The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-31


r. V. HILANDS, ESQ.
Associate Manager Park Hotel.
The subject of this sketch has asso-
ciated himself in the management of the
Park Hotel, Mr.. Crawford having re-
signed. Mr.. Hilands is California ho-
tel man of much experience, having been
the manager Of 1.-The 1Oriel' and 1.-THE
Cosmopolitan" Of San Francisco, both
houses having over 225 rooms. =, He was
also assistant chief clerk in the "Occi-
DENTAL" a very fine house of $50 rooms,
San Francisco, Cal. Mr.. Hilands has
also been connected with the Slime
House, Walla Walla, Washington; The
Commercial, La Grande, Oregon; The
Portland, Portland, Oregon; and The
National, of Greenville, Pa.
In 1895 Mr.. Hilands was the lessee
Of Hotel Pendleton, Akron, Ohio, on
which site now stands handsome
structure erected after the suggestion Of
Mr.. Hilands. Soon after the new build
ing was completed Mr.. Hilands lost his
health and came South to regain it,
which he has done, weighing only AS
pounds upon his arrival and now weigh
ing TIA pounds. He is so much delighted
with the South that he has accepted a
position as associate manager of the
Park Hotel" of this city.
The many years of active experience
of Mr.. Hilands in, the hotel business is
sufficient to prove what the Park Ho-
tel" will be in the future. He is a
man of tact and popular address, and
makes hosts of friends. He knows the
every want of the travelling public. AS
Mr.. Hilands states, hotel is the trav-
eler's home, and it must be run for
them. They must be made to feel at
home, and that is just what every
traveller will learn very soon at the
Park.
Mr.. Hilands has been assistant in w.
j. Edwards bank, of Sanford, for the
past six months, taking life easy along
with his duties in order to regain his
health. Mr.. Hilands will be found a
very genial gentleman. He comes to us
very highly endorsed by former employ
ers. He is brother of w. J. Hilands,
who has been travelling in Europe for
the past five months. w. J. Hilands
being in the investment banking bust
ness in Cleveland, Ohio, Chi
lands and DUNN, but at pres
ent connected in some very large
deals with w. J. Edwards, banker,
Sanford, n. c.: B. S. Jerman, cashier
Commercial and Farmers Bank, OF this
city; also j. ID. Boushall of this city. Mr.
r. V. Hilands is well connected and the
many friends which he has made during
his stay in North Carolina is only a
starting point as to what he will do
with the travelling public. The table
at the Park will be unsurpassed by any
in the State. The large office and read
ing room will be made inviting, cosy and
home like. The rooms of the Park are
fine, large and well furnished, and will
at all times be found in attractive keep
ing with the balance of the house. Mr..
Hilands was considered one of the best
managers on the Pacific coast. With
that rarest of business combinations, en-
terprise and caution, always ready to
branch out when improvements suggests
themselves, the branching never
extending beyond what he can
hold in hand. Mr.. Hilands
is now thirty-one years of age,
and having made a successful hotel man
thus far, the future cannot be otherwise
than bright. The guests of the Park
will enjoy all the comforts of the most
select and refined homes.
The Park Hotel is a handsome struc-
ture, with marble stairs, elevator, steam
heat, electric bells, sanitary plumbing,
etc. The servants at all times will be
the best, and ever ready to attend to
every want of the guests of this house.
The Park should at once command an
extensive and paying patronage. 1t will
be made home for commercial men.
To quote the celebrated Latin speech of
General Jackson, which gained him the
degree Of LII. d. from n Southern Col
lege: THE hotel man, like the Ameri-
can Union, is multum in paryO sin qua
non. E'pluribus unum." Like poet, he
is born, not made. Mr.. Hilands has trav-
eled extensively, and can at all times
converse on the subjects of the day, and
as hotel man no kind of knowledge is
unnecessary to him. Mr.. Brown, the
proprietor of the Park, is a very genial
gentleman and well known as a bust
ness man of pleasant manner. He is q
favorite with his guests and will doubt
less continue the daily efforts to please
the travelling public. In such good
hands the Park will no doubt make a
record TO be proud of.
No doubt many readers of this paper
will recognize the cut above, as it APP
peared iii the write-up of Sanford, n. c.,
June 9th. May success be with you. is
the wish of the Raleigh News and OBJ
server.