The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-11-14
TRAVELLING MEN PLAN TO
BUILD WORLDS FAIR HOTEL
Hostery to Adon Exposition South-udng Will Be
Fan-Shaped and 800 Feet LOng-Will Have 1000
List of Officers of the New Company

Twenty thousand members of the Trav-
elers Protective Association, as well as
twice as many more travelling statesmen Wis
iting all parts of the world, will be given an
additional impetus to advertise the World $
Fair in 1903 by the Incorporation of the T.
p. A. Worlds Fair Hotel Company, the
papers for which are to be filed with the
Recorder of Deeds in St Louis to-day.
Within one week every member of the
Travellers Protective Association, the ma
tional headquarters of which are In St.
Louis. will be patting the country grocer
or dry goods merchant on the back and as
suring him a welcome to the Worlds Fair
in 1903.
The T. P. A. Worlds Fair Hotel Company
will build a mammoth hostelry just outside
the gates OF the great Exposition, which
will be strictly fireproof. constructed on
hygienic principles and will cost $3.50 900.
The project has the backing of leading
business houses of ST, Louis. and the unique
ness of the plan for its construction and
the manner in which II is to be conducted
will at once meet with the favor of not only
those brought to 1t by travelling men, but
all others who may visit the Worlds Fair
and want quarters near the grounds.
One of the ideas of the T. p. A Hotel
Company and members of the Travellers
Protective Association. who are backing the
project, is to assure their out-of- town
friends that there need be no possible fear
OF any extortionate charges. 1t will be con-
Quoted on the European plan and the guest
will pay nominal price for what he gets.
OFFICERS OF THE
HOTEL COMPANY.
The officers of the company include some
Of the worlds best-known travelling men.
most of them being officials or former off,
cials of the National Travellers Protective
Association. They are:
Charles II. Wickard salesman for the
Carleton Dry Goods Company and ex-mem-
ber Of the National Board Of Directors of
the T. p. A. president; w. A. Kirchhoff.
tobacco merchant, st. Louis. vice president:
Louis T. lie Beaume, national secretary oc
the T. P. A, treasurer; George Bush. ex-
director of the National T. p. A, secretary;
George W. Smith. chairman of the National
Employment Committee of the T. p. A..
VIII H. Weber, secretary of the Missouri
division of the T. p. A, f. A. Fritz. tobacco
merchant, John C. Wilkinson. former na-
tional president Of the T. p. A. and Frank
Crandall. salesman Rice. Stix & Co.. d.
rectors.
l. c. Irvine. originator OF the plan TO
erect the hotel, will be general manager Of
the entire business of the company. The
company has opened handsome offices on
the third floor of the Carleton building.
Architects have completed the plans for
the building and they have been drawn
from suggestions of travelling men. who
have spent the greater portion of their
lives on the road and living in hotels, gain
ing experience that gives them knowledge
as to how a hotel should be built. both
with view to comfort. and in the sense
Of accommodating great numbers of peo-
pie. In addition to this, c. NJ. Hill. who
has been instrumental in erecting several