Daily globe., 1879-04-03
HOTEL KEEPERS ASSOCIATION.

The second meeting of the recently formed
Hotel Keepers Association of Minnesota was
held in the reading room of the Windsor hotel
yesterday afternoon, the following members
being present:
NJ. T. @. Flower-Internationa hotel.
G. E. Freeman-Tremont house, Hastings.
J. B: Ames, National hotel. Minneapolis.
ii. @. Brackett, Clark house, Minneapolis.
Howard Estes Windsor house, Minneapolis.
Summers d Baugh, Windsor hotel st. Paul.
Ferris d Klssner, Sherman house, st. Paul.
G. T. McNamara, Clarendon hotel. st. Paul.
3 J. E. Chappell. Restaurant, st. Paul.
F. 81. Ertel, Daily Hotel Reporter.
The meeting was called to order by Mr.. II. T.
G. Flower, the president, and the report of the
last meeting, as read by the secretary, adopted.
The executive committee, to whom the consti-
tuition and by laws were referred for examina-
tion, reported favoraby on them, only increas-
ing the number of the executive committee
from three to FIVE, the president of the associa-
tion also being chairman of said committee.
The following is an abstract of the constitution
and bylaws:
The name of the association shall be the
Hotel Keepers Association of Minnesota, to
consist of hotel proprietors, managers or their
representatives, and its primary object shall be
this GLASS; and to regulate matters of interest
to the profession. The regular meetings are to
be held on the first Wednesday in each month,
at such time and place as may be designated
at each meeting. The officers will be presi-
dent, vice president secretary, treasurer and
executive committee of five, elected annually.
The duties of the president are briefly stated to
be, presiding at meeting, appointing
of committees, and balloting in
cases of tie. The vice president will officiate
in the absence of the president, while the Sec
retary and treasurer looks out for the money,
records, etc. Then comes the executive COM
mittee, with general supervision of all the
affairs of the association. The usual provision
is made for the election of the officers, by bal
lot, by vote of two-thirds of the members
present. The initiation fee is fixed at $5, and
but one initiation fee ia to be required of the
representatives of the same hotel. As to max
ing assessments, this power is with the execu-
tive committee, but with the approval of the
| association, and when the assessments are
made they must be upon the basis of each loo
rooms in hotel. Any member who does not
pay his assessment, without good excuse,
within ten days. will be expelled; and whose
ever is absent from the meetings is fined Sc
cents.
The bylaws convey the true purpose of the
| association in these words:
1t shall be the duty Of each member TO notify
| the secretary of every person wilfully avoiding
| the payment of a just claim for board, o1
rooms, or for pilfering, or robbing from a
description of such "beat," or delinquent; and
it shall be the duty of the secretary to reg ste,
the name and description of said delinquent
upon book to be kept for that purpose, and
! Immediately notify the other members of the
association, giving them such information as
| he receives.
1t shall also be the duty of every member tc
| notify the secretary of each person he dis
| charges from his employ for bad conduct. OF
misdemeanor, stating the nature of the same
| and the duty of the secretary to enter the same
upon u book to be kept for that purpose, and tt
| notify each member of such action.
| The constitution and by-laws were unani
monsly adopted as read by the secretary anc
the balloting for new members then proceeded
with. The list of the successful candidates il
comprised in the following:
Albert Lowell, Sawyer house, Saltwater.
| F. l. ellison & Co., Nicollet house, Mime
apolis.
N. Pottgeiser, American house, st. Paul.
The president appointed Major @. E. Free
man to fill the vacancy existing on the execu
tive committee, after which the secretary
read circular received from tht
Hotelkeepers's Association of Iowa, inviting
their members to meet at Councils BldH or
| April for the purpose of devisng means fol
immediate and proper legislation to better pro
| tect hotels. The abstract Of the proposed Law
is very severe, and makes the wilful intent tc
defraud the keeper of a hotel a misdemeanor
with punishment by fine not exceeding SlO0
or imprisonment in jail not exceeding thirty
days, giving hotel keepers power and authority
even making it the duty Of such landlord
with or without warrant, to arrest any person
found guilty of wilful intent to defraud by
the use of any false representation, pretenc'
or devices, or by false sho of baggage or eff
fects.
The action of the Iowa association was heart
lily endorsed by all members present and tn
hope freely expressed that the day would no
be very far distant when similar law woult
be brought to the notice of our Minnesota leg
! islature.
The different members then paid their initia
| tion fees into the treasury, whereupon tn
meeting adjourned until Wednesday, May
| 1879.