The sun., 1916-12-06


Proprietor of the Waldorf-As.
toria. said to be Americas most
famous hotel man." who died sud-
denly of heart disease in New York
yesterday morning.
waldorf-Astoria until 1928, for which
he had been paying the highest rental In
New York-$s00.0 900 a year. His last
appearance about the hotel was a week
z last night. when against the advice
Of DR.. Lambert md his family he arose
from bed, donned a dinner suit. attended
a dinner Of the Cornell Club n made q
speech solely because OF his active In
terest In Cornell University. from which
his son was graduated In the engineering
course in 1905.
Family with Hin AZ Enc.
Mr.. Boldt's son and daughter were
with him when he died yesterday morn
Ing. His daughter Is Mrs. Alfred Graham
Miles OF SO Park avenue. whose husband
Is secretary OF the Wsldorf-Astoria
Segar Company. OF which MIR. Boldt WAS
president. Besides his son and daugh-
ter Mr.. Boldt Is survived by three young
granddaughters. Mannuelita and Louise
Boldt, daughters OF George G. Boldt, Jr..
and Glover Miles, daughter OF Mrs. Miles.
Private funeral services, which will be
attended only by members Of the fam.
lily, some OF the more intimate friends
and a few heads Of departments Of the
waldorf, will be held at 10 40 o'clock
tomorrow morning in Mr.. Boldt's apart
ments in the hotel. Half an hour later
the funeral will be held. the church SER
vices being conducted in 81. Thomas's
Episcopal Church at IL o'clock by the
Rev. Or. Ernest NJ. Stires. The inter-
ment will be In woodlawn Cemetery In
the mausoleum where the body OF Mrs.
Boldt. who died some years ago. now
rests.
The p~alibearers will he Commodore T.
A. Gillespie, Judge Frank II. Hiscock.
Seymour Van S~antvoord. James II. Ed
wards. DR.. Graeme NJ. Hammond. Seward
Prosser. stuyvesant Fish, r. De Witt
Cuyler. George F. Baker. Charles NJ.
Schwab. Jacob Gould Schurman. presi-
dent Of Cornell University r. w. La
frentz, Judge Ebert H. Gary and Fran
els s. Hutchlns. who was Mr.. Boldt's At
torney.
NoGw M0m 0WOvo M6Us
The teiegrams. letters and personal
messages OF sympathy which poured into
the Waldorf from all parts OF the United
States yesterday rave but faint hin OF
the catholic quality and the quantity OF
Mr.. Boldt's acquaintanceship. lie prob
ably knew as many. perhaps more. men
and women here and abroad, so his
friends said yesterday. thar any other
man Of his day. And yet 1t wasn't so
| very long ago. as successful careers are
measured. that he was working In a very
humble capacity in a little restaurant
that stood not much more than half a
block from the present site OF the Wal
dQf-Astoria.
In recent years almost everybody had
fallen into the fashion of saying that
Mr.. Boldt had begun life In America
as q waiter-that is. everybody said 40
except Mr.. Boldt. who said he never was
a waiter. and AZ his word was unques-
tionable in every other given matter his
statement concerning his beginnings
here must be taken as final.
He was Just an energetic young immi-
grant In his early teens who got a Job
in Parker's restaurant. Thirty-third
street and broadway. soon after the
close Of the civil war and performed en-
ergetically any task assigned to him
about tho place. but never happened to
be called upon to wait on the patrons.
Any one who might believe snobbish-
ness entered into his denial that he had
been a waiter would have had a change
Of opinion II present a few years ago
when he gave a dinner in his apartments
to Andrew Carnegie and the late J.
1ierpont Morgan, Proudly he brought
out a picture OF his father and mother
TO show to Mr.. Morgan and his other
guests. The picture showed a pleasant
faced old couple in the dress OF German
peasants. his father putting at a long
porcelain pipe and his mother wearing
a peasants cap on her whitening hair.
His training In the three RS and other
elements of education he received from
his father on the Island OF Rueen, a
Prussian possession In the Baltic Sea,
less thai a mile from the mainland
There his father sold goods n it was
there MIR. Boldt. was born on April rs
1851. His father wanted him to follow
In the paternal footsteps and be a mer.
chant, but when ne was n little more
than 10 years old the lad decided to EN-
ierate to New York. He got his frs
Job here In Parker's and saved what HI
could from his very small wages.
Develops the BoIdt Methods.
At wages not much larger than he hat
received at Parker's he next tool, n Jol
In a little hotel at Cornwall-on-Hudson
The Boldt methods which In time wer,
to revolutionize the American hotel busi
ness had an INCIDENT start In his new
job, He became steward Of the Cornwall
hotel, he made the cooking and the gen
eral service things to be talked abou
and in a short time his energy hat
caused the hotel TO become a favorit'
resort OF wealthy New Workers VIII,
passed that way.
T%hereupon he asked for n raise in sal
airy. II was refused. and he quit. Tn,
Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia
was in she making then. and in Ar,eri
cas- first international show young MI
Boldt saw opportunities to achieve al
ambition that by this time was his on
absorbing thought--to own q first elias
hotel OF his own
To get a hotel. he reasoned, he mvs
have financial backing. The Philadel
phia Club was composed OF man wit
money. He therefore took n humhlc 1ol
In tho club. rose to its stewardship. wol
the respect and friendship RI the nfiu
entail members and interested them 4
his scheme. And soon he had u Gas
on a house on the northwest corner o
Broad and Walnut streets and had
made over into a hotel. which he calle,
the Bellevue.
Rirth Of the Glover Club,
Tho nr;ceA In thu pew hotel UovA ~