The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-11
HOTEL men HERE.
President Miller Takes an Ad-
vanced Stand.
Urges That More Attention Be
Given to Training Help.
NOT LIKE OLD DAYS.
Compares Our Hotels With
Those of Ancient England.
Food Specialist Too Is Fast Dis
appearing.
NOT LIKE OLD DAYS.

| There We're 100 or more strangers on
the street this morning, all of them
rotund and well fed and this one thing
| indicates that the Kansas and Missouri
Hotel Mems association is meeting in
the city. At II o'clock they met at
| the National hotel where speeches were
| made and an hour later the same peo-
| pie met at the Throop hotel where later
the noon day lunch was prepared for
them.
The business meeting was held at
the roof garden of the National hotel
where Judge G. F. Foote delivered the
address of welcome.
Following the address of welcome, r.
F. Miller, president of the association,
replied as follows:
Having been extended the courtesies
OF the city and having obtained per-
mission of the authorities to remain
in the confines of the city of Topeka,
Kansas, over night, we hotel men, tav-
ern keepers, members of the Kansas
and Missouri Hotel association open
this, our fifteenth annual meeting I'M
der the most fiattering auspices.
These associations are source of
education and pleasure to us all, and
not only do associations lead to busi-
ness advantages, but to the highest Or
der of business development. An as
ISOLATION of any kind is an educator.
1.-The trend of the times makes asso-
Citations almost imperative, and today
every trade and profession has its or
ganization, as self protection has made
it necessity.
To-day there is too much legislation
endeavoring to regulate everything
from table manners to the length of
the bedsheet instead of leaving some
ching to the individual taste and judg-
ment.
1.-THE mingling together of men of any
vocation, exchanging ideas, has a ten
n IN hTn 6nT c
| learned by staying at home and plod-
ding on eternally in the narrow con-
fines of ones surrounding.
In the exchange of ideas with our
neighbors in the form of discussions we
learn something new suggestion
will lodge itself in one of our brain
cells, and at the appointed time Will
come forth, filling long felt want.
Little ideas and suggestions picked up
here and there will go to make up the
whole and the perfection of the work
in hand.
sThe opening of a training school
such as is suggested by the Internal
tional Stewards association, is step
in the right direction. The Young
Women's Christian association open
ing q training school for mattresses OPP
enS new and respectable field for la
Dor Why should hotels be compelled to
go out into the corn and cotton fields
for their help, or to the bargain counters
for its experienced mattresses? work
/
should be no faint in the mental work
about a hotel.
ELEVATE the working department of
your hotel as the merchant eleVates
his clerks and other employees; furnish
light and comfortable reading rooms,
places where they can meet, look to
their comforts, and with the training
thew receive at these training schools
mentioned, we will be in position to
furnish better service to our patrons
1.-The successful hotel man Is a man
of tact and of far reaching judgment;
He is called upon to be the legal am
low and sorrow. especially joy after a
NIGHTS experience by one of his out
of-town guests; must be far-slghted
enough to know when and when not TO
cash a check and still not give offense'
in fact he makes up the concrete man.
still endeavoring to meet his rent at
the end of the month pay his help and
look the merchant square in the race
when he meets him on the street
ITO my mind, individuality is the
KEYNOTE of success.
sSrThe old hotel men with their repu-
tations for speciaIties have passed
away. and New York furnishes the
hest examples: Hash at the Stevens;
steaks at the Sinclair; clam chowder at
the Old Aston; Goldfish balls at the
everett: catfish and waffies and pepper
not in Philadelphia have passed into
oblivion. ,,s
eft is true New Ork mas us w dluOI1,
tic Knickerbocker Plaza and its Astor
RuffaIo its Statler; Cincinnati its Sim
ton But today the west and middle
west are establishing an enviable repu-
tation in its new hotel enterprises.
Here we have our Auditorium with
it's various annexes; Baltimore in KAN
sas CITY; National in Topeka; St
Francis and Palace in San francisco;
The Washington in Seattle and many
others too numerous to mention with
their Pompeiian rooms, palm and roor
Gardens which are the envy of the
commercial world, for in no line of
business is there more capital invested
than in an up-to-date and modernly
equipped hotel.
sFWhen we stop to consider the pres
emf palatial city hotels which have
grown to be q combined art gallery,
music hall and club casino and COM
pare these with the Old New England
Inns as described by Mary Caroline
Crawford-which by the way is worth
reading-we ask. where are we drifting
and what will the patrons of hotels in
the next few years demand and when
will this elegance end?
Kings and queens were never fur
nished such elaborate accommodations
as today are furnished at practically