inyoxtr HOTEL ASTOR TIMES SQUARE NEW YO RK Wm. C. Mu3chenheim Fred. A. Muschenhcim the most centrally located hotel in NEW YORK RENOWNED CUISINE 1000 ROOMS 700 BATHS THE success or disappointment of a visit to a great city is determined in very large measure by the choice of a hotel. Particularly is this true in the case of New York. New York abounds in hostelries of every class and degree; in most of them the guest may be comfortable; in many of them he may enjoy the luxurious sat- isfaction of his wants. But the American metropolis to-day affords far more than this in the way of hotel existence. In New York, hotels have undergone an amazing evolution — an evolution which has produced one of the most magnificent and bril- liant factors of modern life. Here has grown up an institution new in the world— a phenomenon — a development — of which a decade ago we did not dream, and which the capitals of Eu- rope do not equal. A hotel like the Hotel Astor is far more than a stopping place. It is a little world in itself. It is a gathering place and epitome of New York. There are many places in which to sleep, eat and drink, but there is none in which, in equal Vividness, to see and feel and be a part of the soul of the great city. The guest at the Hotel Astor not only finds his every want anticipated and supplied with unceasing attention, but finds himself in the very centre of the brilliant, pulsating life of the city. Situated in the heart of the metrop- olis, in Times Square, the Hotel Astor occupies a most prominent site and contains about one thousand bed- chambers and seven hundred bath- rooms. These apartments, singly and en suite, are furnished with the great- est care to insure elegance and home comfort. Time and again prominent guests have commented on the atmos- phere of refinement which pervades the hotel. The Hotel Astor, with its score of dining and assembly rooms, is the natural scene of New York's most im- portant functions. Balls, banquets, con- certs, theatrical performances — a dozen or a score a day — fill every part of it with constant interest. Hither come representatives of the big business in- terests to meet for consultation. Here are held receptions for distinguished foreign visitors and ambassadors. Here occur great National festivities, such as the banquet of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, when twenty-one hundred guests were simultaneously served with ease. The cuisine, wines and service are unsurpassed. In winter the visitor moves through corridors made resplendent by the gowns of ladies on the way to ball or dinner, or looks down from the prom- enade (encircling the hotel) on a fas- cinating panorama. In summer he mingles with the throng that dines in the airy Belvedere, atop the hotel, and spends the evening with a thousand fel- low-guests in a Roof Garden full of fountains, flowers and growing trees, enjoying the breeze and the star-light and soft orchestral music. Imagine a ballroom, the largest of five great halls, the size of an opera house; gorgeous in decoration, with a gilded lattice canopy of solid bronze through which light filters down in soft radiance, or falls in cataracts of splen- dor, as occasion demands; fitted with a disappearing stage, one of the largest organs in the world, and all surrounded by a series of conservatories and recep- tion rooms in rose and laurel. Such is the Hotel Astor's Grand Ballroom. Imagine a tropical court-yard, stone- pillared, roofed with a trellis of grape vines, cooled by a marble fountain and shaded by orange trees— it is the Hotel Astor Orangerie. Imagine a hotel with a dining-room or a lounge for every season, every time of day, every mood, every occa- sion—a Hunting Room filled with tro- phies of the chase; an Indian Room, where walls and ceilings testify, in the most accurate manner, of the red man; A College Room, where fraternities and classes may meet or dine amid congenial surroundings; a Yacht Room, a Chinese, a Japanese, an East Indian Room and Wine Cellars of joy- ful atmosphere. hfEW YORBUtf YDl/PL-POCKET POPULATION NEW YORK (Census 1915) New York State 9,773,817 New York City 5,603,841 Borough of Manhattan 2,634,223 Borough of- Brooklyn 1,728,432 Borough of Bronx 525.877 Borough of Queens 366,426 Borough of Richmond 97,883 THE LARGEST CITIES OF THE WORLD Population London 7,429,740 New York 5,603,841 Paris 3,838,110 Tokio 2,186,079 Berlin 2,106,513 Vienna 2,085,888 Canton 1,900,000 Peking 1,600,000 Calcutta 1,222,312 Hong Kong 1,250,000 Buenos Ayres 1,360,406 Petrograd 2,073,800 Moscow 1,779,938 Constantinople 1,073,536 AMERICAN CITIES Population Chicago, 111 2,393,325 Philadelphia, Pa 1,657,810 Detroit, Mich 820,356 St. LOUIS, Mo 734,667 Boston, Mass 745,439 Cleveland, 639,431 Baltimore, Md 579,590 Pittsburg, Pa 564,878 San Francisco, Cal 448,502 DISTANCE AND TIME FROM NEW YORK City State Miles Hours Albany New York 143 3 Atlanta Georgia 875 25 Baltimore Maryland 186 4% Boston Massachusetts .. 230 5 Buffalo New York 403 9 Charlestown . . . . So. Carolina 613 19 tfEW Yt)RKJrf YDl/PL POCKET City State Miles Hours Chattanooga. ... Tennessee 847 25 Chicago Illinois 907 20 Cincinnati Ohio 739 16 Cleveland Ohio 571 14 Columbus Ohio 630 13% Denver -.•.Colorado 1941 37% Detroit Michigan 642 15 Galveston Texas 1764 51 % Harrisburg Pennsylvania ... 194 5 Hartford Connecticut .... 110 2% Hot Springs ... .Arkansas 1355 39 Indianapolis. . . . Indiana 811 18 Jacksonville Florida 1030 28 Kansas City Missouri 1358 32% Knoxville.. Tennessee 736 22 Los Angeles. . . . California 3149 83 Louisville Kentucky 853 26 Memphis Tennessee 1158 35 Milwaukee Wisconsin 992 22 Minneapolis Minnesota 1315 32 New Haven Connecticut .... 73 1 % New Orleans. . . Louisiana 1345 39 Oklahoma City .. Oklahoma 1645 4 5 Omaha Nebraska 1395 32 Philadelphia. . . . Pennsylvania ... 90 2 Pittsburg Pennsylvania ... 439 9% Portland Maine 344 11 Providence Rhode Island ... . 186 4 Richmond Virginia 342 9 St. Louis Missouri 1052 25 St. Paul Minnesota 1305 32 Salt Lake City.. Utah 2433 59 San Francisco .California 3134 80 Sante Fe New Mexico 2197 56% Savannah Georgia 858 24 Washington Dist. of Col 226 5 Wheeling West Virginia... 50 5 13% Wilmington. . . . Delaware 117 3 SUBWAY STATIONS *Express Stations Main Line — * South Ferry, * Bowling Green, *Wall St., *Fulton St., City Hall Loop, •Brooklyn Bridge, on Lafayette St. at Worth St., Canal, Spring, Bleecker; on Fourth Ave. at Astor Place, *14th, 18th, New YORBUiNf your.. POCKET 23d, 28th, 33d, * Grand Central Station (4 2d St. & 4th Ave.); Times Square Station (42d St. and B'way) ; on B'way at 50th St., Columbus Circle (59th St.), 66th, *72d, 79th, 86th, 91 st, *96th St. Broadway Line — B'way & 103d St., 110th, 116th, Manhattan St., 137th, 145th, 157th, 168th, 181st, 191st, Dyckman St., 207th, 215th, 225th, 231st, 238th, Van Cortlandt Park (242d St. & B'way). Lenox Ave. St West Farms Line — On Lenox Ave. at 11 0th St., 116th, 125th, 135th, 145th, 149th St. & Mott Ave., 149th St. & Third Ave., Jackson & Westchester Aves., Prospect & Westchester Aves., Intervale Ave. at 163d St., Simpson St. & Southern Blvd., Freeman St. & Southern Blvd., 174th & Boston Road, 177th St. & Boston Road, Bronx Park (180th St. & Boston Road). Brooklyn — Borough Hall, Hoyt St. at Fulton, Nevins St. at Fulton, and Atlantic Ave. at Flatbush Ave. HUDSON TUNNELS Trains through the Hudson Tunnels between New York City, Hoboken and Jersey City, connect New York with the Lackawanna R. R. Station, Hoboken; the Erie R. R. Station, Jersey City; the Pennsylvania R. R. Sta- tion, Jersey City; Henderson & Grove Sts. Station, Jersey City; Summit Avenue Sta- tion, Jersey City; Manhattan Transfer (Pennsylvania Railroad connection), and Park Place, Newark, N. J. New York Stations are:. Sixth Ave. at 33d St., 28th, 19th, 14th, 9th, and at Christopher and Greenwich Sts. Trains also leave Hudson Terminal Station (Fulton, Church and Cort- landt Sts.) for Jersey City and Hoboken. ELEVATED RAILROAD STATIONS Second Avenue Line — South Ferry, Hanover Square, Fulton St., Franklin Square, Chat- ham Square, Canal, Grand, Rivington, 1st, 8th, 14th, 19th, 23d, 34th, 42d, 50th, 57th, 65th, 72d, 80th, 86th, 92d, 99th, 105th, hfbW YORKJhf YOL/R_ POCKET 111th, 117th, 121st, 125th, 129th (connect- ing- here with Third Ave. Line to Bronx Park and subway division). Third Avenue Line — South Ferry, Hanover Square, Fulton St., Franklin Square, City Hall, Chatham Square, Canal, Grand, Hous- ton, 9th, 14th, 18th, 23d, 28th, 34th, 42d, 47th, 53d, 59th, 67th, 76th, 84th, 89tfi, 99th, 106th, 116th, 125th, 129th, 133d, 138th, 143d, 149th, 156th, 161st, 166th, 169th, Wendover Ave., 174th, 177th, Tre- mont Ave., 180th, 183d, Pelham Ave., Bronx Park (Fordham Station). Sixth Avenue Line — South Ferry, Battery Place, Rector St., Cortlandt St., Park Place, Bar- clay, Chambers, Canal, Grand, Bleecker, 8th, 14th, 18th, 23d, 28th, 33d, 38th, 42d, 50th, 53d, St. & Eighth Ave., Columbus Ave. at 59th St., 66th, 72d, 81 st, 86th, 93d, 99th, 104th, Central Park West and 110th St., Eighth Ave. at 116th, 12 5th, 130th, 135th, 140th, 145th, 150th and 155th. Ninth Avenue Line — South Ferry, Battery Place, Rector St., Cortlandt, Barclay, War- ren, Franklin, Desbrosses, Houston, Chris- topher Sts., 9th Ave. at 14th St., 23d, 30th, 34th, 42d, 50th, and Columbus Ave. at 59th St. (here joining: the 6th Ave. line). RAILROAD PASSENGER STATIONS Baltimore A Ohio — Ft. W. 23d St. and ft. Liberty. Central of New Jersey — Ft. W. 23d and ft. Liberty. Delaware, Lackawanna St Western — Ft. W. 23d, ft. Christopher and ft. Barclay. Erie — Ft. W. 23d and ft. Chambers. Lehigh Valley — Ft. W. 23d and ft. Liberty. Long Island — 7th Ave. & 33d St., also ft. East 34th St. New Jersey and New York — Ft. West 23d and ft. Chambers. New York and Long Branch — 7th Ave. and 33d St., ft. W. 23d, ft. Desbrosses, ft. Liberty, and ft. Cortlandt. New York Central and Hudson River — 42d St. & 4th Ave. t^EW YDRj^lff YD l/R_ POCKET New fork, New Haven and Hartford — 42d St. & 4th Ave. New York, Ontario and Western — Ft. W. 42d St. and ft. Cortlandt. New York, Susquehanna and Western — Ft. W. 23d and ft. Chambers. New York, Westchester and Boston — 180th St. & Morris Park Ave. Pennsylvania — 7th Ave., 31st to 33d Sts., ft. Desbrosses and ft. Cortlandt. Philadelphia and Reading — Ft. W. 23d and ft. Liberty. Staten Island — Ft. Whitehall St. West Shore — Ft. W. 4 2d St. and ft. Cortlandt. FERRIES Astoria — From ft. E. 9 2d St. Liberty Statue — (Bedloe's Island) — From Bat- tery. Black well's Island — From ft. E. 26th St., ft. E 53d St.. ft. E. 70th St. Borough of Brooklyn — From ft. E. 23d St. to B'way, ft. F. Houston St. to Grand St., ft. Fulton St. to Fulton St., ft. Roosevelt St. to B'way, ft. Whitehall St. to Atlantic and Ham- ilton Aves., rt. Whitehall to 39th St. College Point (Queens Borough) — From ft. E. 99th St. Edgewater — From ft. W. 130th St. Englewood Cliffs (Palisades Interstate Park) — From ft. Dyckman St. Ellis Island — From Bargre Office, ft. Whitehall St. Governor's Island — From Battery, ft. Whitehall St. Greenpoint — From ft. E. 23d St. Hart's Island — From ft. E. 26th St. Hoboken — From ft. Barclay, Christopher and ft. W. 23d Sts., to Newark and Ferry Sts., Ho- boken (Lackawanna R. R.) ; ft. W. 23d to 14th Sts., Hoboken. Jersey City — From ft. Chambers & ft. W. 23d Sts. to Pavonia Ave., Jersey City (Erie R. R ) : rt. ^crtlandt and ft. Desbrosses Sts. to Montgomery St., Jersey City (Penn. R. R.) ; ft. Liberty and ft. W. 23d Sts. to Communi- paw, Jersey City (G. R. R. of N. J.) . hfEW YORK. IN" YD l/FL POCKET Long Island City (Queens Borough) — From ft. E. 34th St. to Borden Ave., Long Island City. North Brother Island — From ft. E. 13 2d St. Randall's Island — From ft. E. 26th, ft. E. 120th and ft. E. 12 5th Sts. Staten Island (Richmond Borough) — From ft. Whitehall St. to St. George, Staten Island. Riker's Island — From ft. E. 26th St. Ward's Island — From ft. E. 116th St. Weehawken — (West Shore R. R.) — From ft. Cortlandt and ft. W. 4 2d St. STEAMSHIP OFFICES AND PIERS (Foreign) American, 9 B'way — Pier 62, N. R., ft. W. 22d St. Anchor, 21 State St. — Pier 64, N. R., ft. W. 24th St. Atlantio Transport, 9 B'way — Pier 58, N. R., ft. W. 16th St. Austro-American, 17 Battery PI. — Pier 1, Bush Docks, South Brooklyn. Compagnie Generale Transatlantlque (French Line), 19 State St. — Pier 57, N. R., ft. W. 15th St. Also Pier 84, N. R., ft. W. 44th St. Cunard, 24 State St. — Piers 53, 54 and 56, N. R., ft. W. 14th St. Fabre, 17 State St. — Pier ft. W. 31st St., South Brooklyn. Hamburg-American, 4 5 B'way — Pier ft. 2d St., Hoboken. Hamburg-American, 4 5 Broadway (Atlas) — Pier 65, N. R., ft. W. 25th St. Holland-American, 24 State St. — Pier ft. 5th St., Hoboken. Lamport A Holt, Produce Fxchange — Pier 8, ft. Fulton or Wall Sts., Brooklyn. LaVeloce, 1 State St. — Pier 74, N. R., ft. W. 34 th St. ^ M Lloyd Italian©, 31 B'way — Pier 74, N. R., ft. W. 34th St. Navlgazione Generale Italiana, 1 State St. — Pier 74, N. R., ft. W. 34th St. New York and Cuba Wail, 290 B'way — Pier 14, E. R., ft. Wall and Maiden. Lane. New York and Porto Rico, 11 c Letters for other countries " 5c each additional ounce or fraction 3c Postal cards (reply cards, 4c) 2c Newspapers and printed matter . . 2 ounces l c Registration Fee (extra postage) 10C [N f EW YDRJ^II^ YOIJrl pocket TELEGRAPH AND CABLE SERVICE Offices of both the Western Union and Pos- tal Telegraph Companies in the lobby of the Hotel. Deferred Cable Messages, which must be written in plain language of either the country of origin or destination, are subordinated to full -rate messages in the order of transmission, until an accumulated delay or 19 hours has oc- curred, when they take their turn with fully paid traffic. The tariff is usually one-half the regular rate, but on deferred messages between the United States or Canada and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland the tariff is 3 cents less than half rates. The rate for regular messages to England, France and Belgium is 25 cents a word. The address and signature is included In the charge- able matter. Cable Letters and Week-End Letters are sim- ilar to night letters in the domestic telegraph service, in that they are sent over facilities that otherwise would be idle at night, and de- livered the following day. The rates for Cable and Week-End Letters are on a message basis. The minimum charge on Cable Letters is for 13 words (including a necessary prefix) and on Week-End Letters for 2 5 words (including a necessary prefix). The tariff varies according to distance, but between New York and Lon- don is 7 5 cents and $1.15 for Cable and Week- End Letters, respectively. DIRECTORY OF NUMBERS AT THE JUNCTION OF IMPORTANT AVENUES AND STREETS Sts. B'way Ninth Sixth Fifth Mad. Fourth 24 1101 228 394 197 13 323 26 1141 270 426 217 39 363 28 1185 308 464 251 79 403 30 1229 352 500 283 119 443 32 1275 390 538 317 151 479 34 1313 355 185 Park 35 1331 450 373 199 20 36 1351 466 614 389 217 39 NEW YORJ5UN" Yt)l/R_ POCK£f Sts. B'way Ninth Sixth Fifth Mad. Fourth 37 1 371 484 634 407 231 49 38 1393 502 656 423 247 67 39 1411 524 674 441 263 81 40 1431 544 698 459 279 101 41 1449 560 718 479 299 117 42 1469 582 736 503 317 137 43 1491 602 756 513 333 O 44 1 507 622 778 531 343 -i Co 45 1527 640 794 547 353 a 46 1551 660 814 563 37 3 d 47 1571 680 832 577 393 48 1591 702 850 595 413 D 49 1611 718 868 611 425 -1 Co h« i 50 1631 742 888 625 441 51 1651 758 902 639 465 Ul 52 1667 780 920 655 491 SO 53 1689 800 938 673 513 377 54 1711 816 956 687 533 395 55 1729 842 978 705 551 415 56 1747 864 994 721 565 435 57 1771 1014 739 593 457 58 1789 892 1034 753 609 481 59 1807 926 1054 777 631 499 60 1831 Columb. 788 653 51 5 62 1877 57 808 691 551 64 1917 828 729 595 66 1959 141 847 773 639 68 2001 181 870 81 3 679 70 2037 221 885 843 719 72 2081 259 909 863 759 74 21 17 297 928 933 797 76 21 59 339 950 975 835 78 2201 970 1011 881 80 2241 ts 990 1049 913 82 2281 459 » 1010 1083 959 84 2317 495 1030 1 1 23 999 86 2357 535 1049 1173 1039 88 2397 581 CO 1070 1223 1077 90 2437 619 W 1090 1247 1117 92 2477 657 1110 1295 1157 94 2521 701 1130 1339 1199 96 2561 737 1150 1369 1235 98 2601 777 1170 1407 1271 100 2641 817 1190 1451 1311 tfEW YORK. IN" YOLTPL POCKET St«s R'wav Ninth C'l Pk Fifth Mad Fourth 102 2677 857 1210 1487 1355 1 04 271 9 895 1230 1 531 106 2757 937 1250 1571 108 2801 977 1270 1605 1477 110 2839 1287 1649 1509 TO LOCATE A NUMBER ON ANY OTHER AVENUE IN NEW YORK Take the house or building number, cancel the last figure and divide by 2, then add the list number and the result will be the street nearest the desired location. List No. Amsterdam Ave 59 Fighth Ave. (below 59th St.) 9 Eleventh Ave 15 First Ave 3 Lexington Ave 22 Second Ave 3 Seventh Ave. (below 59th St.) 12 Tenth Ave 14 Third Ave 10 BRIDGES Brooklyn Bridge — Connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn over the East River from Park Row, Manhattan, to Sands and Washington Sts., Brooklyn. Length, 6,537 ft. Manhattan Bridge — From Bowery and Canal St., Manhattan, to Nassau, near Bridge Sts., Brooklyn. Length, 6,855 ft. Williamsburg Bridge — From Clinton and De- lancey Sts., Manhattan, to Havemeyer St., Brooklyn. Length, 7,308 ft. Queensboro Bridge — From 2d Ave., between 59th and 60th Sts., Manhattan, to Crescent St., Queens. Length, 7,449 ft. High Bridge — Over Harlem River, from 174th St., Manhattan, to Aqueduct Ave., Bronx. Washington Bridge — Over Harlem River, from I8lst St., Manhattan, to Aqueduct Ave., Bronx. HOTEL ASTOR WHOLESALE WINE and CIGAR DEPARTMENT ORDERS SHIPPED ANYWHERE THEATRE TICKET OFFICE MAIN LOBBY BROKERS' OFFICE STOCKS and BONDS MAIN FLOOR, Near 44th Street Entrance LADIES' HAIR DRESSING MANICURING :-: CHIROPODY BASEMENT* HYDRIATRIC INSTITUTE ELECTRIC LIGHT BATHS HOT AIR BATHS NAUHEIM BATHS MASSAGE BASEMENT PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER MEZZANINE DURST i