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R. CARRUTHERS WAS POPULAR TURFMAN NEW YORK, N. , January 30. Who would have thought a few years ago that Roy Carruthers, the voung horse owner who was devoted to the turf, would have become one of the most prominent IJptel managers in the country? Yet such is the caseVfor Roy Is now the manager of the New Pennsylvania Hotel, witli its 2,200 rooms and every other appointment which goes to make up a one hundred per cent hostlery. Roy Carruthers was a popular man of the turf in the days when California was a winter center for horsemen. Ten or twelve years ago he saw an opportunity to get in Uio hotel business at the old Cliff House of San Francisco, as manager, when no one appeared to want it. From that moment his success was assured. He made folk sit up and take notice in San Francisco and it was not long before he was made manager of the old Palace notel. He so improved its conditions that "when the new Pennsylvania Hotel was in course of construction the lessees secured Roy Carruthers to assume charge. On Saturday last the old-time turfman was in full command of the proceedings of an elaborate opening.
