Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05
OUR HOTEL MEN
Hold Their 18th Annual Con-
vention at WaterviIle.
They Were All There and Every One
Fad Good Time.
The Business Meeting Officers Elected
Grand Time at the Banquet.

Wat@rNille. Feb. Specian.- The
ho1el men of Maine are With US. They |
have entertained us all and ii is NOW !
our YARN to be entertainers. Take |
them all around and til are a pretty |
good crowd" remarked the affable
prosperous and general-all- around-
good-lellow- himself-OWen L. Blackden |
of the Exchange hotel of Dexter. Yes, /
and they are pretty good looking |
crowd a that. Years and years ago. !
in the dim. distant and misty past, |
when the writer was a young man, his !
occupation required his presence |
among the stately pines of the prime |
val forests of Maine. 1t was then that
We first met II. T. Capen, who was
then steward of that magnificent ami
always to he popular hotel. klneu. |
Henry could always tell You where tot
get the biggest. best and most fish, n
was never known 10 tell lie ar sat
down cherry trees. but he could set As
close To the line and hc safe as III
late jock During. whose heart was AS
big as that of an OK" Henry neVei
saw better days He is just now en-
joYing a period of rest after years Of
hustle as proprietor of the Bay View
hotel at Camden. Henry's smile IS as
broad as the Atlantic, the waves II
which the windows of his domicil,
overlook. He is the retiring president
of the Hotel Propretors Association.
John j. pnuler of Portland. who has
been hotel nan y>vr sine" y" Was =
boy struggling for nutorietY with L."
water and the backing brush in the
hotels of SkoWhcgan, tho summer play
ground IF the Indians of the tribe Of
Canabis, has won a name for
hims,ll and little somrthiua beside.
You know him. Hes here
Down from far away .Aroostook
comes Fred ". Cuburn Of the Sn"ll
House Thus the potato fields of the
north clasp hands with Casco bay ON
the south, and all the State is glad.
Harry u. Thurston. one of the ia
vorites, late of the Bangor Exchange
is here. Those who have broken bread
and beans at Harry's house will be
giadeto know that he Is still alive and
enjoying life. Harry is past seven and
Knows a good thing after he has lost il
With the arrival of train No. g. this
iHofHuiss, lHeis caAhe rom Inv Jul'N tl''l
tcity' or Newpofts inns state. youth "i
20 years VINO Formerly presided over
the aeslihies !" Inc Elm" %" u ~
city in The nishl Tune EuSehr W.
TSfnlth. ROW u the ShaN rouse. New
port. fehes mas iIi""t" l"t l"i t"ile9
ard misfoftunes 81 ~" h"ie' business
from the "iids Il somerset 10 inc
glowing prospects al iei'"''S'"t county.
Long may De wave.
are PEI i'' -. va ',"' 7e''','
We tackle owen i'i"cKdr" OF inc Ley
/ yer ENchaHse' II II dIlehllH leP"l e"
fan tue COZ i"oIS anu -"'"it9 81 '!tS
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ttouSe' ffeehN Az IL =
positive Fact that ne can haiol atPF'
Icy lea points. tell the higes 81 fish story
,,,d .l,.,-c III hest fish dinner of ali
Nam 1.,,,, tIo,,.. Nm.
u Albert Young of the I'm House \"
hurn e-YiovS the distinction. destined
10 brighten as time gathers on apace.
,t,a ,,,,,,iAto,> IF one
oil NPlHS ohc ~ cue ~ >. -, .,..l,
of the real bona iide strictly an W"'i
4o-inch vide temperance hotels of the
'.,,.,.,,- tit,.,t - = CAV Youth 1fI
t""II''H. -, ,,i III.
nearly % ola iaShi"''r" NIIi.,,,; '''lt'
s,,ta enables him to tcIl as may good
..,,.,... tl,, u.xt one and n. told a !