Business & Finance: Apartment Hotels

To Mayor James J. Walker of New York City, as to many another metropolitan burgomaster, hotel owners have recently complained most bitterly. Chief plaintiff (for the New York Hotel Men's Association) is George Sweeney of the Hotel Commodore, who holds: Apartment hotels are alienating the appetites of potential diners at regular hotels by providing kitchenette facilities. His Honor should stop such nefarious seductions by invoking state laws which require more light, ventilation, sanitary devices and fire precautions in tenement houses (i. e. apartments where cooking facilities are provided) than in hotels (where...

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