The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-27
Milford Man Finds A Way To Stop Big
 SilverWare Thefts
New York Hotels and Restaurants Protected by Reward Inc, Milford Conn.-S Stratfed Hotel Finds Loss
 Is 10 Per cent. Each Year.

I come in contact very closely with the silverware conditions and has gone into the nlinutest details of their losses in this department with the hotel proprietor, mana ger, etc. He has asked for suggestions to prevent this loss and the hotel man has put the saving way to overcome it square | ly up to MT. Hoyt and to his com pany.
 1 After viewing it and figuring it from every angle, he has evolved the 1 plan of stamping all flat siIverware and hollow ware with a safety sem tence on it. He has drawn the re- suits of his experience up in the form of a statement and a suggestion to the users of fiat and hollow silver ware. It is known as the "Hoyt l Plan to Prevent Pilfering." MT. l Hoyt'S plan is as follows:
 "The loss through dishonest em- ployes and souvenir hunting and | home furnishing guests of hotel silver | is today SC great something must be l done.
 Because the per cent. war tax on 1 all silver must be paid by the hotel CTS.
 Because of the, high and increas- ing cost of silver;
 Because most of all, the demand for hotel silverware is greater than the total supply; and long waits and great inconvenience are caused by the sh ortage. I suggest:
 That all silver be stamped Hotel name on front, and on the reverse stamped:
 "Should this silver be found outside Of our service phone immediately Penn. $500.
 That the Hotel Association ap-
 point one clerk to carefully attend to these calls and get in touch instantly with hotel lawyer, detective or police,
 and that the first case be given wide
 publicity.
 ."The psychological effect alone of
 this will completely stop 90 per cent.
 of this thieving.
 ''If this is done we will stamp
 above words in neat type, no charge,
 on our silver, to encourage using the
 best qualities and keeping of same
 and having personally made a study
 of hotel silvr loss I am willing to ap-
 pear before the Hotel Association and
 explain this prevention, of loss no W
 reaching a large fortune in New York
 city alone each year ;and how much
 the adoption of this plan is desired
 by hotel. restaurant. club and hos
 pital leaders in Greater New Yorh
 Ut would also mean too new meni-
 bers, at least, for the Hotel Associa
 ton and correspondinsly great in
 fiuence.''
 The casual observer and transien
 guest in the hotel dining room would f hardly believe the serious facts which . the books of the hotels disclose. 2 MT. antwen of the Hotel Stratf1el6 ' at Bridgeport, Conn.,, says that the $ rate of stealage or disappearance o. hotel flat silverware there will aver q age yearly 10 per cent. of the origina u stock. He says that this kind O. ! ware never gets a chance to wear it | self out in the hotel; that instead O - 1-3 being stolen in a decade, the r equivalent is 3-3, or the entire lot. e A prominent hotel proprietor il : New York city who had parting diff s ference with the City Hotel Associa 7, tion, said virtually the same thing | from his experience. He further re : marked that he will come back int,
 the Association with a1acrity if tn = Association will give its adherence t, = the adoption of MT. Hoyt's savin: A plan as outlined above. II A fashionable hotel in this city o II about 600 rooms found, in the audi : of it's books that it has lost 1,700 tea n spoons and 1000 silver knives il S 1919.
 Another of the large hotels of thi s city had an average loss per year fo e and size of silver knives, forks ant i spoons, and a prominent restauran
 found it's loss in one year to be sever ,- barrels of deci-tasse spoons alone. n The plan of stopping the purloin V ing of hotel si1verware, flat and hol =: low, as suggested by MT. Hoyt,, ha h the heartiest a. proval of those mos Is restaurants that are losers of silver. d One of the highest priced hote
 managers in the city thought so ia e vorably of the ''Hoyt Plan'' that h J. advised him to have it presented t T. the executive committee of the Cit > Hotel association for official action. 8 J. c. La Vim. manager of tn