Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-03-29
new HOTEL TO
Be ERECTED THE
SUMMER
Webster. City Hotel Com
pany Takes Over The
Wilson Hotel Prop
erty.
PLAN SOME ACTION
Stockholders to Meet Soon
and Settle on Plan Of
Action.

The Webtesr City Hotel company
now owns The Wilson hotel in this
city, having taken it over from w. N.
Merrill, and plans are now under way
for the erection, probably this sum-
mer, of fine new six story structure,
with approximately 12o rooms.
Rube S. FrOndin, office architect tOr
II. l.. Stevens & Company of Chicago
who make specially of hotel building.
has visited the city and has made ten
tative plans of the new structure be-
ing planned here. The stockholders Of
the local company will be called to
gethcr within few days when they
will reach definite cohclusion as to
whether they will remodel the present
structure or erect a new one outright
The officers Of the local company are
as follows:
President. Z. Burnstedt.
Vice president-E.> $. Johnson.
Secretary-varick c. Croslcy.
Treasurer-Julius Bcrmann.
Plans Of Company.
The Webster City Hotel company has
an authorized capitalization of $780,
600, of which some $SO,OOO has been
sold The company paid Mr.. Merrill
100000 for the present hotel building
and site, including the billiard and pool
hall fronting on Des Moines street.
1t is the plan of the officers, who also
constitute the board of directors, to
have a stock sales committee out soon
to sell additional stock.
The Fl. l.. Stevens company of Chi
cago make speciality Of hotel con
structiOn and erect no other kind of
buildings. They erected the Brown.
Randolph and New Savery hotels in
Des Moines and are just now engaged
in erecting a fine large new hotel at
CrestUn.
Need Of Hotel.
Webster City needs nothing so badly
as it needs new hotel. This need
has been apparent for good many
years and it now seems certain of full
iillmcnt. The officers of the local COM
pany have given much time to going
over the proposition from every angle.
They realize full we'll that the people
of this city want Il hotel and are will
ing to finance it. 1t takes good deal
of time, however, to so out and sell
stock and the men at the head of the
are all busy men-men who
have large personal interests to look af-
ter. which accounts for the time that
has been consumed in preliminary
work. 1t is their wish to give Web
ster City the very best hotel possible
one that will earn n good profit for the
men who invest their money in it.
The proposed plan of the Stevens
company contemplates the erection of
six story building with store fronts on
both Des Moincs and Second streets
The plan contcmplates the hotel having
only the lobby. Office. dining room and
kitchen on the first floor. This makes |
an excellent rental proposition for the |!
rest of the ground floor, which plan is
now adhered to in all the larger mod !
ern hotel structures.
Now Is Time.
The officers of the local company /
have spent much time the past winter
in going over every phase of Webster
Citys hctel problem and they realize
that now is the time to start some ac-
lion which will result in the carrying
,ut OF, definite plan-either the re-
of the present building or