The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-31
BOREDOM ANNEX IS PLANNED FOR
 TUTW|LER HOTEL
Vice Presiednt Wiggens of United Hotels Company Visits City-WiIl Report
 Proposition Favorably

"One of the important things under consideration during my visit to Birmingham is the building of a I0O-room annex to. the Tutwiler. There seems to be a great need for the ad- dition and I shall report fa- vorably on the question when l return to headquarters in New York"
 This sta tement was given out yesterday by Vice President Horace Leland Wig gins of the United Hotels Company, who has been here for the past few days looking over the situation and confer ing with Manager Harry Halfacre in re- gard to number of proposed improve ments and developments for Birming- hams big hotel.
 This is my first visit to Birmingham in four years MT. wiggins said. and l have been greatly impressed with the tremendous growth of the city and the great improvement. There seems to be great deal of pep and go to every thing and everybody, and there is quite a cosmopolitan air about the city that impresses the stranger tremendously
 TWO TWENTIES" ''On my way from New York; MT. Wiggins continued, T happened to say something to the Pullman porter about where l was going and when I mentioned Birmingham he said: Vas, boss, dats a nice town; deys got two twenties dar' : was a little puzzled and asked him what he meant by two twenties.' He promptly replied: 'Yas. boss. dey's got two twenty story buildings dar.'
 Tt was a unique way to describe Bir- mingham and when 1 arrived I at once looked for the porter's two twenties, which I quickly found.
 T am accompanied on my visit to Birmingham by Harry Goldsmith, me- chanical engineer,'' MT. Wiggins said who is an expert in such matters. He wanted to look over the situation and the damage done in the cellars of the Tutwier by the floods of last summer. There was considerable damage done, and Mir. Goldsmith will remedy the con- dition, which has been very inconyenient and almost impossible to control.
 There are a number of other things which MT. Halfacre and have gone over together, improvements and developments, and just here let me say that it is matter of sincere apprecia- tion with the United Hotels Company the cordial manner in which Birmingham has given it's support to MT. Halfacre; it shows civic pride in it's holet. for that's what the Tutwiler is--Birming- hams hotel--and without local support it would have been hard to accomplish anything worth while.
 FOND OF SOUTH
 T am very fond of the south." MT. Wiggins said. and at one time I had in mind buying winter home in the south I have been greatly impressed during my visit to Birmingham and hope to have the pleasure of visiting here every few months My office requires visiting the various hotel managers in our chain of fifteen hotels, only one of which is located in the south, and that is right here in Birmingham.
 "We are preparing to open two new hotels in December. one in Steubenville Ohio, and the other in Flint, Mich. We are also preparing to build large hotel in Trenton and we are making a o0o- room addition to the King Edward hotel in Toronto and we will also build ho- tel in Montreal Our activities are enormous, and in none of them are we more interested than in Birmingham. and the much needed 100-room annex to the Tutwiler''.
 Mr. Wiggins is a man of arable and pleasing manner and genial clever, a born hotel man, his father, six uncles and three great-uncles having been hotel men. MT. Wiggins makes his home at the "Penn-Harris' in Harrisburg, of which he was manager before being made vice president of his company, with headquarters at 3 West Forty-fifth street, New York City.
 MT, Wiggins expressed the highest ap- preciation of the fine management of the Tutwiler by Harry Halfacre and his assistant, Charles F. Wicks. and an- nounced that Birmingham is highly re- garded by all the officials of his com pany, and none are more enthusiastic concerning it's progressiveness. it's loy- alty and it's big -heartedness than him. self.
 Mir. wiggins leaves today for New York.