The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-01-28
FLORIDA HOTEL
MEN TO MEET

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Jacksonville, Jan. 2G.-Preliminary
plans for the greatest meeting of hotel
proprietors ever held in the South, the
fifth annual convention of the Flor
ida State Hotel association. will be
discussed at a meeting of the execu-
tive board of the association, to take
place in Orlando, Wednesday, January
2Sth.
Selection of Orlando as the meeting
place of the executive board is a dis
tinct recognition and appreciative
tribute to the recent great increase in
membership from the central and gulf
coast sections of the state. More
than fifty new members from this ter
ritory have been added to the organ
ization in the past few weeks. The
association has within less than a
year grown from twenty-seven mem
bers to more than one hundred and
fifty, and is still increasing. From a
point of membership it now outranks
most statewide organizations, and
from a view point of property wealth
represented, is easily in the lead.
Eyes of the hotel fraternity of the
entire country are centered on Miami,
because of the big convention to be
held there on the 1st, 2nd and Sd of
April, and many of the most famous
hotel men of this and other countries
viii be in attendance. In addition to
the Florida hotel proprietors who will
attend, members of the Georgia, Ala
bama, North Carolina, New England
associations and others will be at the
meeting. The New England Associa-
tions and others will be at the meet
ing. The New England association,
through the invitation Of Col. E. p.
Woodbury.. LIST vice president of the
Florida association, will use a special
training in making the trip to Flor
ida, and will send between eighty and
one hundred members to the conven-
ton.
With such a delegation Of northern
hotel men in Florida just at the close
of the tourist season, the Florida as
sociation will win valuable support in
its effort to prolong the tourist season,
as the visitors will receive positive
evidence of the pleasant spring climate
of this state, and can pass the infor-
nation on to thousands of their guests
and acquaintance.
Chairman Harry L. Beeman of the
executive board of the association will
preside at the Orlando meeting, the
work of which viii be a general out
line of the convention plans, and work
of the association during future
months. Some original and practical
ideas for assisting membership hotels,
and general protection of hotel bust
ness will be presented, and such parts
of the proposed operations as are
approved will be recommended by the
board to the Miami convention.
In addition to Chairman Beeman,
members of the executive board in
clude Chas. E. Young, manager of
the Hotel Monson, St. Augustine; T.
e. Fitzgerald, editor Of the Daytona
Daily News; L. B. Skinner, owner of
the Hotel Hillsboro, Tampa: r. T.
Adams, owner of Harrington hall,
Ocala. other officers of the associa-
ton who will attend the Orlando meet
ing are, president. J. z. Kavanaugh.
manager of the Windsor Hotel Jack
sonville; First vice president Z. p
Woodbury., manager of the Hotel
Ridgewood, Daytona; Treasurer f. n.
Conrad, president of the Merchants
Whitney, Jacksonville; w. y. Urmey
Bank, Daytona; Secretary J. Harvey
second vice president will probably be
unable to attend as he is occupied
with preparations for the convention
IN Miami.
1t is expected that a keen rivalry for
the 1921 convention will develop at the
Miami meeting, as several cities of
the state are anxious to have the
hotel men visit them in a body.