Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1914 — London’s Hotels. [ARTICLE]

London’s Hotels.

London’s hotels, of which are upwards of 500, are called upon to find accommodation for between 26,000 and 30,000 visitors nightly. Some of these London hotels are wonderful places. Twenty of them represent a capital of £8,000,000 sterling. Some possess over 1,000 bedrooms, and as many as 8,000 gueßts have been known to sleep in a score of these palaces. Oftentimes the table silver at a famous hotel represents a value of £IOO,OOO and a great deal disappears annually into the pockets of “souvenir-hunters.” There is hardly a trade or profession but what has its own particular hotel in London. The origin of the modern Metropolitan hotel was that years ago an enterprising servant who left a West-end mansion to start a boardinghouse developed it by stages into an hotel which afterwards became one of the biggest in London, and enabled him to retire to the country a rich man.—London Tit-Bits.