The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-20
.TUTW|LER HOTEL ID REQUIRE ABOUT 350 REGULAR EMpLOYES c. w. Traylor, New Mana ger, Begins Forming His
 Organization HOSTELRY WILL BE
 CREDIT TO SOUTH Manager Says They Hope to Open Hotel in June, Though They
 Cannot Yet Set Def
 mite Date

l
 from New York and will assume the du
 ties of manager of the Tutwiler hotel without delay.
 He will open offices this morning in the Empire building and will begin the organization of the staff of employees
 that will serve the Tutwiler when that $l,50o0O0 hotel opens this summer. MT. Traylor was in conference yesterday aft ernoon with Robert Jemison Jr., vice
 president of the Tutwiler, who has han
 dled the organization and details of that
 hostelry. The two officials conferred about the general situation and the prob abilities of the opening sometime during the latter part of May or June 1. MT Traylor was later a guest at the News paper club to luncheon
 MT. Traylor, who has been for the past
 10 years in New York with the Hotel
 Astor is one of the most widely known
 hotel men in this country. His length
 of service at the Astor, it is believed.
 has qualified him eminently to take the
 place at the Tutwiler, for which he was engaged sometime ago. MT. Traylor for sometime was the auditor of the Green hotel at Pasadena, Cal, which is rated as the most expensive hotel in America.
 It is also said to be the most luxuriously equipped That hotel is open only five
 months in the year. MT. Traylor said yesterday that he was very glad indeed to return to the south. He is a native of Srartanburg, s. C., and was reared in that state. He went to Atlanta as a young man and was connected with re- sort hotels in Georgia until he went to New York. He is thoroughly familiar with the southern life and is elated as he said yesterday that he can come back home after an absence of so many years.
 Credit to New York He said in discussing his new work to Fifth avenue in New York and that this city and the whole south should be proud of the hotel He said that from a point of construction and practical, ef- ficiency the Tutwiler outranked any ho- tel that he had ever seen in the south and compared most favorably with the eastern hotels.
 He made the surprising assertion that there would be employed over $50 men
 and women at the Tutwiler to give that character of service contemplated. That number of persons employed at an in- dustrial plant here is made the subject of considerable civic congratulations He said that the help would be white with
 the exceptions of the walters, and that they will be negroes, selected here and
 elsewhere in the south MT. TrayIor said
 that for this country the negro was the best waiter.
 Will Be Opened in June
 The Tutwiler hotel will be opened in
 June l think" said Mr Traylor. "Of course. we cannot tell definitely yet, as the work ahs not progressed to that
 point which will warrant a definite calcu-
 lation, However, I think the opening will be in that month The work that l will
 do in the meantime. will be to organize the employees of the hotel. l think that
 at least 55O persons or maybe more win be required in order to furnish that serv- ice for which the United Hotels company name stands for. We will bring our housekeepers, cooks and some additional help from the east but the walters will be negroes. I think the negro walters are the best. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, and the white help in the
 
 often enough. l hope to arrange Tor white bell hops, pages, maids, and that character of persons. As many of this kind of help that 1 can will be employed from Birmingham, but there will ne of necessity great deal of that to be se- cured elsewhere.
 This organization will be directed and carried through without any delay, and the organization will be ready to jump in and start the Tutwiler off without any serious handicaps.
 Most Elegant South of New York The statement I am sure, nas been
 made often, but l repeat it, and that IS the Tutwiler hotel in furnishings will be the most elegant hotel south of New York. And also the Tutwiler hotel will compare most favorably with the eastern hotels. As far as efficiency goes, that has been protected by some of the wisest designers that we know of and the state- l ment will not be refuted that the Tut wiler will give the greatest service ever | undertaken in the south.
 T am uninformed about local condi- tions, but am told that Birmingham
 has long needed and has anxiously awaited the construction of real hotel. I will say this, that in the Tutwiler hotel this city has secured hostelry that will shed credit upon this city and also upon the entire south. I have seen many hotels in the south, but none of them can compare with the Tutwiler when it comes to artistic effects and general beauty of design. It is marvel I am pardonably proud that 1 have been asked to man. age this new property. I am a south- erner and have been ambitious to return home again after some years in the east Mrs. Traylor is Marylander. and nat uraily southern. and when I told her that I intended to come to Birmingham she was immeasurably pleased and happy So take up my residence in Birming-
 ham filled with the ambition of rendering the best of service at your new hotel which has been so long desired and by this work I fulfill an ambition that I have long cherished to come home again. This hotel is great. big public insti- tuition and at all times I will appreca te the cooperation of the Birmingham citi. zens and the travelling public in effecting the best possible service and spreading the fame of Birmingham as a place of in- terest and correct living"
 Praises Press Club MT. Traylor was unusually enthusiastic
 over the press club, where he lunch.d yesterday. His visit created intense in terest when 1t was known that he was of local citizens. That method of getting directly in touch with representatives, of Birmingham's best known people seemed to please MT. Traylor very much He said the press club would be a credit to New York city. He congratulated Sec retary William Dameron very warmly oyer the service rendered and was highly complimentary about the orchestra led by Miss Center.