Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-21
NEW HOTEL NEWS
CROSSES AMERICA
Million Dollar Project Already
Is Putting Harrisburg
on Map

News of Harrisburg's proposed mill
lion-do1lar hotel has crossed the con-
tinent and already is advertising this
city as one of the wide-awake COM
munities of the country. The maga-
zine flying the title of Western Hotels
and Travel. thus fulsomely, not to say
grandiloquently and fiamboyantly,
announces the Harrisburg project at
the same time modestly and in the
subdued language that appears to be
chief characteristic of the publica-
ton, draws attention to the availability
of former Harrisburg boy, one AL
yah Wilson, born and raised at the
Maple Grove hotel. this city. for the
managership of the new hostelry:
Harrisburg, capital of the. pioneer
and proud Pennsylvania, Is the latest
of the leading American cities to con-
tract the twentieth century furore for
last-word hotel palace of the mini
mum -million-dollars class, and has al
ready let loose the commotion and
promotion of a bijou Biltmo ore or scin-
tillatlng Statler. E. T. Wallower, a
local Crocker. and two chum capital
istic patriots started the stock subscip-
tons with 500. 900 each, dozen others
signed for $4,000 each, and a score
for from $4,000 to $1,000 each, with
the result that over 100000 or half
the minimum is assured and s250,o00
guaranteed to be promoted by the
Chamber Of Commerce before the site
has been chosen or the first spade of
the excavation turned. A committee
has been suggested to visit and inspect
the trio of Statlers, the Ohio Olmsted,
Deshler and Miami. the Syracuse On
ondaga, the Albany Ten Yeck, and
others of their modellic sort. Harris
burg is not only the capital but the
Pennsylvania Railroad hub and pro-
gressive and prophetic third Philadel-
phia or Pittsburgh, eligible for a great
growth of commercial and pleasure
travel--on the Lincoln Highway as
we'll as the Pennsylvania and Reading
systems. All that it has needed to
create and promote their golden traffic
is a to-date hotel of the metropolitan
| measurements. This is now inevitable.
"Apropos, continental hoteldom has
already precipitated a discussion OF
the psychological manager for the
Harrisburg Ritz. He is none other
than the California-San Francisco-St
Francis brilliant, Albah Boyer Wilson
who advantageously and adaptively
ex-rays to be native of Pennsylvania
and its historic Harrisburg-whicll
adds the psychological ingredient to
his inherent qualifications and con-
| tinental renown and popularity--foI
wherever 'Alvah' is known, or is am
pdSSstuoIidieu, ne Is lIe ndIuTdi duoTeu
| and helpless star of the tribe OF
course the Harrisburgers are still in
! their promotion woods and have prob
ably not as yet given a thought to the
management selection or detail, but
when that period comes around and
they begin the vital assimilation, AL
vah's nativity. inherent, inherent and
cultivated qualifications, and spontan-
eus and infectious personality are
planted in the scales for the competi-
tive and comparative test. the Harris
burgers are not unlikely to charac-
teristically demonstrate their pata.
bility and patriotic loyalty. Not only
does Alvah know the game from "A to
&C. but 1t, is no exaggeration or full
somity to add that he probably knows
and is known by more American hotel
iers and caste patronage than any
other prince of the progeny. and no