Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1916-08-04

Mr.. Bergman will leave the services
VI the Statler Hotel on August 18th,
and will take up his duties with the
Southern Hotel on September lst next.
The reason the southern Hotel Com
pany have arranged tn have Mr.. Berg
man come 50 SOON is because II wants
b have pr csical hotel man on the
job dnrine the entire construction Of
the hotel. SO that Mr. Bergman may
get acqusiuted with the people Of Bal
timore, so that When the h ,use opens
its doors Mr.. Bergman will be season.
ed with the local conditions
The site on which the company win
erect the new hotel has been hotel
site for over one hundred years, and is
considered to be the best location in
Baltimore for a commercial hotel
The erection Of a hotel on this site
brings back to the city historical mem
cries of the past.
The site is situated on the widest
thoroughiare in the business section,
and in the very heart OF the financial
and Wholesale districts, but two squares
from the boat la digs, and in SPLEEN
did position to get the boat trade from
the North and South, only 1913 feet
from Baltimore street, where car lines
will convey one TO all the railroad sta
tons.
The location and new ideas that are
to be adopted will make this hotel
modern in every respect, which will no
doubt insure success from the very
start.
At first it was contemplated build
lug a ten-story hotel, with $50 rooms,
but after the committee of the board
of directors visited some Of the most
popular commercial ho'els in other
cities, il was unanimously decided to
make the hotel fourteen stories high,
400 rooms, each equipped with either
bath or shower.
The Southern will cater to the com
mercial travelling men at popular prices,
room aud bath as low as Sl.50; main
tain reasonable menu card so that
the average commercial traveller will
be given the opportunity to dine at
this hotel within the reach of his
pocketbook, and render him such ser
wee so as to make him feel as though
he were in his own home.
Mr.. OTTO G. Simous q, the architect,
is working day aud night on the plans
for the hote., aud just as soon as these
are completed, same will be submitted
to contractors for bid. and it is thought
that within the next thirty to sixty
Gays, lis action will be taken.
The estimated cost of the hotel, in
GLIDING furnishings and working cap
Ital. will be ab ut one million two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars.
The officers and directors Of the no.
tel are as fbllows; DR. Meryille b
Carter. PRESIDENT; Henry II Head vice
president; A j. Fink, treasurer; direc-
tors, DR.. Merville II Carter, member
OF the Resinol Chemical CO.; Joseph
CaStelberg. Castelberg National Jew
elry Co. A. J Fink, Director OF Bsl,i-
more Commercial Bank Henry H =.
Head. managing director Of the Ameri-
can Ice Co; Charles l. Hilgartner,
president Of the Hilgartner Marble Co ;
Roland Marchaut, attorney at law;
Henry Morton, president of the p. &
u. Morton Sign Co.; Addison f Null
hkin, attorney at law, Eugene II. ober,
broker; f X. Pattison, vice presideI
of the X. NJ. Sutton Co.; Otto G. Sim
onson, architect; Edmund J Waehter,
president Of the Frank G Wachter Co
Samuel l.. Willard. eastern sales man
ager Coca Cola Company.
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