Show HOTELS MUST COME TO IT sir arr me alsi alla of funny fanny things thing about future I notel keeping Ite the day will come and long iong before we 10 date our oar letters 1919 when the hotels in this country will have improvement which will wid make the guests fiel blut at they have nothing to faid nd fault with certainly that will vm be a great gnat period a surprising one to the much abused abased hotel keeper keeper E L merrifield Jiler president of thi th hotel keepers association looked very verv serious as he be uttered these words what will those improvements bet be many hany very many but just now I 1 will mention only one or two lest somo some hotels begin the new styles before peo pie lile are used to the change from one system tem to another heres one fo for r in ia i stance the hotels will be so big in in a few years that when a guest gets up op say eay on the twenty ninth floor hell fini find as he steps out of the elevator that his hii room is a quarter of a mile away e count oun t ing I 1 all the halls and corners hell have t to 0 travel through before he gets the there re well the halls will be broad and electric cars light and airy as wicker baskets will pass along alo g every few minutes all ho he will hal have ve to do when he gets on his floor is to press a button the car will do the rest it will whiz down his way wa ly with the conductor at the wheel like any cable car outdoors at present pick him up and hes in his room before hes hall had time to say jack robinson you yon smile I 1 dont for im serious more than that hotels will probably have private elevators for every large larga parlor arlor room on top floors after the eleo elec ric car gets behind the age take space of L course but what of t that ha t the hotel hote 1 keeper is supposed to bo the only man r who ho must spend pend all he makes to benefit his guesto he does not work for a living like eke ordnary orul nary men m en not he his fate front from boyhood is mapped out to do everything he can to make others happy at his expense but to resume 6 tha private elevator of each room wi will 11 be soon followed if not ac nied by pneumatic tubes for trunks and baby carriages with the babies in thorn them and smaller ones for letters and bundles I 1 moro more than that A visitor will I 1 feel fee I 1 bertain jer zer tain bo ba shot up through the tubes after the guests guesta have seen their cards wd piped down all right send him ip p it will be very to see an apparent closet door fly open quickly and tho friend of your better days iu in full dress and hat in hand step out is as ono does in and out of a carriage in the F treet street and greet you with a smile how aro arc you old banle man or words to that effect then of tho the way overtaxed tailors can be avoided too by their customers among the guests who have forgotten to set settle atle up how easil easily Y thero will be no hotel registry for the moment a guest is assigned to a room he will vill probably walk up to a machine rattle over a few keys with a pen while writing his name and just as he signs it it will appear on a card on the inside of tho the proprietors private office names are signed i nel miles away now by wire or well hotel men inen are close at hand in this signature business I 1 hope to live long enough to see all the improvements prove ments mr Merri fields eyes twinkled as he concluded when the hotel keepers association meets one of these great improvements prove ments is to be tested which one it will bo I 1 dont know yet but that tho the electric lec idec car in tho the hallways is a n near ear future event in hotel improvements is a load dead certainty t new york H herald erald |