The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22
HOTELS FOR TRANSMITS
/ WILL SOON BE PROVIDED
Stigma that Minneapolis Cannot House Visiting Strangers
and that Taverns Are Inadequate Will Soon Be Re-
moved-Three Projects Now on Foot and Likely to Be
Brought to Successful Issues.

e With the house situation fairly in
hand the next problem that confronts
The Minneapolis real estate and bust
ness men is that of taking care of tran
sients. The city's hospitality in respect
TO its new citizens, and it's transient
quests, has long been called in question.
#4 The lack of homes for the hundreds
ithat were pressing into the city, in
,teident to the development Of business
sand of manufacturing industries, was
$50 strongly impressed on the city three
years ago, when the influx began to be
felt strongly, that capitalists turned
EEheir attention to that phase of con-
Hstruction. Houses and flats and apart
i|ment buildings began to rise rapidly.
Is Altho the demand Is still ahead of the
supply no actual necessity is felt. The
Contracts laid out for execution this
year will make respectfully large set
! klement by themselves.
Forgetfulness a Crime.
IS Forgetfulness Of the needs of tran
ssients, however, is believed by the real
ESTATE men to be as great crime as to
neglect the new population. Altho it
has several good hotels, the city s facil-
iities are reported by travellers to be
swoefully incomplete. The Grand Army
sencampment has demonstrated to cap
sitalists that more hotels are a distinct
necessity. This condition accounts for
The fact that three large hotel schemes
are now on foot, and that when these,
or any one of them is contaminated,
Minneapolis will again stand we'll in
the travelling world.
he Business men say that Minneapolis
needs three more large hotels, in addi-
tion to the Majestic, that will be COM
~ ~ h FOL onI TO thnco o1roo1xy in
operation. While the patrol limit law
has been one cause of the scarcity Of
hotels; taken with the limited supply
of hotel sites below Sixth street, the
three new hostelries will all undoubt-
eddy be within the limits.
Give City CODY.
The best indication that the city
!acks suitable hotel accommodations is
5he testimony of the travelling men that
hey have to give Minneapolis the "go-
oy' Sundays, and when they have a
!ay-over On enforced trips they dis
ike to come here because existing ho-
tels have not enough sample rooms to
Jake care of the demand. With plenty
ST good hotels here hundreds of'U. G..
Il men would spend Sunday in Mime
Sapolis.
Ing men have taken up this matter and
will have hotel Of their own, which
will be a credit to Minneapolis and
which will become a source of revenue
10 the stockholders. Inasmuch as the
travelling men are going to build this
rooms, hotel cafe and public cafe, a
lodge room for the U. c. t., and a
small convention hall for meetings of
associations in which the travelling men
are interested. -
III Whether the other two hotel deals
will come to a happy conclusion is yet
impossible to forecast. Either one of
them will be as representative of the
tourist, regular transient, and business
men s caravansary, as the Travellers
hotel will be of the travelling sales
mems: needs.
Asks More than They Gave.
i minneapolis people do not get a
home, in the way Of accommodations
what they demand Abroad said ;
business man last week. "What frs
attracted me to Minneapolis was thu
fact that wherever | went, to Ne!
fornia, on the Florida coast or to for
sign cities, I always noticed the heav,
percentage of Minneapolis registra
lions, and that the Minneapolis peopl
had and paid for the best accommoda
lions in the representative hostelries
and that when they did not get it the.
were the first to require change il
the service.
When I came to live in Mime
Iapolis, I found that the hotel facilitie
were inadequate, and I do not under
stand it. The city does not give to Wis
itors an equivalent of what other cite
are required to furnish Minneapoli
when it is travelling.
City Gets Black Eye.
HIS .Possibly the fact is not clearly rec
Iognized here that the hotel situatio
in a city has an intimate relation wit
the commercial growth or decline. ]
lis evident to even casual thinke
once got stuck in Minneapolis, with n
good place to put up, the best hote,
being already 'full-up,' will make
a. point to go round Minneapolis mex
time. 49,.
When this has become an establishe
habit among certain class of traveller
Minneapolis can whistle a long tin,
Before it .gets the business back. Th
transients will have to be shown befo1
they will trust themselves to do bus
ness in Minneapolis again. -. ... f..
- The city. is already listed on the I'll
written book as poor hotel tow
barring two or three public hotels. On
5hotel in Minneapolis has national rel
Station as being practically unique
tits accommo dations and it is full a
the time, with the proprietor turnin
away guests almost daily. If MINI,
IIapolis secures one or two places like tn
baltimore in Kansas City, and Other
Id could mention, it will be one Of tt
hest business advertisements Minnean
lis can have .-.z
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