The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-29
Substitute Proposition.

II expected to be at the meeting
OF the Rotary Club today and wish
to say that I was most anxious to
attend. but matters over which /
had no, control came up making il
impossible for me to be with YOU /
am therefore compelled at the last
moment to hurriedly dictate what l
intended to say with reference TO tie
Rotary Hotel
''On account OF absence I am not
familiar with Just how my fellow
members who have preceded me have
treated the Rotary Hotel. so in view OF
uncertainty I am in doubt whether
IL would be best to go ahead face
tiousiy. metaphorically. Ananiasly or
seriously. but after consideration
have concluded to give you a few
cular. Immediately after long pull
at the pipe or taking OF a pill
1T goes without saying that the
Rotary Hotel is to be out of the or
binary IN all particulars. in every
way ii must be an institution OF which
we can be proud. for we must not
overlook the fact that II was con-
ceived, planned. erected. furnished and
Is to be managed within our ranks.
II is planned to receive our patrons
about as follows:
When the guests arrive at the
main entrance, an automatic marquee
will extend across the sidewalk and
envelop the taxi; the guest descends
to the floor of the marquee which
Immediately move forward and de-
posits him In front of the Office Reg
istration Bureau: here colored views
of the different rooms which remain
unoccupied. with the price of same
plainly visible. are placed before him.
as we'll as the color scheme of the
furnishings. thereby permitting per-
sons of artistic temperaments to select
the color shade with which their DEL
icate organisms are most In har-
mony.
After the guest has selected his
room, he is requested to be seated
In a special chair, with his hand
baggage by his side. A button is
pressed by the registration clerk, and
the chair and it's support are immed-
lately whisked through a pneumatic
tube and deposited in the center
OF the room he has selected. Weak
and nervous ladies who may be liza
BILE to faint by this sudden transition
are automatically given light anes-
thetic upon entering the tube, and
awake to find themselves surrounded
by all the comforts of home; and
all accomplished by the farthest ad-
vance of science in hotel service
1.-THE mail clerk Is furnished with
the last work In X-ray apparatus
and all communications. both incom-
ing and outgoing, are perused by our
official censor. In this manner ans
thing that would unduly excite the
guest and cause him to cut short
an extended stay with us, is kept
from him The perusal of the out
going mail will allow us to head off
appeals for pecuniary assistance in
case the guest is financially en-
barrassed and enable US to stop the
credit in due season.
What have already said will give
you some idea Of our aims and am
billions in the manner OF conduct of
our Rotary Hotel and so 1t will in
every department. might men,
ton, however. the chameleon carpets.
the color OF which changes with the
mood Of the occupant OF the room;
the painless barber shop. where all the
operations are performed with the
aid of cocaine. and the stockholders
once where the unIucky operator may
have the free use Of laughing gas.
Frank b. Duke. superintendent Of