The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-11-30

OF hotel help will make them better
able TO meet the wants OF the hotel
patron.
TO this end they will establish al
indianapolis modern hotel uniyers-
ity, where every sort OF hotel help
needed, from the cellar TO the attic.
may be trained under expert direction
and initiated into all the niceties OF
the profession. This training will en-
tend all the way from the art of prop
er!y greeting a guest at the register
desk TO the science of extracting q
tip without revealing the purpose to
tile patron. The idea OF hotel train
ingschool has long been fayorite
hobby with some OF the leading lights
OF the International Stewards asso-
Ci2tion, but IL was only this fall that
the association agreed to support the
institution and TO lend its best en-
deavors toward the success of the
movement.
The new university will cost about
100000, and il is hoped that patron.
age will soon make IL self-supporting.
The terms under which students may
enter will be so arranged that they
may take the course and pay for their
training afterward. OF course this
means that each student must come
we'll louched for Ii is probable that
many hotels will give scholarships TO
the school, in consideration that their
holders serve a ter min the hotel Civ
! ing the scholarship. There will be
room enough in the school to accom-
modate several hundred students, and
the freshmen will probably be the
help and the seniors the critical
guests.
There are many problems in hotel
management which can be solved only
! by trained men. 1t is probable that
| the establishment of this university
| viii be followed by the creation OF
standards in hotel management which
| will elevate the calling of the hotel
keeper TO the dignity of profession
The sponsors OF the university are
behind a movement for the abolition
OF the short weight and measure graft,
and are urging strenuous legislation
against those who profit by II. The
hotel managers have suffered from
the constantly advancing price oil
foodstuffs as much as any other class
| OF people, and with these advances
| has come a growing tendency 10 make
adde1 profit by false scales and meas
ures. The Stewards association Is
also advocating pure food, and from
the very inception OF the movement
have lent aid TO the pure food cru
saders. One OF the largest breakfast
food establishments in America mas
| equipped q laboratory where the no
tells OF the country may have any
suspected food analysed free OF
charge.
Another OF the activities of the
stewards is the maintenance OF ref
erence and employment exchange
| where competent hotel help may al
ways be aided in securing good poa
| tiCns. The Importance of this l.
shown by the attitude OF some OF the
privately conducted employment
agencies throughout the country. One
OF the hotel magazines recently cited
! an instance where steward who ap
piled for a position through an EN-
ploypent agency was told that he
would be recommended by the agency
for the position only upon his agree
ing TO change the help in his depart
ment every four or five months. This
OF course would give the agency a
chance 10 furnish the new help and
| thus keep its business on profitable
| basis.
The new hotel school will probably
lead 10 a general shortening of the
| bills-of-fare in the hotels and restau.
rants of the country II is asserted
that zoo many dishes spoil the meal
lust As too many cooks spoil the broth
! and that there is no occasion Tor such
long list OF things TO eat as the
average hotel offers. II 10 pointed out
that a few meats we'll selected and
we'll served. are much better than a
long list poorly chosen and improp
erly served. There also is move
mont to abolish the American plan IN
favor of the European. One OF the
questions being argued among the
hotel people is how much profit they
ought to receive on the gross cost OF
the foodstuffs In order to make q
proper net revenue. That the diniSs
room of hotel, even when II Is
among the finest in the world and
charges the highest prices. is not al
ways q paying proposition, Is shown
by a report concerning Americas best
known hotel This report is TO the
effect that while the gross revenues
of The restaurants and dining rooms
! Of the hotel in question amount tc
81 900. 600 a year. there is an annual
loss I'm this department aggregatina
more than 100000. But as the totaI
income of the hosiery is s1000,00O
wear. the loss In this part OF the buSi
ness Is amply made up by the proh'
i'm other departments. IL Is said that
this loss is largely incident TO the
great number OF employees who are
kent on full pay during the dGI
months of the gear. Only the very
best hotel help obtainable is employed
and To hold them il is necessary &c
give them full pay winter and SUM
met.
The problem of provisioning a hOtel
is not an easy one at best. but where
meals are served at prices ranging
from twenty TO forty cents. with an
abundance of substantial food, this
problem becomes an exceedingly dit
ficult one. The chain OF Mills hotels
I'm New York City. maintained for the
benefit OF poor men. by the very clos
est buying is able TO serve excellent
meals for these prices, and still pre-