Hotels and Transportation Lines Report Increased Activity.
Source: Chicago Daily News, 26 June 1933, pg. 4.
Convention crowds and world's fair visitors today were credited by hotels, railroads, air lines and lake steamship lines with brining them the "best business since 1929."
The thousands of people pouring into the city has increased railroad business in some instances ten times, a check of the various roads revealed today.
John Burke, vice-president of the Congress hotel, expressed the situation in regard to the hotels by saying:
"We don't want to give out-of-town people the impression that the hotels are so full we can't accommodate them. We're crowded, of course, but our bureau operated by the Chicago Hotel Men's Association is a great aid.
"If one hotel is packed to capacity one morning and another has some rooms left, the bureau sends the people to the latter. Every hotel reports at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. to the bureau the number of rooms it has vacant."
Stevens Hotel Full.
"We're full," declared E. J. Stevens, manager of the Stevens hotel. "We haven't had such heavy business since 1930. When we accept reservations, we take care of the people. Those who arrive here without reservations we sent to another hotel through our bureau if we are unable to accommodate them ourselves.
"It's a fine idea."
Frank Bering, vice-president of the Hotel Sherman expressed the same sentiment. "A nice house here today," he said. "We're taking care of everybody right now and we send them to other hotels when we can't."
C. & N. W. Adds Cars.
On the Chicago and North Western railroad, between 2,000 and 3,000 persons arrived in the city this morning—necessitating five extra sections and thirty-two overflow sleeping cars—according to R. thomson, passenger traffic manager.
The railroad handled one of the largest crowds yesterday, when between 8,000 and 10,000 people were brought to Chicago.
United Air Lines reported travel 40 per cent higher than it has ever been. The noon plane from New York today came in three sections. On the same run yesterday, twelve ships were run instead of eight. Double sections are being run from the Pacific coast.
