Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-14
IOWA HOTEL MEN POSTING
THEMSELVES IN ORDER TO
COMPLY WITH NEW LAWS.
SAFETY APPLIANCES
NECESSARY AFTER JULY q
All Hotels Must Hereafter 30 inspect
ed at Least AnnuaIly-Vest Better
Succeeds concannon on the Road
Joe Kirk Home from Winters Stay
in South.

That the changes necessitated by the
new hotel law enacted by the last gen.
eral assembly,, which goes into effect on
July 4, may be made at once proprie-
tors of hotels in Iowa have secured
copies of the measure from Des Moines.
The enforcement of the new statute,
which is intended principally to give
better fire protection to the travelling
public, will be in the hands of the state
civil engineer, who is member of the
state board of health. Deputies will be
appointed in each locality.
Hotels must be inspected annually or
oftener in case of a change of man
agement or upon complaint. A fee of
81 will be charged for inspecting houses
of twenty rooms and the fee Will be IS
where the number exceeds that figure.
Deputies will receive SIS per day while
engaged in actual labor.
The act provides that hotels of three
stories or more shall have fire escapes.
In each room shall be placed ropes Of
sufficient length to reach the ground
Printed notices must be placed in each
room and in the Railways, giving the
location of the escapes. That elevator
shafts may not be dangerous in caus-
ing the spread of fire the shafts below
the first floor must have steel case
ment and be provided with an auto
matte trap door.
Deputy inspectors who make false
returns to the state board of health
may be fined $500, while hotel pro-
prietors who interfere with the work
Of the officials may be fined 500.
Hotels who violate the provisions IF
the act may be closed thru the action
of the district court.
George w. Smith, the popular gem
eral salesman with Marshall Field &
Co., of Chicago was visiting his trade
in western Iowa last week. George is
president of the I. C. NJ. A. of Chicago,
and reports the association in a flour
ishing condition, the membership being
now over 10000. They have the finest
office rooms of any insurance company
| in the United States.
Lott Dean, with the Marshall Vim
egar and Pickle works of this city, was
in Odebolt last Wednesday. Mr.. Dean
|
years and length of service, having
carried grip as travelling salesman
sixty-f1ve years. Brother Dean, after
playing cards and woe unto the one
asking him to join in the game again
Vest Better, of Boone, has taken the
territory for the Warfield. Howell
rs, 80 ha; IL
vacant by the resignation of Ed Con-
cannon, who is to manage the new
wholesale grocery house at Fort
Dodge. We perdict a great future for
Vest, as no better hustler can be found
anywhere.
Bill Bailey was looking after the
hardware trade in western Iowa last
week There is no better hardware
salesman to be found covering Iowa
territory.
L. c. Medearis. salesman for the
Five A Horse Blanket Company, is or
his western trip. He spent yesterday
at Sioux City.
C. w. Mason, of our city, salesman
for Ashe, Noyes & Small, of Auburn
Mass, shoe manufacturers, will leave
in week for the factory, where he
will spend two weeks, and will visit his
father, whom he has not seen in eight
years, and will also visit the shoe anG
leather fair being held at that time ir
Boston. In all he will be gone about
six weeks.
j. A. Martin, salesman for Let's
Fletcher Company, is fast becoming
one Of the leading grocery statesmen in
central Iowa. On Thursday last he
called on his trade in the nearby towns
to Marshalltown.
Harry Hartiens, salesman for the
Eagle Lye Works, of Milwaukee, ac-
companied Jack Whitaker, of the
Let's, Fletcher Company, on his team
trip out of Marshalltown last Thurs.
day.
Joe Kirk, of this city, salesman 70,
the Spaulding Manufacturing Com.
pany, of Grinnell has returned from E
winters trip in the south Joe has los
in weight over eighty pounds, but say.
he feels fine for him, much better thar
he did before making the trip.
c. w. McCord, with the Mutual Lif
of New York, does not for one momen
hesitate to champion the cause O
, BILLY" Sunday and those who wer,
present with him at dinner in one O
the leading hotels in Marshall count,
last Friday, will not soon forget tn,
druhbing given traveller who under
1 took to curse Mr.. Sunday.
!; Hk 81
! AN IOWA FLYING MACHINE.