The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-14
JOHN CHAMBERS IS MANAGER.
Popular Hotel Man VIII Look After
TROOPS Interests.

After having been identified with
the Hotel Throop of and on during
the last seventeen years in various
capacities, John R. Chambers is now
manager of the hosiery. There is no
more capable hotel man in the west
than MI. Chambers, and he. has that
managerial attribute which means so.
much for the success of a hotel
general popularity with all who have
the pleasure and privilege of knowing
him, and their number is legion. 1t
is safe to say that there are few men
in Topeka who are so generally pop
ular as MIR Chambers, and his popu-
larity is by no means confined to his
host of friends in the city. It is
equally strong with the travelling pub
lie who make the hotel their home
when they are in town.
When the interests of the Hamilton
Hotel company, which had been run
ming the Throop during the last
eighteen months. were purchased a
couple of months ago by J. H. Burn
ham, of Moorehead, MINI, there was
naturally some speculation as to who
would manage the hotel when the
Hamilton brothers retired on July l,
because it was known that Mr.. Burn
ham was not a practical hotel man
and had purchased the property as an
investment. Mr.. Burnham visited his
new property a couple of weeks ago
and after canvassing the situation
thoroughly decided that he could find
no better man for the place than Mr..
Chambers. and his decision was a wise
one, for it would be hard to find a
man better fitted for the place through
experience and knowledge of the
house than Mr. Chambers. He has
been chief clerk at the MOTEL during
the last two years and is responsible
to considerable degree FOR the I'M
precedented success which the hotel
has enjoyed during the last eighteen
months under the management of c.
3. Hamilton.
Mr.. Cham bers was born in Hartford,
Kas.. and started in the service of the
Hotel Throop seventeen years ago as
a clerk at the cigar stand. After
working in his capacity for a year he
went to school for year and then
took charge of the Everest hotel at
Usage City He was there for six
months and then came back to To-
peka and clerked at the Chesterfield
hotel for six months. He next worked
at the Throop as night clerk for a year
and then took position with the
Harvey eating house system at Ration,
n. NJ, where he remained for fourteen
months. Again he returned to the
Throop and served for FIVE years as
night clerk. He resigned from this
place 10 take the position OF cashier
with the Cudahy Packing company
when 1t opened its branch here He
was Win the 0uQany people Tor only
six months and went back to the
Throop as day clerk and remained In
this position for three years, when he
purchased the Atkinson hotel at
Clinton. Mo, which he ran for ten
months. He sold out his interests
hotel in Arkansas City, which he
managed for year. Then he quit
the hotel business for eight months
which he devoted to developing oil
wells in the vicinity of Coffeyville. On
July 1, 1904, he returned to the Hotel
Throop as its chief clerk and has held
that position until his recent elevation
to the management of the house.
During Mr.. Cham bers' connection
with the Throop he has seen 1t rise IN
prosperity and fall, as all hotels are
wont to do. He was with the hotel
when H B. Throop relinquished its
management to the hands of receivers.
He worked with it during the days of
its recovery and is finally its manager
at a time when the hotel is enjoying
a prosperity which is greater than at
any time in its history. and which is
bound to continue under his manage
ment. Mr.. Chambers has several thou
sand dollars at his disposal for the re-
furnishing and redtting of several por-
tons of the hotel and he has started
in on his work which will be pushed
to a speedy conclusion. Many Of the
rooms are to be repapered, recarpet-
ed. and their furnishings fixed UP gen
orally, and before long the hotel viii
be even more attractive than it now
is and that is saying a good deal, for
it ranks as one of the foremost hostel
ries in the west
Mr.. Chambers was married six
years ago to a Topeka girl. Miss Lii
lfan NJ. Hatfield, and they have one
son. Rowland. three years old, a manly
little chap. and evidently built in the
image of his father. for ne IS a favor
lite with host of friends. In fact it
is a question as to whether or not
Rowland is a trife more popular
around the hotel than his father
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