The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-06-21
ROME MILLER, HOTEL
man, IS GUEST HtRE
From Thursdays Daily.


Mr. and Mrs. Rome Miller, of
Omaha, Neb, are spending few
days in Mankato looking over the
city. They are on tour of the
country in their automobile, pri-
marily to lecture in the different
cities in the interests of uniform
legislation for hotel proprietors. and
the travelling public. Mr.. Miller is
probably one of the best-known
hotel men in, the United States. He
is the proprietor of the splendid
Rome and Willard hotels in Omaha,
and has an interest in third hotel
there. When a young man, he con-
'trolled line of eating houses along
the Northwestern railroad.
impressed With Mankato.
Mr.. Miller drove through the city
yesterday afternoon and was much
that he has travelled far and wide,
from the Atlantic to the Pacific and
from the Gulf of Mexico to Duluth,
but in all those travels, he has seen
few more beautiful cities than Man
kato. He is very much interested
in social work also, and stated that
one could not enjoy the social life
in the metropolitan cities as one
could in a city Of the size of Man
kato, and that social life was more
real: 1880. rr
Mr. Miller is called the godfather
of the Northwestern Hotel Mems
association, which is formed of the
hotel proprietors of Nebraska, North
and South Dakota, Minnesota and
Iowa. He is also director of the
National Protective Hotel Mems as
ISOLATION He has practically grown
up with hotel work, beginning when
a poor boy at twelve. AT that time
he determined to operate, as soon
as he was able, hotel that for
cleanliness and high standard, was
unexcelled. PIE .4aet
''t'' Spoke at U. CT. Convention.
At Redwng, Mr.. Miller gave a
lecture on cooperation before the
U. C. T. He spoke of Nebraska's
liability law and said that the laws
governing the matter of defrauding
inn-keepers are worthy Of being
copied in other states. Their effec-
tiveness has been demonstrated and
proven, he said The day is past.
and rightly, when neither the large
nor the small hotel man should
combat just and equitable legisla-
ton for the betterment, protection
and comfort of his patron. The
hotel keeper is an educator. If he
keeps his house badly. he is either
educating his guest to be too easily
satisfied or to seek accommodations
elsewhere. If he keeps a better
house than present circumstances
warrant, he is educating his pa
irons to higher ideas and making
for himself reputation which may
eventually turn to his profit. Mr..
Miller stated that there is no rea-
son why the legislature should not
for instance, that is brought by
guest to a hotel, just as the ex-
press companies do, SO that If 1t is
lost, the guest cannot claim too
much damage. Generally, this would
prove more satisfactory than under
the present methods. He said that
Nebraska recently enacted such a
law in the legislature, and Mime
sofa will undoubtedly do the same
at the next session. ,e.,ai
Likes OId-Fashioned Register.
When asked what he thought of
the new system of keeping the
guests names on cards instead of
the old fashioned register, he re-
piled that SO far as he was
concerned the old fashioned reg
lister proved the best in most
cases, although both had their
merits and dement's, but he said
that the card system would not be-
come general by any means.
Mr.. Miller and his wife" especial
ly complimented Manager Himmel-
man of the Heinrich hotel, where
they are stopping, on his clean place.
They said that in all their travels,
few hotels we're better in both rooms
and accommodations, meals, etc. Mr..
Miller has been in the hotel bust
ness long enough to know whereof
he speaks. *