Arizona republican., 1905-03-13

tUre an opinion that doubtless no other hotel proprietor has as much faith in the regular daily appearance of the san 365 days ir the year as has MT. Kingsbury. \ perUsal of the Casa Loma ad on the front page of this paper will give the information that the sun is , guaranteed to shine over the Casa i Lona every day in the year and if for | any. reason the sun fails in it's duty, | the days lodging for monthly boarders | will be rebated. In most respects the | Casa Lo.na is conducted on the same 1 plan and follows the same rules and l regulations that any other first class ] hotel would. but in this respect, 1t dIl- | fers widely Ever since MT. Kings bury has owned the hotel this rule has been in force and on all hotel sta l tiOnery is found the statement, Where ! the sun shines every day. Never how ever. until this year has the matter ! been given any prominence for the very simple and sufficient reason that up to the Sth day of January, 1905, there had never been an opportunity ! to test the strength of the proposition. ] Each year previous to that the guests have been looking for a chance to see if the contract would be fulfilled in case the sun should fail to shine. It failed on that day but MT. Kingsbury l was true to his word and each and every monthly boarder received a re | bate Of that days lodging at the end Of the month. Likely those bills, re bated because the sun did not shine
 that day, will be kept and shown as
 unique souvenirs of Arizona in other
 parts of the world where the sun shines
 about as often as 1t fails to shine
 When it is taken into consideration that there are a large number Of guests
 at the hotel and that days rebate
 means something to the management from financial standpoint, it is strong evidence of MT. KinSsburys UneXcelled
 faith iu Arizona and the sun that he l. did not cancel the agreement on the
 spot but he did not and few weeks
 later the same thing happened. On the
 27th of February the sun failed in it's
 daily mission. This day there was room
 for dolbt and at the best the margin
 was very close but the guests were
 given the benefit of the doubt and they l received q second rebate. Since then
 there has been no day that the sun did 1 not shine some. True, there have been : days before and since where the mar
 gin was very narrow but only on the
 two days mentioned did the sun Iall
 10 put in an appearance altogether ana from the present condition of the : weather II WOulQ seem tAitit tilS Q e4cf'e-
 will be obliged to pay full room rem
 for the balance Of the season.
 This strange and unusual rule serves q two fold purpose. In the first place as an extra inducement for guests. l' is very evident that unless the weather here was almost perfect no hotel prop rfctor would be rash enough to make
 such q proposition. and then. too, when
 the unexpected does happen and the
 day is dark and dreary, the guests are
 in 2 measure, consoled by the fact
 that it costs them nothing to stay at
 the hotel tat day.
 The past two months have been ex- : ceptionaIIy bad but the fact that only
 on two occasions did the sun remali out of sight all day long proves con-
 clusively that Arizona is a land O.
 s1-n lime.