LAST WORD IN HOTELS.

Taihape Daily Times, 23 July 1919, Page 5

LAST WORD IN HOTELS.

. . I Whilst Londoners are suffering un-|llCfll'd-Of inconveniences in regard to hotel :Iccomnlod.ation. some take pleas- ! nre in transferring interest to the wonderful innovations introduced into lAmcrica’s latest railway hotels. De? : scribed as by far and away the largest }h-otel in the world, the Hotel Pennisylvania, biiil-t by the Peniisylv.-aniiz Railway. stands at the corner of !Thirty—Sec.ond Street and Seventh. !Avenue, New York. which was in leonrse of construction when the New {Zealand Press Delegation was li'3F>3i!l§f throllg'll New York in Julyiof last yr‘-:1r. ilt has just. been completed. It has i 200!) guest rooms, and the lounge and A-~.t}lcr public rooxns are designed to 3(‘.C0ll1lllO(]i1TL‘ an iinjgretfetleiited 11um'o:‘r of guests. A restaurant runs the full. length of the building on tlle Seventh. Avmnm side. for summer use. The kitchen arr:,lng'e)nents are notable. even for New York. Eve-ry bedroom !n.x.-. a. private b.-atli and i,ce—\Ava-tor sunpded L_\' a circulating s_vs.teln. Reading 1': 7 its :I‘-: attached to the hcadboarzl at -t-way bed, and 2. telephone is at everv bedside. Locks are placed above the doorknobs, instead of _n,nder'.them. On retiring, a guest ma‘y leati-c clothes to be p-re‘s,ed, and they will'be delivered r.o’selessl_\,' to_,his,l,oeke.d door before he w:'-.k-as in tlle‘niori2i:iii§.'i". .