WORLD’S LARGEST HOUSEHOLD.

Shannon News, 29 April 1924, Page 4

WORLD’S LARGEST HOUSEHOLD.

NEW YORK'S HUGE HOTEL. The Hotel Pennsylvania; New York, conta.ua the largest household on earth. Some 27 storeys, consisting Of 2200 /rooms, axis occupied by nearly 3000 guests, and a stall of 2250 persons attends to their needs. , , The preparation and service of 5,000,000 meals in a twelvemonth' requires a little attention! • This is the daily menu, based on ligiutis spread over a twelvemonth:384 gallons' of milk and cream/ 548 dozens of eggs. 400 gallons of ice cream. 20,000 rolls. 700 loaves of bread. 000 pies. 000 pounds of sugar. 200 pounds of coffee. A ton and a-half of meat. A ton of poultry. Such figures lead to other recordbreaking statistics. ' Thus:- A dining-room 142 ft by 58ft, a. daily consumption of more than 50,000 cublic feet of gas for cooking, anu a water filtering system capable of purifying 3000 gallons a minute, are features which cannot easily be equalled.

Quite in keeping with these facts are the miscellaneous departments assisting this mammoth family. This is a carptenter’s shop, hair-dressing parlour, 'post office, printery, ice cream factory and hospital.' . So much for the hotel in the maim It is the individual 'traveller who has made such a concern possible; He dis' covers some uxiiqiie l featUTi3S , tliex'e > and the ‘ ‘ ’ is one.- The sides of each room door bulge out like the small upright sections of a huge barrel. Under thieso panels is a concealed cabinet in which clothes for the - laundry or suits for pressing can be placed/ A telephoned message to the office does the rest and th|3 suit }s pressed and returned in a few minutes. A morning paper is slipped under his bedroom the compliments of the house. And, of course, this liter-ary-production is published on th® premises. * His bath water loaches him through I part of the 111 miles of pipes, and the hot water supply of 20,000 gallons per ! hour enables him to be certain of getting this, necessity. _ , „ The telephone in his room is one ox 3340 instruments — th|3 • number found in an English town of about 100,000 people, while light is received • from J part of-the 550 miles of electric wires,J and shines from some' of the { electric light bulbs. . r The homeliness is best remembered i by the pin-cushion, - threaded’ needles, { and even trouser buttons which' await { the globe-trotting wanderer in ’his room. .