Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-16
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be. say the hotel People may their best
behavior when they're invited to your home but when
they know getting a living it, they
him really his money Furthermore the open door
the hotel represents big gamble While the majority of
people who hotels harmless enough there
always percentage who might contrive anything from
stealing the linen to burning down the building
Careless guests who big hole In hotel maintenance
budgets the Hotel Pennsylvania s7s2 year
ruined linen alone That year the PennxylpaHia also
lost 1852 two-ounce whisky glasses which |sie
around 81 700 and 14442 cocktail glasses also GALL
wanting for total Of S23i9 In addition 80 232 hghbal
glasses worth 200 either smashed added to
body's cupboard souvenirs
Souvenir hunters indeed, any hotels major problem
The individual who wouldn't touch penny that didn't
belong to him when visiting friends becomes a fairly
when bitten the hotel souvenir bug Unless
things nailed down there's telling what be
sidered within the keepsake orbit
At the Hotel McApin for instance the management has
cooers-enormous jardineres worth
about s5 eachsoup bowls teight at tme) and
gentleman walked off with ten silk embroidered tie
backs used the main ballroom and valued around SIS
each.
But that isn't little bedlam added souvenir
this hosiery 81 800 in china and glassware
during fiscal year Silver OF knives forks
spoons myserousy disappeared TO the tune of $227
and such comparative trivia ashtrays coffee pots ban
kets and thermos bottles the amount much higher
Topping off the rnous parade Is item of $1,000 for
spoiled dining room linen.
Sometimes the mood Is playful and often II s alcoholic
ally inspired Frequently 1t may not even be guest but
professional gentleman who has acquired the souvenir
habit The hotels can't be too careful slip and they're
beautiful libel suit Yet they've got to watch their
property After all, It's their business
Take the inveterate Nice harmless folk, but
when they take their cigarettes 10 bed watch out More
than guest pulled young inferno and
occasionally the hotel fast enough But fast slow
the linen goes and it's not small money
And not only linen. Those luscious Pension that
many of the better class New York hotels spread
shiny parquet floors cost from seven and half dollars
yard up Some OF the are Of enormous proportions
and represent minor fortunes This doesn't faze your
smoker however who has been known TO ruin both floors
and and probably never gave IT second thought
Conventions in the vernacular, ARE honeys" Although
there isn't the country that wouldn't give its
chef and half it's land real big convention
1t the bag. the convention is most trying the
hotels personnel and the usual array Of guests.
From 500 to 1900 men and women may descend on
oiet spot and there's no telling happen Oddly
enough the American Legion with Its connoations of
carosng dogs let loose the big New York hotels
the filters not long The worst was expected But
20 the lat the hotels at any rate)
hotel after hotel will now welcome any Legion concave
unreservedly Expecting deuge of ruined linen and fur
nture hostelres like the Aston the McApin the Pennsy
vana and others could not believe their eyes when they
found that the holiday veterans did only the most
trfing damage On the other hand the law of averages
caught up with the hotels when floods OF football fans
preempted blankets borrowed" thermos bottles and
cted series forward passes in Hobbies forgetting to
remove the intervening furniture and other accessories
The "deadbeat" chronic hotel malady adds to the
problem The man involved may not be an out
right cheat They may be perfectly respectable and Cod
fearing individuals caught in nasty squeeze Frequently
hotels are by celebrities and other noabes who
cannot pay their bills and then it's embarrassing for
everybody.
ton Hotels may gamble along and stake man until he is
ON his feet once other hotels may even try to con-
nect the man or that the individual obtains
work and gets back into circulation NotaDes OF celeb
rites snght be tolerated the ground that they attract
trade and sometimes they do. Butthe outandou dead
beat is given shr Hotels exchange information on
case-hardened offenders and few get away with It,
"Deadbeats" bring to mind the house detective fire.
o the butt of the Jokes Of stage and But the
hotel detective only specialized cog IN the motel machiae
of quiet From the hotel manager down the en-
Moves ewes are trained Years of meeting and handling
ALI sorts of people gives the lowy porter an insight
into g,os behavior which translates small details into
accurate story.