Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-19

nj OTHING but praises were sung by
| Y the visiting hotel men from all
= over the United States here last
week attending the Hotel Mems Mu-
tual Benefit associations annual con-
vention about the local hotels and their
| reception in Los Angeles. Even yes
| terday when they said good-by to the
Southern California Hotel Mems asso-
| citation at Paso Robles, kilograms be-
sieged the offices of the local managers
and proprietors thanking them for the
| receptions the fetes the tours given
them and proclaiming with one accord
that since the organization of the Fl.
NJ M. B. A. thirty-one years ago moth
ing to equal the time in Los Angeles
has been known.
Not only were tin eastern innkeepers
greatly pleased with their entertain
ment but with one accord they mar
veled at the accommodations existing
here for the travelling public. The AL
exandrla, the Angelus, the Van Nuys,
the Lankershim, the Westminster, the
Hollenbeck, all came in for their share
of the praise, and without a doubt the
hotel mems convention has been one Of
the finest advertisements for Los An
geles that could possibly have been Sc
cured.
Beautiful and appropriate as all the
other trips and affairs were, it was last
Saturdays entertainment that clinched
the hold of the southland upon the
hearts of the hotel men. Nothing like
the Alexandria smoker or the Naquero
club entertainment at Oakhurst had
ever been given before in their honor.
Saturdays features were completely.
new, and they will be remembered
always.
Last night at Paso Robles the COM
mittee of Southern California hotel
men who accompanied them north
bade goodby to the visitors and turned
them over to the tender mercies of the
San Francisco hotel men.
The northerners, many Of whom were
| in Los Angeles during the entire con-
vention, will entertain them for three
days.
According to Kirk Harris of San
Francisco, the northern city will not
try to eclipse Los Angeles in the mag
nifcence of their entertainment. AL
| though he did not say so, Mr.. Harris
| intimated that such thing was I'M
possible. San Francisco might equal
| it, but never surpass. To do the latter
is beyond human power.
Those of Los Angeles who accom-
panied the visitors north included John
| S. Mitchell, Harry Loomis, Harry G.
fTyiDdI, Lee t1Oilludy anu W. n. MOi =
gan. They will return home Saturday.
Although the tourist season is sup
| posedly over, 1t beats the Dutch how
! business keeps up, according to the
hotel clerks around town. And the ho-
! tel clerks know of what they speak.
| Tourists who have passed the winter
| In Southern California, who have been
spending the winters here for the past
| generation, and who always before
have packed up and left for home long
! before this in former years, are still
| lingering and seem loath to go. And
others are still coming. 1t is only
necessary to stand beside the desk of
one of the Los Angeles hotels for a
! few moments any day and watch the
| line of new arrivals coming in TO 0e-
eide that the season is still on.
New arrivals do not now find plenty
of empty rooms awaiting them this
| late in the season as formerly. They
have to check their luggage and wait
until some one leaves before they can
be accommodated. All of which goes
to prove the claim of the local hotel
| men-that they no longer depend on
| the winter visitor for their business.
| 1t is now the all the year round visitor
who comes to the Los Angeles hotel.
Yesterday was Cupid's day at the
| Hollenbeck Motel, the niue Dllhu Bou
getting busy with two of the guests OF
| this popular hostelry The first to fall
a victim to his darts was A. II. Cutke,
a banker of Brooklyn, N. Y, who has
been wintering at the Hollenbeek. The
bride was Miss Mary A. Mcbride OF
New York city. and they were married
at noon in the hotel parlors. Last
evening they left on their honeymoon,
going north to San Francisco, Portland
and Seattle and then over the can
adian Pacific to Brooklyn, where they
will make their home.
The second wedding was indeed a
second wedding, the principals being
Adolfo Domingues, a wealthy young
mining man of Cananea' Mexico ana
Miss Conception Salcido, who until
yesterday was a student in local
convent.
The couple were married before the
civil authorities last Friday, but the
pretty little bride on going back to the