The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-11
TUTW|LER HOTEL
 WILL OPEN IN JUNE Will Be Between First and
 Fifteenth D. M. JOHNSON HERE Arranging Final Details for the Open- ing-Waiters Will Be Only Ne groes Employed In Hotel.
 Work Being Completed
D. M. JOHNSON HERE

l That the Tutwiler hotel will be opene~1 between June I and June Ia. with the in4- cations in favor of the last date. was .
 statement of D. NJ Johnson, secretary
 treasurer of the United Hotels company
 the operating company. Mir. Johnson has
 been here two days in conference with George w. Traylor resident manager Of
 the Tutwier. They have been checking up the present organization and getting those remaining details lined up. It 10 stated that heavy penalties will be ex- acted of the sub-contractors unless the
 hotel is delivered to the company for op- eration in time for the opening at the lat est June 10. However Mir Johnson, Mir
 Traylor, Robert Jemison, Jr., and others
 engaged in winding up the details. are of the opinion that the hotel will be opened by that time,
 At the present there is 8 force engaged in putting the furnishings in while the worSmen are doing everything possible to get the place completed.
 l The people of Birmingham, 1t is stated. | have great surprise in store for them in that hotel The last few days has
 showed remarkable change in the place,
 and it can in measure be observed
 how magnificent 1t is going to be when 1t fig opened. It i'd safe to say that no hotel south of Washington can compare
 with the Tutwller in point of elegance. | In connection with the opening. Robert
 Jemison. jr.. said yesterday that he was impressed and very greatly pleased with the employees that have already been ef- gagged for the Tutwiler. He said that from reports received the operating company was not contracting for any employees ex- cept those of unquestioned ability and ex- perience. The kitchen force has been en-
 gagged in New York, as well as the or chestra. the housekeepers and many of the maids The bellhops win be white boys employed in Birmingham. and they will be in charge of c. l.. Dunn, a young man who has been employed at the Waldorf in New York and subsequently, at the
 Vanderbilt hotel in New York for some years. He has been assisting George Tray Tor in obtaining local boys to accept ser vice at the Tutwi1er and the results have. 1t is said, been very gratifying.
 The only negro help at the Tntwier will be the walters. 1t has been definitely de- cided not to engage white men. but 10 re-
 tain the southern negro, who is best
 
 since the settlement of this country has been more or less satisfactory. With the
 exception, however of the negro walters. all servants at the Tutwiler will be white. The management has procured several maids from New York to serve here. They will it is believed. be successful in ob- taining other maids in this city to help out the organization.
 It has been definitely given out that the opening function at the Tutwiler will be a table dhote dinner which it Is expected will be served to many hundred persona. During the first day the place will bo opened for inspection with the dinner at night. It is stated that the governor Ss Alabama will be invited to attend the opening with his staff. and that the state suite at the Tutwier will be given hin, while he Is guest of the Tutwier. Other prominent men will be invited from out of the city to participate In the opening of the most magnificent hotel in this sec- ton.