Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-03
THE inside INNAT
I9I5EXPOS|TION
Hotel Home Solves Great Prob
lem for Visitors to the Fair
Exposition Officials in Con-
troll Assure Reasonable Rates
and First cIasS ACCommoda-
tons - Good for Investors
and Guests

Until recently it was undecided
whether there would be an Inside Inn
within the grounds OF the Panama-Pa
cific Exposition at San Francisco in
1915, as the local Hotel Mems Associ,
alton had resolutely objected 10 it, but
d thorough canvass of the situation
showed that the large number of no
tells built since 1906 were practically
twothirds filled with permanent
guests, who have not rebuilt their
burnt-out homes; thus minimizing the
transient capacity OF San Francisco
hotels. The result was that the Hotel
Mems Association receded from the
stand they had taken, Joined hands
with the Exposition officials. endorsed
the latter's policy, and spread the res
:, olution on the books of the Associa
ton. So there will be an Inside Inn
In this building, the Inside Inn Hotel
Company will embody the following
exclusive concessions:
The only bank, drug store, railroad
and steamship ticket office, telegraph
and cable office, post office-with Is
clerks, haberdashers, cigar store. bar
baggage and transfer Co., and the
only laundry within the grounds; and
many other sub-concessfons- as
q barber shop, bootblack stand, flower
shop, candy shop, souvenir stand and
others. =. $50
There win be several large conven
ton halls. and several smaller ones;
banquet and ball rooms and reception
and committee rooms for public gath
erings.
Forty states, with state buildings,
and at the present time 80 foreign
countries, are represented. And so
the Exposition has made the Inside
Inn headquarters for all convention
banQuets of the 70 odd states and gov
ernments, it will occupy a unique po-
sition IN the hotel world.
The Inside Inn Hotel will be built
under the direction Of Emmett w. Mac,
Cornell, who SC, successfully organ.
ized and built the Inside INN at ST.
Louis in 1904, which proved the most
profitable investment Of all conces
sfons at that Expositi ion returning its
original Investment and over $50 per
cent profit within aeperied Of six
months. The city being built closely
sencircling the Exposition grounds, VIII
prevent any ten Iprary hotels outside
Of the grounds. ~
some idea Of the magnitude of the
husihess 1t sWillahs donsSlY the In.
side Inn may be spggestsd5 BY That
at 81. Louis, where the grhsa receipts
totaled about S2.9s4, 900 in SIX months
of the Exposition Y 1
The Inside Inn Hotel will by spe-
cial permission, be opened for guests.
at least three months before the open
ing of the Exposition to the public.
in order to provide accommodations
for the many exhibitors placing their
exhibits; and it will also be permit
ted to remain open so long as is nee
essary after the close of the exposi-
ton, to accommodate those remaining
who are left to ship the valuable ex'
hibits from the Exposition palaces.
Harry Warcham, who managed the
two other Inside Inns built at the
worlds fair at st. Louis in 1904, and
at the jamestown Exposition at Nor
folk, Va, in 1907, respectively, will
ne general manager. =
For further Information, or a limit
ed amount of shares in this huge
company, apply to Henry Waterhouse
Trust Co, Ltd, local representatives;
Harry Proctor, selling. agent.-adver
tisement.