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Show TRAVELING PUBLICITY AGENT, UNIQUE AD-JUNCT AD-JUNCT OF SALT LAKE CITY HOTEL. Theatrical companies have their press agents, railways their traveling passenger agents, but it remains for the management of the Kenyon hotel of Salt Lake City, Utah, to introduce to the public a traveling publicity agent, says the Denver Republican. Re-publican. Willis M. Ames, a young man of good address, wearing fine raiment and a large diamond, dia-mond, goes from city to city telling people about the Kenyon. He claims to bo the only man in the United. States engaged exclusively in hustlinq business for a hotel. "It is a post of honor," said Mr. Ames yester- B day. He was foun1 a uo desk the Albany B hotel, scanning the list of arrivals preparatory B to visiting some of them to tell them about his B hotel. "I am my own boss, practically. The pro-B pro-B prjetor of my hotel, Don H. Porter, treats mo like a B princei Like the ancient mariner, I travel from B place to place and I have my tale to tell. B "if there is any other man in exactly the same B business, I have yet to meet him. Of course my B employer has to place a good deal of confidence B in me. I have no goods to sell, no weekly or B monthly statement to make. I may appear to be fl loafing in a hotel corridor when I sit down for a B quiet talk with a guest, but at the same time 1 B am getting in a word for the institution I repre-B repre-B sent. The manager may not know that a certain B guest or a party of guests, have been sent to the B Kenyon by mo, but it has been proved that ever B since the work of advertising the hotel in this B unique manner started the business has increased. B "I am empowered, of course, to date up par-B par-B ties who go to Salt Lake and to make full aril ar-il rangements with them, but the greater part of my B duties lies in talking to everybody I can find who B contemplates a trip to the Mormon city." |