Chicago.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 25 June 1891, Page 2

Chicago.

The business in conneotioii with Chicago's great show ia even now troubling her foremost men* and its promoters. What accommodation will Chicago afford for her expected visitors is now being asked and answered. In view of the probable magnitude of the Columbian Exposition, it is only fair to expect thafrthet number of admissions will equal those of Paris. ■■. [. „•„.". t On the basis of a daily attendance of 130,000 at the Paris Exposition, it is estimated that the actual number of foreign visitors in the* French capital numbered 1,500,000. m Presuming that every visitor stayed r an average of ten days, this would leave the average number of visitors present in v the , cite during the Exposition, at y 60,0()Q.: But it is admitted that during the six months while the Exposition was open the influx of visitors was by no means continuously even. Monster excursions from all parts of Europe would swell the daily arrivals to three or even four times the average. Thus it is fair to estimate that of the total admissions on the largest day, 400, 000, a majority were non-residents of the French capital. Or, in other words, that the City of Paris had at one time to provide for 200,000 visitors. Will .Chicago be equal to the task of entertaining 200,000 visitors? Were that event to occur ! in the course of the present year instead of two years hence, visitors to Chicago would still find ample accomtijodations prepared for them* In Chicago to-day, there, are by actual .count 1,463 hotels, with a total capacity .for 135,000 guests. The floating transient population of the Chicago hotels is estimated at about 65,000, so that there still remains a sur« plusage of comfortable accommodations for 70,000 people. In addition to \m botelsi^owejrer the facilities of the Western' metropolis in caring for .visitors' ; are still more than adequate to the possible requirements.: A conservative estimate of the boarding-houses places the figures at 18,000; offering accommodations for 50,000 visitors. j An equal number of guests cbuld find sleeping accommodations in the thousands of tenement houses or flats where one or two spare rooms are usually to be rented. Thus it would appear that, however heterogeneous the throng (of visitors may be, in every respect, there will be ample accommodations for at least a quarter of a million. Meanwhile, however, new: buildings are springing up, at the;ratie' jof nearly fifty miles frontage anntwlly. Hotels with accommodations for 200 to 1,000 guests each are; ior;p3QQtos of constructian. - 1 , '