The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-27

and roth Street, when placing his big | contract for exclusive silver with MT | Hoyt for this fine hotel, said: 'Ill l take this fine pattern (pointing to | exclusive one) if that phrase ex- pressed in your plan will be stamped on the back of each piece of it."
 President McAdam Of the Con necticut Hotel Association, speaking | about this plan to stop offering of hotel silverware, said: "I am very | strongly in favor if it and will urge it's adoption by the Connecticut Hotel association"
 MT. McAdam is also vice president of the New England Hotel associa- ton.
 A prominent restaurant manager in this city said to MT. Hoyt: It's the finest thing I ever heard or for pre- venting the stealage of hotel and res taurant service siiverware.s'
 There is a very strong reason to be-
 lieve that the adoption of the t'Hoyt PAan'' to prevent the pilfering of hotel silver will not only act some
 what like a burglar insurance acts in protecting property but that it will induce many to join the Hotel Asso- assistance in this very important
 matter of protection against petty stea1age -~ -.-- -- | The Lotus Club the University, the mems club in the city, as well as Colony and other smart womens clubs are strongly for this saving grace" their silver. The New York Hospital is so thor oughly in favor of it that it would join the City Hotel association if this 'tHoyt Plan' were adopted and 1t would like to have the associated hospitals of the Hospital Bureau of Supplies also join. These hospitals have also experienced great loss of
 silverware through the petty pur- i Joining by patients, visitors and at | tendants.
 While hollow ware is also lost to a considerable extent the percentage of pieces fs not so large as with flat | ware. This is due of course. to the i largenesS and bulkinesS of the pack
 ages to be sneaked away. It is sur
 prising however, how many pieces of 1 hollow ware, such as coffee pots, tea pots, sugar bows and the like disap- | meals are served. One 1ady-a most
 reputable woman-wasc politely halt l ed and as politely asked to remove | the bulge in her attire. The cause pot and sugar bowl. She had pos
 sessed herself of the entire lot | though well able to buy it.
 The matter of impressing the F'Hoyt Plan' of lettering on the back
 of hotel and restaurant service silver
 ware, for sentimental reasons. was | submitted to millionaire and other hotel guests as well as to the hotel I heID Tor tnelr opinions as to It's p1OD~
 able efficiency. Both of these classes say that such silver would never be I,stealthily appropriated when so
 stamped and guarded.
 | Of course5 the safe guarding of ho- 1 tel and restaurant silverware in this | manner would reduce the sales of
 such ware to these establish m ents
 and thereby, contract the business or
 the great supply houses of such
 wares. MT. Hoyt was asked why he
 sir favor
 thing which would limit the business
 of the International Silver Company. His answer was simple and to the
 point. He said: The silver manu-
 lecturers because of the scarcity of
 material and labor and because of the
 great demand for service silverware, are not able to supply the present , demand. They are not even able to, on short notice, fill the big orders
 for hotels that are building with a desire to open, much Jess to fill in thes mailer orders-though larger in nunaber-of hotels, club, reStauTan ts
 sary by the pilfering habit of guests and employees which leaves them in
 a. crippled condition; not being able
 to get the necessary articles for the absolute daily services of meals to their guests. It is a serious propo- ) sition. It is utterly ifpossible for the } manufacturing concerns and the dis ) tributing houses to keep up with the replacement orders. I would rather
 have the hotel man buy good silver [ and keep it by protecting it in the safe guarding suggested than to have him buy cheap silver and lose it. l If the various hotel associa
 tions would get concerted action upor this proposition just like they dc upon fake cheeks, the economic end l of it would soon impress it's saving 1 in a material way upon the expense account by cutting it down; thereby increasing the profits and lessening
 the embarrassment of the hotel mana cement as we'll as the service department of the house, due to an 5 insufi cient quantity of needed ser | vice stock.
 Twenty colleges and universities of l the United States and seven colleges md high schools of Mexico have ar