The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-03-31
IT,. PARK CHANGES HANDS.
This Popular Hosiery Will Now BE
Conducted by Il Stock
Company.
Mine Host Renner RetireS From III.
Hotel Business. But Will Re-
main Here.

There have been rumors of a change
Of ownership in the Park hotel for sew
eral days, and the transfer was finally
contaminated yesterday. The Park Ilo-
tel company. a corporation capitalized
for $4,000, has bought out John Rem
ner, who has been proprietor of the hotel
for the last two years, the details of the
sale having been arranged by three ar
bitrators, consisting of l.. a. Walker of
the Hotel Helena for Mr.. Renncr; Mr..
Edwards Of A. p. Curtin ~ co. for the
new hotel company, and VIM. Albrccht,
chosen by Messrs. Walker and Edwards.
This fine hotel has played an import
ant part in the uphuilding Of Great
Falls, and is destined to do even more in
the next few years Of development.
There is no hotel in the state more com.
Portable and elegant. or that scte Il bet
ter table. Many impr yemcnts in detail
have been inaugurated 10y Mr.. ]ltenner
during the winter. and others are con
templated by the new company, so that
there can be little doubt that the Park
will hold the field for some time as the
really first class hotel of Great Falls.
Mr.. ltenner has been running the
house through a phenomenally dull
period, and has lost considerable money
in the business because he has spared no
expense to make the hotel all that it
should be in every department. Since
hn IN, t,lnxnI / HAli.u AZ, L.
August there has peer no cause for
compl int on account of the cookery or
service, and the house has gained stead
lily in reputation among the travelling
public and all who hav" patronized it.
MIR. l%tenner's friends think Le has shown
great enterprise and courage in sticking
to the business so manfully. and are in
clined to congratulate him on making a
sale under very favorable conditions.
MIR. j. }. Kelley will be retained as
manager by the new company, he being.
in fact, n of the incorporates. No
better or more experienced hotel man
has ever been in Montana. 70 enable
him to have IA strict supervision Of the
house at dll hours, he will reside there
wltu his family. and it is has Intention
to make the hotel equal to any IN the
west. In March, 1891. air. Kelley went
10 Tacoma To manage the Abuptt. which
was renamed the Grand Pacific. Pre-
viOus 10 this he mad been in the hotel
business for twenty years, and his eX
p~crience had made HIM an expert MAJ
agcr. lie VS. formerly q. the Dtjcs
force Of the Manhattan Beach, Cuurv
Island. Later he was connected for
three years with the Office force Of The
Neil House, Columbus, O.. also with the
fremont. Chicago. In 1887 he removed
to San Bernardino. Cal. to manage ,he
Stewart Hotel. From there he took the
stewardship Of the Tacoma" and the
past season he spent in Yellowstone Park
in managing a hotel. Mr.. Kelley brings
both prestige and popularity to the Park,
and under his conservative management
together with the increased business as
sured by present prospects, the new
company will expect to have it upon a
sound business basis in the near future.
But whether the volume OF business
shall be sufficient TO make it a financial
success or not, it is certain to be kept at
Il high standard of excellence as ii hotel.
and the travelling publ c will Away: find
1t rs nearly like home as a hotel can be.