The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-05-07
A GOOD START
FOR ASTORIA
Hotel at ScOw BAY or Smiths Point
Mould Create Immediate GrOwth.
EXPERIENCE OF PORTLAND
And SQUAD Cities Demonstrates Thar a City
TO Prosper Mast have Hotel n
Keeping With the Tines.
EXPERIENCE OF PORTLAND

There is II general feeling AIMING bus.
inesu men IN the city thRs there ls need
ed now. In astoria proper a first class
h";el-a modern building. with molrrn
convenience. that viii not only uirJrd
adequate accommodation for VISITORS
but will bc an ornament to the city. III
is said that the nne hotel ec,ntiy cosn-
Hlrucivi Ca the coast have not paid
thesr expenses. This was true IN the
cares %; Seattle. Portland and Taeoma.
~nvn their new guest hOutes were frat
opened. and even now some OF them
are not paying. But Il mus be rvmem.
D"rei that thpac cities by having first.
class hotels. AZ which 20 entertain trav-
cling men and visitors from the Eait.
have morr thal made up the losses Of
tho hotels themselves by the general
increase IN business. II is a wcli-kn )wn
fact taa; Portland had hard name in
the East for yeSirH. and WIS tabooed by
every travelling man. because she had
NJ decent ho,c! at which stranger
could stop.
since the building OF the new hotel
at Fiavci. and i,s recent announcement
of opcaing for public entertainment,
some il,tlc criticism has been made 10y
interested parties In ABt, ria OF the VS..
dom of building anything better than
barn or Of putting - on the west sid
of the bay, \ careful Investigation OF
the matter yesterday shows that every
bus.ases man of commua sense realizes
THAI . good hotel Ia these times ls a
necessity to any town which expect3
10 grow. increase its business, and com
poie with the c.nicrs of commerce. Il
Is conceded that the west side viii pay
It's part IN the upbuilding OF Astoria.
II viii he II part and parcel OF the one
greater Astoria, and az such must have
iis facilities Tor trAnsaciing business
This In no way der,acts from the gen.
cral proposition that old Astora viii
remain the center OF business at the
mouth OF the river and that II also
must get into lnO with modern ideas
Those who think have already ex-
pressed willingness to join in any
movement tending 20 the advancement
OF then city They also realize THAI
good hotel Is one OF the first reuui-
sites for u town that expects to invite
investors and capitalists to locate In IT.
midst. They realize. also. that already
Astoria has outgrown It's present ne-
commodations for strangers. but thera
Is no single individual Of the city who
Is probably able at the present time,
20 improve any OF the older hotels or
build new one. The desired objeo. can
be attained only by unity OF action,
The hotel at Flavel. with It's fixtures
and furnishings, cost $4,000 one for
Astoria should cost not less. Thirty
OF the representative business men OF
the city could form a company, whtch
might easily construct beautiful
house, which would add one hundred
per cent to the attractiveness Of III,
city, ard which. II II did not any mor
than pay expenses, would largely ado
TO the business Of the city by attracting
to II hundreds who go only where the!
can find first-class Recommendations.
II is learned that before the Flave
Hotel was started, Or. Alfred Kinney
worked hard to have such a horst
erected In Astoria proper, and various
sites for such building We're examined
at uhat time No one could be found
or at least only few, who were Willing
to embark In the enterprise, The prop
erty-owners on the west side, however
took up with the idea, built their ho.el
and on June list viii open as handsome
guest house as can be found any
where. II is realized now that Astoria
needs n hotel like It, or one better, an'
that there will be plenty Of business TO
h during the period of rapid growtI
bound to take place at the mouth o
the Columbia river during the next te
! years. In few months the railroa'
will be finished, trans-Pacinc and trans
continental traffic win commence, an
when the managers of business enter
prises, shippers and manufacturers
come to look after their interests, ther
win be no proper place in which to Ell
tertain them. The Flavel Hotel WI
answer, for a short time, for both side
: of the bay, but 1t will soon be unaol
to take care of all the travellers, pa
ticularly IN the summer season. Add
tloaal accommodations Will have to
furnished, and at the outset of the city
era Of improvement is the time TO pr
\ vide for all contingencies. Propert'
= owners ON the west side know this al
say they are as willing to aid In u
! construction OF frst-class hotel he
u es they were to aid the other one
Near the new depot site on Scow ~
modern hotel would not only be
convenience to the public and busine
men, but would be a substantial ade
tlon to that portion cf the city and