Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-02

! Webster and E. w. Graves chair
| man of the board of directors an
nounced that the matter of location
for the hotel had been settled on
i Florida avenue, east Of the city.
Charles B. Hamilton manager of the
Hamilton Hotel company which will
include the Douglas hotel has express
ed himself very much in favor of that
location.
Webster was more than pleased with
the response of the people of Douglas
and with the promptnesS with which
| installments on the stock are being
met. Webster stated yesterday that
| the payments on the whole had been
! unusually fine and good deal above
the average response. In making a
statement as to the amount on hand
Graves said that the first subscriptions
had been met practically one hundred
per cent in spite of the fact that
many of the subscribers had been out
of the city and hard to reach Over
one thousand dollars has already been
paid on the second ,installments al
though they were only due yesterday.
Webster who has been instrumental
in making the hotel project here a
success has just come to Douglas from
Los Angeles where he had conferences
! with Charles B. Hamilton in regard
to the Douglas hotel. According to
Webster the hotel man is very en-
thusiastic about the Douglas hotel
Hamilton stated that there was no
doubt but that the hotel located here
would be as profitable as any of the
other prominent hotels in his chain.
When. questioned yesterday as to
/ the actual date for starting the new
hotel here, both Webster and Graves
| said that it would be good deal bet
ter to take the matter slowly. Graves
stated that there had been the usual
summer delay due to the fact that
4 five of the directors were out of the
city and mad been gone for some time.
Those directors are expected home
within the next week or so. Webster
was in favor of taking the actual con-
struction of the hotel slowly for two
reasons. First, it would be better to
! have more of the money on hand be-
fore the building starts to give the
/ project more substantial backing.
i Second, to rush the work at this time
would bring the opening in the sum-
i mer when it is much more desirable to
have it in the early fall. III
i Although it is expected that there
will be good custom in the summer
the winter season is expected to SurpaSS
that of summer. This fact would make
it possible for the hotel to acquire a
| stable custom during its first winter
that would carry it well through the.
following summer in getting estab-
/ lished. According to present plans the
hotel will be ready for business in
thesfaH of 1928. a
"The pleasing publicity already given
Douglas and the hotel by the Hamilton
company in which all of the IL hotels
in that chain carry the name of Doug
las everywhere on their literature, has
already been worth as much to the
city as the amount spent on the hotel"
said Webster. livery place that I
have gone I have seen publicity about
Douglas and the hotel"
In Alameda, Calf, the Hamilton
company opened it's most recent hotel
and the Alameda newspaper made it
the occasion for special edition, cop
les of which contained information
about the proposed hotel here, and
were mailed to all parts of the coun-
II try.
Webster mentioned the cooperation
between the Epley chain hotels and
the Hamilton organization and said
that between the two companies the
Douglas community hotel was adver-
tised in 20 principal cities of the west
and middle west.
In regard to the plans of the hotel
Webster and Graves both stated that the
preliminary sketches were going ahead
and that both Carlton M. Winslow,
architect, and Charles B. Hamilton,
| would visit this city within short
time to confer with the board of di-
rectors in regard to completing the
plans After the plans are complete
they will be approved by the board of
directors here, the Hockenburg Hotel
system and the Hamilton Chain Hotel
J company before they are actually US
ed This will insure that the con-
struction costs will fit the original
budget and that the hotel Vii have
the maximum of beauty and practi-
cability.
Another development that will in
sure success to the Douglas hotel is
the fact that a similar hotel is being
| constructed at Las Cruces, N. M, and
will be operated by the Hamilton
| chain system. Las Cruces is a good
days journey by motor from Douglas
and is also the key point of tourist
routing. A Hamilton hotel there will
! insure routing by way of Douglas of
Ea good percentage of the tourists and
Douglas will be the natural stopping
! place of all westbound traffic.
Graves brought up the subject of
naming the hotel yesterday and said
that as soon as the directors could
| againge in session upon the return of
the vacationing members they would
discuss a means of choosing a name
for the hotel. Graves said there would
undoubtedly be a contest of some sort
! and name selected that way.
Webster will be in Douglas for a few
days attending to business connected
with the hotel and will return here
again soon.
LINDBERGH REACHES FIT. PIERRE
PIERRE, S. D., Sept /, P-Col
Charles A. Lindbergh. landed safely