Valentine's city of New York; a guide book, with six maps and one hundred and sixty full page pictures . a la carte meals. Bowman did succeed inmaking the acquaintance of the proprietor of this estab-lishment, one Gustav Baumann, and agreed to be a brightyoung willing worker if Baumann would employ on, he became Baumanns secretary. Baumannheaded a company that put up the Hotel Biltmore andBowman was to be its manager. A few months afterthe hotel was ready for occupancy, Baumann died. Ina short time Bowman had so thoroughly convinced theboard of directors of his ability, that he not o
Valentine's city of New York; a guide book, with six maps and one hundred and sixty full page pictures . a la carte meals. Bowman did succeed inmaking the acquaintance of the proprietor of this estab-lishment, one Gustav Baumann, and agreed to be a brightyoung willing worker if Baumann would employ on, he became Baumanns secretary. Baumannheaded a company that put up the Hotel Biltmore andBowman was to be its manager. A few months afterthe hotel was ready for occupancy, Baumann died. Ina short time Bowman had so thoroughly convinced theboard of directors of his ability, that he not only waspermanently retained as manager but was made presidentof the company. Then he branched out, and he has now bought fourother hotels, besides building the new Hotel , Bowman, who only a few years ago came to NewYork to hunt a job, finds himself at the topmost placeamong hotel operators. He must satisfy the daily wantsand whims not only of seven thousand guests but also ofseven thousand employees—for in a big modern hotelthere is, on the average, an employee for every guest. 376. OUR SISTER BOROUGHS The Boroughs of Brooklyn, Bronx^ QueensAND Richmond T^HIS is the second Borough in importance of theBoroughs that make up Greater New York, and issaid now to slightly exceed Manhattan in the actualnumber of residents. It has certainly grown tremen-dously in the last year or two and has a larger physicalarea. It is essentially a city of homes. Most of itspeople have business in New York. It is connected byfour bridges and three subway tunnels, to which morewill soon be added. Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn was at one time agreat mecca of tourists to New York. So much so, thatBrooklyn was at one time described as lying betweenPleasure and the Grave. It is, nevertheless, one of themost beautiful Cities of the Dead in the world. Publictaste has changed of late years and Greenwood has to acertain extent lost its attraction to visitors. Yet one willnever regret an hour
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