Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-11

apparent that the Penn-Harris will
have more business given to it from
the start and better class of operation
than any other hotel in Pennsylvania
outside of one in Philadelphia.
The officers and directors of the
Harrisburg Hotel Company are pleased
that they have been able to lease the
Penn-Harris to the United Hotels
Company upon favorable terms. In
fact, the directors feel that they have
served their stockholders to the full
est extent possible, as the United
Hotels Company is Il much more re-
sponisble and worthwhile concern
than the average individual lessee of
a MOTEL who can repudiate his obliga-
ton and turn the hotel back to the
owner under embarrassing circum-
stances. Such an outcome will never
be possible with such a great national
organization as the United Hotels
Company in charge of the Penn-Har-
riS
The lease of the Penn-Harris Hotel
has been delayed several weeks pur-
posely in order that the agreement
with the United Hotels Company
might be consummated. The directors
have had a number of other offers
TO lease the hotel, but they felt that
their duty to their stockholders and
the city made. it necessary for them
to have the United Hotels Company
operate the Penn-Harris Hotel if at
all possible. Thus/in addition to hav-
ing the largest hotel in interior Penn
sylVania, Harrisburg will have the
, best operated hotel as we'll.
The sofiicers and directors of the
Harrisburg Hotel Company also feel
that they have selected architects who
will give the stockholders in the city
of Harrisburg the very best hotel pos
Sible for the money expended, The
sulting with the best hotel architects
in New York. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh,
Chicago and elsewhere and have
made an arrangement which they
regard as ideal.
w. L. Stoddart is known all over
the country for the hotels he has de-
signed. They include the Tutwiler in
birmingham, Ala. the Winecoff, At
lanta, Ga, the Georgian Terrace in
Atlanta, Ga, the Hotel Savannah. in
savannah. Ga, the Dempsey in Macon
Ga, the San Carlos Hotel in Pensa-
cola. Fla, the Ponce de Leon apart
ments in Atlanta, Ga. Several weeks
ago after consulting with dozens of
ARCHITECTS. the directors of the Hotel
Company took a secret ballot to de-
termine the architect who had i'm
pressed them most highly ard it was
found that every director voted for
MIR Stoddart
Esenwein & Johnson have planned
and designed almost every one of the
hotels operated by the United Hotels
! Company excepting the Tutwiler
Hotel in Birmingham, Ala, which was
| destgned by Mr.. Stoddart. Esenwein
u Johnson also designed the Statler
Hotel in Buffalo, n. Y, the Hotel
Seneca, at Rochester and the Samuels
at jamestown, n. Y. They now have
under way Il S1,75O,00O History adj
ditiOn to the Ten Evck Hotnl of tho
United Hotels Company in Albany and
S4.OOO,0O0 hotel to be operated bv
! the United Hotels Company in Tor
onto Canada.
In choosing these architects the
Harrisburg Hotel Company directors
proceeded on the belief that the stock
holders and citizens of Harrisburg de-
sired the building and plant to be
designed by architects who had pre-
viously designed large. successful
hotels in many other cities so there
would be no experim enting with the
Penn-Harris. The architects will start
work on plans Immediately and they
will be completed shortly after the first
of the year Bids will then be invited
and the contract awarded and the
! work started as soon as the weather
will permit
1t will be recalled that the Harris
burg Hotel Company has already pur-
chased the Opera House site at Third
! and Walnut streets at n cost OF S23O.-
600. It will be well for interested per-
sons to note that the hotel lot has n
large frontage in Walnut street and
/ the lot extends clear hack to Straw
/ berry street where il has a frontage
/ on the street of 43 feet inches in tho
rear of Blooms store. 1t is regarded
hy architects and builders as a fine
site.