Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-08-21
NO. IL.
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Mr.. Merrineid Tells of Funny Thinxs
About Future Hotei Keeping.
The day will come, and long before
we date our letters 1919, when the hotels
in this country will have improvements
which viii make the guests feel that
they have nothing TO find fault with.
Certainly that will be great period--a
surprising one 10 the much abused hotel
keeper
+. L. Merriheld. president of the
Hotel Keepers association, looked very
serious as he uttered these words,
What will those Improvements bel
Many very many; but just now will
mention only one or two, lest some
hotels begin the new styles before peo-
pie are used to the change from one sys-
tem to another. Here's one, for In
stance: The hotels will be so big in q
few years that when a guest gets up,
say on the twenty ninth floor. he'll find
rs he steps out of the elevator that his
room is a quarter OF mile away. count
ing all the halls and corners he'll have
to travel through before he gets there.
We'll. the halls will he broad, and
electric cars, light and airy as wicker
I
utes. All he will have to do when he
gets on his door is to press button
the car will do the rest. 1t will whiz
down his way with the conductor at the
wheel lik. any cable car outdoors at
present, pick him up and-he's in his
room before hes had time TO say Jack
Robinson.
"You smile don't. for I'm serious.
More than that. hotels will probably
have private elevators for every large
: parior room on top floors after the elec-
J tric car gets behind the age
Take space? OF course But what
Of that The hotel keeper is supposed
TO he the only man who must spend all
: he makes to benefit his guests He does
not work Tor a living. like ordinary men.
Not he; his fate from boyhood is mapped
. out to do everything he can TO make
, Others happy at his expense. But to re
: sume. The private elevator Of each
u room will he soon followed If not &C
10 companied by pneumatic tubes fol
= trunks and baby carriages with the ba
S bies IN them. and smaller ones for let
u ters and bundles.
'e More than that. A visitor will, fee
< certain, be shot mp through the tube
d after the guests have seen their card
and pipec down, All right. send hin
up. 1t will be very stagvlike to see Al
apparent closet door fly open quickl,
= and the friend Of your better days II
full dress and hat in hand step out a
. one does in and out of carriage in tn
. street and greet you with a smile. How
are you. old mani OF words 10 that effect
Then think Of the way overtaxet
y tailors can be avoided, too, by their Gus
j. toners among the guests who have for
e gotten TO settle up. Howf Easily
y There will he no hotel registry. for tn
y moment guest Is assigned to a room b
viii probably walk up to machine
10 rattle over a few keys with pen Will
Z writing his name. and Just as he signs
y II will appear on card on tine inside o
q the proprietor's private Office. Name
10 are signed miles away now by wire o
% dispatches. Well, hotel men are close q
. hand in this signature business. hop
y to live long enough TO see all the inn
n provements.
Mr.. Merrifeld's eyes twinkled as b
q concluded: when the Hotel Keepers
{ association meets one of these great i'm
provements is to be tested. Which on
il viii be don't know yet, but that tn
N electric car in the Railways Is a nea
! future event in hotel improvements is
! dead certainty. New York Herald