The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-11-16
SALOONS NO HELP
TO HOTEL BUSINESS
Rural DRY Towns in New York state
Give Public Best Hotel Service.
DRY TOWNS ATTRACTIVE
The Daniel Boone of Columbia,
Mo-, and the North American. of
Grand Island. Neb., 100000 Hos
tclry, Both Dry.

I tclry, Both Dry.
OK. O. Eyerhart In New York Issue)
The brewers claim that the booze
business is essential to decent hotel
service In community rs only an
other one OF the lies by which thest
fatteners on the public continue t.
1 rob and disfgure the rural towns
II you want to ind clean. modern.
4reproof village hotels. hotels of 3
sort which draw patronage away from
! bcoze-selIIng hotels In height boring
cities. many times the size OF these
! villages. you win md them in dry
towns
! Hotel sherwood.
| We invite attention to the accom-
/ panying cut OF the Hotel Sherwood
and challenge anyone to find anything
like II in a small wet village, or even,
as far as we recall. in large wet vii
lage. Note the atiractiveness of the
| building. the air of homeyness II be
trays by its very aspect that II was
built to furnish comfort for guests
and not TO promote the sale of booze.
Such building would he credit TO
any community, yet this hotel Is To-
Gated in the dry village OF Green. in
Chenango county. n. Y. containing
1912 people.
This hote! has attracted notice be-
yond the borders OF the state Of New
York. The Hotel Monthly. n Chicago
publication, in its July Issue feature
the way in which the Sherwood an
nounces itself as 'the village public
house" and as strictly modern and
up-to-d date" in every particular--not
surpassed between New York and
BufTalo--all rooms outside rooms with
hot and cold water: telephone, pri-
vate baths, steam heat and large
piazxas for the comfort of the guests.
Here Ia n hotel which advertises it.
self as "a stop in the direction OF CO.
operation IN village life" and says:
1T was built by the united efforts OF
the town people Ms an expression OF
the bospitable intent Of the village"
What difference between such a
hotel and the hideous pr ocession OF
wooden fre-traps. perfumed with
booze, in villages all over the state OF
New York, places Stunned by women
of self-respect rs il a plague rested
upon them.
SnSS DHFxte Inn.
BY lite picture you will notice that
the Sherhurne Inn. located in another
dry Chenaneo county village by the
name OF SherSurne. Is a high type
community hotel ot the same sort as
the Sherwood a place to which trav-
cling men go to pa ss the night rid
ting through the city OF Norwich and
passing that city's hotels In order to
reach it. Like the Sherwood. it is a
monument to community Interest,
| born OF a desire to render true COM
munity service, and 1t is located in n.
village OF only ,01s people.
oxford Hotel
The Oxford hotel in the village OF
! oxford. I'm the same county, is still
another famous dry village hotel to
which travelling men come from far
! to partake of it's comforts. Az the
time OF a receIt local option election
| In Oxford the owners OF this Oxford
! hotel threatened to close 1t IL the
place dared vote wet. They did not
/ want their beautiful property subject
/" ed to such usaEes as II would receive
were the sale OF liquor tolerated In It,
/ This IL oriY a symptom OF the grow
i ing intelligence OF the people Any
village which would like to have a
really good hotel in the place OF a
I collection Of nondescrirt booze en-
! poriums labeled hotel" will have to
/ take the first step toward getting one,
/ npd that first step is TO kill the sale
! of booze.
The Daniel Boone Tavern
The October number OF the Hotel
, Monthly pictures the Daniel Boone
! tavern, OF Columbia. the county~seat
/ of Boone county. Mo. Columbia is a
place OF between ten and fifteen thou
sand people. Note the accompanying
picture. This hotel is f1reproof. has
| 100 mahogany finished bedrooms. all
! hut three of which connect with pri-
vate baths. is IS by 11s feet In size,
/ five stories high, of grew brick and
white stone, and cost sf75 900.
| One of the modern discoveries OF
| otelkeepers is the fact that In pro-
hIhftion states and dry communities
! coffee rooms are more profitable than
bars used to be.
| We also offer cut OF the 1o-story
North American hotel which is now
! building in Grand Island, Neh. and
| is to be finished by January /, 1918.
This hotel will have 1T6 rooms with
private telephone and hot and cold
water in every room, numerous pri-
vate baths, and will cost 100000
The CITY OF Grand Island, Neb, had a
population OF 10, 500 in 1910. It has
probably grown come since then. and
yet II can hardly he a place Of the size
usually associated with $500. 900 ho-
tells. This hotel is building in dry
city, in a dry state. and the company
which is putting the 100000 into 1t
is spending $3.50, 900 In new hotels in
dry territory In the Middle West.
The banning of the booze Is the
first step toward real hotels.
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