The evening times., 1911-08-07
PROMINENT HOTEL
MEN TO APPEAR
At MEETING
Interesting Papers and Ad-
dresses Relative to Various
Features Of Business
OBJECTS OF THE
ASSOCIATION MANY
Convention in Grand Forks to
Be One of Extreme Import
ance to the City
OBJ ECTS OF THE
ASSOCIATION MANY

hsld mere this year,
Formal announcement of the pro-
gram that will be carried out has
been made, and this program pro-
vides for a number of intensely in
teresting features, with addresses by
many men who are prominent in the
hotel business in the northwest.
In the issue of the Midwest, a
hotel publication of Omaha, Neb., an
elaborate statement of the coming
convention, of the objects of the as
sociation, its achievements and what
1t still has to contend with, is given
space. Grand Forks, as the conven-
tion city, is given some right desir-
able advertising.
Grand Forks hotel men are still
busily engaged in making prepara-
tions for the meeting and will en-
tertain the visitors lavishly.
Here is the set program for the big
gathering.
Wednesday, August 16
Opening session.
Address of welcome.
Response.
Annual address by President R. w.
Johnston, Wahkousa hotel, Fort
Dodge, la.
Itch ldea,' Arthur E. Wooden, St.
James hotel, Minneapolis.
| Afternoon
"Some Timely Suggestions" Rome
Miller, Hotel Rome, Omaha.
Problems of Country HOTEL" C.
A. Klaus, the Gladstone, Jamestown,
N. o.
American VS.. European Plan," J..
NJ Totten, Palmer House, Grand Is
land. Neb.
European VS.. American Plan," IL.
N. Wells, Hotel Northern, Grand
Forks, N. D.
Paper, Edwin Fl. Lee, Spalding ho-
tel, Duluth.
Reports of vice presidents.
Report OF committee on uniform
legislation, F. J.. Taggart, acting
chairman
Thursday, August II
''The American Hotel Protective
Association" f. ]. Taggart, Hotel
Loyal, Omaha, Neb.
"The Benefits of Competition" John
Wiley, Hotel Monthly, Chicago.
Hotels and Politicians" Col. J. w.
Moore, Stillman house, Genoa, Neb.
Paper, selected, Hotel Bullitin, Chi
cago.
Reciprocity Among Hotels" r. A.
Montgomery, Queens hotel, Winnipeg.
Depreciation of Building and
Equipment" G. N. Chadbourne, Ven
dame hotel, Minneapolis.
Afternoon
"The Different Kinds OF Guests" T.
| r. p,,o C0l
Lake house, Ortonville, MINI.
The Resort Hotel" j. E. Miller,
Arnold's Park hotel, Lake Ckoboji, Ia.
Address, John c. Roth, St. Paul ho-
tel, ST. Paul.
Address. G. L. Kingsley, Irving ho-
tel, Waterloo, la.
How l Advertise My Hotel" Col.
Fred Bartholomew. Grand Forks.
Address, George r. Kibbe, Mer-
chants hotel, st. Paul.
Annual report of the secretary
treasurer, l. A. Medlaw, Midwest Ho-
tel Reporter, Omaha.
Election of officers.
Unfinished business.
Objects of the Association.
Objects of the northwestern or
ganization are set forth in the follow
ing manner:
By unanimity of action to secure
enactment Of laws in Iowa, Mime
sofa, Nebraska, North and South Da-
kota which will make it simpler and
less costly to prosecute hotel dead
beats, and securing laws which will
afford better protection to the hotel
keepers in the states above named.
To secure the enactment of liability
laws which make hotel responsible
only for nominal sum when having
charge or custody Of articles or bag
bage belonging to guests, and which
are lost. or alleged to be lost.
Afford protection to the employers
against dead beats and dishonest en-
ployes by system Of reporting by
which the secretary will at the earli-
est possible date bring notice OF such
characters before all members of the
association.
To issue to all worthy employees
who leave the service membership
certificates of good standing, thus af-
fording them unemployment by other
members when they are in need of
help.
To establish more uniform Gus
tom of charging for sample rooms,
for extra accommodations, for missed
meals, for omnibus service and for
fractional parts of day.
BY meeting at least once year to
discuss in convention the various
phases, interests and features of the
business, comparing notes and re-
suits, and making known to each other
new and useful methods and practices
which some Of us may follow and
which are not known to others: fur
ther,. to meet each other socially at
these conventions and thereby become