturally select the houses with the prettiestsites. The Auditorium (Michigan Avenue andCongress Street), despite its gorgeousness and theflourish of trumpets with which it was opened, doesnot indulge in ruinous rates. It is a very largehotel and accommodations may be had thereinfrom $4 per day up. Perhaps it is this moderatecharge that makes it so great a favorite with thetheatrical profession, the more prosperous mem-bers of which enjoy the comfort it affords. Well-to-do managers, famous stars, and sometimes inter-rogatively opulent soubrettes and chorus girls seeklodging at the Auditorium, and some very prettyromances are narrated of flirtations more or lessinteresting which the * blooded habitues of thisswell hotel strike up with the fair footlight fav-orites who enjoy its hospitality. It is worth theprice of a days board, or at least a dinner, some*times, t
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