The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-12
n, Y. HOTEL men GO
ON ANNUAL OUTING
Some of Them Get Back From
Goshen and Others Are
Reported on Way.
TRICK CLOTHES ON VIEW


string Of seventeen touring cars
c.oit.. green. black, CRIMSON. lavender,
lace curtains on the windshield. garnet,
submarine blue. black and white striped,
hail mats of saffron on the running
losrds with Welcome worked out In
white pigs bristles. crimson or green-a
string OF seventeen variegated touring
cars. as was said in the beginning,
started out from the Hotel Biltmore at
$50 o'clock Saturday morning and at a
late hour last night many Of the cans
had begun to return to town.
Each car was flled with a mess of
, folks wearing trick clothes Norfolk
Jackets and morning coats of white.
green. black. crimson. lavender. lace cur
,ains on the bosoms, garnet, submarine
tlue, black and white checks. crimson
CAPS, Nile green caps. poor little unborn
lambskin shoes of white. heliotrope
leather belts and trailing arbutus tinted
eravats.
you come right in. Lizzie-and bring
the COW In. too" cried husky farmers all
the way from the Biltm up to Goshen
pronounced Gosh'n which 10 in
Orange county as the automobile pee
rade wendell its way northward.
For with Chairman OF the HOUSE Com
mittee Of the Lambs Club Frank Case in
the first or scout car. and with young
Jack Bowman. proprietor OF the Bit
more, wearing the trickiest trick clothes
in the whole outfit. sitting beside Boss
Case Of the Hotel Algonquin. everybody
along the route of the second annual
outing of the hotel proprietors OF New
York thought that each passing automo-
bic in the passing pee-rade contained a
mess of actors.
And the Kid Was Right.
"Who's hereg' the reporter-this was
early saturday morning Just before the
start from the Biltmore-asked young
Jack McE. Bowman, boss of the Bit
more. rs Mr.. Bowman here?"
lnasmuch as the Biltmore covers a
block and therefore pays in the neigh
horhood of $4,000 taxes to our we'll
see an aged gentleman with a 50 waist
line and nobby side whiskers of white
pointed out as the boss of the Biltmore.
All joking aside. l am MIR
Yes, yes, yes. yes. kid" said the in
%'ervieHer respectfully to the very youth
full person wearing the light chocolate
colored Norfolk Jacket. no hat or cap
at all. cream trousers. white silk socks
striped with mauve, white shoes ribbed
with hand worked tan leather and things
and stun to match. Yes. yes. yes. Now
that each OF US has had his joke. let's
begin all over. How do you do. young
man, I'm from THE SuN. Where Is Mr..
Bowman. boss Of the Biltmore?'
The kid In his early thirties was right.
il turned out. He was Mr.. Bowman.
trek clothes and all.
The hotel men were climbing into
their touring cars-it's a great business
is the hotel husiness-when another dis
pute started. The interviewer was TO
blame through asking another simple
question of M'sieu Oscar of the Waldorf.
"M'sleu Oscar said the interviewer
lightly. isn't that man In the white
and green checked suit m purple cap
Mr.. David Knott. proprietor OF the Jud-
son. the Holly, the-the-'
'.And the Earl" interposed Mr.. Case
Of the Algonquin. who wore an ele-
plants breath Palm Beach suit and
beaded moccasins. mot to mention s
part ownership in the Hotel Bristol"
NO. said Msieu Oscar. that's no,
Knott. Mr.. Knott's first name is no;
David but Claude. and instead OF own
ing the hotels you and Mr.. Case havs
Just listed he's the proprietor Of tn,
Somerset and Colonial.
NO. you mean Claude Mott, not
Knott argued Mr.. Case. "N-o-t-t
Mott"
Its not" cried M'sieu Oscar. heat
eddy. Its K-n-o-t-t, Knott"
But that's not Mott" persisted Mr.
Case.
"why is it not Knott?' screame.
M'sieu Oscar.
They Were All There.
And so II went. II it wasn't On,
thing 1t was another. And when al
is said and done, all the hotel proprietor
were there-Dave Knott and C!aud'
Mott, and Bosses Albert Keller OF tn,
RItz-Carlton Stanley Green of the Mari
Antoinette, Col. Thomas Toby Of tn
Hotel Margaret. Brooklyn: Secretar,
Marcus Aurelius Caldwell. Frank Harri
man Of the Ansonia. Ralph A.. Gushc
OF the Claremont and Loisue Vue. Loot
Bustanoby and President John j. Cav
anaugh Of the Society Of Restaurateur,
Not TO mention Max Hoffman. for
merly manage OF the Savoy in London
Ralph Canning, boss of the dining ca
service OF the Erie; Robert BlackmaI
OF the Belleclaire. Proprietor william {
stranch of the Fort william Henry an
the Champlain on Lake Champlair
Frank G. Gillespie Of the Hampton. Al
bany, President JOIN McGlynn Of tn
New York State Hotel Mems Associa
ton, Edward Tierney. orator and owne
of the Arlington at ~Binghamton; Fran
Huntoon and President Tom d. Gree
Of the New York City Hotel Mems As
ISOLATION. proprietor of the WOODWARD
There were more than these by half
hundred or more, too many to crow
mo limited space, And the greatest G
also they aid themselves-was "
Johnson Quinn. formerly proprietor {
the Hotel Empire and 10Y boss OF til
Goshen Inn at Goshen. Orange count,
up where the black and white HOLSTER
COWS litter the hills and dales.
The reason OF the party was to mote
through Manhattan. to Englewoo'
through Rockland and Orange countis
and into Ross Qulnn's place to get
drink and things. When Mr.. Quinn
who nsxt to Jack Dunstan Is the bel
looking food dispenser the town ever ha
seen, greeted his Broadway brothers !
admitted modestly to the Messrs. Oscs
and case and Bowman and the rest thu
ne mad no skyscraping lodge TO sno
them over.
Say Hello to Walltck.
In fact his Goshen Inn could boa
OF nothing but velvet lawns when
Broadway hotel man would give MS SO
To- spo.t in front of his place. wlndov
S0klas cut on the niftiest hall mi
noting track In this or any n
Nuny rooms which he had brought dec
'aiOr- All the way from London TO plf
ana paint and plaster. Pierre LorillaI
ana A\crpl Hartman and Judge Able