The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1905-09-11
Train Thrown From An Elevated Track
Crashes Into Buildings Below
APARTMENT HOUSE NAMES.
1t Is No Easy Job to Find Suitable
0nes-Saints Furnish
Many.

There used to be a story to the
effect that George NJ. Pullman allowed
one Of his daughters $4,000 year for
naming palace cars" said a New York
architect. Nearly every one who
heard the story supposed Miss Pull
man had a sinecure, and that the sal
airy was merely the vehicle chosen by
her father tc convey an annual pres
ent 70 her But if she finds names for
the thousands OF cars that the Pull
man company built she earned her
money.
Before ! had been calIet upon to
find a name for new apartment hotel
had never dreamed what hard job
i. is.
OF course the car names are not so
important nor so difficult to find. for
all the cars are numbered as we'll as
named, and the name is chiefly orna-
mental. No one is compelled to re-
member It, and travellers are not likely
to complain If they find themselves as
signed to cars the names Of which are
not euphOnious.
But when 1t comes to naming an
apartment house or hotel it is differ
ent. The name ought to be short
musical, euphonious, easily spelled,
easily remembered, not commonplace.
not yet wholly unknown. For the same
reason that a man should never name
child for anyone who is still alive
a hotel would be better not be named
for any popular hero Of the hour.
You haven't any idea how hard 1t
is to find a name for a hotel. and it
is still harder TO find a name for
high-class apartment house. Just try
To think OF a name you would like to
see carved in stone over the entrance
to family hotel you we're to own
or manage. You might use your own
name il it isn't Jones or Smith or if
you didn't bring 1t from Russia or
Hungary with you. But is your own
name well enough known to be easily
Would it add anything
10 the attractyeness of the house to
a stranger? Is it easily pronounced
and spelled? All these things and more
are required.
THE name must never have been
with any unfortunate event.
II must not be historically offensive to
any race, nation or creed. It must not
have any hoodoo associations.
These are among the reasons so
many houses are named after saints
The religious prejudices OF few people
are strong enough to make them re-
sentful against a holy man or woman
1f another creed. and besides. few peo-
pie know enough Of sanity biography 4
20 be conversant with the deeds of /
hose who have been canonized. The
names Of sainted women are more de-
iirable than those Of sainted men. on
he general principle that women are
more interesting to more people than
men.
Il REMINDER the first time / was
allied upon TO find a name for a big
apartment house in a fashionable part
II New York. Ny firm received the
.ontract and the owner added the stip-
Ilation that we should find a name. /
lad no idea what a task II would be.
% We didn't ask any additional com
After a general plan Of
he building had been outlined we all
ct to work to find a name.
Then l tried lot Of Indian names.
'ut found that all that were not al
eady attached to hotels were insult
,ble for some reason. | went into
anthology and struck the same snag.
hen ! tried the names Of cities. coun-
les. places. monarchs, statesmen. an
lent and modern. but they we're all in
se or unavailable. Finally was
orced to try the saints. and with the
I'd Of a public library I found more
ames than New York could use in
lany a year