The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-01
Schools Planned to Train
Her Sons in Every De.
partment of the Work,
o Scullery Boy to
Proprietor

signed for hoteliers and superior err.
ployees already in hotel service ->a
wish instruction that will Al them n,
higher positions" Students ahoys
20 years car enter and the course is
six months. The professor in chief ia
an experienced hotel keeper, d~evo,ins
himself to this patriotic duty. and the
academy Is the nursery Of that %.
s~entially Swiss productive hotel d.
rector. A count would undoubtedly
show that more than half European
hotels have Swiss managers.
The academical course begins under
the tuition Of an experienced architect.
who initiates the student in hotel con.
struction Of various classes. Under
the instruction Of a civil engineer he
becomes informed on the vast ma.
chinery that functions tho modern
hotel, the advantages Of various sys.
TENS Of lighting and heating and the
installations Of laundries and cuisine
The young hotel keeper in the max.
ing profits from a weekly lecture
from a distinguished lawyer on the
complications Of hotel law. the hotel
proprietor's ofttimes ticklish respon.
sibilities and the legal pitfalls 10 he
avoided in the handling of clients Of
all nationalities: also the correct form
Of making out contracts. &c, The sub.
tie art Of writing out honeyed adver.
tisements in four languages is mo-,
overlooked.
Lastly there is a course Of dancing
lessons. optional, whose announcement,
reads that it is for the perfecting Of
the garcon's style, and De.
pertinent. and for the correct use o.
the dress of good society"
The academical department alone
gives a diploma only after a severe
examination and to those students
who have passed with honors the three
great professional hotel divisions-the
cuisine. the table service and the
Office. Sons Of members Of the Swiss
Hotel Keepers Association pay tuition
fees Of SIS a month. other Swiss
pupils pay $50. while foreigners rise
to s3S a month. Day student rates
are lower.
Germany. the great adapter nation,
quickly seized hold Of the swiss hotel
~ t'Nos '''S iliSlliS Z 4tlllNl "a =
for its "kellner.' imperializ.ng. how
ever, its republican simplicity. THO
hotel schools We're established a few
years e In Cologne and Dusseldorf
known as the International Institute
OF Hotel Training. under the iurisd %.
ton of the Ministry of Trade and with
the approval of the Chambers NJ Com.
merce. One If the kaissr's urIry
Councillors was put at the head. wh'o
collaborating with him are ITO pro-
prietors of the great German hotels.
The policy of the German school Is
more liberal. there beine no 4 er.n
nation between foreigners and ,omo
students. the fees are The SANG ~ .'l
cases, $3.50 a year. AMI the .nrr.o
comprising four terms of SIN r~.u' -,
each.
Germany's enemies have lqse"-l
her excellent series II hotel 'r". &
schools as "A branch Of her .'H -a'
secret service, alleging that -l. '.r.
man garcon. who works fly .N,r
wages than any other when BE- .,,s
service outside Of his cuiis'.. an
AFFORD to do so, as his Government
makes up the deficiency in g.'sru :r
automatically culled insid" Informs.
tion that can he of use in the T. ra!gn
ONCE; but this is war GOSSIP.
II was through the activity ~ 'h"
very competent Italian Touriu- C,ia
that Italy was initiated into the n.'a-
hts OF the hotel school and Il was rot
so very long L that the - ola
professionals per Iii .Adu'', 1T
Alberghi" was established ut VI. ~,
This Italian hotel training srhoo. 0s
its " wrinkle. not 50 ambitious rs
some others hut quite as De. crv.n- IS
object more particularly is 8, lml.ut'
the service Of the smaller hotels md
'~alhergos," the country inn Il i'l'r
France until now has las-cl ha. nj
in the movement oc cstahl!>hln- MOTEL
training schools, Her first artrmr' 4
educating her garcons Wa mode
through the efforts of the p.r3S N,,o-
citation of Hotel Keepers. Wh.,h e>-
tablished a school. modelled un he
one in switzerland, AZ ThoHon, lei"
the chic resort of Evian.
Aix-les-Bains then saw tic alylN-
tage its rival cure" possessed in tal1
supply OF service at its door. and in'go-
duced n course of garcon trpIn.N- N
its W public schools Bu, the move
ment was slow. Only last year The
Riviera, the most opUlent ana 'h;-Ny
populated hotel district Of 'h, world
opened its first hotel trtIul- Sp'u0,
the Ministry of CONNER .s~.~'n-
the hotel keepers associate o.. he
Cote d'Azur with n s~uhy,ufIlu of if'N
thousand francs for a high school o..
hotel business to be opened N Nice
But the boom Is now we. On in
France for the higher education H.
hotel training, the leading inspiration
; in which is the Paris School &C No''.
Training under the auspices ~ 'h'
great hotels of Paris. Tho French
course comprises two year Worh ne
first yea theoretical. at the rul Il
which the pupils receive cert dc1'"S q
proficiency, and a ~"Conrou. re,
for "A selection of eligible stlioN'- q
pass a years apprenticeship IN M
, big French hotel,
The fortunate student W.. passes
selects his own hotel in rar.-. r'r'
he works for eight months rumr.''a-
! his education. Three months li y .
l spent in the seryi g uf the .l.-@ e.
then a month in |study.nE mGt.,.S.
methods at the great PRS "--|'
Some SIX weeks he prac'.-'~ - ."'
service. After this he tiko~ 0 '''
of six weeks or So a. .'t,H.a- p.
duties OF valet and chamber -1' ,
while the last month he son~ .H'' m
. ~"receptiOn" class in tho If. 4. N"f+