The evening world. Newspaper, October 29, 1920, Page 22

SE = Se SHERIFF KNOTT LOSES FIGHT WITH HLNGER STRKERS is & Boarders i in Berkeley! tel Win Self-Deter- ‘mination in Prices. is'a wtory of a “hunger atrike” fn @ Fifth Avenue hotel, which may not found strange to one famitiar| © with Fifth Avenue hotel prices, but Which becomes Interesting when one that it isn family hotel where ts fought for self-determinn- fh the management of the dining stuck out for what they con- ae their rights on precedentn when Grant was Presi- _ find won,.hands down and kneen “the table, where once more eating rations priced reason- hotel in the Herkeley at Fifth ie and Ninth Street, one of the ‘The buliding is owned by the hinelander Katate. The hotel is op- tedsby the Knott Hotel Syndicate, ne directing hea dis Sheriff David of the old family hotels in the | ~ ee | Knott. Ite guests number many peo- ple prominent in New York—capital- | ists, lawyers, Aoctors, writers, and } tir families—some of whom have been living in the Berkeley more than quarter-century and were ao- curtomed to have things quite their own way, even in a Now York hotel No one objected when thp rents were given a considerable tilt up- ward ‘They were considered oul reasonable, compared with charges In ther hotels and taking into account the service rendered, and no one ald more than to demur faintly when the | management conveyed the informa- |tion that It had found It pecensary laiso to revise the rates in the rea- rant, where hitherte one had paid meal one ate, cw rates fixea & minimum $% weekly for each guest, ror not one ate all meals, The guests consented. Nearly all arranged to eat moat of | thair meals at home after that, Ard they did, until the dining room was closed for the summer for repairs, 1 because many of the guests had to the country. Then, late in September, when the dining room was about to be opened again and a head waiter from Palm Heach was about to be installed, 1» of the Berkeley were notified ¢ minimum weekly rate there- was to bp $30, with no rebate leas twenty-one consecutive meals wero missed, and then each guest wan to be changed $9 weekly as a gort of dining room membership fee. First, these old residents of this lold hotel raised thelr eyebrows. Then they mised their voices tn protest $10.50 Less 25% of New York. throughout, Oxfords 4 the time of purchase Take the For Other Gimbel News See 1°23 16, 20, 23 GIMBEL BROTHERS 32ue STREET - BROADWAY 33n0 STREET NEW YORK CITY Our Complete Fall Stocks of WHITEHOUSE SHOES FOR MEN AT 25% OFF The name Whitehouse is well known to the men They are shoes of quality, well made by one of the largest shoe manufacturers in America, of selected leathers, and solid leather We include our complete Fall stocks in Whitehouse Shoes for Men in this offer. A variety of styles in high shoes—also in complete range of sizes, Take 25% Off the Regular Price of any pair of Whitehouse Shoes in our stock at was raised. Laurence L. Briggs, Proemdent of the American Flying Club, objected So did Edmund W. Fatreniid, the pab- Hsher, and Leeds Johnson, the lawyer, and Edmund Nash, the onpitalist, and Dr. Howard Dufheld, pastor of the First Prosbyterian Church at Firth Avenue and iith St and Anne Rittenhoune, the writ nd #0 aleo did John Mortis, who could recall dis- tinctly that his family bad lived in the Berkeley ever since it was « hotel. “Why you can’t do this to ts," nome of them protested. “We've been living here since Gen. Grant ‘was President, The house was operated ali right then, and you can’t do this aun “We'll gee," the hotel management was reported an answering, = "You people can run of things, but you can’t run this hotel.” ‘The “hunger strike” followed, At feant It waa @ hunger strike for the Berkeley. Few of the 400 guests went to the newly decorated dining ri and the Palm Beach head w: spent mont of his time waiting, m ly waiting, and serving hardly one How the guests lived for the three weeks of the strike even Sheriff Knott must guess, but they eley food. Not a morsel it was Hecause the Berkeley all ite guests were starving, or maybe It was because virtually all ot them had leases which had months to run, but the hotel gave in, or, if you would have It #0, gave up. © Any- way, capitulationn were made. The} dining room bad lost $1,U. The old weekly rate was re-established The guests are eating again at the Rerkeley. The head walter ts serving persons other t the proprietors. The principle of self-determination is | fixed in the dining room and, as one person put it The guests at the Borkeley have been running it mince Grant waa President and wilt continue to run tt” Standard Prices Range from $10.00 to $16.50 88rd Street Elevator Direct to the Gimbels Men's Shoe Shop—Fourth Floor A Tgeat on the Table Less 25 $10.50 Less 25 Re é EEE THE EVENING WORLD, F RIDAY, OCTOBER 29, {And as they spoke, their wrath also \ ‘1920. PE. NNSYI V ANIA “5100 FOR OTHER GIMBEL NEWS SEE PAGES 16, 20, 23 ‘GIMBELS Tenth BIRTH DAY 82d Street—Broadway—33d Street—New York City / PHONE NU M BER Conreid Phonograph At This Low Price For Only 7 Days More {Re AOA SO And Terms as Low as $5 a Month 7 Days—and then the offer ends! Back to its rightful’ price—still an unusually low price for a good phonograph—but nowhere near his sale price. In design—in workmanship—in tone—the Conreid offers value. 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