New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10
Ten Years Apprenticeship
Fits Son to Succeed
Dean of Hotel Men
TRAINED IN EVERY
BRANCH OF BUSINESS
Will Manage Waldorf
Astoria and Estate-COr-
nell Man and Popular

Speculation as TO who would MI the
vacancy made by the death on Deem
her Of George C. Boldt, dean Of Amer
lean hotel men, was ended yesterday
when IL was announced that George g.
Boldt. jr.. he'd succeeded him. Rumor
had it that Oscar Tschirky, who as
manager of the Waldorf-Astoria has
become almost as much of an institu-
ton as the personality and tact OF the
head of the establishment had made
the hotel itself, would succeed to the
chief Office.
In view OF the headshaking with
which the second generation from
shirtsleeves" is generally greeted the
training in the hotel business which
the younger Boldt has received is IN
tere.ting. Graduated from Cornell
University in 1906, he came to the wal
dorf. lie knew little or nothing OF inc
hotel business. He was Of s-shy, re-
firing disposition and shrank from
meeting tkihh6NAo'
Ten Years an Apprentice
The ten year, Of apprenticeship be-
gan at once. In the small private office
Of the senior Mr.. Boldt was placed the
desk Of the son. Literally the elder
always had the younger at his elbow.
The son went through a course in every
department Of the hotel. Under the
hotel steward he studied foods and
their choice, learned the intricacies OF
marketing and got up at and o'clock
in the morning as a part of the work.
He took a course In the kitchen I'M
der the tutelage OF Rene Anjard, the
chef. he worked as timekeeper in the
basement. He was schooled in the BAN
quoting department, and then, the ele-
mentals being mastered, he took turns
with the assistant managers in the
lobby.
During all of this time he spent a
part of each day in the private Office
with his father, learning the making
of leases of stores and Offices in the
hotel and other rsmifcations of the
financial end of the business.
He seemed TO have inherited the tact
which was a marked characteristic OF
his father. For several years he has
been the official trouble adjuster" OF
the hotel All complaints, from the
roof 70 the kitchen, we're laid each
morning on his desk.
Won Popularity
II was his work in this difficult posi-.
ton which earned for him the title OF
being, next TO his father, the most
popular man in the place" This tact,
seemingly limitless capacity for work
and an honesty of thought which once
caused his father TO remark, George
Is so honest that he leans backward,
are his salient characteristics.
II was not until year or so ago that
Mr.. Boldt realized that his son was
ready TO accept the responsibility that
goes with great wealth. He went TO
California last winter, while the
Junior" ran the business. The hotel in
that time enjoyed better business than
il had during corresponding months for
ten years.
Just how large Is the fortune which
has descended to George {. Boldt, Jr,
is not yet known. Mr.. Boldts will has
not been fled, and +. s. Hutchins, coun-
sci for the hotel and the family, said
yesterday that until it was probated no
statement for publication would be
made. The only definite figures so far
obtained were in a statement issued
Yesterday by the Life Underwriters
Association OF New York. Insurance
writers had checked up their reports,
it said, and had found that the famous
hotel man had policies aggregating
100000.
George c. Boldt, jr., is thirty-seyen
years old. His home is at Garden City,
Long Island. lie is married and has