Show L HOTEL AND CORRIDOR F Among the hotel men who arrived in this city yesterday were some known from Maine to California Some because be-cause they are among the oldest hotel keepers in America others because of their hospitality and still others through some special honor that has been thrust upon them It is not the purpose of the Corridor to place any member of the H 1 M B A before I another but it may be interesting to say a word or two about some of the best known men who were with yesterdays yester-days delegation a a a Benjamin H Yard who was elected president of the association a year ago in New York is so popular that he was chosen for the office by acclamation Mr Yard is a modest gentleman and says that he is not a real hotel man but just the proprietor of a summer resort re-sort However he has conducted several sev-eral good ones along the Jersey coast and the Sound and has been many years in the business This season he will steer along the Monmouth house at Spring Lake beach Mr Yard is a most courteous and scholarly gentleman gentle-man and very dignified Coming from New Jersey he is of course an American can of the first water He presided at he Los Angeles convention wnere his successor G W Lynch of California Califor-nia was elected I C Mr Horace H Bro kway of the Ashland Ash-land house New York is a very prominent prom-inent member He wa elected president presi-dent in 1891 in Cleveland after he had J 1 < absolutely refused the nomination He is a fine looking gentleman with At the 91 clear cut features convention conven-tion it Ivan doubtful who would be chosen Dresident for the ensuing year and when his name was proposed he explained that he was overloaded with private and public business but the convention wouldnt see it that way and he was declared elected A strong armed committee picked him up and I carried him to the presidents chiir an unprecedented and amusing incident He w a splendid president notwithstanding not-withstanding his business matters In New York everyone knows him his offices are loaded with the filthy lucre he holds a score of private and public offices and i one doesnt know Brockway he isnt a New Yorker Mr Brockway has been a successful proprietor for nearly thirty years he i holds stock in some of the wealthiest corporations in New York is a member mem-ber of the Old Guard and a Mason from the word go Upon the death of F W Hilton in 1882 the first vicepresident J T De vine was made president Mr Devine has a host of friends here who called I on him yesterday and talked over reminiscences rem-iniscences of yore Mr Devine is best known as the popular clerk of the St James in New York and after that he managed the Long Beach hotel at Long Island He is now the proprietor of the Shore ham in Washington the rendezvous of the nations representative law makers u u The wittiest notel mAn in the whole < crowd is probably Simeon Ford who his friends say is the best after dinner speaker in America with the exception excep-tion of Depew Mr Ford is a tall thin man with rather a long face covered with wfais kers which come almost to a point In a quiet and modest way he has attracted at-tracted more attention than perhaps any either hotel man in America He is ithe proprietor of < the Grand Union in New York and secretary of the New York City Hotel association Mr Ford was the power behind She throne so to speak for years while the late W D Gunison was manager Mr Ford married into the Shaw family and in that way into the Grand Union property Not long after becoming proprietor of I this hotel he was quoted in a humorous hu-morous manner in some New York papers pa-pers and shortly after made a very funny speech at a banquet all Delmon icos Eever since he has been in demand de-mand for speeches and he is the only hotel man whose speeches always appear ap-pear in full in the papers As an actor a humorous author or on the platform Mr Ford would unquestionably tionably shine but he prefers the life of a plain Gotham hotel keeper He went to Washington some weeks ago to help get the convention for New York and the daily papers declared that his speech before the committee made him famous as an orator He is I the lucky possessor of pure spontaneous spontan-eous Wit which is neither buffonery nora nor-a play upon words and which u perfectly per-fectly natural and enforced He has a great deal of good sense and business ability and all look to him as the next president of the associationS association-S S C Another visitor with yesterdays delegation del-egation was E L Menifield who with his daughters is located in the New Yory delegation Mr Menifield is a fleshy jovial gentleman and has got Ian I-an irresistable gurgling laugh Within the last twenty years he has I made a fortune out of the Broadway j and for years was president of the N Y H lI A C S C Hon Tilly Haynes was another member mem-ber of the New York delegation seen nit the Knutsford yesterday He is proprietor I pro-prietor of the Broadway Central in I New York and the United States hotel at Boston He has lots of push and I relies greatly on his judgment having won a 10000 election bet on it at onetime one-time He was raised in Massachusetts and was a Springfield tailor He built the Haynes hotel in that city and took hold of the United States hotel in Boston > Bos-ton some years later when that house was in very straitened circumstances circumstan-ces He thoroughly modernized the house and now the hotel is one of the mot profitable C in Boston C Dr Ohlarles T Ryan proprietor of the Lafayette Place hotel in New York was one of yesterdays visitors Dr Hyam is famous for < the luxurious baiths for men in connection with his establishment estab-lishment C Gus Hoffstadt of Chicago and J P Carre of New York are clothing salesmen sales-men at the Templeton Lon Mayer of Omaha go in yesterday yester-day He is at the Templeton with picture pic-ture frames E lr Mattison and wife from Gibson city Ill are Templeton guests Mr Mattison is a banker of that place J P Smith the manager for Hoyts A Trip to Chinatown is a Templeton guest G E Ames manager of the Union iron works of San Francisco registered rut the Knutsford yesterday Cullen arrivals yesterday were C D Dorr and wife Minnesota R C Leavitt and wife Minnesota A C Grotta and wife Missouri J W Green Eureka John Homer Sunshine J F Brink and E P Creigton Grand Junction Junc-tion M Idleman Cheyenne Sol Spiro Park city P J Fennell Mercur W F Snyder Richfield I N Pratt Ogden I Og-den Rose Moore and Mrs Olsen Provo J A King Provo D C McGill and W H Bennett Ogden At the Walker yesterday were J G Jack Hite Utah J C Clayton Mer cur J E Chapman Evanston C S Puble Mercur F B Fields Omaha and George Quinn Ephraim Those registering at the Templeton yesterday were Mrs A H Foster SaUna GG C Hempstead Chicago J W Gortz New York J F Young Butte C S Wardwell and wife and Miss E J Leeds Strawford Cnn Knutsford arrivals outside the great throng of hotel people were S J Johnson Cincinnati Mrs F M Tal bott Denver O N Vale San Francisco Francis-co Henry Marx St Louis Martin Conrad Chicago H T Bell Chicago J W Wheolock New York John Watson Wat-son J E Wilson New York Harry Walker Denver A L Reed New York L B Goldberg San Francisco Mr and Mrs N 1 Markwell New York T N Ray Chicago T J Hoff men Cleveland Alex Livingston Boston Bos-ton and Mr and Mrs W E Sessions and the Masters Sessions of Bristol England Frank Olsen and wife Miss duff Coalvflle and Mrs Gatrell Ogden are I at the Hampton |