The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-22
Lnnard Plans $75OOOOO Home Hosiery for Transients,
Following Strictly American Lnes-Puts Comfort
Above Appearances and Expects Profit Sharing
System to Produce the Best of Service

obliged to come. and to which far
sighted and liberal minded employers
are already coming.
AS to service, q hotel like the Lin
nard, with a profit sharing system. has
the call over the ordinary private
apartment For one thing the ser
vants-our coworkers, as we sincerely
prefer to style them--enjoy q club life
Of their own, with social and recreation
facilities, which the workers in the
the tenant families are without. It is
both practical business and proper
consideration Of others for employers
10 make such provisions for their en-
ployees.
The Innkeeper's Responsibility.
Personally the elevation OF the en-
ployee through profit sharing and
these other provisions to the self-re-
speeding status and the cooperative in
terest, of a real coworker In the bust
ness IL one Of my two ideals as
hotel man. The other ideal l might
call conception of the innkeeper's re-
sponsibility to his community. On
view Of the city that will be taken by
soJourners from outside. If he ac-
commodities them to their entire salts
faction they are bound to go away
with an impression and in a frame Of
mind, which will mean good will and
prosperity to the entire community
a. we'll as to the hotel. II they feel
2at they have been overcharged or
badly treated in any other way at the
hotel OF course the result Is a Crouch
and everything connected with their
Visit suffers by it,
/ At this point the telephone inter-
rupted Mr.. Linnard. The Ambassador
in Atlantic City was calling for any
instructions for the day. The phone
connection happened to be particular
ly wretched, exasperating-but the
Western saperboniface with ideals OF
his own refused to get exasperated.
He waited patiently, putting in quiet
word now and then to hurry things
along. His soft answers turned away
tho temperamental emotions Of tired
operators and presently the line was
| cleared.
The writer doubts that Mr.. Linnard
| has ever been known. even on the golf
links with his ball trapped. to raise
that mild, almost diffldent voice Of his
above It's wonted pitch. He would be
tho sort of boss who would get things
done on the minute, but without any
busy subordinate feeling harried An
easy boss on the nerves. in short a
pleasant man to work for or with.
Another impression he makes is that
OF carrying all memoranda and un-
limited detail in his head. TO be sum-
moned to his tongues end as requi-
site and then dismissed without the
waste motion of worry.
"The hotel industry" he resumed.
ranks as the fourth or fifth industry
Of the United States. but II never has
been put on a business basis. I think
that's the reason for much that people
who travel and stop at hotels have
come almost proverbially to complain
Of. The business has been regarded as
hazard. Rightly run 1t Is no such
thing. Men who have made fortunes
In Oil or shoes. or lumber decided to
invest in building a new hotel. Then
whom do they put in charge? Often a
man they'd never think Of trusting
with a place of corresponding impor-
lance In the kind Of business they un-
| derstand. They'll hire some likely