New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-09
Hotel Men Learn His Caro-.
as Orator Was Not
Asphyxiated.
TALKS OF OYSTERS
AND GROANINGs
Says He Belongs to EarIv VI.
torian, Don't-Blow.Out.oas
Period of HostIeries.

Simeon Ford, who was supposed IA,
asphyxiated his career as an ora,s.
pulmotored back 10 the speakers 49,.
after an absence Of five years AZ n
thirty-ffth annual dinner o. the Hot,
ISOLATION ~ New York City. hsld 4,
Waldorf last night
Through immemorial custom" ~.
gan. 81 have become almost as mu.s t,
part Of the hotel mems dinner a.
oysters differ from the oyster. -
ever, in this respect II takes a m,,,..,
operation to open an oyster. while n 49,.
q surgical operation 10 close me IN
Last year was not with you. a.
very day you had your legs str.,.,.,
under Boldt's mahogany my leg WIZ
ing pulled by a high priced surgeon m |,
st. Luke's. While you were seated !,
tables grooming with good things VA,
good thing grooming on an opersp,,
table.
Those Of you who have never hsa -.
casion to part with any OF your ys,
organs have no idea how embafr,ss..
II IS to a shy man 10 be strapped oa a
table. en- deshabille. surrounded BY en-.
little trained nurses gazing at you vs-s.
fully. while a surgeon with q gi,tuns
eye and a sharp cleaver prepares 10 a.
plore your interior.
1T was a great comfort 70 me. hev.
ever. TO realize that had led pure ~
.I -
public for bread and butter or for m.
ing I'D their hats and coats had alsxu
transferred baggage TO ard from the n
ton free. and had never encouraged D.
key trotting with victuals.
"Of all the hotels that fourished vAs
I began business. the Broadway cesa
and the Grand Union are about the n
survivors. We belong 10 the early y
torian. pitcher-and-bo don't-olos<z
the-gas, observation-disclosures
period. In our palmy days the chief ~
uisites OF the successful hotel lands.
were team OF trottng horses. bs,e
of wistaria sprinsing from the Atari
apple and a gift for holding three ~
kind. We were expected TO show W q
the hotel every once in while. bot "
often enough 10 become de trop. Hos
were few, boarders were legion and snf
appeased. Them was the happy dzu
IF I were forty or fifty years yourss
and had lot more money and 's'
more brains, I'd go off on q side sire
and put up a plain hotel with two tsas
sand hygienic cells at 81 day. give y
restaurant privileges 10 Childs' for a. st
q wear and get rich. Every new hc,d
built TO cater TO the wealthy, and ~
live BY stealing each others boarden'
Mr.. Ford then referred TO Gustav B.
mann. the new president, who Is slos
Now. George Boldt and L. he ~
look more like a couple OF pepsin az
advertisements than We do like landh-
| don't dare To show up al meal %
for fear of discouraging the oosrden
Mr.. Paumann, now president OF heW
Biltmore, used to run the Holland hHs
Speaking Of this, Mr.. Ford said;
II am at a loss to understand WHY b.
mann took up hotel keeping asam
was generally supposed that he had nsa
a fortune by taking in the public nv
Holland House. Perhaps he enjoys u
business. being a Swiss, for the SWIM
born innkeepers. The Swiss natona
dustries are the keeping Of hotels and u
manufacture OF cuckoo clocks. In d'a
a bird comes out and strikes the ousnf'
and halves In the hotels the lsne@
comes out and strikes the dollars
About five hundred persons were ~
ent. Edward NJ Tierney was toss'mssk
and the other speakers were the
Drs. u. j. Burrell and Charles Z 's1s