Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-21
SUCCESS IS
ASSURED FOR.
TOURIST HOTEL
Nearly One-Third of Money
Needed Is Pledged On
Monday
DRIVE STARTS
Project Is Approved AS
An Excellent Investment
In City

More than so men representing the
businesses and professions Oh the city
of Douglas assembled last evening in
the annex of the First Presbyterian
church for the first conference dinner
in the campaign to sell the stock for
the building of the tourist hotel. The
meeting was punctuated by keen en-
thusiasm. L. A. Webster, representa-
tive of the Hockenbury system, which
is assisting the local men in building
the hotel, stated during an address to
the gathering that nearly $4,000 has
been raised already toward the venture
and that by Wednesday when the real
stock selling campaign is to start he
expects to have all of that amount IT
not great deal more.
The whisper of the knocker that the
Gadsden hotel purchase and announced
rebuilding was a blow to the tourist
hotel was definitely and finally
squelched by Webster, who stated that
this deal is only part of the hotel
program of the city and a necessary
and very fine thing at this time. He
pointed out that the fact that outside
capital is willing to come here to that
extent is a proof that there is con-
fidence in the city.
He stated further that the demand
for first class hotel Accommodations de-
nands that the Gadsden be rebuilt and
refurnished and that in so doing the
Gadsden is only to be listed as strong
ally to the new hotel.
Postmaster E. j. .Huxtable, who is
chairman of the sales division acted as
chairman of the meeting. He intro
duced E. w. Graves, vice president OF
the First National bank and one of the
leaders in the hotel movement. Graves
told of the history of the effort to build
a tourist hotel here, saying that the
idea first started in 1924.
He told of the great wealth and in
crease in population and prosperity
that has come to Tucson and Phoenix
because the people of those cities have
provided adequate Accommodations Tor
a class of people who will not stop in
city that does not afford them a good
place in which to live.
Huxtable spoke on stock selling. He
coached the men present. His talk was
brief but full of timely comment. He
pointed out that the stock in this hotel
is good investment, that in selling it
the salesman do not have to resort to
trickery, that they are. selling a good
solid investment and that it is worth
every cent that is put into it.
L. A. Webster representative of the
Hockenbury system, brought the meet
ing to climax in a talk that covered
every vital phase of the undertaking
He said that everything in connection
with the entire project was being car
ried on in perfectly open manner and
that every person who takes any in
terest in the new hotel is entitled tc
know everything about the operations
that are going on.
| Among the points he made plain are
that his system does not get a penny
for their efforts unless and until the
hotel is built and is on a paying basis
that when this is done they get pei
cent and no more and that they do moi
! get any portion of the stock.
Another thing that he emphasized
is that the Hamilton hotel system
wants to operate the new hotel; that
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