The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-06-08
PINE TREE STATE; HOTEL KEEPERS.
Annual Meeting OF Their Association
at the Preble Yesterday.
Business Matters Followed by a
Splendid Banquet.
President Staples Tells OF HoteIs An
Client and Modern.

The Hotel Mems Association OF Maine
held Its annual meeting at the Preble House
yesterday. AT the business meeting prior
to the banquet In the evening the following
officers were elected:
Presldent-F. @. Staples.
Secretary and Treasurer-WillH II. Mcdonald
q Directors-F. e.; staples, Old Orchard; K. @.
Johnson, Bangor; Geo Z. Watson, Bangor.
Vice Observation-Disclosures county, w. A.
ton; Cumberland, Fred A. Leavift Portland
Franklin, James II. Wlthee, Farmington; Han.
cock, Geo, Gould, Belfast Kennebec. II. x. Con
coin, W. @. Hubbard, wiscasset; Oxford win
II. shaw South Paris; Pen0bscot Jas Brady.
dsh Dsxser piseataguis r. Turner. Guiliord; Saga
uahOc jas. shannon, Bath Somerset. T. %. BlaR-
den, Pttsfeld; Waldo, Willlston Grinnell. sears
port washington, ID. M. Gardiner, Calais; York,
Fred Yates, Blddeford.
The meeting was called to order by Presl-
dent Staples, who addressed the gentlemen
assembled as follows.
MIR. srArLEs's ADDRESS.
Gentlemen Of the Maine Hotel Proprietors' Ass..
It Is with pleasure that we meet today % az.
change our annual greetings:
-Four years ago small association was formed
BY a few progressive hotel men under the leader
ship OF one OF our most esteemed and hon0red
citizens and one who has lately brought back
honor Of President Of the Hotel Mems Mutual
Benefit Association Of the United States, M. s.
Sloson. Mr. Gibson was by unanimous consent
CHOSEN PRESIDENT OF this Association at that time.
and regret that he declined to hold the pos tlon
after the expiration Of two years service Per
maps e was that the once might honor someone
20 private ends.
Hotels Of various kinds haye had place in his
sory from tne earliest antiquity and have grown
and improved with civilization. The earavansa~
nes OF 1000 years ago were an important feature
.. S Ln9se ,,, LINES Iney were large structures pro
containing accommodation for man aud beasf
under the same roof or In the same Iuclosure
az ana were In keeping with the state Of civilization
The inns Of the middle ages where cooked f.od
was provided were onestep In advance OF the ear
avanSafles OF the earlier times.
Travel BY stage coach Instead OF private con
veyance and the earlier caravans called for better
accommodations and marked the beginning Of our
ory OF some here present when the landIords of
our largest and best New England nofels stOod AZ
the head Of the table d cote and carved the roasfs
have been the strides OF advancement OF our hotel
system The story at the time would not appear
told Of one OF Names honored governors less
.nan nan century ago. Stopping at one Of BOs-
ions largest and best hotels, alter putting on his
and called 10 the proprietor. Landlord am
gong out, and i am not back In time don't keep
now, although the old English inns wifi 20 do1n
In history and their praises be sung as long as the
English language endures for the general hospl-
Goldsmith and Burns in verse and Dickens in
prose nave made immortal the jolly hostess. the
a.soseqnlous .s walter the bouncing chamber maid,
tne everpresent hostler, and the garulous host
VINO nlled the place Of the daily papers OF today.
Shenstone expresses it.
who ERE has travelled life's duh round,
Mhere ere his stages may have been,
May sigh TO think ne still has found
Inc warmest welcome at an inn."
But Il remains for the last
to aOrd the luxurious aeeom%odstoas % de%anSeSs sSsS
Dy modern railway travel. claim that our mod
ern CIVILIZATION only dates back about half cen
Jury. could dllate on that subject but time and
the occasion forblds. Within that time, the lasr
nity years, people have grown more cosmopolitan
They trsvei more and i've more 10 Rotsls Tbey
demand and receive the best the land affords. and
L now looks as II the timetyould come when hotel
1ag would DO tne RUE ana housekeeping the ex-
Everything is changed and everything is new,
place in the next nifty years. A good story Is ne.
lated Of man satiafed with hotel fare and think
ing II he could only have the fare OF his boyhood
work and course food" he called tothe waiter and
said: II wish could have an old fashioned cup
o. coffee" The waiter was gone an unusually
The man after tasting and making face express
ing his disgust, called out what
ordered. an old fashioned cup Of coffee. a tSoS
some Rio coffee pounded IL In a bag; boiled H.
sweetened 1t with m0lasses and put some skim
~ miik IN ~ and II tnat s not an old fashioned cup
The hotel business Of today Is one OF the great
industries, calling for large capital and demand
and manage the immense enterprises and the
saying ls not without meaning that "hs Is pretty
good fellow but he can't keep hotel"
Why take the h0tel business out Of the State OF
Maine today and where would she stand. Her
commerce that she once b0asted Of Is fast disap-
with 6er commence. Her farms ''sS are grow row
Ing uD 70 brushes. Her manufactures are finding
tne strongest kind Of composition In the South
with the vast saving In frelghts Forests are
depleted and the fisheries ruined. The only
business showing gain and marvellous gain IS
hotel business.
President Staples remarks were warmly
received.
Reports Of officers and other routine bus
mess followed.
Brief addresses were made by NJ. s. Glib
son Of Portland Otis Kaler Of Scarboro; Fl.
A. Brick of Lewiston; w. Wallace Waugh
OF the Boston Home Journal; j. T. Wilson
Of the New England House, Boston; Z. NJ.
Blanding Of the Industrial Journal. Bangor;
Frederick Yates. Biddeford. VIII II. Nc
Donald. Pennington, and w. b. johnson,
Bangor.
Among others participating in the exercises
were j. w. Wlthee Of Pennington, w. ID.
Blethen Of Dover. Robinson Turner OF Gull.
ford. Benjamin Hilton of North Anson, w.
A. Farr Of Lewiston, William H. Smith Of
Raymond. &c. Sweet. George Z. Watson,
+. A. Leavitt and T. L. Thurber Of Portands
TWAS voted to hold meeting at Lewis
ten the second Friday In October. The
next annual meeting will be held at Bangor
the last Friday in May. 1890.
In the evening a grand banquet was
held in the small dining hall. The
tables were exquisitely decorated
with roses and beautiful green vines that
were strewn in profusiOn upon the festive
board. In the centre was birch bark canoe
filled with beautiful flowers. Elegant new
silver ware fadorned the tables. The menu
was very neat. The supper was one Of un-
usual excellence. and was served in a most
pleasing manner. Besides the hotel men,
whose names have already been mentioned,
there were present Messrs. Mitchell Of the
Globe, Rowell Of the Advertiser, Bailey OF
the Sunday Times. bennett Of the PREss,
and Boyle Of the Express. Brief after din
ner speeches were made by Messrs. Staples.
Gibson, Waugh, Blanding, ROweu of the
advertiser, Boyle OF the Express. Mcdonald
and others. Mr. Gibson was very heartily
congratulated for the exceedingly elahorafs
dinner which he provided. and for the excel
lent manner In which II was served. i,
Annual Meeting OF the 6osworth Re-