Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-03

the state treasury all fees collected for
licenses to date. He is hereby author
lied and required TO take such action
and to make such rules and regulations
as are necessary To carry oft the provis-
ions of this act in accordance with its
true purpose and intenet.
Now, | will submit to YOU whether it
would not be for the advantage of any
hotel or inn keeper to be thus included
under the provisions of this department
as the proprietor of a hotel which has
complied with the requirements of this
section? So far | can judge, I can see
no hardship in that There certainly can
be no hardship in the matter of fees.
Inn keepers today are paying s. to lhe
state of Maine. or they should be. and
if they are not paying that fee of 81 as
inn holders to the State they can collect
no bills contracted at their hotels as /
understand the law That is, they are
without the law if they do not comply
with the present statute of paying an inn
holders license of 81.
Somebody says that this is going TO put
out of business a great number of small
hotels in this State. Section 5 says this,
among other things
Every building or other structure. and
all buildings In connection Herewith.
used, maintained or represented to the
public to be a place where eating and
sleeping accommodations are offered for
a consideration to transient or other
guests, and in which IL or more Sleep
ing rooms and one or more dining rooms
or cafes are offered under the same man
agement for the accommodation of such
guests. shall for the purpose of this act
lie deemed hotel; and only such build
ing or combination of buildings as de-
scribed above shall for the purpose OF
this act be deemed hotel or have the
right To use the name hotel.
You will see this section refers as
qnctly Ia hotels of Is rooms houses OF
Ii rooms and only such building or ae-
eommodation which for the purpose OF
this act shall be deemed hotel or have
the right To use the name hotel"
Section 8 goes on and defines an inn
or boarding house Section ! defines Il
lodging house: Section states in regard
to. the license. and beginning with line II
of Section is provides as follows:
such license shall take the place of
an innholders. license as provided in
Chapter %, Section !. of the Revised
Statutes OF Maine. Every such license
shall be non-transferrabe shall expire
on the first day OF july next following
its issuance, and shall be revoked for the
runlawful maintenance of the licensed
premises, either by the licensee or his
or it's authorized agent. And no hotel,
inn or lodging houses shall be rRaintain-
ed or conducted in this State after July
first. 1913 without license as herein
provided"
In Section . il provides that the fee
. for such license to conduct such hotel
containing 80 rooms or more shall be
81 per annum. l submit that for a
hotel containing 50 rooms this will not
he a great burden. and this is the high
est amount of license, So: it also pro-
vides that hotel containing less than
% rooms shall pay a fee of 81 per an
num- That is as it is now.
Now it may be held that this means
IAN appropriation of several hundred
dollars to carry through the provisions
of this act: but the supporters of this
act claim that the revenue received
from these licenses Will more than car
ny on the business of the office of no.
|ltel commissioner
I Here we come TO some of the things
over which a good deal of fuss is be-
ing made. We reach Section IL and
!, this section provides as follows:
"Sect. IL Every hotel and inn in this
state shall he provided with wash
room easy of access to it's guests, and
\ i'm said Mushroom within view and reach
of guests shall keep sufficient supply
of clean Individual towels during the
regular meal hours, or. if no regular
meal hours are observed, then between
NJ, 11.3D o'clock ~ NJ. and . O'Clock
p. NJ. and and o'clock p. NJ. Said
individual towels shall be not less than
;13 inches in width and is inches in
length. Said hotels and inns shall fur
nish each guest in every bedroom with
an individual cake of soap, and at lee 81
1.-TWO clean towels of not less than Is
inches in width and so inches in length.
| All such towels. both in public wash
| rooms and in bedrooms of such hotels
| and inns, shall after being used by one
guest, be Numbered before being used
| by another. All roller paper towels shall
| for the purposes of this act be deemed
\ individual towels No sue hhotel or inr
shall furnish for the use of its guests
| any cloth roller towel after the passage
| of this act"
| | wish TO say that from what I have
/ learned the cakes of soap which. are
/ referred to in this section cost less thar
| one cent per cake. That certainly is
! not burden on any hotel keeper. The
/ largest cake that they furnish costs, as
/ Il am told by the gross. SLIGO, but the
| small cakes which are generally fur
nished in the hotels cost less than one
! cent per cake; so that that does not
| appear to be burdensome to my mind.
| Under the head of roller towels. the
provisions of this act allow the hotel