The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
x HRS. STUYyESANT FISH has a
 M reputation for being exceeding M ly clever, we'll read and tal-

FRS STUYVESANT FISH has 8 NH reputation for being exceeding M ly clever, we'll read and tal- ented. Mrs Clarence Mackey is noted for her brilliance in conversation. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt shines through her social tact. She Is grand lady alike to the street urchin or the prince of the royal blood. These three wom- en stand out in the social life of New York
 Up in Canada, In Montreal, there Is a woman who combines all the fine quail ties of Mrs Fish, Mrs. Mackey and Mrs Vanderbilt. She is patrician, comes of a long line of distinguished people, and has a charm of manner ana a fnesse that have won Tor her leader ship in the society of the Dominion. This woman is Mrs. Hayter Reed.
 There seems wide gulf between so- cial leadership and railroad employ ment, but Mrs. Reed has bridged 1t. ln- dependently wealthy, with a multitude of social duties, she still finds time to give enough attention to outside affairs to win salary of $10,000 year from the Canadian Pacific railroad, in field in a position such perhaps as never before was filled by a woman of her prominence. She has no distinctive title on the railroads payroll but for want of a better one she may be called the arbiter of elegance and comfort.
 The Canadian Pacific has a great chain of hotels. They dot the coun- try from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from New Brunswick on the east to Van couver on the west. They range in size from Swiss chalets that house few score of persons in the mountains to great structures on the St. Lawrence or
 o1,o cd n modate thousand or more. They rep resent an expenditure of many millions of dollars, and an army of men and women are employed in their various departments. Some of them are open only few months in the year, others are open the year round. There prob ably is no line of business the success of which depends so much upon lit sons with an infinite variety of tastes, unconsciously are noted by many per business Their sphere is limited to trans as this business of hotel keeping. A successful hotel is a small gold mine; {; an unsuccessful one is a heavy fnan- cial drain.
 Some one high in the councils of the Canadian Pacific discovered some years ago that there was one jarring note in it's system of hotels. Architects might lavish their knowledge upon this struc- ture or that, and might spend thousands of dollars to develop an idea of decora- ton, but somehow there was an incom- pleteness to the whole. No one of the hotels seemed perfect One might appear to advantage in one particular line, but each had some marked defet. The man who discovered there was some error in the whole hotel plan was wise in his day. It was he who suggested that the com- pany look for some one of fine artistic sense. of culture and refinement and of exquisite taste, to give his attention and services to the company.
 They looked long and far for the man to fill the bill. but couldn't find just the one person who combined all the qualities they sought. Then somebody suggested that they might search America over and find no one so well fitted for this particu- lar task as Mrs. Hayter Reed. The next thing to be considered was whether a woman of her social prominence would accept employment. The situation was put to her automatically and rather adrotly, and to the delight of the nego- tiator the idea appealed to her and she