Valentine's city of New York; a guide book, with six maps and one hundred and sixty full page pictures . tons of meat and poultry, 2,500 bar-rels of flour, and all the milk that 300 cows furnish. There are other accommodations at all sorts of prices,and if the length of your stay is at all dependent uponyour pocketbook you can arrange accordingly. Very fewhotels include meals with the price of the room. Youare expected to eat where you choose. This is muchthe better, as you need not return to the hotel till -bed-time, if you so desire. You are very apt to be quitea distance from it at luncheon


Valentine's city of New York; a guide book, with six maps and one hundred and sixty full page pictures . tons of meat and poultry, 2,500 bar-rels of flour, and all the milk that 300 cows furnish. There are other accommodations at all sorts of prices,and if the length of your stay is at all dependent uponyour pocketbook you can arrange accordingly. Very fewhotels include meals with the price of the room. Youare expected to eat where you choose. This is muchthe better, as you need not return to the hotel till -bed-time, if you so desire. You are very apt to be quitea distance from it at luncheon, for instance, and thetime lost returning would be considerable. A room with bath in a good hotel centrally locatedcan be had from $3 to $4 a day. Without bath $ $ The hotels of international reputation, likethe Biltmore, Waldorf, Commodore, Astor, etc., are aboutdouble those figures for an ordinary room; but, of course,there is practically no limit to what you may pay fora special suite. Dining at these hotels is on an equallyexpensive scale; but the service is good, the surroundings 12. •A CATHEDRAL OF COMMERCE The famous Woolworth Building on Broadway just south ofCity Hall Park Place Co. are enjoyable^ the music and dancing very this adds to the expense of the food, and your shareis included in the check which is handed you at the con-clusion of your repast. Life in these wonderful hotels is as much a sourceof amusement as any other attraction in New York,and to those to whom it is unfamiliar the indulgence iswell worth the cost. It certainly permits a glimpse ofcosmopolitan New York at its best, and to many personsis far more interesting than the average theatre. But you can hire a furnished room in a good neigh-borhood for about $10 a week, dine at a cafeteria, or anyone of a hundred good reasonably priced restaurants,and then walk through the big hotels afterwards. Youcan even go into the writing room and send a letterhome on the


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