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Show New Accommodations -- -- ? Broadcasting Technical Hostelries Now Offer Many Helpful Services Improvements Are Numerous Travel used to be a luxury which only the very rich could afford and traveling a series of hardships and discomforts which only the latrtly cbuid endure for long., Today, travel bag become commonplace and traveling Is a -, are not looking to their ownModern hotels are reeporutible ' interests.only but they ire helping, for much of the PninitaillY and their emire communities by The inexpensive luxury at trove the eity tsu the tionvention ing. for while the automobile. ho, the tame Nowadays groups. e ilv tma widch have the mammies and the railmad train end "lane "are aelred Ina nrenken oustroom to handle convention - quick. easy and comfortable transPortstkon from Piece UP place. yet without up to date, 'welt equIPPed hetes' tre"t wet" still be unpopular. No matter how pleasant day of- - moving In the best of machines might be. none of us would travel without necessity it at the end of each day's totuney we had to ;Pee.. the night- In an tmcomfortable place The modern hotei, far from be. ing uncomfortable. oilers nearly all of the comforts and convent, mato of borne (plus many which the average home cannot affords and hotel men are constantly on ' the lookout for new and better to offer their guests. thinpGantt& (lenitive First Rooms in the modern hotel not tallY have the article. At furniture necessary for the guest's convenience, a bathroom with unlimited supply of hot water, a roomy closet. a soft bed all these things and many more are taken for granted in the ho- tel of today. and will be even more in the hotel Of tomorrow. and Rooms are attractively cheerfully decorated. weal:043er end carpets kept new, furniture , kept homelike. Attractive and graceful Prints grace the Walla. careful attention Is tire" to ing color harmony prevail be- tweee bedepread. window drapes, carpets and wallpaper and the whole atmosphere is calculated make the Wet feel complete' ty at home. are arrangements Lighting completely modem and scientle.aman to provide ically designed Pie suPPiv of sCit tliffubed light for the full room or for the writ- ing desk, the shaving mirror inthe bathroom or even for readlog in bed. and lobby of the hotel are air conditioned to provide even, healthful temperature through the hottest days of sum- mer and the coldest day of win- ter. BY EUGENE G. PACK iKSL Chief Engineer) Radio is a modern miracle that Is today taken for granted by hundreds- - of millions- - of people around the globe. From it we take our entertainment, hear- - our dramas learn our music. absorb- - co. la Roma are standard equipment - In the-- rooms of many hotels and many hotels have a special hook. up so that from the hotel office' any special or emergency an-nouncementa cotild be put over the radio system into every room. Hotel staffs are prepared to every possible service to guests, and arrange for all types of trips and 'entertainments for tourists.. Sightseeing trine leave from the hotel doors and hotel attendants will secure for guests any tickets he may want for en-tertainment in town or for travel up to and including steamship tickets. When tickets are bought.. all detail will be attended to through the hotel arrangements and the guests' baggage taken right aboard train. plane or bus. In looking to the future. hotels are becoming more and more 'convention minded." To keep up .inact keep Improving the high standards that have already been reache& the ordinary run of tray. el does not provide sufficient support, porticularly when Informal travel by motor car with stops at tourist camps Is becone log more and more popular. In turning a large part of their at. tention to conventions, the hotels day. hartneat. streines ileumties Problems The head of the convention die familiarises eemmtenitY'' atuntel' its needs, makes tha ao, quaintance of the leading- buil, mem men and groups and earn so. ventions Jand to plan to meet all their needs. Its, the competition for eonvete tion business, direct mail Meer. tising-atil- l leads as the most pop, ler and most effective advertising Medium for the hotels. In all tnich canuntmications of leader of convention groups Information is suPPlied as to the special ad; vantages of meeting in a paticti. lar locality and the most up to .. 4;117; vanettlau;erntl17:174.? - newt of the day and follow the actual sound of history. ft is cot of those recent innovations view--ed. at firs t. as a novelty. Now it Is a powerful force that effects many phaseit of our lives each nein tonally triaintain special convimtion and antertaimnent deo Mtrtthoroughly ' ; , t j atutcca the opposition by lining up a full tentative program. motet, with Interest. and submitting it to the Travel, in the United Sicttes has grown to its present status largely because Of the comforts and conveniences offered by such hotels as this one in San Francisco, where plans are being made to house the great tourist influx of 1939 to the Golden- Gate International sition. board ot directors of each convention grotto for their approval. many of the ommtun 'terns hare no direct connection with the hotel. but only show the readinese of the hotel management to cooperate to making the convention a real success. When conventions are actual13, being ohmed. the local committee of the organization which m meeting meet, regular- . ly with the hotel convention department heads. who are trained and schooied in the art of maktug such meetings highly successful. Meelleg Restos Each 'lams hotel maintains a large number of meeting rooms ot various sizes. to bt able to meet any convention need. the rooms kept up in first class dition at all Omen The service department of the successful hotei is maintained second to none. regardless of cost for the ''boys" on duty are the real salesmen of thnhotel and come In closer tact vrith the guests than one ells. Wide awaket alert front desk clerks soars no effort In reservations straight, keeping-aeven in the rush and crush of a convention. big Hotel managers have found That is it not enough to work to obtain the booking for a COISIVIP lion. alto of which is often dean. fluted a full year in advance. Throughout that year the hotel snail is working with the cote vention organization keeping in touch committee and lbee:ne71 asaletIng "eking out much attention to making a success of the ("ming meeting as - if it were the hotels own. Salt Lake hotels have been hietily successful in meeting these convention needs and to their tefforts as well as to those Commerce of the Chamber of and various organizations is due the fact that so many nation. al and regional conventions have awe to this city in the past few years. A startlingup expansive picture of what large hotels in the biggest centers of population will do to cooperate in huge crowd. drawing enterprises is shown in the plans which are being carried out in New York and San Francisco in preparation for next year's Worlds Fairs. Long before the tremendous In flux of Visitant to the' big ex-- , any-Radi- positions actually begirui. the hotels of the two cities will have dollar prepamade rations and will present a solid front of spick and span modernity. The amount of money which different New York hotels report that they are spending on improvements. now equipment all and general moriernirsition. to be completed "in time for the PPi." wills up to several millions of dollars. Similarly. it is reported that the crowds that will pour over San Francisco's mighty new bridges to view the Golden Gate International Exposition next will have little trouble in finding satisfactory lima guarmulti-millio- tem , ,,1114c,.,0-!..- , Let's go back for a moment, though. to radio conditions as we knew them fifteen years ago. Can you remember the radio eats of that day? Possibly not. For there were not very many. Most of them were crystal receivers with earphones attached. What radio there were came programs through loaded with static.- - al. most indistinguishable. In those intervening few years. radio engineers have acnieved advances that would have been thought both practically and eco. nomically impossible. For on the wings of thousands and- thou.-oli.ktAblvismommam ands of minor and MOM' .1m. Radio broadcasting has made great strides in the past few years. Among the tech. provernents. we !save radio as it is today, Meal advancements has been the perfection of new types of specialized microRadio technicians in broadcastphones for certain purposes. Here is shown a "gatling gun" type of microphone ing technique have paralleled used to pick up sources of sound 2,000 to 3.000 feet away. This type is used to rethese advancements with expert. mania and innovation, that bring cord The sounds of cars at high speeds on the Bonneville Salt Flats. radio to you more naturally and more efficiently than ever before. In the studios, toot radio goes steadily ahead. There was a time when a broadcasting station had Just one carbon microphone to broadcast all its pmgrams. KSL now uses five distinct types every day. and has two additional types for unusual microphone assignmente The "getting gun" type, illus. trated at the right. Is used to pick up sources of sound 4000 to 3.000 feet from the microphone. It can be used, for initance. in recording the sound of cars at on the Bonneville high speed Salt Flats.. for picking up airplane motor noise at a distance. and so on Like any enduring art or pro- fassicto- - these advancements rep.. resent to radio engineers only a challenge for future development. It is entirely within the realm of possibility that in another fit-teen years, today's equipment will teem as antiquated and in- as the adequate equipment of 1925 yeerns to us today. e GREETINGS FOR THE HOLIDAYS I .n.S we turn s dor from 1938 to 1939, tends greetings NOW in ALTHOUGH , 11 BUILD Moue Amo Lower Ind rzywagol &War K 5 L ex- to its Fainity of Listeners throughout the West. SAVE EIDIIEY PLAN the pages of the caten years I during each of Rs 17 has brought you out- KSL. standing radio entertainment, the coming year promises an even more noteworthy program schedule. DAY To YOU WHO HAVE HONORED US WITH YOUR PATRONAGE, GOOD-WILAND FRIENDSHIP, ' WE EXTEND THANKS AND PLEDGE OURSELVES TO MAKE THE HOTEL UTAH AN INSTITUTION OF WHICH EVERY UTAIIN MAY WELL BE PROUD. 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