The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-04-27

All who have kept abreast Of the
times know that in recent years there
has been a remarkable development
in the hotel industry. In New York,
Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles and all
the other big cities enormous sums
have been invested in hotels by
shrewd, hard-headed capitalists. They
realize that since this became the
automobile age the world is constant
ly on the go and that the building OF
hotels has not kept pace with the de-
mands of the travelling public.
THE NORDIC will be the grandest
hotel in the Northwest. 1t will rise
eighteen stories above the street level
and the beauty of it's architecture will
make it one of the principal show
places of Minneapolis. 1t will be the
hotel for which everybody in the city
will boost, for experience proves that
every enterprise or institution of
which the residents of city are
proud is the one they always recon-
mend.
Minneapolis offers a splendid OPEN
ing for another first-class, modern
hotel, as the city has Jagged behind
communities of its class in catering
to the wants of the travelling world.
Minnesota is rapidly coming to the
front as the summer playground OF
America The beauty of it's Ten
Thousand, Lakes and its invigorating
summer climate are drawing more and
more people from all parts OF the
country and even from abroad. All
these summer tourists pass through
Minneapolis and most of them spend
considerable time here. 1t was there.
fore inevitable that men of foresight
would plan such hotel as THE
NORDIC.
But the building Of a great hotel to
meet a need, however urgent, is not
the chief purpose of the incorporators
of the Nordic Hotel Association. INA
turally / have no interest in giving
any of my crowded time to the erec-
ton of a mere hotel" says the Rev.
DIR. j. A. O. Stub, president of the
board of directors, "but l have al
ways been interested in, and impress
ed with. keeping alive the memory of
the people from whom l have sprung"
So, first and foremost THE NORDIC
will stand as an impressive memorial
to the Norwegian pioneers Of America
those strong, patient, heroic men
and women who suffered and endured
the severest hardships that their chill
dren and later descendants might
prosper and be happy. The story of
the famous voyage of the sloop RES
taurationen," which brought the first
little group of emigrants from Nor
way, in 1925, and of the founding of
the first Norwegian-American colon
les, in New York, Illinois, Wisconsin,
Iowa, the Dakotas and westward to
the Pacific, is one of the inspiring
chapters in the annals of America
though hitherto ignored by all authors
of histories of the United States
and nothing could be more fitting than
to rear monument to our Morse
forefathers IN America so impressive
that none can ignore it or overlook
the services they rendered.
Next, THE NORDIC will serve as
monument to the Nordic race as
whole. "a great inheritance it is for
the man to come of worthy people"
said Asmund Olafson Vinje. The saga
of the Norsemen stamps them as
strong, clean, forward-looking people.
They have been pathfinders and pio-
neers, not only in America, but also in
the eastern hemisphere. They were
among the first, if not the first, to
organize parliamentary systems of
government, and the scholars of Ice
land point with pride to the fact that
their parliament is the oldest in the
world.
AS explorers the Vikings rendered
services of inestimable value. They
were the first navigators to venture
out of sight of land and were the dis