The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08
THE JIM SW|NGER
 IS RECOGNIZED Is Official Full Dress of Gov ernor Cruce A GREAT HOTEL TOWN New York City Has to Provide for More Visitors Than Any Other
 City in the NJ. N Country
 
By ROBERT LEE CARTER

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 New York. January 7.-special.-At last
 my old friend the Jim swinger has been officially recognized. Governor Lee Cruse
 of Oklahoma has declared 1t the official full dress of his administration and it Is now up to the governors of other south
 ern states to follow suit. Such a move 1could not fail to prove popular with
 southern statesmen. near-statesmen and politicians. .lss Since can remember and that Is more
 than few years the Jim Swinger has
 been the distinctive garb of the southern public man from the United States Sena-
 tor and Governor down to member of the
 legislation. One of the very first things the man who aspired to politics did was to set himself a snug fitting long tailed | coat and a wide brimmed soft hat. Like the Knight of old in his armor he was | then full panophied for the combats of the hustings. the forum and such other places as statesmen fore-gathered l Now that the Jim Swinger has received
 official recognition as the proper thing
 at social functions it will make things
 ever so much pleasenter and easier for | those who always felt like fools in the | eAoNihAcAdi CidW HditiIucT 1 New York Is a great hotel town Ii
 has to be for there are constantly more 1 visitors in the city than there are in- habitants in any but a few of the largest | cities in the country. New York can in | fact, and has more than once entertained
 more guests, on big occasions. than there are citizens of any other city in the l United States, and there has never been
 any complaint that she did not take good care of them. It is small wonder, there | fore, that the hotel business stands fourth
 in the matter of capital invested in the
 industries of the metropolis.
 l It is an honor worth while, therefore,
 to stand at the head of the Hotel Associa-
 ton of New York. This honor has just | been conferred on Fred A. Reed of the
 Park Avenue Hotel who succeeds George C.. Boldt of the Waldrof Astoria, as pres-
 ident of the Hotel News Association. MT. Reed has been connected with the Park Avenue for just 20 years and in that time has made strong friends among men from
 every section of the country.
 l In order to successfully manage big New York hotel a man must be a big man.. He must combine great executive ability with 8 high grade of diplomacy. lsHe must see things big and at the same
 time have firm grasp of detail. It's a
 mans size job and Mr. Reed fills it,. His first experience as hotel man was | 25 years ago, in Beach's famous Catslxill Mountain House, which in those days and
 As yet for that mater one of the leading
 summer hotels in this section of the | world. It was in 1890 that he came to Park | Avenue, then under the management of w. H. Earle, one of the famous old-t time New York hotel men. For ten years he l served with MT. Earle rising from cashier to manager.
 Tn 1900 MT. Earle retired from the man. ! agement of the Park Avenue and MT | Reed leased the hotel for ten years. The lease was renewed for another ten years | last November.
 | Under his management the Park Ave-
 nue has become one of the leading hotels
 in the city.
 Six years ago Mir Reed was elected sec-
 retary of the Hotel Association in New
 York and held that position up to De- | cember 20, when he was elected president Almost spontaneously with the an
 nouncement of the election of president | of the Hotel Association, came the fur ther announcement that he had taken
 oyer the Grand Union Hotel at Sara
 t6ga.
 | Two hours between Washington and | New York in an aeroplane within two
 years is the prophecy of A. J.. Moisant.
 Mir Moisant Is a brother of the noted
 aviator who was killed in New Orleans l last Saturday. Several months ago he
 gave up his active business interests in San Salvador to aid his brother in "edu- | eating the American people In the possi-
 bilities of aviation" MT. Moisant is an | American who went to San Salvador sew
 eral years ago, and now Is one of the
 wealthiest men in Central America. He
 is not carried away by enthusiasm. and 1 his predictions regarding the aeroplane
 are based on progress that has been made
 in the last year, and the improvements
 in flying machines already projected l There is no doubt in my mind that
 the aeropiane is the greatest invention of 1 the country" said Mir. Moisant.
 "A machine already has been built that l is constructed entirely of metal, and there ] fig no more chance of the plans of that l machine breaking while the machine Is in
 flight than there Is that the wheel of an
 automobile will go to pieces. The predic-
 ton that 1t will be possible to fly to New York in two hours Is not so extravagant as would seem. If the steam engine has
 clear, straight track from Washington l to New York. I have no doubt 1t could cover the 225 miles in less than three hours. How much faster would an aero- plane be able to go?
 This country is far behind the nations 1 of Europe in aviation. When I returned l to the United States last October, there
 were only nine pilots here. while France had 800, and the other European nations
 nearly as many.s
 l Ex-Judge Thomas M. Burke of Seattle, who recently was a candidate for the | United States Senate, is in the city. He expects to spend the next two months in 1 the east and the south. When Washing l ton was territory Judge Burke used to
 be its chief justice, having been appoint | ed to that office by President Cleveland He is one of the trustees of the Carnegie International Trust Fund.-
 Business on the coast is in fair con- dltion generally. though lumber is quiet | said Judge Burke. ''The leading business l houses of Seattle have done much larg-
 CT trade this year than last The develop.
 ment of Alaska and the new discoveries
 of gold there have made good business 1T,
 Seattle. Of late thers has been steady
 increase inf travel to the territory on ac-
 count of the discoveries at Iditarod and | Valdez. - s
 1T have been out thsre s5 years" said Judge Burke. When settled at Seattle | and hung out my shingle the place was
 then little village of 15QD people. The only industry of any account was lumber ing, though there was a little farming carried on. The lunber was mostly ship 1 ped to China and Japan. but some shipped
 to California Fir had always been count l ed as the valuable timber out there and when went there you could not sell a cedar log or board. It Is only in recent yearst that cedar has come to be consid- cred worth anything. Now it's price eis
 higher than that of fir.
 l Down in Louisiana. Texas. and other