Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-11-21
IT MEANS MUCH TO AMERICUS.

Americas can congratulate itself that
the Windsor Hotel has fallen into the
hands of a man who has large prop
erty interests here, whose whole life
has been passed in this community,
and nearly all OF whose business inter-
ests are involved in the growth of the
city and the continuance of its pros
perity. 1t was fortunate thing, in
deed, for the city that when the Wind
sor was sold under the foreclosure
proceedings an Americas man secured
it who is able to carry on extensive
improvements and who has the
willingness to do so.
A good hotel is one of the most eff
fective and far reaching advertisement
that city can possibly have. A poor
hotel does more to injure a city than
any other single agency. The guests
of hotel spread abroad an impress
sion that is favorable or unfavorable,
not only to the hotel but to the place
where it is located. A we'll managed
hotel, catering zealously to the needs
and comforts Of the travelling public,
makes host of friends for the com
nlunity in which it is located. 1t is
like a beacon set upon hill Every
day it is advertising the city, scatter
ing broadcast wherever its patrons
goes. the intelligence that it is located
in an enterprising. progressive place,
and that it is home of comfort well
worthy visit. Because of this it Is
of far reaching public Importance, of
vital concern to the business interests
of city, that its hotel be of this class
and not numbered among those that
are constant injury to the place
The sadly run down Windsor Hotel,
with its meagre accommodating, the
result of the long drawn out litigation
in which it has been involved, has
really been drawback to Americas
for a number of years. 1t has not
made friends for the city and drawn
travel to it. 1t was impossible for
the hotel in the shape the building has
been in for so many years to reflect
credit upon Americas. Now that it's
renovation and improvement has been
entered upon Americas can feel re-
lieved that one incubus has been with
drawn and that before long it can ex-
pect its hotel to be a drawing card,
rather than repelling force. Owned
by man who feels pride in Ameri-
Gus, who appreciates the value of
fine, well equipped hotel to the city,
and who is willing to back his faith in
Americas by liberal investments of his
money, the future of the property is
assured. 1t is easy to see that its in
creased accommodations will be sorely
taxed in the coming years. A hotel
that receives every day now from
forty to sixty fresh guests, can well
look forward to having on it's registers
from sixty to hundred arrivals every
day when it becomes widely known
that it has been modernized through
out and brought up to high standard
in it's accommodations. The question
of next winter, in all probability, is
not going to be where the Windsor
| Hotel is going to get the guests to fill
/ its much larger number of rooms, but
| how it is going to meet the demands
upon 1t for accommodations. There Is
absolutely no reason to believe other
wise. Many who have gone by Aneri-
Gus, or who have cut their stay here
as short as possible owing to the
meagre character of the hotel accom-
modations, will be readily induced to
add this to their stopping places or to
prolong their visits here once they
find an up-to-date hosiery awaiting
them.
For these reasons Americas can
we'll congratulate itself that this mag
niicent property has fallen into hands
that are capable of bringing it into
proper shape and that backing up the
ability is the desire and the intention
to use this property to build up the
interests of Americas. For that reason
we can repeat again the positive as
sertion that among the most important
and far reaching events OF this year
was the sale of the Windsor Hotel to
Mr.. Council 1t means far more than
we can estimate at this time to have
an Americas man owning this prop
erty and proceeding with such elab-
crate plans for it's renovation and inn
| provement
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