From the Archives of the New
York Times Newspaper:
Articles about Ellsworth M. Statler
and the Statler Hotels
Note: Most articles are a preview only. Some will contain a link to a PDF file or Microsoft Word document for the whole article. There were quite a few articles that just mentioned the Statler Hotel as a meeting place or due to some event that took place there and those were not included here.
| == 1895 == |  |
== 1895 == |
Wednesday, August 27, 1895 : Page 6, 767 words
A NEW BOWLING LEAGUE - Changes in Rules for the Sport for the Winter
At the convention of bowlers held at Beethoven Hall, Fifth Street, last night, a permanent organizaiton, to be known as the National League of American Bowlers, was effected. FULL ARTICLE
| == 1901 == | |
== 1901 == |
Wednesday, June 14, 1901 : Page 1, 975 words
SECRETARY HAY SPEAKS AT A BUFFALO BANQUET; Talks of the Brotherhood of the Western Nations.
BUFFALO, June 13. -- Secretary of State Hay was the guest of honor at a dinner given this evening by the Board of Directors of the Pan-American Exposition to the National Editorial Association. One thousand covers were laid in the great dining room in Statler's Hotel, the banquet being the largest in the history of the city. FULL ARTICLE
Wednesday, June 14, 1901 : Page 1, 163 words
NEW YORK PRESS ASSOCIATION.; Meets at Buffalo, Listens to Addresses, and Elects Officers.
BUFFALO, June 13 - President William Kline of the New York Press Association called the annual convention of that body to order in Statler's Hotel this morning and delivered his annual address. FULL ARTICLE
Wednesday, September 9, 1901 : Page 12, 266 words
Reunion of Vassar Alumnae
The Vassar Alumnae Association of Buffalo has made arraignments for the reunion of all visiting alumnae to the Pan-American Exposition on Saturday, Sept. 14. A luncheon will be served at Statler's Stadium Restaurant... FULL ARTICLE
| == 1909 == | |
== 1909 == |
Tuesday, October 5, 1909 : Page 9, 240 words
BELLEW WAS NEAR DEATH.; Ruptured Blood Vessel of Nose, and Only His Strength Saved Him.
BUFFALO, N.Y., Oct. 4. - Owing to having ruptured a blood vessel of the nose, Kyrle Bellew almost bled to death in his room in the Hotel Statler here this morning... FULL ARTICLE
| == 1910 == | |
== 1910 == |
Friday, January 28, 1910 : Page 4, 313 words
WOMAN CAPTURES BURGLAR; Routs Him with a Vase When He Chokes Mother and Chases Him.
BUFFALO, Jan. 27 -- Mrs. Bama Baylitts, sister of E.M. Statler, a well-known hotel-man, captured a burglar this afternoon after a struggle in which she and her mother, Mrs. M.A. Statler, 70 years old were injured. FULL ARTICLE
| == 1912 == | |
== 1912 == |
Sunday, June 16, 1912 : Section: PARTS III AND IV Transatlantic Wireless Cable and Sporting Sections, Page C2, 1156 words
PARIS DULL SOCIALLY.; Already Making Plans for Independence Day Celebrations.
PARIS, June 15. Beyond some entertaining in the hotels and among the American colony,
the week has been rather dull. ...
After a fortnight here L. Rorheimer of Cleveland, Ohio, has left Paris for London to
continue his search for art treasures for the Statler Hotel, which he opened at Cleveland
in the Fall. FULL
ARTICLE
| == 1914 == | |
== 1914 == |
Friday, January 9, 1914 : Page 9, 908 words
SIMEON FORD SAYS HE'S GETTING OLD; Hotel Proprietor Declares He Is the Senile Survivor of the Old Guard. RECALLS THE PALMY DAYS "Don't Blow Out the Gas and No Flatirons in the Bedrooms," Was the Joyous Era for Hotel Men.
Simeon Ford "came back" last night. After two years of retirement he appeared among the speakers at the thirty-fifth annual dinner of the New York City Hotel Association at the Waldorf. FULL ARTICLE
Tuesday, June 30, 1914 :
HOTEL LINEN NOT STOLEN - What One House Loses Another Gains, and It Is All Evened Up.
One cause for the disappearance of linen from a big hotel has been discovered by General Manager Bowman... FULL ARTICLE
| == 1916 == | |
== 1916 == |
Tuesday, April 25, 1916 : Page 6, 676 words
WILL PUT $6,000,000 IN NEW HOTEL HERE; E.M. Statler Says His Company Is to Erect Building of at Least 2,000 Rooms.
New York is to have a new 2,000-room hotel, to cost from $6,000,000 to $8,000,000, to be one of the Statler chain, according to an announcement made last evening by E.M. Statler, an officer of the hotel company. FULL ARTICLE
Friday, November 24, 1916 : Page 11, 1645 words
PROHIBITION'S GHOST LAID BY HOTEL MEN; Hostelries of America Will Never Go Dry
The hotel men now in conference at the Grand Cental Palace did their best yesterday to discourage the fear of national prohibition that some of their number had expressed in informal conversation during the previous days. FULL ARTICLE
Note: Ellsworth is referenced as Edward M. Statler in the article.
Friday, December 8, 1916 : Page 9, 764 words
PAY FUNERAL HONOR TO GEORGE C. BOLDT; Fifth Avenue Trade and Traffic Halt as Cortege Moves to St. Thomas's. CORNELL'S CLASSES STOP Men of Millions and Employes Join in Sending Floral Tributes to Hotel Man's Memory.
Men of millions rubbed elbows with, bellboys and waiters at the funeral of George C. Boldt, proprietor of the Waldorf-Astoria, yesterday. In the massive bank of flowers filled the chancel, about the altar of St. Thomas's Church, Fifth Avenue and Fifty-third Street, where the services were held, the largest wreath was one of white lilies from the waiters of the Waldorf. FULL ARTICLE
Sunday, December 10, 1916 : Page X12, 2146 words
PATRONS MUST HELP IN RUNNING A HOTEL; Many of Their Complaints Unjustified, Says Noted Hotel Man -- Too Few Rooms Reserved Ahead.
ONE of the most-talked-of features of the recent convention here of the New York State Hotel Association was a paper by E.M. Statler of Buffalo, who has hotels in Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, and St. Louis, on "How Poor Is a Good Hotel?" Mr. Statler says criticising hotels was the most popular topic of conversation among traveling men with the possible exception of the weather. FULL ARTICLE
Sunday, December 17, 1916 :
STATLER GETS HOTEL LEASE - Buffalo Man Will Operate Pennsylvania's 2,200-Room House
Plans for the Hotel Pennsylvania, now under construction by the Pennsylvania Railroad on the Seventh Avenue block front between Thirty-second and Thirty-three Streets... FULL ARTICLE
| == 1917 == | |
== 1917 == |
Saturday, January 20, 1917 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 14, 1176 words
NEW INCORPORATIONS
ALBANY, N. Y., - Jan. 19. - Forty corporations having aggregate capitalization of $3,044,000 were chartered today. They include: New York Hotel Statler Co., Inc., ... FULL ARTICLE
Sunday, June 3, 1917 : Section: The New York Times Magazine, Page 59, 1866 words
Novel Ideas in Managing City's Largest Hotel; E.M. Statler Outlines His Plans for New Pennsylvania--Once a Bellboy, He Formulates Maxims on Service, Prices, and Tips
SOME time in 1918 the largest hotel in the world will be opened on the Seventh Avenue block between Thirty-second and Thirty-third Streets, opposite the Pennsylvania Rail road Station. FULL ARTICLE
| == 1918 == | |
== 1918 == |
Tuesday, April 9, 1918 : Page 24, 994 words
EXPLOSIONS ROCK BIG NEW HOTEL; Flames Jump from the Pennsylvania and Wreck Six Buildings. DYNAMO PLANT BLEW UP Women and Children In Pennsylvania Railroad Station in a Panic.
A fire just after 9 o'clock last night, followed by an explosion in the Pennsylvania Hotel, being built at Thirtythird Street and Seventh Avenue, damaged six buildings on the opposite side of Thirty-third Street, and several women with children, who had just arrived from out of town at the Pennsylvania Railroad Station, fainted, but were revived in nearby drug stores. FULL ARTICLE
Monday, June 24, 1918 : Page 15, 577 words
BOND ISSUE BY STATLER CO.; Seek $3,000,000 to Retire Debts and Equip Hotel Pennsylvania.
The Hotel Statler Company, Incorporated, which operates hotels in Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, and St. Louis and will manage the Hotel Pennsylvania in this city when it is completed, has negotiated a loan for $3,000,000 from S.W. Straus Co. in the form of a serial bond issue bearing interest of 6 percent a year. FULL ARTICLE
Friday, September 27, 1918 : Page 15, 126 words
To Manage the Hotel Pennsylvania.
Roy Carruthers of San Francisco has been selected as manager of the Hotel Pennsylvania... FULL ARTICLE
| == 1919 == | |
== 1919 == |
Saturday, January 25, 1919 : Page 9, 1118 words
WORLD'S BIGGEST HOPEL OPENS TODAY; The Pennsylvania, with 2,200 Rooms and 2,200 Baths, Ready for Guests. COMMODORE OPEN TUESDAY McAlpin Will Add 300 Rooms the Same Day--New York Gains 4,500 Hotel Rooms Within a Week.
The incandescent sky line over the heart of New York received a big addition to its candlepower last night when on the gloomiest offshoot of Times Square hundreds of windows were illuminated in the largest tavern in the world, the Hotel Pennsylvania, which had its public opening today. FULL ARTICLE
Friday, October 10, 1919 : Page 27, 347 words
BONUS FOR HOTEL WORKERS; Manager Statler Devises Thrift Plan for 7,000 Employes.
E. M. Statler, President of the company which operates the Hotel Pennsylvania and several out of town hotels, announced yesterday that he had established a bonus and thrift plan for the employees of his hotels. FULL ARTICLE
Wednesday, October 29, 1919 : Page 1, 1209 words
PACKERS INVESTED HEAVILY IN STOCK OF 6 HOTELS HERE; Letters from Swift & Co.'s Files, Introduced at Chicago Hearing, Make Disclosure.
CHICAGO, Ill., Oct. 28.--Through oral testimony and through correspondence of Swift Co., which was introduced as evidence today, at a hearing before the Interatate Commerce Commission, was revealed the fact that the packers had extended their activities to the hotel business... FULL ARTICLE
| == 1920 == | |
== 1920 == |
Tuesday, August 31, 1920 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 20, 96 words
Statler to Manage Pennsylvania.
E. M. Statler, President of the Hotels Statler Company, announced yesterday that he will assume personal management of the Hotel Pennsylvania, succeeding Roy Carruthers, who is to become director of the Waldorf-Astoria. FULL ARTICLE
Sunday, October 10, 1920 : Section: Editorial, Page 25, 1178 words
PROHIBITION KEEPS HOTEL PRICES UP; Managers Deny Food Costs Will Be Reduced or Room Rates Increased. 1,000% ON A POT OF TEA But Wages Have Been More Than Doubled and Sources of Income Cut, it is Said.
New York hotel managers yesterday denied reports that they contemplated reducing food prices and increasing room rates. FULL ARTICLE
| == 1921 == | |
== 1921 == |
Sunday, January 23, 1921 : Page 8, 100 words
PENNSYLVANIA CUTS PRICES.; 223 Food Items Reduced 15 to 25 Per Cent. in Statler Hotel.
The Hotel Pennsylvania yesterday announced an average cut of 15 per cent in its prices. FULL ARTICLE
Thursday, November 17, 1921 : Section: Sports, Page 25, 510 words
HOTEL MEN IN GOLF TILT.; Stevens and Hall Lead in Tourney on Rye Course.
The first annual golf tournament of the Hotel Men of the United States was played yesterday over the South course of the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club at Rye. Sixty-four hotel men from various parts of the country, took part in the tournament, which was a handicap affair. FULL ARTICLE
Note: See the article to find out Ellsworth's golf score...
| == 1922 == | |
== 1922 == |
Sunday, January 15, 1922 : Section: Book Review & Magazine, Page 39, 4809 words
AFTER TWO "DRY" YEARS; After Two "Dry" Years
By P.W. WILSON
TOMORROW being the sixteenth of January, the Eigh teenth Amendment to the American Constitution prohibiting the manufacture, sale and distribution of alcoholic liquor as a beverage will have been in theoretically full enforcement for two years. Such a challenge to the immemorial habits of mankind on ... FULL ARTICLE
Wednesday, April 26, 1922 : Section: Sports, Page 27, 309 words
HOTEL MEN ON LINKS.; Members of Golf Association Play at Westchester-Biltmore.
The Hotel Men's Golf Association held its opening tournament of the season yesterday on the links of the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club at Rye, N. Y., about forty golfers taking part in the inaugural. FULL ARTICLE
Note: E. M. Statler is listed as Edward M. Statler.
Monday, May 22, 1922 : Page 12, 334 words
WILSON FUND GAINS IN SOUTH CAROLINA; Now One of States in Race to Complete Their Quotas Toward Foundation.
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation announced here yesterday that South Carolina had joined the "Wilson group" of States in a race for completion of quotas in the fund of $1,000,000, which is to be used in the creation of a series of annual prizes for meritorious public service. FULL ARTICLE
Friday, May 26, 1922 : Section: Real Estate, Page 38, 462 words
$8,000,000 HOTEL FOR BOSTON SOON; Statler Co. Buys 58,000 Square Feet for 1,200-Room Structure in Back Bay District.
Boston is to have the largest hotel in the world outside of New York City. It will be built in the heart of the Back Bay district by the Hotel Statler Company and its estimated cost is put at $8,000,000, including land and furnishings. FULL ARTICLE
Saturday, May 27, 1922 : Page 9, 155 words
SUE FOR BOSTON HOTEL SITE; New England Interests Move to Halt Sale to Statler Company.
BOSTON, May 26.--A bill in equity to enjoin the New York, New Haven Hartford Railroad Company from selling certain land in the Park Square section to the Statler Hotel Company, Inc., of New York, was filed in the Supreme Court today by the Preferred Underwriters, Inc., and the Bostonia, Inc. FULL ARTICLE
Saturday, May 27, 1922 : Page 10, 262 words
MANY HOTEL MEN AIDING WILSON FUND; Contributions Include $500 From Charles E. McAlpin-- David H. Knott Active.
David H. Knott, former Sheriff and Vice Chairman of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Committee here, announced yesterday that many contributions were being received from hotel men in this city. As a hotel man and member of the Legislative Committee of the Hotel Association, Mr. Knott has been working for the fund among the members of his organization. FULL ARTICLE
Wednesday, May 31, 1922 : Page 4, 42 words
Statler Buys a Buffalo Hotel.
BUFFALO, N.Y., May 30.--Sale of the Hotel Iroquois, the oldest of the large hotels in Buffalo, to E.M. Statler was announced tonight, Mr. Statler said that he would continue operation of the hotel for the present. FULL ARTICLE
Thursday, June 1, 1922 : Section: Sports, Page 24, 287 words
ALLENHURST GOLFER LEADS HOTEL MEN; Bloomfield Hullick Wins Low Net Prize in Tourney at Westchester-Biltmore.
Bloomfield Hullick of Allenhurst, N. J. won the low net prize in the hotel men's golf tournament at the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club yesterday. FULL ARTICLE
Note: See article to view Ellsworth's score...
Sunday, June 4, 1922 : Section: Special Features, Page 93, 4409 words
A BELL BOY'S RISE; E.M. Statler, Owner of Big Hotels, Began Work at Nine Years --Got His Education Watching the Guests He Served--His First Venture
FROM working in the "glory hole" of a glass factory to being pro prietor of a chain of hotels known the world over is going a long way. That is the story of E.M. Statler. He insists on plain initials. FULL ARTICLE
Saturday, June 10, 1922 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 25, 243 words
$10,000,000 IN LOANS.; Mortgages Made by Metropolitan Life as an Aid to Housing.
Loans on bond and mortgage amounting to more than ten million dollars were yesterday authorized by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Of this amount more than six and one-third million dollars were for housing, these including a loan to the new Statler Hotel... FULL ARTICLE
Sunday, July 2, 1922 : Section: Special Features, Page 83, 1539 words
NEW YORK'S "WELCOME"
NEW YORK has been called the friendless city, but if a new association formed to welcome strangers has its way, this is going to be the friendliest city in the world. FULL ARTICLE
Wednesday, July 5, 1922 : Section: Sports, Page 31, 1689 words
FULLER GOLF CUP TAKEN BY WALKER; He Beats Fowler, Holder of Trophy, by Three Strokes on Richmond County Links. SWEETSER IN GOOD FORM Paired With Carison, Metropolitan Champion Leads Reid and Anderson at Ardsley.
With a selected score of 68, A. Lucian Walker, former intercollegiate champion and semi-finalist in the recent metropolitan amateur championship at Lakewood, captured the Henry J. Fuller Trophy for 1922 at the Richmond County Country Club, Staten Island, yesterday. FULL ARTICLE
Note: See section about the Belleclaire Golf and Country Club to see E. M. Statler's golf score...
Tuesday, November 21, 1922 : Page 7, 397 words
HOTEL MEN GATHER FOR ANNUAL SHOW; Several Conventions Also Will Be Held During a Crowded Week Here. STATLER IS HOST TO 500; He Declares Golden Rule Best at a Luncheon In the Hotel Pennsylvania.
The seventh annual Hotel Exposition opened yesterday in Grand Central Palace. The show and the conventions that will be held during the week have brought thousands of visitors to the city. The exposition is said to eclipse all previous hotel shows. Three floors of the Palace are being used, although two floors sufficed last year. There are more than 300 exhibitors. FULL ARTICLE
Sunday, December 17, 1922 : Section: Sports, Page 28, 456 words
NEW CUP OFFERED FOR SMALL CRAFT; Cumberland Trophy Is Presented for Competition bySix-Meter Yachts.
Still another trophy for international competition among six-meter yachts has been offered. This is the Cumberland Cup of the Royal Thumps Yacht Club, which has been presented by Lord Queenborough, Vice Commodore of that famous organization. FULL ARTICLE
Note: There is mention of E. M. Statler purchasing the power house yacht Miramar. In an Apr. 26, 1926 Time Magazine article, it mentions that in November of 1925, the Miramar disappeared in stormy weather off of Florida's east cost. All eleven hands were lost. See below for December, 1925 for more references to NYT articles.
| == 1923 == | |
== 1923 == |
Saturday, January 26, 1923 : Page 13, 72 words
Statler Gets Site for Boston Hotel.
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Friday, May 11, 1923 : Page 19, 1125 words
DOUBT REAL STRIKE OF BUILDING BUYERS; Architects Expect, However, That Only Necessary Projects Will Proceed. THINK PEAK IS PASSED Find Difficulty in Getting Materials on Time at Contract Prices. STATLER BEMOANS COSTS Says He Was Forced to Pay $108 a Week to Plasterers on Buffalo Hotel.
Despite the temporary suspension of $60,000,000 worth of new building projects,
complete cessation of building activities in the form of a real buyer's strike is not
expected, according to architects and builders. It is believed that the shelving of
certain projects will have a healthful effect on the acute building situation and will
mean that necessary construction work will go on while non-essential work will be held up.
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Sunday, May 20, 1923 : Page 7, 77 words
New Hotel Statler Opens In Buffalo.
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| == 1924 == | |
== 1924 == |
Thursday, October 30, 1924 : Section: RADIO, Page 24, 340 words
E.M. STATLER DEFENDS ADOPTED SON IN COURT; Hires Specialist, Who Lays Auto Crash to St. Virus Dance, Not Intoxication.
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Friday, October 31, 1924 : Section: REAL ESTATE BUSINESS PROPERTIES, Page 34, 1086 words
YOUNG STATLER ACQUITTED.; Hotel Man's Foster Son Declared Sober When Auto Accident Occurred
SYRACUSE, N.Y., Oct. 30. -- Milton O. Statler, 18 years old, foster son of E.M. Statler, prominent hotel owner, was acquitted in Court of Special Sessions here today of the charge of driving an automobile while intoxicated. The charge was made after an automobile collision on the night of Oct. 11 in which his car figured. FULL ARTICLE NOT AVAILABLE
Tuesday, November 25, 1924 : Section: SPORTS AUTOMOBILES, Page 22, 1144 words
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
At least a little light that seems new is cast on the tipping system as it exists in
hotels by an interview with H.M. STATLER of the Pennsylvania Hotel in this city, written
by HARVEY DEUELL and printed in the current issue of the magazine Liberty.
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Tuesday, December 2, 1924 : Section: AMUSEMENTS, Page 24, 512 words
Eliminating Many Tips.
by J.H. BEHRENS
Referring to the article on hotel tiping appearing under "Topics of the
Times" Nov. 25, "Mr. Statler solemnly asseverated that in his hotel nobody is
under compulsion to give tips and that nobody who didn't give them would suffer thereby in
the quality or amount of service rendered."
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Companion article from same date and page:
How It May Be Reduced, or Eliminated Entirely, Is Discussed.
by Mrs. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER Jr.
May I comment on your editorial on tipping in THE TIMES entitled "This Wrong
Without a Remedy"? I refer to the editorial based on an interview with H.M. Statler
of the Hotel Pennsylvania. It quoted Mr. Statler as saying: "No reform would be
effected if tip-taking were forbidden and salaries raised, for the ban would be ignored by
both employes and patrons.
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| == 1925 == | |
== 1925 == |
Sunday, December 13, 1925 : Section: EDITORIAL GENERAL NEWS FINANCIAL AND BUSINESS NEWS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, Page E1, 876 words
E.M. STARLER YACHT LOST SINCE NOV. 30; No Word Hoard From Miramar, On Way to Miami -- Junior Schooner Also Missing. THIRTEEN IN CREW ABOARD Coast Guard Asked to Search for 200,000 Craft -- Boat May Have Made Small Port in Storm.
Some anxiety, was felt yesterday in yachting circles for the safety of Captain Thomas
Barrington and eleven members of E.M. Statler's 230-ton steel yacht Miramar, which left
Charleston, S.C., Nov. 30 for Miami and has not been heard from since. This became known
yesterday when representatives of Mr. Statler asked the United States Coast Guard for word
from the overdue craft.
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Monday, December 21, 1925 : Section: BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, Page 44, 96 words
Fear Statler Yacht Is Lost.
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| == 1926 == | |
== 1926 == |
Friday, April 2, 1926 : Section: SPORTS, Page 19, 643 words
SUE FOR DEATHS ON STATLER YACHT; Relatives of Four of Eleven Men Lost on the Miramar Ask $700,000 Damages. CRAFT DISAPPEARED AT SEA Hotel Man Charged With Negligence In Ordering Vessel to Take Outside Route to Florida.
Relatives of four of the eleven men who were lost when the steam yacht Miramar
disappeared at sea last November, filed damage suits yesterday against E.M. Statler, the
hotel man, who owned the yacht, for a total of $700,000. The suits were brought in the
Federal Court in this district and in the Supreme Courts in Kings and Queens Counties.
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Monday, April 26, 1926 : Page 11, 63 words
Statler Theatre for Milwaukee.
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Friday, June 11, 1926 : Page 10, 236 words
FRANCE DECORATES AMERICAN HOTEL MEN
Dr. Marcel Knecht, Chairman of the French press delegation to the Philadelphia
convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, who was recently head of the
committee which organized the reception to 300 American hotel delegates on their visit to
France, announced yesterday that President Doumergue of France had issued a decree
conferring the knighthood of the Legion of Honor on the following American hotel men:
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Saturday, June 26, 1926 : Page 5, 600 words
HELD AS FILE THIEF IN STATLER SUITS; Investigator for S.B. Axtell Is Said to Have Tried to Sell Papers to the Hotel Man.
Bert Luckenbach, a $25-a-week investigator in the employ of Simon B. Axtell, who is
handling lawsuits against E.M. Statler for $800,000 for the estates of four men who are
believed to have lost their lives when Mr. Statler's houseboat, Miramar, disappeared last
November in Florida waters, was held in $1,000 bail yesterday morning for alleged theft of
papers owned by Mr. Axtell in connection with the Statler actions.
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Thursday, July 8, 1926 : Page 5, 110 words
France Honors Hotel Men.
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Sunday, September 26, 1926 : Section: EDITORIAL GENERAL NEWS, Page E20, 370 words
TOO MANY HOTELS, STATLER DECLARES; Industry Due for Big Losses Unless "Cutthroat" Building Is Stopped, He Warns. "WASTE AND A MENACE'" Quotes Babson Survey In Counseling Michigan Hotel Men Against Overinflated Credit.
The majority of the large cities in the United States are overbuilt from a hotel
standpoint and the hotel industry may suffer serious losses, according to E.M. Statler of
the Statler chain of hotels. He warned the Michigan Hotel Association in convention last
week at Port Huron "that it was time cut-throat hotel building was stopped, and that
new projects should be based on facts -- not hopeful fancies."
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Tuesday, September 28, 1926 : Page 18, 199 words
BOLAND WARNS HOTEL MEN.; Says Government May Force Lower Rates by Regulation.
CHICAGO, Sept. 27. -- It is high time that cut throat hotel building be stopped and
that new projects be based on facts, not ill-considered fantasies, today declared E.M.
Statler, President of the Hotel Statler, Inc. He is a delegate to the annual convention of
the American Hotel Association.
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Tuesday, November 9, 1926 : Section: SOCIAL NEWS, Page 33, 175 words
ANNUAL EXPOSITION OF HOTEL MEN OPENS; Newest Devices to Ease Labor in Running Hostelries Shown at Grand Central Palace.
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| == 1927 == | |
== 1927 == |
Friday, March 11, 1927 : Section: SPORTS, Page 23, 117 words
BOSTON STATLER OPENED.; Governor and Mayor Join in Welcome to New Hotel.
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Sunday, March 20, 1927 : Section: ADITORIAL GENERAL NEWS, Page E4, 350 words
ROGER KAHN PLANS ORCHESTRA CHAIN; Offers to Provide Jazz for All Statler Hotels for $1,000,000 a Year. PLAN PUT UP TO OTTO KAHN Operator of Hostelries Delays Final Action Until Banker Approves Son's Project.
Roger Wolfe Kahn, jazz orchestra leader, is planning to organize a chain of jazz
orchestras in all the Statler Hotels, but E.M. Statler is waiting to talk over the matter
with the young man's father, Otto H. Kahn, financier and Chairman of the Metropolitan
Opera Company, who is in Europe.
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Thursday, March 24, 1927 : Section: BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, Page 52, 186 words
HOTEL ENGAGES ROGER KAHN; Young Orchestra Leader to Open at the Pennsylvania March 30.
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Sunday, May 1, 1927 : Page 1, 219 words
E.M. Statler, President of Hotel Chain, Weds His Secretary, Miss Alice M. Seidler
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Monday, August 8, 1927 : Section: SPORTS, Page 17, 140 words
MISS MARIAN F. STATLER; Daughter of Hotel Proprietor Dies at Home in Great Neck.
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Wednesday, November 16, 1927 : Section: WHOLESALE MARKET, Page 43, 289 words
STATE HOTEL MEN RE-ELECT E.C. GREEN; Buffalo Man Chosen President for Ninth Time -- E.N. Tierney Heads Benefit Association.
Elmore C. Green, President of the Hotel Statler, Buffalo, was re-elected President of
the New York State Hotel Association for the ninth time at the forty-first annual
convention of the organization at the Hotel Commodore yesterday. The convention is being
held concurrently with the National Hotel Exposition at the Grand Central Palace.
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| == 1928 == | |
== 1928 == |
Sunday, January 1, 1928 : Section: Second News Section, Page N2, 64 words
F.A. Duggan Named Hotel Manager
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Monday, January 30, 1928 : Section: Radio, Page 25, 286 words
RADIO IN HOTEL ROOMS PLANNED BY STATLER; Experiments in Boston Lead to Extension of the Service to All His Houses.
MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 29.--The E.M. Statler hotel interests are installing radio receivers
in every room of their various hotels throughout the country at a cost of about
$1,000,000, it was stated here by Mr. Statler, who is staying at the Royal Palm Hotel in
this city recuperating from an attack of bronchitis.
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Sunday, February 5, 1928 : Section: Special Features, Page 140, 1026 words
MILLION DOLLARS IN RADIO SETS TO ENTERTAIN HOTEL GUESTS; Statler Equips 7,700 Rooms in Six Hotels With Loud-Speakers arid Earphones--Visitors Have Choice of Two Programs Operation Is Simple. Radio in Other Hotels.
RADIO has become such an intricate part of home life in America that E.M. Statler has
had 7,700 rooms in sit hotels equipped with loud-speakers and head sets, so that the
guests will "feel at home."
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Wednesday, February 8, 1928 : Section: Radio, Page 18, 333 words
SIX STATLER HOTELS ON THE AIR TONIGHT; Twelve Orchestras in Half Dozen Cities to Take Part in Program. CENTRE OF CONCERT HERE E.M. Statler to Direct Operations From the Pennsylvania in New York.
Twelve orchestras in six widely separated cities will be joined in one radio
presentation tonight at 8 o'clock over WEAF and eleven stations, when Statler hotels in
New York, Boston, Buffalo, Cleveland, ...
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Tuesday, March 20, 1928 : Section: Steamships and Tours, Resorts, Page 56, 437 words
BLAME FOR SINKING DENIED BY STATLER; Hotel Man Testifies Captain of His Yacht Miramar Chose Ocean Route. SEEKS TO LIMIT LIABILITY Attorney for Relatives of Crew Says They Will Get Nothing if Motion is Won.
Argument on a motion to limit the liability of E.M. Statler, hotel man, for the loss of
life caused by the sinking of his cruising houseboat Miramar was heard yesterday by
Federal Judge Knox.
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Wednesday, March 21, 1928 : Section: Steamships and Tours, Resorts, Page 55, 430 words
COURT PREVENTS BOUT AT STATLER HEARING; Warns of Jail When S.B. Axtell Tries to Take Yacht Plans From Rival Attorneys.
During the argument before Federal Judge Knox yesterday on a motion to limit the
liability of E.M. Statler for the loss of twelve lives when his cruising houseboat Miramar
sank on its way from Charleston, ...
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Tuesday, April 17, 1928 : Page 29, 1151 words
E.M. STATLER DEAD AT 64 OF PNEUMONIA; Founder and Owner of Chain of Hotels, Who Rose From Bellboy, Ill Two Weeks. STARTED AT 50 CENTS A DAY -- Ran Billiard Parlor In Wheeling-- Built First Hotel at Buffalo Fair --Won Honor Legion Cross.
E.M. Statler, founder and owner of the Statler chain of seven hotels throughout the
East, died of double pneumonia at 6:05 o'clock yesterday morning at the Hotel
Pennsylvania, where he lived. He was 64 years old. From a bellboy at the age of 13 he had
risen to proprietor of a hotel...
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Wednesday, April 18, 1928 : Page 25, 121 words
STATLER'S FUNERAL TODAY.; Private Service for Hotel Man to Be Held at the Pennsylvania.
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Thursday, April 19, 1928 : Page 25, 275 words
HOTELS ARE DARKENED FOR STATLER FUNERAL; Units of Eastern Chain Pay Brief Tribute as Services for Owner Are Held Here.
Funeral services for Ellsworth M. Statler, head of the Hotels Statler Company, who died
Monday, were held privately yesterday afternoon in his apartment at the Hotel
Pennsylvania.
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Friday, April 27, 1928 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 42, 109 words
MRS. STATLER HEADS BOARD; Hotel Owner's Widow Elected Chairman--F.A. McKowne President.
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Saturday, April 28, 1928 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 25, 310 words
WIDOW TO CARRY ON STATLER'S POLICIES; She Says Founder of Hotel Chain Devoted Last Years of His Life to Plans for Its Future.
The meticulous planning of the disposal of his affairs by E.M. Statler, head of the
Statler chain of hotels, a month before he died, will be fully ...
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Wednesday, May 2, 1928 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 36, 328 words
MRS. STATLER TELLS PLANS; Widow Says Hotel Owner Trained Executives to Carry On Work.
Mrs. E.M. Statler, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Hotels Statler Company,
who was elected...
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Saturday, May 19, 1928 : Page 1, 388 words
E.M. Statler's Will Disposes of $15,000,000; Establishes a Foundation for Hotel Research
BUFFALO, May 18.--The will of Ellsworth M. Statler, organizer of the chain of Statler
hotels, was admitted to probate today in Surrogate Court by Judge Louis B. Hart.
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Saturday, November 10, 1928 : Page 9, 154 words
HOTEL CASHIER HELD.; Employee of the Pennsylvania Pleads Not Guilty of $6,404 Theft.
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Sunday, January 20, 1929 : Section: Real Estate, Page RE1, 1228 words
HOTELS MENACED BY OVERSUPPLY; New Structures Opening Here This Year Will Add Several Thousand Rooms. NATIONAL SURVEY STARTED Aim Is to Restrict Excessive Building Unless Local Conditions Show Real Need.
Leading hotel men, not only in this city but throughout the country, are unanimous in
the view that the greatest menace to their success this year lies in the continued trend
toward overproduction. There has been too much hotel building, they say, in the greater
part of the country for some ...
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Wednesday, January 23, 1929 : Page 14, 205 words
MIRAMAR SUITS ABATED.; Court Holds Statler's Death Ended Actions by Crew Relatives
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Friday, April 12, 1929 : Page 21, 236 words
RODERICK McCRIMMON DIES.; Prominent as Hotel Manager for the Last Twenty Years.
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Tuesday, April 30, 1929 : Section: Business & Opportunity, Page 60, 995 words
SEEKS $10,000,000 OF STATLER ESTATE; F.K. Machette Files Suit as to Building and Operation of Hotel Pennsylvania. SAYS INCOME WAS DIVERTED Statler Took Bonuses and Broke Accord Based on Lease He Owned, Stockholder Charges. Case as Presented by Machette. Claims and Charges Set Forth.
BUFFALO, April 29.--Preliminary papers in a suit for $10,000,000 against the estate of
E.M. Statler and the New York Hotel Statler Company, Inc., owners of the Hotel
Pennsylvania, were filed in the Surrogate's Court here today on behalf of Franklin K.
Machette of 817 Fifth Avenue, New York, a director and stockholder of the company.
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Wednesday, May 1, 1929 : Page 22, 583 words
HOTEL MEN PAY TRIBUTES.; Salute Waldorf as International Institution--Many Saddened.
Many prominent hotel men of New York and heads of civic associations paid their tribute
yesterday to the Waldorf-Astoria, which closes its doors tonight. Following are some of
the expressions:
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Thursday, July 11, 1929 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 44, 79 words
Act Against Former Statler Cashier.
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Sunday, October 6, 1929 : Section: Second News Section, Page N23, 68 words
Mrs. Statler Sells in Great Neck.
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Friday, April 11, 1930 : Page 25, 1031 words
HOTELS STATLER INC. SUED FOR $20,000,000; F.J. Matchette Minority Owner of New York Company, Charges Breach of Contract. HE DEMANDS ACCOUNTING Says He Induced Railroad to Build Hotel Pennsylvania--No Basis for His Claims, McKowne Asserts. Says He Held Pennsylvania Lease. Says He Invented Servidor. No Basis for Suits, McKowne Says.
Franklin J. Matchette, director and minority stockholder of the New York Hotel Statler
Company, operating the Hotel Pennsylvania, filed-four suits in the Supreme Court.
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Sunday, November 2, 1930 : Section: Real Estate, Page RE2, 310 words
SUES FOR PAYMENTS ON BOSTON STATLER; Contract Dispute Leads to Counter-Claim Against Builders for $1,000,000. FIRST ESTIMATE EXCEEDED New York Contractors Claim a Balance of $400,000 Is Due Them on Work.
A dispute over the contract for the construction of the Hotel Statler in Boston is
pending before the Supreme Court in a suit by Dwight P. Robinson Co., Inc., against the
Hotels Statler, Inc., for a balance of $400,000 alleged to be due. The defendant has
counter-claimed for $1,000,000.
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Thursday, May 14, 1931 : Section: Real Estate, Page 45, 263 words
HOTELS STATLER GETS SITE OPPOSITE STATION; Operator of the Pennsylvania Is Recorded as Owner of Big Plot Assembled by Stuyvesants. Advocates Small Parks In City.
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Thursday, May 21, 1931 : Page 28, 146 words
HOTEL ROBBED OF $15,100.; Bandits, in Boston, Escape Through Statler Throng Unnoticed.
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Monday, December 14, 1931 : Section: Social News, Page 23, 424 words
MRS. H.M. DINGLEY PINEHURST HOSTESS; Entertains at Dinner for House Guests, Mrs. E.M. Statler and Mrs. Harold Burns. LARGE TEA DANCE IS GIVEN Winthrop Williams is Host at Country Club--Mrs. R.S. Tufts and Miss Mary Ward Have Guests.
PINEHURST, N.C., Dec. 13.--Mrs. E.M. Statler and Mrs. Harold Burns of
New York are guests of Mrs. H. M. Dingley of Auburn, Me., at Lenoir Villa.
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Saturday, May 28, 1932 : Section: REAL ESTATE, Page 27, 739 words
BANK SELLS FLAT ON WEST 89TH ST.; Central Hanover Disposes of Nine-Story Building Containing Thirty-six Apartments. HOTEL INTERESTS IN DEALS Ritz Tower Passed by One Hearst Concern to Another-Statler Takes Title to Penn Zone Sites.
The sale by a bank of a large upper west side apartment house was the outstanding
transaction in Manhattan yesterday. Conveyance of a large site in the Pennsylvania Station
zone to the Hotels Statler Company was shown in papers recorded, but the deal has no
significance because of the fact that the Statler interests had controlled the properties
for many years through "dummy" corporations, C.B. Stoner, secretary and
treasurer of the company, explained.
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Saturday, September 24, 1932 : Page 15, 164 words
RUSSELL M. KEITH.; Retired Manager of Statler Hotel in Cleveland Was Ill Two Years.
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Tuesday, November 15, 1932 : Page 2, 692 words
HOTELS PREPARING FOR END OF DRY LAW; ' Mobile Bars' and Other Beer- Dispensing Devices Shown at Exposition Here. PROHIBITION LOSSES CITED W.C. Teagle, In Luncheon Speech, Cites Trade Drop and Damage to Bureaus Used as Bottle Openers.
Evidence that the hotel industry is preparing for the expected modification of the
Eighteenth Amendment was found yesterday at the National Hotel Exposition, opening at the
Grand Central Palace under the joint auspices of the New York State Hotel Association and
the Hotel Association of New York City.
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Thursday, May 11, 1933 : Page 19, 418 words
HOTEL RATE CUTS CAUSE PROTESTS; Most of Large Hotels Assert None Will Be Made -- Some Offer Summer Prices. STEP HELD UNWARRANTED Present Costs and Possibility of Inflation Cited at Conferences That Preceded Action.
Announcement of a rate cut yesterday by the Commodore, New Yorker and Pennsylvania
Hotels brought a varied reaction among other hotels of the city.
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Friday, December 8, 1933 : Page 25, 69 words
Milton Statler Killed in Car.
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Friday, January 4, 1935 : Section: SOCIAL NEWS, Page 25, 351 words
ELYA STATLER WED TO H. B. DAVIDSON JR.; Daughter of Late Hotel Owner Married in Home Ceremony a Pinehurst, N. C.
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Thursday, February 28, 1935 : Page 3, 478 words
STATLER HEIRESS DIES OF GAS POISON; Mrs. H.B. Davidson Jr. Is Found Unconscious in Her Pinehurst Garage.
PINEHURST, N.C., Feb. 27 (AP). -- A coroner's jury delved today into the circumstances
surrounding the death of Mrs. H. Bradley Davidson Jr., 22-year-old heir of E.M. Statler,
the hotel operator, but after a secret session recessed until tomorrow without announcing
a verdict.
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Friday, March 1, 1935 : Section: SPORTS RESORTS, Page 26, 287 words
BRUISES ON BODY OF MRS. DAVIDSON; But Autopsy Reveals Carbon Monoxide Poisoning 'Only Condition' to Induce Death.
PINEHURST, N.C., Feb. 28 (AP). -- Discovery of a dozen small, mysterious bruises on the
body of Mrs. H. Bradley Davidson, who was found dying in her automobile in her garage
Wednesday was reported tonight by physicians who had made an autopsy.
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Saturday, March 2, 1935 : Section: FINANCIAL, Page 32, 453 words
NEW INQUIRY BEGUN ON DAVIDSON DEATH; State Is Not Satisfied Whether Case of Heiress Is 'Suicide, Accident or Murder.' HER CLOTHING A FACTOR North Carolina Prosecutor Will Question Husband and Others at Inquest on Tuesday.
PINEHURST, N.C., March 1 (AP). -- Solicitor Roland Pruett of Wadesboro today began a
personal investigation into the mysterious death of Mrs. H. Bradley Davidson Jr.,
22-year-old heiress of the late E. M. Statler, hotel magnate, declaring he was not
satisfied with the evidence.
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Sunday, March 3, 1935 : Page 3, 499 words
DISCARDS ACCIDENT IN DAVIDSON DEATH; North Carolina Solicitor Lays Bride's Tragedy to Murder or Suicide. REJECTS GAS POISONING Emphasizes Position of Body on Car's Running Board -- Funeral Is Held at Kensico.
PINEHURST, N.C., March 2 (AP). -- After twenty-four hours of investigating the
mysterious death of Mrs. H. Bradley Davidson Jr., one of the heiresses of the late E.M.
Statler, Solicitor Roland Pruett said tonight that he had evidence indicating "either
murder or suicide," and that he had discarded the possibility of an accident.
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Monday, March 4, 1935 : Page 4, 359 words
SAW MRS. DAVIDSON CRYING BEFORE END; Waiter Says Statler Heiress Wept at a Party Early in Day of Her Death. WILL TESTIFY AT INQUEST Complete Report on Autopsy May Not Be Ready for a Week.
PINEHURST, N.C., March 3 (AP). -- Solicitor Roland S. Pruett said today that testimony
that Mrs. Elva Statler Davidson wept intermittently during a party with her husband and
friends a few hours before her lifeless body was found in the family garage would be
presented to a coroner's jury Tuesday.
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Tuesday, March 5, 1935 : Section: financial, Page 42, 500 words
MURDER IS HINTED IN DAVIDSON CASE; Pinehurst Solicitor Intimates He Has Evidence of Foul Play in Statler Heiress's Death.
PINEHURST, N.C., March 4 (AP). -- An intimation of undisclosed evidence pointing
strongly to murder came from Solicitor Roland S. Pruette today as he was completing
preparations' for the resumed inquest tomorrow into Mrs. Elva Statler Davidson's strange
death.
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Wednesday, March 6, 1935 : Section: Financial, Page 42, 891 words
SAY MRS. DAVIDSON WAS SAD AT A PARTY; Witnesses at Pinehurst Inquest Declare She Was Upset by a Remark of Her Husband.
PINEHURST, N.C., March 5 (AP). -- A coroner's jury was told today that
Mrs. Elva Statler Davidson was "melancholy" at a gay spaghetti house party a few
hours before her mysterious death, and that she engaged in an argument with her husband
just before her partly clothed body was found against the running board of her automobile
in the family garage last Wednesday morning.
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Thursday, March 7, 1935 : Section: FINANCIAL, Page 46, 665 words
SAY MRS. DAVIDSON SOBBED AT PARTY; Witnesses Testify on Despondency, One Asserting She Threatened to 'Get Tight.'
PINEHURST, N.C., March 6 (AP). -- Mrs. Elva Statler Davidson was pictured today as
weeping and threatening to "get tight" at a late supper party a few hours before
she was found dead in her garage last Wednesday morning.
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Friday, March 8, 1935 : Section: FINANCIAL, Page 44, 551 words
DAVIDSON JURORS LEAVE CASE OPEN; Heiress Died of Monoxide Poisoning Under 'Unknown Circumstances,' They Decide.
PINEHURST, N.C., March 7 (AP). -- The death of Mrs. H. Bradley Davidson Jr. in her
garage last week remained an official mystery today as a coroner's jury wound up its
inquest with an open verdict which failed to specify whether it was accident, suicide or
murder.
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Sunday, March 17, 1935 : Page 14, 255 words
DAVIDSON ENRICHED UNDER WIFE'S WILL; Her Purported Testament Is Filed, Giving Him the Bulk of a $560,000 Fortune.
CARTHAGE, N.C., March 16 (AP). -- A purported will of Mrs. Elva Statler Davidson,
leaving the bulk of her personal estate to her husband, H. Bradley Davidson Jr., of
Pinehurst and Washington, is on file with the clerk of the Moore County Superior Court.
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Tuesday, March 19, 1935 : Page 13, 296 words
FAMILY FIGHT WILL OF MRS. DAVIDSON; Lawyer for Statlers Ties Up $500,000 Estate Left to Husband by Heiress.
CARTHAGE, N.C., March 18 (AP). -- The Statler family started its fight today on the
purported will of Mrs. Elva Statler Davidson which leaves virtually all of the $500,000
personal estate to her husband, H. Bradley Davidson Jr.
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Thursday, September 5, 1935 : Section: SOCIAL NEWS BOOKS, Page 21, 132 words
MRS. H. BRADLEY DAVIDSON; Widow of Washington Banker and Realty Man Was 70.
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Friday, February 14, 1936 : Section: FINANCIAL, Page 40, 131 words
DAVIDSON ON STAND.; Husband of Statler Heir Denies Influence Over Her Will.
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Sunday, February 16, 1936 : Page 28, 370 words
JURY UPHOLDS WILL OF MRS. DAVIDSON; Foster Relatives of Statler Heiress Lose Fight to Upset Husband's Major Share. PLAN TO APPEAL VERDICT Davidson, 'Gratified' at Finding in Carthage, N.C., Will Enter Business Here.
CARTHAGE, N.C., Feb. 15 (AP). -- Foster relatives of Mrs. Elva Statler Davidson lost
their fight to set aside her will in Moore County Superior Court today, but gave notice of
an appeal to the State Supreme Court.
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Sunday, April 19, 1936 : Page 29, 148 words
STATLERS END WILL FIGHT; They Withdraw Action to Break Mrs. Davidson's Testament.
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Tuesday, October 6, 1936 : Section: SOCIAL NEWS, Page 22, 152 words
MRS. MILTON STATLER TO WED TOMORROW; New York Woman and W. L. Marcy Jr. of Buffalo Plan for a Nevada Ceremony.
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Thursday, October 8, 1936 : Section: SOCIAL NEWS BOOKS, Page 21, 267 words
MRS. MILTON STATLER IS MARRIED IN NEVADA; Widow of Hotel Man's Adopted Son Becomes the Bride of William L. Marcy Jr.
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Tuesday, October 27, 1936 : Section: BOOKS, Page 27, 554 words
GAIN IN BUSINESS NOTED BY HOTELS; F.A. McKowne, at Opening of National Show, Sees Trend to Greater Prosperity. 15,000 VISIT EXPOSITION Among Innovations on View Is a Liquid to Make Steaks More Tender.
The general trend toward prosperity is reflected in a "marked improvement" in
the hotel business, which still lags behind other industries, however, and promises even
greater gains, Frank A. McKowne, president of the Hotels Statler Company, declared
yesterday.
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Saturday, January 30, 1937 : Page 15, 67 words
To Manage Pennsylvania Hotel
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Saturday, April 10, 1937 : Page 19, 318 words
CLARENCE STONER, HOTEL EXECUTIVE; Secretary and Treasurer of the Statler Company With Corporation Since 1914
Clarence Birch Stoner, secretary and treasurer of the Hotels Statler Company, Inc.,
died today of heart disease at his home on Hobart Avenue here after an illness of several
months.
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Sunday, May 16, 1937 : Section: General, Page 2, 436 words
STRIKERS TIE UP 8 ST. LOUIS HOTELS; Guests Carry Own Luggage and Make Own Beds as 2,000 Employes Walk Out BALL PLAYERS DO CHORES Mickey Cochrane and His Tigers Turn Chambermaids-Leading Hostelries Hit
Guests lugged their own baggage, made their own beds, and with apparent good nature put
up with other limited services today in eight leading St. Louis hotels affected by a
strike of union chambermaids, bellboys, cooks and other employes.
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Saturday, July 3, 1937 : Page 27, 147 words
OPERATES HOTEL CHAIN
Frank A. Duggan has been elected a member of the board of directors and executive vice
president in charge of hotel operations of Hotels Statler Company, Inc., Mrs. E. M.
Statler, chairman of the board, announced yesterday.
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Tuesday, July 13, 1937 : Page 19, 146 words
BERNARD D. KELLY, STATLER CONTROLLER; Appointed to Post With Hotel Chain 13 Days Ago-Dies in Hospital Here at 51
Bernard D. Kelly, controller of the Hotels Statler Company, Inc., died early yesterday
morning in the French Hospital, where he had been a patient for three weeks. He was born
in Auburn, N. Y., 51 years ago. A sister, Elizabeth A. Kelly, survives.
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Saturday, July 17, 1937 : Page 26, 131 words
TAKES STATLER AD POST
Howard F. Dugan has been appointed vice president in charge of sales and advertising of
the Hotels Statler Company, Inc., it was announced yesterday by Mrs. E. M. Statler,
chairman of the board. "A wider and more intensive sales and advertising
campaign," Mrs. Statler said, "will accompany the extensive improvement program
now being carried on throughout the Statler Hotel properties."
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Tuesday, July 20, 1937 : Page 40, 150 words
TO MANAGE HOTEL HERE; James H. McCabe Named to Post at the Pennsylvania
James H. McCabe was appointed manager of the Hotel Pennsylvania yesterday, succeeding
Frank A. Duggan, who was recently advanced to the position of executive vice president in
charge of hotel operations for Hotels Statler Company, Inc. Mr. McCabe rejoins
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Monday, September 27, 1937 : Page 18, 178 words
ELLSWORTH STATLER, HOTEL HEIR, WILL WED; Barbara M. Miller, a Dentist's Assistant, to Be His Bride in California Friday
Ellsworth Milton Statler, heir to a hotel fortune, and Barbara Marguerite Miller, a
dentist's assistant, applied for a marriage license today. He is 25 years old and she is
21.
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Saturday, October 2, 1937 : Page 24, 89 words
E. M. STATLER MARRIES; Son of Late Hotel Builder Weds Barbara Miller on Coast
Miss Barbara Marguerite Miller was married today to Ellsworth M. Statler, adopted son
of the late E. Statler, hotel builder and operator. The ceremony was performed by the the
Rev. E. W. Haney in the Pueblo Oratorio Chapel.
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Wednesday, October 27, 1937 : Page 29, 390 words
MANY HOTELS RAISE ROOM RATES HERE; Upward Readjustments Range From 10 to 15 Per Cent in City-Wide Move
The few New York City hotels which increased their room rates last Spring are being
followed by many others, with advances ranging from 10 to 15 per cent, it was learned
yesterday. The Hotel Association of New York City for several months had been advocating
such a step because of increased operating costs.
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Thursday, December 9, 1937 : Page 38, 215 words
BUSINESS NOTES
Bradbury F. Cushing, manager of the Hotel Statler, Boston, since 1927, has been
appointed manager of all the properties of the Hotels Statler Company, Inc., in New
England. D. B. Stanbro has been promoted from the post of resident manager of the Hotel
Statler, Boston, to that of manager.
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Saturday, January 29, 1938 : Page 30, 818 words
GETS STORE SPACE AT 234 W. 34TH ST.; Nedick's Signs for Quarters From Plans for Hotels Statler Structure
Leases of store and office space in the midtown and downtown sections formed the bulk
of new quarters taken by concerns yesterday. A lease from the plans was made in the
building to be erected by the Hotels Statler Company at 234-236 West Thirty-fourth Street.
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Monday, January 31, 1938 : Page 26, 74 words
Douglas New Director Of Hotels Statler Co.
Arthur F. Douglas, secretary and treasurer of the Hotels Statler Co., Inc., has been
elected to the board of directors of the company, according to announcement by Mrs. E. M.
Statler, chairman of the board. Mr. Douglas...
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Friday, February 4, 1938 : Page 24, 70 words
Hennessy in New Statler Post
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Wednesday, February 9, 1938 : Page 19, 292 words
ELMORE C. GREEN, STATLER OFFICIAL; Widely Known Host of Buffalo Hotel for 22 Years Dies of Heart Disease
Elmore C. Green, hotel man here for twentytwo years, died today in his apartment in the
Hotel Statler of heart disease. Mr. Green, who was 67 years old, had been ill since last
Friday.
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Friday, July 8, 1938 : Page 11, 65 words
E. M. Statler Asks Annulment
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Friday, July 29, 1938 : Page 9, 181 words
DIVORCES E. M. STATLER; Wife in Los Angeles Receives Property Settlement
Barbara M. Statler, 21-year-old exdentist's assistant, won a divorce today from
Ellsworth M. Statler, 25, one of the Statler Hotel family heirs. In the brief hearing she
merely answered "yes" to some 18 questions based on her complaint and
"no" to two or three others.
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Wednesday, January 18, 1939 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 40, 73 words
Hotel Outlook Found Good
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Sunday, March 5, 1939 : Page 20, 100 words
Wedding Upsets Hotel Kitchen
BUFFALO, March 4 (AP).--The auxiliary kitchen staff of Buffalo's biggest hotel, the
Statler, was somewhat agog today because one of its apprentice stewards will be married
this month.
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Thursday, March 9, 1939 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 38, 318 words
FLYNN IS NAMED HEAD OF HOTEL EXECUTIVES; The William Penn Gets Award for Its Promotion
CHICAGO, March 8.--G.E.R. Flynn, sales manager of the Hotels Drake and Blackstone,
Chicago, was elected president of the Hotel...
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Saturday, July 22, 1939 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 21, 144 words
To Supervise Operation Of All Statler Hotels
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Tuesday, October 31, 1939 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 37, 709 words
Advertising News and Notes; Statler Hotels Pick Y. & R.
Claims made in advertising are not the responsibility of the newspaper, magazine or
radio station which publishes them, in the opinion of the consuming public, according to a
survey conducted by Ross Federal Research Corporation for Scales Management Magazine.
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Wednesday, January 17, 1940 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 43, 114 words
LONG ISLAND HOUSES SOLD; Hotel Man Buys Dwelling in Great Neck Development
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Saturday, January 20, 1940 : Section: Real Estate, Page 30, 79 words
First Statler Hotel Is Sold
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Sunday, April 28, 1940 : Section: Society News, Women's News, Page 46, 707 words
Success by 'Marrying the Boss' Spelled Word for Mrs. Statler; Old Cliche Took on New Meaning for a Wife Who Became Head of A Large Hotel Chain
By KATHLEEN McLAUGHLIN
Those wags who never hesitate to resurrect a cliche are forever advising ambitious
girls that the quickest way to get ahead in business is to marry the boss. Mrs. E.M.
Statler is one of the few who did. The sequel has been that she works harder than she did
before.
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Friday, May 10, 1940 : Page 22, 285 words
W.B. JAMES, 46, DIES; STATLER OFFICIAL; Manager of Hotel in Buffalo Also Had Served the Chain in Detroit and St. Louis WORLD WAR VETERAN Was With Intelligence Corps of 78th Division--Director of State Hotel Group
BUFFALO, May 9--Ward B. James, manager of the Hotel Statler here and former manager of
Statler hotels in St. Louis and Detroit, died today in the General Hospital after a brief
illness. He was 46 years old.
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Tuesday, July 9, 1940 : Section: Obituaries, Page 21, 340 words
WILLIAM POST, 74; NOTED ARCHITECT; Designer of Stock Exchange, City College and Several Statler Hotels Is Dead THE ROOSEVELT HIS WORK Also Planned Wisconsin State Capitol--Bernardsville, N.J., Resident 65 Years
BERNARDSVILLE, N.J., July 8--William Stone Post, retired partner of the old New York
architectural firm of George B. Post Sons, who designed a number of well-known buildings
in many parts of the country, died here today after a short illness of pneumonia. He was
74 years old.
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Friday, January 10, 1941 : Section: FINANCIAL, Page 34, 290 words
WASHINGTON HOTEL TO COST $8,500,000; Statler Interests Planning 1,000-Room Structure on Sixteenth Street TO BE EIGHTH IN THE CHAIN Demoliton of the Old Buildings on the Site to Start About April 1
Plans for the erection of an $8,500,000 hotel with 1,000 rooms on Sixteenth Street,
between K and L Streets, in Washington, D.C., were announced yesterday at the New York
offices of the Hotels Statler Company, Inc.
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Friday, February 21, 1941 : Section: FINANCIAL, Page 36, 75 words
Statler Hotel Contract Let
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Tuesday, August 19, 1941 : Section: OBITUARIES, Page 21, 281 words
BRADBURY F. CUSHING, HOTEL EXECUTIVE, 69; Manager of the New England Statler Properties Is Dead
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Monday, February 9, 1942 : Page 11, 262 words
FIRE FOLLOWS EXPLOSION IN UNCOMPLETED BUILDING
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 -- Thousands of residents of the capital watched a spectacular
five-alarm fire today in the partly built Statler Hotel on Sixteenth Street, just two
blocks and the width of Lafayette Park from the White House.
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Wednesday, June 24, 1942 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 29, 82 words
Named by Statler to Head New Washington Hotel
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Thursday, June 25, 1942 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 33, 37 words
Statler Promotes Daniels
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Sunday, January 17, 1943 : Page 24, 191 words
MORE ROOMS IN CAPITAL; New Hotel Statler Will Open Hundreds as Building Goes On
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- The hotel shortage here will be relieved in part beginning
Monday by the opening on that day of some 250 rooms in the new Hotel Statler on Sixteenth
Street, which is being rushed to completion for opening about Jan. 30.
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Thursday, February 25, 1943 : Section: OBITUARIES, Page 21, 306 words
F. J. MATHETTE, 80, A HOTEL OPERATOR; Director of Statler Firm .Here, Once Active in Wisconsin, Dies on Birthday Eve
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Thursday, June 24, 1943 : Section: Business Financial, Page 32, 57 words
Hotels Statler Co. Calls Stock
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Sunday, July 4, 1943 : Section: FINANCIAL--BUSINESS SPORTS, Page S7, 64 words
To Direct Statler Training
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Thursday, February 24, 1944 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 25, 62 words
Statler to Call Stock
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Wednesday, August 15, 1945 : Page 21, 358 words
Statler Fund Gives $1,000,000 to Cornell To Help Hotel School and for Faculty Club
ITHACA, N.Y., Aug. 14 (AP)--A contribution of $1,000,000 to Cornell University, through
the Statler Foundation provided by the will of Ellsworth M. Statler, hotel man, before his
death seventeen years ago, was disclosed today.
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Saturday, August 18, 1945 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 19, 36 words
Statler's President Resigns
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Thursday, August 30, 1945 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 24, 107 words
Top Officers Changed By Hotels Statler Co.
John L. Hennessy, vice chairman of the board since 1937, was elected chairman of the
board of the Hotel Statler Company, Inc., it was announced yesterday following a meeting
of the board of directors.
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Wednesday, September 26, 1945 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 29, 100 words
NAMED TO STATLER POSTS; New Secretary and Treasurer to Assume Duties Monday
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Wednesday, October 3, 1945 : Page 40, 235 words
STATLER HOTELS SUED ON OPA RENT CHARGE
The Office of Price Administration yesterday filed in Federal court an injunction and
trebledamage suit against the Hotel Pennsylvania and six other Statler hotels in Boston,
Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Detroit and St. Louis.
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Tuesday, November 27, 1945 : Page 23, 117 words
WILLIAM J. PERRIN; Buffalo Hotel Manager Veteran of 27 Years in the Field
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Friday, February 8, 1946 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 32, 96 words
Statler to Increase Facilities
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Monday, March 18, 1946 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 27, 226 words
SHIRLEY J. McKOWNE TO BE BRIDE APRIL 6
Plans have been completed for the marriage on April 6 of Miss Shirley Jane McKowne,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Alden McKowne of 952 Fifth Avenue, to...
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Sunday, April 7, 1946 : Page 43, 227 words
SHIRLEY McKOWNE WED TO J.J. FISHER; Daughter of Ex-head of Hotels Statler Co. Attended by Six at Her Marriage Here
By Kellogg
Miss Shirley Jane McKowne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Alden McKowne of 952 Fifth
Avenue, was married to John James Fisher, son of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Fisher of 12 East
Eighty-sixth...
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Thursday, June 13, 1946 : Section: Amusements, Page 24, 220 words
STATLER PLANS HOTEL ON LOS ANGELES SITE
Plans for a 1,400-room hotel of distinctive design for a site recently acquired in
downtown Los Angeles, Calif., were announced here yesterday by John L. Hennessy, chairman
of the board of the Hotels Statler Company, and Arthur F. Douglas, president of the
company.
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Saturday, August 3, 1946 : Page 2, 69 words
Statler Settles Overcharges
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Sunday, September 8, 1946 : Section: Business & Finance, Page F3, 192 words
DIVIDEND NEWS; Columbia Baking Ekco Products Hercules Motors Hotels Statler
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Monday, September 2, 1946 : Page 19, 1337 words
MUSICIANS STRIKE; REJECT 12 % OFFER; Hotels' Proposal to Submit Wage Case to Arbitrator Also Refused by Union PETRILLO TAKES CHARGE Bands Quit in 33 Hostelries, Asking 25% Rise-Attorney Hints at Juke-Box Use Discounts Chance of Bolt Denies Single Contract
Customers of New York City hotels who have been accustomed to dining or sipping
cocktails to the blare of brass or the softly modulated strains of string orchestras will
find bandstands empty today as the result of a strike of 3,000 musicians in thirty-three
hotels that went into effect at 12:01 A.M.
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Thursday, September 12, 1946 : Page 9, 409 words
Petrillo Orders Out Chain Motel Bands In Twelve Cities Starting at Midnight
By The Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Sept. 11--James C. Petrillo, president of the American Federation of Labor's
Federation of Musicians, said today that all musicians playing in the Hilton, Kirkeby and
Statler hotel chains throughout the country would ...
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Saturday, October 12, 1946 : Page 16, 457 words
Strike in Capital Hits 18 Hotels; 5,000 Workers Quit in Pay Dispute; Government Aides and Others Face Prospect of Caring for Own Rooms-Pickets Retire to Let Schwellenbach Pass
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (AP) Five thousand service employes went on strike today at
eighteen Washington hotels, including all the leading ones. Members of Congress, Cabinet
members and other officials who live in them faced the prospect of having to make their
own beds.
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Sunday, October 13, 1946 : Page 1, 618 words
Dignitaries Bereft of Services As Capital Hotel Strike Widens; DIGNITARIES WORK IN CAPITAL HOTELS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12--Life became more rugged tonight for diplomats and dignitaries
living in the capital's eighteen leading hotels where a spreading strike has strangled
service.
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Monday, October 14, 1946 : Page 24, 643 words
Self-Serving Patrons Face Cold As Capital's Hotels Lose Steam; Executives Prepare to Man Boilers Left in Sympathy Extension of Strike, in Third Day With Wage Talks Off
By JOHN D. MORRIS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13--The private lives of a large segment of Washington officialdom
were on a strictly self-service and dine-out basis today as eighteen of the capital's
leading hotels remained strikebound for the third day.
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Sunday, November 3, 1946 : Page 36, 49 words
Hotel Installs Television
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Saturday, December 14, 1946 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 27, 79 words
HOTEL CHAIN TO EXPAND; Statler Group Plans New Locations in Three Cities
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Thursday, January 23, 1947 : Section: COMMODITIES CURB QUOTATIONS, Page 37, 65 words
Elected by Hotels Statler
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Wednesday, January 29, 1947 : Page 25, 154 words
MRS. HAROLD B. CALLIS; Wife of Statler Hotels Official, a Leader in Munsey Park
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Tuesday, February 18, 1947 : Page 27, 212 words
HOTELS, CLUBS URGED TO CONSERVE ON FOOD
The responsibility of hotels and private clubs in conserving food supplies to assist
the Government's program of feeding peoples abroad and needy American families was
stressed yesterday by John L. Hennessy, chairman of the board of the Hotel Statler
Company, Inc.
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Monday, May 19, 1947 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 33, 352 words
SUGAR PREDICTION CALLED 'FANTASTIC'; Brokers Challenge Hennessy's Statement Lifting Curbs Means 25-30 Cent Price
B.W. Dyer Co., sugar economists and brokers, offered yesterday to wager $5,000 against
the correctness of a recent "fantastic" prediction by John L. Hennessy, chairman
of the board of the Hotels Statler Company and food consultant to Secretary of War
Patterson, that, if sugar is decontrolled, prices will rise to 25 to 30 cents a pound
within two months after such action is taken.
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Thursday, September 11, 1947 : Section: COMMODITIES-UNLISTED QUOTATIONS, Page 44, 65 words
Statler Hotels President Dollar Savings Trustee
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Thursday, March 25, 1948 : Section: Business Financial, Page 45, 222 words
Gross Revenue of Statler Hotels Chain Set New Record in '47 -- Profit $2.84 a Share
Gross revenues of the Hotels Statler Company, Inc., reached a new high last year of
$31,912,635, exceeding the previous record of 1946 by 6.7 per cent, according to the
annual statement issued jointly yesterday by John L. Hennessy, chairman and Arthur F.
Douglas, president.
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Saturday, May 8, 1948 : Page 15, 236 words
F. A. McKOWNE DIES; HOTEL OFFICIAL, 58; President of the Statler Chain in 1928-45 Was a Former Law Aide in Buffalo
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Thursday, May 13, 1948 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 43, 67 words
Will Direct Personnel For Hotels Statler Co.
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Thursday, May 27, 1948 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 42, 60 words
Appointed Ad Manager Of Hotels Statler Co.
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Thursday, July 1, 1948 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 40, 266 words
HOTEL GROUP BUYS THE PENNSYLVANIA; Statler Organization, Which Operates 2,200-Room Unit, Takes Over From Railroad
The Pennsylvania Hotel, the third largest in this city, was purchased yesterday from
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company by the Hotels Statler Company, Inc., for an undisclosed
cash consideration.
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Monday, July 26, 1948 : Section: Books, Page 19, 134 words
MODEL HOTEL AT CORNELL; Building of $2,500,000 Statler, Hall Will Begin Next Month
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Thursday, August 12, 1948 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 36, 74 words
Hotel Pennsylvania Is Deeded
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Friday, August 20, 1948 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 29, 73 words
$14,000,000 for Hotel Penn
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Sunday, October 17, 1948 : Page X16, 603 words
'HOTEL' AT CORNELL; Undergraduates Will Practice Playing Host in Thirty-six-Room Model
By W.J. WATERS
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University's Department of Hotel Administration will soon have
a home of its own -- $2,500,000 Statler Hall -- which will contain a complete
"practice hotel" with thirty-six guest rooms, lounges and dining facilities.
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Tuesday, November 16, 1948 : Section: FINANCIAL, Page 45, 104 words
Named Statler Director Of Food and Beverages
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Friday, November 19, 1948 : Section: Books, Page 29, 349 words
Pennsylvania Hotel Becomes Statler Jan. 1; Owners Busy Spreading Word to Taxi Men
Beginning New Year's Day, the Pennsylvania Hotel will bear the name Statler Hotel.
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Saturday, November 27, 1948 : Page 19, 440 words
FORMER COFFEE BOY TO HEAD BIG HOTEL; Mumford, Resident Manager of Pennsylvania, to Direct the Statler in St. Louis
Donald M. Mumford, who has risen from coffee boy in a Tampa hotel to top rank among
hotel executives in the last twenty-one years, will assume the post of general manager of
the Statler Hotel in St. Louis next Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Hotel announced yesterday.
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Sunday, December 26, 1948 : Page X15, 521 words
PROBLEMS OF CHANGING A HOTEL NAME
By C.G.
AT midnight Friday the 2,300 room Hotel Pennsylvania, which has in the past thirty
years housed thousands of conventions, and sheltered, fed and entertained millions of
travelers, will become the Hotel Statler.
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Saturday, January 22, 1949 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 21, 173 words
W. L. MARCY HEADS THE STATLER BOARD
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Wednesday, February 2, 1949 : Section: SPORTS, Page 39, 318 words
MAYER HORSE FARM SOLD FOR $1,000,000; Mrs. Harless and Statler Buy 504-Acre Coast Ranch to Breed Thoroughbreds
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 1 (AP) -- Louis B. Mayer's lavish horse breeding farm was sold today
to Ellsworth M. Statler of the hotel family and Mrs. Meredith Howard Harless, wife of
Richard F. Harless, former Congressman from Arizona.
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Sunday, May 8, 1949 : Page 65, 167 words
CORNERSTONE LAID FOR STATLER HALL; Ceremony at Cornell Marks Progress on Building to Teach Hotel Operation
ITHACA, N. Y., May 7 -- The cornerstone of Statler Hall, the first college building
designed expressly for instruction in hotel administration, was laid today at a brief
ceremony at noon at Cornell University.
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Friday, June 3, 1949 : Section: Business Financial, Page 42, 66 words
Statler Promotes Murtaugh
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Thursday, August 18, 1949 : Section: BOOKS, Page 23, 343 words
Discharged Doorman, Wife and 9 Children Picket Hotel Where He Used to Have a Job
Henry Hickey, who used to be a doorman at the Statler Hotel, Seventh Avenue and
Thirty-third Street, until he was discharged recently for his "proven mistreatment of
a guest," was back at his old post last night -- picketing. And with him were his
wife and nine children.
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Sunday, October 30, 1949 : Section: Magazine, Page SM14, 3309 words
Conrad Hilton, Collector of Hotels; He buys famous hostelries one after another and usually uncovers some hidden gold.
By MEYER BERGER
CONRAD NICHOLSON HILTON, who bought the $36,000,000 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York a
few weeks ago, collects such items pretty much as other men collect coins or stamps. It is
his business and his hobby, and has paid off rather well. The holdings of the Hilton Hotel
Corporation today run to around $100,000,000 and have what the trade calls a "going
value" of, roughly, $140,000,000.
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Friday, December 2, 1949 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 46, 116 words
Elected Vice President Of Statler Hotel Chain
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Sunday, March 5, 1950 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 125, 743 words
BIG SAVINGS SEEN IN NEW FOOD PLAN; Eight Hotels and Dining Places Join in Hennessy Scheme for Prepackaged Cuts PACKERS TO COORDINATE Savings in Operational Costs and Higher Quality Claimed by Central Preparation
By GREG MacGREGOR
A large-scale effort to completely revolutionize food preparation and sales in the
nation's public eating places through coordination of meat packers and hotel and
restaurant operators was launched here last week by John L. Hennessy, retired chairman of
the board of the Statler Hotels chain.
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Saturday, April 8, 1950 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 25, 171 words
STATLER REPORTS RISE IN NET PROFITS; Hotels Company Earns $3.34 Against $3.08 in 1948-- Gross Income Lower ROOM OCCUPANCY IS DOWN New Los Angeles Unit Planned for Occupancy in 1952-- Other Company Reports
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Wednesday, April 19, 1950 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 48, 87 words
Start Statler Coast Hotel June 19
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Sunday, April 30, 1950 : Section: Drama-Music, Fashion-Screen, Page X15, 982 words
NEW HOTEL SCHOOL; CORNELL UNIVERSITY'S STATLER HALL IS READY FOR ITS FIRST GUESTS
By LEONARD BUDER and William C. Eckenberg
ITHACA--Cornell University, which twenty-eight years ago introduced the teaching of
hotel operation and adminis tration on scientific basis, will dedicate next Saturday its
new $2,550,000 Statler Hall, designed ...
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Sunday, May 7, 1950 : Page 54, 356 words
CORNELL DEDICATES GIFT 'PRACTICE INN'; PRESIDENT O'KELLY ON PILGRIMAGE TO ROME
ITHACA, N.Y., May 6 (AP)--A $2,500,000 center for education in hotel administration was
opened today at Cornell University. In a formal dedication, Statler Hall was turned over
to Cornell by the Statler Foundation as a memorial to the late Ellsworth M. Statler, hotel
executive who died in 1928.
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Sunday, June 4, 1950 : Section: Business & Finance, Page F8, 336 words
SMALLER CITIES GET NEW HOTELS; Trend Is Ascribed to a Spurt in Competition and Higher Costs in Major Centers
A decided trend toward the building of smaller hotels in medium-sized communities is
developing, John L. Hennessy, former board chairman of the Hotels Statler Company,
declared yesterday in an interview.
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Friday, June 9, 1950 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 42, 363 words
Contract Signed for Statler Hotel And Office Building in Los Angeles
A formal contract for the construction of a $20,000,000 Statler Hotel and office
building in downtown Los Angeles was awarded yesterday to Robert E. McKee, General
Contractor, Inc.,
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Saturday, June 10, 1950 : Section: Sports, Page 15, 483 words
750 STATLER AIDES IN WORK STOPPAGE; Hotel Guests Without Services With Union on 90-Minute Unauthorized Sitdown Negotiations Under Way Manager Sees "Needling"
For an hour and a half yesterday afternoon several thousand guests and visitors at the
twenty-eightstory Statler Hotel, Seventh Avenue and Thirty-third Street, had to shift for
themselves as 750 union employes engaged in an unauthorized work stoppage.
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Thursday, August 3, 1950 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 41, 108 words
Hotels Statler Acquire $2,000,000 in Liquor
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Sunday, August 6, 1950 : Section: Real Estate, Page R6, 128 words
PLANS DALLAS HOTEL; Statler Group Options Site for 800-Room Structure
The Hotels Statler Company, Inc., will start construction next spring on its large new
hotel for Dallas, Tex., according to Arthur F. Douglas, president.
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Sunday, September 3, 1950 : Section: Real Estate, Page 117, 116 words
$5,000,000 LOAN PLACED; Statler Hotel Unit for Hartford Gets Financing
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Wednesday, October 18, 1950 : Page 35, 668 words
'STATLER IN STICKS' DEFENDS ITS HONOR; Answers With a Salty Letter Law Firm's Demand That It Cease Using Name 'WE GIVE BETTER SERVICE' Rat Traps in Every Room Cited (With Roquefort Available) --Only 1 Guest 'Hung' Law Firm Is Happy
CENTER OSSIPEE, N. H., Oct. 17 (UP)--Letter from the New York law firm of Root,
Ballantine, Harl, Bushby Palmer to John K. Hill, innkeeper:
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Saturday, October 21, 1950 : Section: Amusements, Page 10, 329 words
'STICKS' INNKEEPER GUEST OF STATLER; New Hampshire's Jack Hill Gets Five-Room Suite and, of Course, Coffee and Sinkers
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Wednesday, November 1, 1950 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 59, 35 words
Statler Hotels to Add Stock
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Thursday, November 23, 1950 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 65, 92 words
Lawyer Named Director Of Statler Hotel Chain
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Tuesday, January 23, 1951 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 37, 150 words
HOTELS STATLER CO. ADVANCES EXECUTIVES
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Sunday, March 25, 1951 : Section: Real Estate, Page 186, 183 words
ALL ROOMS TO GET SUN; Widespread Wings Planned for Los Angeles Statler Hotel
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Monday, April 9, 1951 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 36, 980 words
1950 GROSS RECORD FOR STATLER CHAIN; Total of $50,421,388 Reported for Hotel System $1,170,422 Above Showing in 1949 NET IS LOWER ON TAX RISE $3,819,621, or $3.08 a Share, Against $4,134,717, or $3.34
Gross income in 1950 from all properties owned, operated and managed by the Hotels
Statler Company, Inc., amounted to $50,421,388, highest in the company's history, and
$1,170,422 above the 1949 total.
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Sunday, April 22, 1951 : Page 89, 431 words
JAMES OTIS POST, 77, ARCHITECT, IS DEAD; Partner in George Post & Sons Here Was First President of Beaux Arts Institute
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Thursday, May 3, 1951 : Page 60, 424 words
STATLER WALKOUT HITS 2,800 GUESTS; 600 Workers Strike 4 Hours Over Woman's Demotion-- Issue Left Up to Arbitrator Services Quickly Restored
A four-hour wildcat strike by 600 workers at the Statler Hotel yesterday shut down all
the hotel's restaurants, stranded many of its 2,800 guests on upper stories and filled the
lobby with a tumultuous strike rally. Two union leaders who tried to persuade the workers
to return to their jobs were escorted to the street before the strikers decided to call
off their demonstration at 1 P.M.
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Wednesday, June 27, 1951 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 43, 53 words
Advanced by Statler Co.
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Friday, October 26, 1951 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 39, 81 words
Two Statler Officials Advanced
Sunday, December 16, 1951 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 152, 417 words
Optimistic Outlook for Hotels in 1952 Seen By McCabe, Leaving Statler Here for West
By JAMES J. NAGLE
Hotels will experience one of their best years during 1952 despite the many obstacles
facing them, it was predicted last week by James H. McCabe, general manager of the Statler
Hotel.
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Monday, January 14, 1952 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 29, 81 words
Assumes Management Of Statler Hotel Here
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Tuesday, January 29, 1952 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 36, 60 words
Award Won by Hotels Statler
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Monday, February 4, 1952 : Page 24, 77 words
Promoted by Hotels Statler
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Friday, February 22, 1952 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 31, 29 words
Statler Has New Sales Manager
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Wednesday, March 26, 1952 : Page 22, 393 words
5 Armed Thugs Stage Hold-Ups in 4 Hotels; 30 Men Are Lined Up Against Wall in One
Five armed robbers conducted hold-ups in four West Side hotels on Monday night and
early yesterday morning. The first robbery was at the Statler Hotel, Seventh Avenue and
Thirty-third Street, at 11:15 P. M. There three intruders escaped with cash estimated at
$600 to $2,000.
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Thursday, April 17, 1952 : Section: Sports, Page 43, 127 words
HOTELS STATLER COMPANY; $3,292,543 Earned Last Year, Against $3,819,621 in 1950
Sunday, May 18, 1952 : Page X19, 697 words
WEST COAST HOTEL; New Statler to Increase Los Angeles Facilities
By GLADWIN HILL
LOS ANGELES -- The most notable local development in the travel picture in many years
is crystallizing with the approaching completion of the $25,000,000 Statler Hotel. Its
1,275 rooms and 2,500 beds will almost double Los Angeles' downtown first-class hotel
accommodations.
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Sunday, May 25, 1952 : Section: Book Review, Page BR3, 870 words
It Paid to Be Restrained; A BED FOR THE NIGHT. The Story of the Wheeling Bellboy, E. M. Statler and His Remarkable Hotels. By Rufus Jarman. Drawings by Tony Barlow. 309 pp. New York: Harper & Bros. $3.50. Restraint Paid Off
By JOHN McNULTY
THE Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New York is dead and gone. At one time in its swanky career,
it had three employes to every room. Throughout this land, the Statler hotels, which
average slightly less than one employe per room, are flourishing like the green bay tree.
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Tuesday, June 3, 1952 : Section: business financial, Page 50, 189 words
TWO STATLER HOTELS AUTHORIZED BY N. P. A.
The Hotels Statler Company has received approval from the National Production Authority
to proceed with the construction of a 700-room hotel in Dallas, Texas, and a 450-room
hotel in Hartford, Conn.
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Tuesday, November 25, 1952 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 49, 98 words
Fuller to Build New Statler
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Sunday, November 30, 1952 : Page X17, 1413 words
AMERICA'S OLD HOTELS WERE NEVER LIKE THIS; The Los Angeles Statler Breaks With All Tradition in a Controversial Manner
By PAUL J. C. FRIEDLANDER
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Friday, January 23, 1953 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 27, 527 words
Survey of 3,000 Companies Puts Hotels Statler First in Efficiency; STATLERS RANKED TOPS IN EFFICIENCY
The ten companies in this country found to be "best managed"
were listed yesterday by the American Institute of Management, a nonprofit organization.
Of the ten, said Emil V. Hegyi, vice president of the institute, the Hotels Statler
Company Inc., was "without doubt the best company in production efficiency."
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Thursday, April 16, 1953 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 49, 187 words
Hotels Statler Co. Has Better Gross in 1952 But Higher Costs Reduce Net Profit Slightly
Gross income of the Hotels Statler Company last year increased
$4,781,434 to $42,308,921, but earnings declined somewhat under higher operating costs,
Arthur F. Douglas, president, reported yesterday in the annual statement to stockholders.
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Thursday, July 9, 1953 : Page 41, 88 words
GETS STATLER POST HERE; Trullinger Is Named Publicity Director of Hotel
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Sunday, August 9, 1953 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page F5, 82 words
Du Mont TV for Statlers
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Friday, August 14, 1953 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 28, 219 words
STATLER CHAIN PLANS BIG HOTEL IN DALLAS
Hotels Statler, Inc., announced here yesterday the awarding of a
contract to erect an eighteen-story Statler hotel in Dallas, Tex., to Robert E. McKee
General Contractor, Inc. Arthur F. Douglas, president of the Statler group of hotels, said
the proposed building would contain 1,000 rooms and would represent an investment of about
$15,000,000, including the cost of the land.
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Tuesday, October 6, 1953 : Page 28, 326 words
A RADIO IN EVERY ROOM?
When the late E. M. Statler opened his first permanent hotel, in
Buffalo in 1907, he provided one facility not then available in "any other hotel in
the world at that time." The quotation is from Rufus Jarman's biography of Mr.
Statler, "A Bed for the Night." Mr. Statler attached a bath to every room -- not
just some rooms, not just one room on a floor, but to every room in his hotel.
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Sunday, October 11, 1953 : Page X24, 1073 words
BOOM FOR NEW YORK HOTELS; High Occupancy and High Room Rates Spell Out Full-House Prosperity
By CHARLES GRUTZNER
THE rewards of providing lodgings and hospitality to travelers have
become richer in the past half dozen years than ever before. New York hotels, from the
Waldorf-Astoria to modest $3.50-a-room establishments on side streets, are riding a wave
of prosperity.
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Wednesday, January 20, 1954 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 39, 262 words
STATLERS' '53 NET SETS HIGH RECORD; Hotel Chain Earnings Rise to $2.76 a Share -- Gross Also Greatest in Its History COMPANIES ISSUE EARNINGS FIGURES
The Hotels Statler Company, Inc., achieved in 1953 the highest gross
income and net profit in its fifty-year history.
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Wednesday, May 19, 1954 : Page 33, 58 words
Statler Chain Denies Sale
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Saturday, May 22, 1954 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 21, 163 words
Negotiations Under Way For Statler Chain Stock
Negotiations are under way for the purchase of up to one-third of the
outstanding common stock of the Hotels Statler Company, Inc. The management of the
$63,500,000 hotel chain said yesterday it had not been approached in the pending
negotiations.
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Saturday, June 19, 1954 : Page 1, 708 words
Webb & Knapp Bids For Statler Hotels; STATLER BID MADE BY WEBB & KNAPP
By CLARE M. RECKERT
Webb Knapp, a $250,000,000 realty development organization, is going
into the hotel business.
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Friday, July 9, 1954 : Page 9, 146 words
Statler Chain President To Head '55 Heart Fund
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Wednesday, August 4, 1954 : Page 1, 404 words
HILTON BUYS CHAIN OF STATLER HOTELS; Pays $37,650,000 for 49% of Stock in Financial Coup
By GLADWIN HILL
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3 -- Conrad Hilton announced today that his hotel
company had contracted to buy for $37,650,000 a controlling interest in the Statler Hotel
chain. It is believed to be the biggest such transaction in hotel history.
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Wednesday, August 4, 1954 : Page 28, 462 words
Statler Family Sells Stock
BUFFALO, Aug. 3 -- The sale of the Statler stock also was announced
here today by Edwin F. Jaeckle, lawyer for the Statler family. The chain was founded here
in 1905.
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Saturday, August 7, 1954 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 17, 288 words
HILTON CLINCHES STATLER CONTROL; Million-Share Block Defeats Webb & Knapp Proposal -- Board Reorganized
Stockholders of the Hotels Statler Company approved yesterday the
passing of control of their property to the Hilton Hotels Corporation.
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Friday, August 27, 1954 : Section: Business Financial, Page 28, 104 words
ENTITLED TO DIVIDEND; But Statler Stock Sellers Must Have Been Holders Aug. 10
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Tuesday, August 31, 1954 : Section: Business Financial, Page 27, 322 words
Hilton Rejects Zeckendorf Bid For Title to Statler Hotel Chain
Conrad Hilton, president of the Hilton Hotels Corporation, announced
last night that he has rejected a new bid by William Zeckendorf, president of Webb Knapp,
Inc., to buy the $67,000,000 Hotels Statler Company.
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Thursday, September 2, 1954 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 33, 992 words
FINANCIAL AND BUSINESS SIDELIGHTS OF THE DAY
Conrad Hilton, who runs a vast hotel chain, has not yet closed the door
on the idea of selling the ten hostelries that comprise the Statler group and then leasing
them back on a long-term basis.
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Sunday, September 12, 1954 : Page X21, 472 words
HARTFORD'S NEW HOTEL; Convertibility Is the Key To Statler Design
By PAUL J. C. FRIEDLANDER
HARTFORD, Conn. -- The newest Hotel Statler, $7,000,000 addition to the
Statler chain of hotels (now owned by the Hilton Hotels Corporation) took in its first
guest last week. The 445-room (all outside), eighteen - story aluminum -and-glass
skyscraper adds a Lever House touch to the sedate skyline of this capital city -- capital
of Connecticut and of the American insurance business.
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Tuesday, October 26, 1954 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 39, 616 words
Hotels Statler Co. Stockholders Vote to Sell Chain to Hilton Corp.; COMPANIES HOLD ANNUAL MEETINGS
Stockholders of the Hotels Statler Company, Inc., voted yesterday to
liquidate the company. At a special meeting in the Statler Hotel here, approval was given
to sell the hotel chain company assets to the Hilton Hotels Corporation.
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Thursday, October 28, 1954 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 55, 760 words
HILTON COMPLETES STATLER PURCHASE; $111,000,000 Deal Is Called Largest in Hotel Industry -- 2,000 Documents Signed
The Hilton Hotels Corporation's purchase of all the assets of Hotel
Statler Company, Inc., was completed yesterday for $111,000,000.
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Friday, October 29, 1954 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 39, 77 words
STATLER PAYMENTS SET; Holders to Get All Net Rentals From Lease to Hilton Hotels
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Wednesday, November 17, 1954 : Section: Business Financial, Page 50, 66 words
Son of Conrad Hilton Gets Hotel Chain Post
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Friday, November 26, 1954 : Section: SPORTS, Page 39, 192 words
HILTON TO REPAY LOAN OF $7,400,000; Hotels Concern Is Offering Rights in Subsidiary to Raise Necessary Cash
The Hilton Hotels Corporation has completed arrangements to repay an
investment banking group headed by Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades Co. more than $7,400,000 it
advanced the company on Oct. 27 to help finance its purchase of Hotel Statler Company,
Inc.
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Saturday, November 27, 1954 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 21, 556 words
EVERY HOTEL ROOM WITH VIEW -- OF TV; Video Becoming as Standard as Baths -- Keeps Guests Indoors, and Spending
Once they advertised a bath with every room; now it's a television set.
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Tuesday, December 14, 1954 : Page 35, 38 words
Plans for Statler Hall
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Wednesday, December 15, 1954 : Section: Business Financial, Page 49, 115 words
STATLER ISSUE SOLD OUT; Hilton Stockholders Take Up All Available Shares
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Wednesday, December 29, 1954 : Section: Financial Business, Page 34, 68 words
Dugan Leaving Statler Chain
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== 1955 == |
Wednesday, January 12, 1955 : Page 23, 441 words
HOTEL PENSIONS TO GET TV DEBUT; Workers in 4 Ballrooms Here to Watch on Closed Circuit as 300 Receive Checks
New York hotel workers will get pensions in a novel television ceremony
Feb. 11.
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Wednesday, January 26, 1955 : Section: Business Financial, Page 37, 139 words
HILTON OFFERS RIGHTS; Former Statler Stockholders May Purchase Debentures
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Wednesday, February 9, 1955 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 39, 46 words
Statler Treasurer Resigns
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Saturday, February 12, 1955 : Section: FINANCIAL BUSINESS, Page 27, 431 words
FIRST PENSIONS GO TO HOTEL WORKERS; 312 Retiring Employes Get Benefits at TV Ceremony Seen in 4 Ballrooms
Four hotel ballrooms were linked by a closed television circuit for a
ceremony yesterday as 312 retiring hotel workers received the first pensions in the
industry.
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Thursday, March 31, 1955 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 44, 309 words
Net for Hilton Hotels Up 17.5% in 1954; Revenues of $120,609,218 Set a Record
The Hilton Hotels Corporation had a consolidated net profit of
$4,954,853 last year. That was an increase of 17.5 per cent over the $4,218,450 realized
from operations in 1953.
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Thursday, April 28, 1955 : Page 1, 701 words
U.S. Sues to Compel Hilton To Get Rid of Four Hotels; Government Acts Under Anti-Trust Law --Statlers Here, Elsewhere Involved-- Action on Steel Merger Promised U. S. SUES TO CUT HILTON'S GROWTH
WASHINGTON, April 27--The Federal Government acted under the anti-trust
laws today against the Conrad Hilton hotel chain. It moved to force the chain to divest
itself of four recently acquired Statler hotels in New York, Washington, Los Angeles and
St. Louis.
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Sunday, July 3, 1955 : Page 33, 505 words
JOHN L. HENNESSY, HOTEL MAN, DEAD; President of Hilton Chain. Was Food Consultant to War Secretary, O. P. A.
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Wednesday, August 31, 1955 : Section: Business Financial, Page 29, 320 words
Absorption of the Statler Chain Sends Hilton Earnings Soaring; Gross in Half Year Put at $92,697,107, Against $55,741,007 in '54 Period -- Net $5,434,553, or $3.12 a Share
The Hilton Hotels Corporation, one of the nation's largest hotel
chains, achieved in the first six months this year the highest gross revenues and earnings
in its history for such a period.
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Friday, September 16, 1955 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 37, 109 words
HILTON SUIT IS SHIFTED; Proceedings Are Moved to Chicago From Washington
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Wednesday, September 21, 1955 : Page 36, 237 words
OPPORTUNITY SHOP ASKS FOR DONATIONS
An appeal for articles to replenish the shelves of the Opportunity Shop
at 46 West Forty-seventh Street was begun early this week by a volunteer committee headed
by Mrs Ellsworth M. Statler.
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Thursday, December 15, 1955 : Page 49, 113 words
Statler Chief Elected To Head Hotel Group
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Sunday, December 25, 1955 : Page 16, 280 words
U. S., HILTON CHAIN MAY SETTLE SUIT; Antitrust Action Is Subject of Talks Between Hotel Agents and Officials
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 -- Justice Department officials and Hilton hotel
representatives are discussing a possible out-of-court settlement of the antitrust case
against the hotel chain.
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== 1956 == |
Sunday, January 22, 1956 : Section: Arts & Leisure, Page 113, 1128 words
STATLER HILTON HOTEL SPARKLES IN TEXAS SKY; Lightweight Almuinum-Glass Facade Cuts Construction Cost by a Third
By PAUL J.C. FRIEDLANDEH
DALLAS, Tex.--In spite of the by-now traditional hoop-la, involving
Hollywood actresses, their columnists and aspiring starlets, all wrapped in mink as if it
were cellophane, the opening here last week of the twenty-story, 1,001 room Statler Hilton
Hotel was a major event in the country's hotel history.
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Tuesday, February 7, 1956 : Page 1, 564 words
HILTON DIRECTED TO SELL 2 HOTELS; U.S. Ends Antitrust Suit-- Concern in Consent Decree HILTON ORDERED TO SELL 2 HOTELS Hilton Activities Limited
CHICAGO, Feb. 6--The Government's antitrust suit against the Hilton
Hotels Corporation ended today with a consent decree whereby Hilton agreed to sell two of
its twenty-seven hotels within "a reasonable time."
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Thursday, February 9, 1956 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 51, 171 words
HILTON SETS UP PLAN OF AIR CONDITIONING
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Sunday, February 12, 1956 : Section: Real Estate, Page R1, 851 words
HOTELS CONSIDER AIR CONDITIONING; Action is Taken to Provide for Climate Control in All of Guest Rooms SUMMER TRADE SOUGHT St. Moritz and the Hilton Chain Set the Pace for Metropolitan Area Conversion Now Under Way Individual Room Controls HOTELS CONSIDER CLIMATE CONTROL St. Moritz Work Started
By JOHN A. BRADLEY
Most of the larger hotels in New York soon will be providing all-year
air conditioning in all of their guest rooms. Some of the buildings have been equipped
with individual coolers installed in windows but these are to be ...
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Saturday, March 10, 1956 : Page 17, 164 words
ARTHUR F. DOUGLAS, HOTEL EXECUTIVE
Thursday, March 29, 1956 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 41, 235 words
Hilton Hotels Raised Profit Last Year By 59 Per Cent, With Gross Up 56 Per Cent
The Hilton Hotels Corporation, which operates a chain of twentyseven
hotels, set new records for revenues and earnings in 1955, Conrad N. Hilton, president,
reported in the annual statement issued for publication today.
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Friday, May 11, 1956 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 56, 37 words
Statler Promotes Donohue
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Wednesday, October 31, 1956 : Page 35, 541 words
TAX INDICTMENTS NAME 15 WAITERS; 3 at Waldorf and 2 at the Statler Are Accused of $24,127 Evasion Waldorf's Banquet Figures Those Under Indictment
Two headwaiters at the Statler Hotel and thirteen captain-waiters' at
the Waldorf-Astoria were charged yesterday with failing to report gratuities totaling
$109,942 on their Federal income-tax returns.
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Tuesday, November 27, 1956 : Page 39, 94 words
2 ADMIT TAX EVASION; Headwaiters at Statler Plead Guilty in $4,276 Case
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Wednesday, December 12, 1956 : Page 64, 123 words
TWO HEADWAITERS FINED; Judge Suspends One-Year Sentences in Tax Evasion
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Thursday, December 13, 1956 : Page 75, 159 words
MOSES IN HOTEL APPEAL.; Friendlier Atmosphere Urged on Owners at Meeting Here
Robert Moses appealed yesterday to New York's hotel owners for more
friendly employes and less catering to guests with big expense accounts. He was a guest
speaker at the annual meeting of the Hotel Association of New York City, Inc., in the Park
Sheraton Hotel.
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== 1957 == |
Sunday, March 10, 1957 : Page 88, 312 words
DAVID GUTMAN, 78, ENGINEER, IS DEAD; Retired Specialist in Tall Buildings Designed Hotels, Several State Capitols
PELHAM, N.Y., March 9-- David Gutman, a retired structural engineer who
specialized in tall buildings, died yesterday at his home, 14 Storer Avenue. His age was
78.
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Tuesday, May 28, 1957 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 64, 296 words
Profits of Hilton Hotels Dip in Quarter Despite an Increase in Gross Revenues
The Hilton Hotels Corporation improved its gross revenues in the first
quarter this year over those of the 1956 period. Net profit, however, declined, reflecting
an expanded modernization ...
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Sunday, August 25, 1957 : Section: Real Estate, Page 292, 1072 words
MINIMUM-SERVICE HOTEL ENVISIONED; Zeckendorf Says New York Needs Hostelries on Motel Pattern
By WALTER H. STERN
New York City, in danger of becoming trade-rich and hotel-poor, has
been warned to give serious thought to methods of providing modern accommodations for the
14,000,000 annual visitors who support not only its business life but its cultural
establishment as well.
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Sunday, October 27, 1957 : Section: Business & Finance, Page F10, 856 words
Advertising: Putting Across a New Hotel; The Big Job Is to Get the Guest to Sign In the First Time To Create a Personality Aim at 5 Groups Mailings Early and Heavy
By CARL SPIELVOGEL
Advertising is playing an active role in promoting the Manhattan
Hotel--the first new hotel in the city since the WaldorfAstoria opened its doors in 1931.
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== 1958 == |
Tuesday, January 7, 1958 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 47, 34 words
FULL ARTICLE:
MRS. OSCEOLA STATLER
Miami, Fla., Jan 6 (AP) - Mrs. Mary Gertrude Statler, wife of Osceola Arden Statler, the co-founder of the Statler chain, died yesterday at her home. Her age was 82.
Note: Oscelola is Ellsworth M. Statler's brother.
| == 1959 == | |
== 1959 == |
Sunday, March 1, 1959 : Page 118, 97 words
STATLER FUND REPORTS; Grants of $618,179 Given for Benefit of Hotel Industry
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Thursday, November 26, 1959 : Page 39, 218 words
HOTEL PENALIZED ON LIQUOR SALES; Statler-Hilton Loses Permit for Week -- Served Minors
The liquor license of the Statler Hilton Hotel has been suspended for
Christmas week on a charge of serving to minors, the State Liquor Authority announced
yesterday.
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== 1960 == |
Friday, September 16, 1960 : Page 1, 704 words
Castro Can't Find Lodging Here; One Hotel Cancels Reservation; CASTRO CAN'T FIND HOTEL ROOM HERE
By MAX FRANKEL
Premier Fidel Castro will arrive in New York Sunday, but he has not yet
found a place to stay.
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Friday, September 16, 1960 : Page 25, 174 words
STATLER IS ADDING TO EXHIBIT SPACE
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Saturday, October 29, 1960 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 36, 404 words
HOTEL PLAN HERE JOINED BY HILTON; Company Buys an Interest in Big Building Slated for 6th Ave. and Will Run It
The Hilton Hotels Corporation has bought an interest in the
forty-five-story hotel planned on the west side of the Avenue of the Americas (Sixth
Avenue), between Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Streets, and will operate it.
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== 1961 == |
Thursday, January 26, 1961 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 37, 275 words
Hilton Seeking to Sell 3 Hotels In Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo
By ALEXANDER R. HAMMER
Hilton Hotels Corporation has put up for sale at least three of its
older and less profitable hotels.
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== 1962 == |
Wednesday, February 14, 1962 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 55, 96 words
OFFERING DATE CHANGED; Hilton Extends Purchase Time for Statler Delaware Stock
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Thursday, February 15, 1962 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 38, 67 words
Hotel Gets New Manager
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Wednesday, May 9, 1962 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 80, 189 words
SALES AND MERGERS; Hilton Hotels Corp.
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Friday, September 7, 1962 : Page 26, 492 words
12 HOTELS STRUCK FOR A HALF HOUR; Service Is Halted Again by 3,000 in Contract Protest
By RALPH KATZ
Three thousand service and maintenance employes at twelve Manhattan
hotels stopped work for a half-hour at noon yesterday. Only essential and emergency
services were provided for the thousands of bewildered hotel guests.
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Sunday, September 9, 1962 : Section: Real Estate, Page 429, 1716 words
HOTELS SPRUCE UP AS RIVALRY RISES; They Answer Newcomers With Vast Array of Building Cosmetics OUTLAY IS 100 MILLION Renovations Are Spurred by Threat of Competition From New Hostelries Two Major Additions Park Sheraton Busy Landmark Hotels Are Sprucing Up to Compete With New Rivals Plaza Refurbishing Antique Decor Used
By THOMAS W. ENNIS
In many of Manhattan's older hotels the sound of hammers, saws and
paint brushes now mingles with the tinkle of china on breakfast carts.
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Saturday, October 6, 1962 : Page 27, 1081 words
HOTELS BATTLING FOR CONVENTIONS; Ballrooms Enlarged to Meet Threat of Competition by Americana and Hilton LOSERS FACE CLOSING 21% Decline in Occupancy Since 1946 Has Resulted in Extensive Renovations HOTELS BATTLING FOR CONVENTIONS
By MILTON ESTEROW
With fanfare and millions of dollars, New York's leading hotels are
fighting the "battle of the ballrooms."
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== 1963 == |
Sunday, July 7, 1963 : Section: Real Estate, Page R1, 764 words
Competition Forces Older Hotels To Rent Out Space for Offices; Room Service Available OLD HOTELS TURN TO OFFICE TENANT Appointments Included
The city's older hotels, seeking sources of steady revenue to offset
rising operating costs and increasing competition, are starting to make room for a new
kind of guest--the office tenant.
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Wednesday, July 10, 1963 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 72, 448 words
HOTEL RENOVATION IN BOSTON SLATED; $10 Rooms Are Planned in Old Sherry-Biltmore Federal Site Nearby, Too Apartment Units Planned
By JOHN H. FENTON Special to The New York Times
BOSTON, July 9--A young suburbanite with an eye for revitalizing
industrial property is gambling more than $2,000,000 that there is need for "a $10
hotel room in the new Boston."
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== 1964 == |
Wednesday, February 5, 1964 : Section: Food Fashions Family Furnishings, Page 32, 552 words
380 HOTELS BOOK GUESTS FOR FAIR; 500 Letters a Day Flow In From World's Tourists
By JOHN C. DEVLIN
The 70 million people who are expected to visit the New York World's
Fair this year and next are starting to flood the city with more than 500 letters a day,
requesting hotel reservations.
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Saturday, July 4, 1964 : Page 13, 380 words
HOWARD F. DUGAlI HOTEL EXECUTIVE; Ex-Statler Officer Is Dead Led National Group
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Tuesday, October 20, 1964 : Page 39, 1792 words
HOTELS HERE FACE A CRITICAL PERIOD; Many Are Believed Doomed in Transition to Meet the Demands of Jet Age LABOR COST BIG FACTOR Rising Land Value and Need for Office Buildings Also Are Forcing Changes Hotels in City Facing Critical Jet-Age Problems
By ROBERT ALDEN
The New York hotel industry is entering a critical period of change
that hotel and realty experts believe will sweep away many of the city's best-known
landmarks, substituting functional lodging for what had often been the grace and charm of
another day.
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== 1965 == |
Friday, January 8, 1965 : Section: FOOD FASHIONS FAMILY FURNISHINGS, Page 30, 270 words
7 Hotels in Detroit Lock Out Workers After 2 Are Struck
DETROIT, Jan. 7 (AP) -- Seven major Detroit hotels locked out union
workers today and two others were struck.
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Tuesday, January 12, 1965 : Page 27, 237 words
Hotel Strike Ends In Detroit for All But Statler-Hilton
DETROIT, Jan. 11 -- Settlement of Detroit's six-day strike and lockout
was reached today at all hotels except the Statler-Hilton.
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Wednesday, January 13, 1965 : Page 29, 111 words
Statler-Hilton and Union Agree on Terms in Detroit
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Thursday, January 14, 1965 : Page 14, 177 words
LEFT-WING MEETING CANCELED BY HOTEL
Threats of demonstrations led the Statler-Hilton Hotel to cancel
yesterday a left-wing meeting that had been scheduled for next Friday.
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Friday, January 15, 1965 : Page 18, 179 words
HOTEL IS ORDERED TO ALLOW MEETING
A State Supreme Court justice ordered the Statler-Hilton yesterday to
permit a left-wing meeting at the hotel tonight despite threats of demonstrations by a
neo-Nazi group.
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Saturday, March 20, 1965 : Page 10, 269 words
Hilton Hotel Opens in Capital Today
WASHINGTON March 19 -- Looking like a sea gull perched on a hilltop
nest, the 1200-room Washington Hilton will open to tile public tomorrow and become the
60th link in Conrad Hilton's globe-circling hotel chain.
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Wednesday, April 14, 1965 : Section: Food Fashions Family Furnishings, Page 45, 321 words
Hotel Rooms Turn Frilly To Lure Women Guests
By LISA HAMMEL
A MAJOR hotel chain has decided that women should be treated like women
and when 31 Hilton Corporation hotels put out the welcome mat later this week it will be
covered with frills and furbelows.
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Sunday, April 18, 1965 : Section: RESORTS TRAVEL, Page XX9, 852 words
WOMEN GUESTS WANT TO BE SOMETHING SPECIAL
By PHYLLIS MERAS
THE woman traveling alone and living alone, if only temporarily in a
hotel room, wants to be acknowledged as somebody special, it says in a survey made
recently by the 29 Hilton hotels and inns across the country.
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Saturday, May 22, 1965 : Page 15, 453 words
Fire at Statler Hilton in Detroit Routs Top Executives of G.M.
DETROIT, May 21 (AP) -- Some of the world's most influential men were
routed today by a pre-dawn fire that forced more than 900 persons to flee the Statler
Hilton Hotel in downtown Detroit.
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Wednesday, September 8, 1965 : Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 75, 117 words
Cleveland Statler Hilton Is Sold to New York Group
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Thursday, November 11, 1965 : Section: Food Fashions Family Furnishings, Page 41, 793 words
Hotels Look Like Bivouac Areas, But Staffs Retain Good Spirits
By WILLIAM ROBBINS
Most of New York's hotels shook themselves awake from a nightmare
yesterday morning, but for some -- the few that still had no water or elevator service --
the nightmare continued.
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Wednesday, December 1, 1965 : Page 47, 487 words
HAROLD B. GALLIS OF STATLER CHAIN; Ex-Hotel Executive Dead-Led Industry Foundation
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== 1966 == |
Wednesday, April 20, 1966 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 67, 96 words
Hilton Hotels Corp. Buys A Leased Unit in Hartford
HARTFORD, April 19 (AP) The Hilton Hotels Corporation announced today
that it had bought the Statler Hilton Hotel here, which it had operated under a lease
since it opened in 1954.
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Saturday, October 8, 1966 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 40, 1020 words
Hotels in City Becoming Big Sports Fans; Madison Square Garden Stirring Bid for Business Hotels Around the New Garden Are Becoming Big Sports Fans
By ALEXANDER R. HAMMER
Four large hotels in midtown Manhattan are becoming sports fans in a
big way. The hotels, each in the vicinity of the new Madison Square Garden, are going
all-out in bidding for new future business because of their proximity to the sports arena.
One of the hotels is even installing seven-foot beds to accommodate professional
basketball players.
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Sunday, November 27, 1966 : Section: Real Estate, Page R6, 104 words
2ND HILTON HOTEL SET FOR MIAMI BEACH
Plans to build a 17-story Statler Hilton Hotel in north Miami Beach
have been announced. The new structure with 476 rooms will rise at 159th Street and
Collins Avenue.
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== 1967 == |
Sunday, January 22, 1967 : Section: Travel And Resorts, Page 371, 1014 words
New Hotels Add to the Glitter of Miami Beach
By SEYMOUR PEARLMAN
MIAMI BEACH--This resort city's glittering Gold Coast, a hoteland
motel-studded strip of real estate stretching for several miles along the Atlantic Ocean,
soon will be shining a bit brighter. Two new hotels, the first to be built along the
oceanfront since early 1963, are scheduled to be opened this year.
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Sunday, February 12, 1967 : Section: Real Estate, Page 288, 1432 words
HOTEL BUSINESS IMPROVING HERE; Demolition of Older Ones Helps Survivors Others Turn to Renovations AVERAGE RATES CLIMB Food and Drink Sates Also Show Rise Conventions Help Spur Occupancy HOTEL BUSINESS IMPROVING HERE
By FRANKLIN WHITEHOUSE
The city's shrinking hotel industry, encouraged by the profitable
World's Fair years and an unexpectedly brisk business in 1866, hopes it has turned the
corner into better times.
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Friday, May 19, 1967 : Section: Business & Finance, Page F63, 635 words
NEWS OF REALTY: HOTEL PURCHASE; Carter to Buy Statler Hilton in Buffalo for $4-Million
By THOMAS W. ENNIS
Carter Hotels, Inc., owner of hotels in New York and other cities, is
completing negotiations to purchase the 1,065-room Statler Hilton Hotel in Buffalo from
the Hilton Hotels Corporation. The Buffalo hotel is the largest in the state outside
Manhattan.
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Friday, July 21, 1967 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 51, 422 words
NEWS OF REALTY: A JERSEY HILTON; $5-Million Hotel Slated on Atlantic City Boardwalk
ATLANTIC CITY, July 20--The Statler Hilton hotel chain announced today
it would construct a $5-million hotel on the Boardwalk at the foot of the Atlantic City
Expressway here.
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Friday, October 6, 1967 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 61, 36 words
Biltmore Names Manager
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Sunday, November 5, 1967 : Section: Resorts And Travel, Page XX3, 565 words
Three New Hotels Opening in Miami And Miami Beach Presage Big Season; Two More Openings
By JAY CLARKE
MIAMI BEACH--A new public golf course, several new hotels and a pair of
800-pound babies are some of the developments that will greet fall and winter visitors to
this Gold Coast resort.
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== 1968 == |
Tuesday, June 25, 1968 : Page 64, 48 words
. HiltOn' Hote[S'"A'il'e"'Namecl-::'
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== 1969 == |
Thursday, January 30, 1969 : Section: BUSINESS AND FINANCE, Page 50, 49 words
Philadelphia Hotel Planned
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Friday, July 18, 1969 : Page 33, 396 words
DR. HOWARDMEF,, A CORNELL,EAN!; Hotel Administration School[ Founder and Ex-Head Dies I
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Saturday, October 18, 1969 : Page 33, 356 words
M rs..E!lsworth M., S t at ler, Diea:., L' Widow l-l eadedth 'otel, O,in
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Saturday, November 22, 1969 : Page 21, 62 words
Mrs. Statler's Will Filed
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== 1970 == |
Saturday, March 28, 1970 : Page 27, 88 words
W. RANDOLPH LEBER
WOODBRIDGE, N.J., March 27 W. Randolph Leber, a retired vice president
of the Hotels Statler Company, died here today. He was 71 years old and lived at 175 Green
Street.
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Sunday, August 9, 1970 : Page 50, 165 words
2 HOTEL CHAINS HERE FACE STATE INQUIRY
The office of State Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz has subpoenaed
the records of two of the city's largest hotel chains in an investigation of alleged
overcharging on customers' bills.
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== 1971 == |
Friday, October 29, 1971 : Page 1, 1555 words
POLICE SAID TO GET ROOMS AND MEALS FREE FROM HOTELS; Cost in Year to 7 Hotels Put at $60,000 -- Knapp Unit Is Told of Tow-Truck Graft KRIEGEL MAY BE CALLED Aide to Lindsay Would Face Questions About Response to Corruption Charges By DAVID BURNHAM Police Said to Get Hotel Rooms
Evidence that seven New York hotels gave policemen food and rooms worth
$60,000 a year and that honest tow-truck drivers are the targets of police shakedowns and
harassment throughout the city was presented yesterday at a hearing of the Knapp
Commission.
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Friday, October 29, 1971 : Page 24, 750 words
Two Hotel Spokesmen Call Free Meals for Policemen a Long-Standing Policy; Practice Is Called Way Of Saying 'Thank You'
By JAMES M. MARKHAM
Spokesmen for two of seven hotels singled out by the Knapp Commission
asserted yesterday that they had simply been following a long-standing citywide tradition
by providing free meals to New York policemen.
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Thursday, December 2, 1971 : Page 49, 718 words
Hotel Here May Change To Hospital
By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
The massive New Yorker Hotel is tentatively scheduled for sale and
conversion into a hospital.
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== 1973 == |
Saturday, March 3, 1973 : Page 28, 111 words
The Statler Hilton in Buffalo Bought by Real-Estate Man
The Statler Hilton Hotel here--50 years ago the world's largest--has
been sold to a local realestate executive, it was reported yesterday.
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Sunday, July 8, 1973 : Section: BUSINESS AND FINANCE, Page 120, 593 words
Hotels Turn On the Charm
By ALEXANDER R. HAMMER
Houseboats, honor-system bars and pretty "DoorBelles"
(instead of doormen) are some of the lures hotel operators are trying these days to bring
in the wellheeled businessman By all accounts, the new gimmicks are working.
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Sunday, October 7, 1973 : Section: GN, Page 66, 458 words
Over $750,000 in Overcharges by Hotels Recovered
By GLENN FOWLER
More than $750,000 in overcharges to guests of hotels, most of them in
the city, has been recovered since the State Attorney General began a campaign to obtain
refunds 30 months ago.
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== 1974 == |
Wednesday, April 24, 1974 : Page 44, 138 words
MAURICE REYMOND OF HILTON HOTELS
Maurice Reymond, a vice president of Hilton International, was among
the victims of Monday's crash of a Pan American airliner on the Indonesian island of Bali.
He was 47 years old and lived at 1 Gracie Terrace.
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Saturday, June 22, 1974 : Page 32, 100 words
LAWRENCE G. SEIBLE
Lawrence G. Seible, who had been a management executive with the Hilton
Hotels Corporation for many years, died Tuesday in Vero Beach, Fla. He was 55 years old
and formerly lived here.
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Thursday, December 12, 1974 : Page 73, 432 words
Hotel Stake for Insurer; Hilton-Prudential Accord on Hotels Is Reached
By HERBERT KOSHETZ
Hilton Hotels Corporation in Beverly Hills, California has agreed to
sell a 50 per cent interest in six of its hotels to the Prudential Insurance Company of
America for $83.35-million.
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== 1975 == |
Saturday, March 1, 1975 : Section: Business & Finance, Page 37, 319 words
PRUDENTIAL SETS DEAL FOR HOTELS; Insurer Acquires 50% of Six Units From Hilton Concern
The Prudential Insurance Company of America has acquired a 50 per cent
interest in six hotels from the Hilton Hotel Corporation for $83.4million. Of the sale
price, $65.95-million is cash and about $17.4-million is ex isting mortgage indebtedness.
The transaction results in a nonrecurring gain, after applicable income taxes, of
$27.3-million, equal to $3.26 a share based on 8,365,942 Hilton common shares outstanding,
according to Barron Hilton, president of the hotel chain.
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Monday, March 3, 1975 : Section: Sports, Page 34, 796 words
About New York; Shed a Tear When Digits Replace Digby
By JOHN CORRY
It is 10 years and more since the telephone company said it would
replace the old names with digits, making BUtterfield 8, for example the less interesting
288, and 10 years and more since people wept over PEnnsylvania 65000 becoming 736-5000.
The telephone company, citizens said, was taking away their heritage. Worse, it was
killing romance.
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Sunday, September 14, 1975 : Section: Real Estate, Page 250, 1439 words
Hotels Sprucing Up for the Democratic Convention; Hotels Sprucing Up for Democratic Convention
By WENDY SCHUMAN
The 50-year-old Roosevelt Hotel, in new red, white and blue decor, is
stressing its history as a political headquarters. The waldorf Astoria is looking forward
to welcoming Hubert Humphrey and many other top political guests. Even the owner of the
little Wentworth on the West Side is investing in American flags, a fresh paint job and
new advertising brochures.
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Sunday, October 19, 1975 : Page 47, 1488 words
Detroit's Heritage Hotel Stands Dark, Cold and Empty
By AGIS SALPUKAS
DETROIT, Oct. 18 It was the Place where Henry Ford came to listen to
the big bands; where Desi Arnez romanced Lucille Ball; where Casey Stengel ordered double
martinis after a game with the Tigers; where Detroiters by the hundreds flocked to the
Cafe Rouge to have mile-high ice cream pie and crepe thin pancakes with maple syrup
butter.
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== 1977 == |
Tuesday, November 8, 1977 : Page 33, 433 words
New York City Hotels Hanging Up 'No Vacancy' Signs
By TOM BUCKLEY
These are happy days for New York City's innkeepers. The hotel
business, which is usually good in the fall in any case, has increased to the point in the
city this year that there is scarcely a broom closet available at the major Manhattan
hotels.
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== 1978 == |
Wednesday, August 9, 1978 : Section: Business & Finance, Page D14, 744 words
Real Estate; World's Biggest Hotel for Hilton
By Carter B. Horsley
ALMOST a decade ago the Hilton Hotels Corporation planned to expand the
New York Hilton, making it the world's largest hotel. However, the plan to extend the
hotel westward toward Seventh Avenue along 53d Street and to add 1,250 rooms to the
2,153-room hotel--so that it would surpass the 3,128-room Rossiya Hotel in
Moscow--collided with the city's fiscal crisis and the prolonged debate over a new
convention center that clouded the changing hotel market here.
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== 1979 == |
Friday, January 5, 1979 : Section: Metropolitan Report, Page B5, 1050 words
Conrad Hilton, Founder of Hotel Chain, Dies at 91; For the Affluent American Abroad Stress on a Hotel's Own Style Dancing Till 3, Coffee at 8
By JOAN COOK
Conrad N. Hilton, one of the world's leading hotel men, died of
pneumonia Wednesday night at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 91 years
old.
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Friday, January 19, 1979 : Section: Business & Finance, Page D1, 629 words
Zeckendorf, Hilton in Statler Deal
By DEE WEDEMEYER
An investment group headed by William Zeckendorf Jr. has contracted to
purchase the Statler Hilton Hotel, opposite Pennsylvania Station, for $24 million from the
Hilton Hotels Corporation, Hilton announced yesterday. The transaction is expected to be
consummated in mid-April.
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Sunday, March 18, 1979 : Section: Business & Finance, Page F7, 1737 words
SPOTLIGHT; Another Zeckendorf to the Fore
By CAROL COLMAN
Twenty-three years ago, The New Yorker published a cartoon of a father
and son gazing out over the Manhattan skyline. The caption: "Someday, my boy, all
this will belong to Mr. William Zeckendorf."
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Tuesday, December 25, 1979 : Section: Metropolitan Report, Page 30, 143 words
Irving M. Saunders, Hotel Owner Who Took Over Hilton in Boston
BOSTON, Dec. 24 (AP) Irving M. Saunders, a longtime hotel owner whose
company recently took over the former Boston Statler Hilton and renamed it the Park Plaza,
is dead at the age of 76.
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| == 1981 == | |
== 1981 == |
April 8, 1981 :
100 Firemen Battle Blaze at Restaurant in Statler Hotel
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Saturday, April 18, 1981 : Late City Final Edition, Section 2, Page 23, Column 3, 655 words
EARLY MORNING FIRE ROUTS 1,500 STATLER HOTEL GUESTS
By DOROTHY J. GAITER (NYT); Metropolitan Desk
About 1,500 guests were routed from the New York Statler Hotel
yesterday by a ''suspicious'' five-alarm fire that started at about 2:40 A.M. in a
third-floor ballroom and sent smoke billowing as high as the 15th floor of the 21-story
building. The guests were able to return to the ...
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April 19, 1981 :
Blaze at the Statler Hotel Called 'Definitely Arson'
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Fire marshals have determined that the blaze Friday that virtually closed the New York Statler Hotel was ''definitely arson,'' according to a spokesman for the Fire Department.
The spokesman, John Mulligan, said the marshals had found a gallon can containing a flammable liquid in the vicinity of the third-floor ballroom, where the fire broke out.
The blaze sent smoke billowing up the sides of the 21-story hotel at Seventh Avenue and 33d Street.
The marshals are attempting to determine where the can came from and what type fluid was in it, Mr. Mulligan said. About three hours after the fire was reported at 2:44 A.M., the 1,500 guests were permitted to return to their rooms. But late Friday afternoon, hotel managers said guests were being sent to other hotels in the area because of electrical problems caused by water damage.
William Senkbeil, an assistant manager, said yesterday afternoon that only ''a handful of permanent residents'' remained in the hotel and that he could not estimate when it might begin accepting guests again.
Sunday, April 26, 1981 : Late City Final Edition, Section 1, Page 52, Column 1, 672 words
AFTER FIRE, CITY'S HOTELS INCREASING SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
By GLENN FOWLER (NYT); Metropolitan Desk
After a series of suspicious fires in Manhattan hotels, the Fire
Department has begun a program of surveillance by undercover firefighters posing as hotel
employees and guests. The special squad, composed at any given time of between six and 15
members of the fire marshal's staff, has stepped up ...
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May 2, 1981 :
THE CITY THAT SHINES
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To the Editor:
As a guest on the 17th floor of the New York Statler, I was quite concerned when I heard the fire alarm go off at around 3:30 A.M. (on April 17). Yet not only did the Statler employees have a thorough emergency plan, but the City of New York shone as I have never seen it.
Immediately, medical aid, blankets, coffee, the warmth of Penn Station and, shortly, the opening of the Felt Forum just for our further comfort was put together with speed and concern.
New York's the greatest and I look forward to my next trip to the best city of them all! SID ROSS, Van Nuys, Calif., April 23, 1981
July 5, 1981 :
TUDOR P. WILLIAMS
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Tudor P. Williams, who had been a special sales representative for the Statler Hotel and then was head of public relations in New York for Hiram Walker Inc., the liquor company, died Friday of a heart attack at Englewood (N.J.) Hospital. Mr. Williams, a resident of Leonia, N.J., was 72 years old.
He was born in New Castle, Pa., and served in the Army in World War II. He was employed by the Statler for 24 years before joining Hiram Walker in 1954, where he retired in 1973.
December 8, 1981 :
James W. Trullinger Sr., 71, Leading Judge of Dog Shows
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James W. Trullinger Sr. of Forest Hills, Queens, a leading judge of dog shows for more than half a century, died Friday night at Lenox Hill Hospital. He was 71 years old.
Mr. Trullinger was among 28 judges licensed to rule on all 125 breeds registered with the American Kennel Club. He judged his first show when he was a freshman at Penn State University in 1929, and he became an all-round judge in 1938, one of the youngest to attain that distinction. He judged at almost every major show in the country, and in Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, South America, South Africa and Australia.
He was a founder of the Harrisburg Kennel Club, the Pug Dog Club of America and a board member of the Dog Fanciers Club of America. For more than 30 years he was a public relations director for the Statler Hotel organization.
Surviving are two sons, James W. Jr. and Jeffrey R.
| == 1983 == | |
== 1983 == |
Thursday, August 11, 1983 : Late City Final Edition, Section A, Page 1, Column 6, 1548 words
TRANSFORMER FIRE BLACKS OUT 12 BLOCKS IN GARMENT DISTRICT; SHUTS STREETS AND BIG STORES
By ROBERT D. MCFADDEN (NYT); Metropolitan Desk
A raging underground electrical fire in midtown Manhattan yesterday
plunged the garment center and the city's busy Herald Square commercial district into a
chaotic, extended power failure. The blackout struck an area of 12 square blocks - from
30th to 42d Street between the Avenue of the Americas and ...
...dim lights from emergency generators flickered in dark lobbies and halls of the
Southgate Tower and New York Statler Hotels. The Statler said it would move all 2,500
guests to other hotels today because of inadequate power. Flashlights bobbed...
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Friday, August 12, 1983 : Late City Final Edition, Section A, Page 1, Column 6, 1356 words
CON EDISON BEGINS EFFORT TO RESTORE POWER IN MIDTOWN
By ROBERT D. MCFADDEN (NYT); Metropolitan Desk
Consolidated Edison crews began efforts to restore power to midtown
Manhattan's blacked-out garment district yesterday as hundreds of businesses remained
closed and economic losses mounted into the millions of dollars. With full power not
expected before Monday, the cumulative cost of Wednesday's power failure - in lost retail
sales, ... ...Deserted Macy's and Gimbels department stores remained closed and were
likely to be closed through the weekend. The New York Statler Hotel moved its 2,500 guests
because of insufficient power to light rooms and run elevators. Dozens of high-rise
office...
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Sunday, August 14, 1983 : Late City Final Edition, Section 1, Page 38, Column 1, 1111 words
RELIEF, DELIGHT AND A HUGE CLEANUP AS LIGHTS GO ON AGAIN IN MIDTOWN
By PHILIP SHENON (NYT); Metropolitan Desk
In the stores, relieved shopkeepers welcomed the thousands of customers
who had heard the power was back. Restaurant owners cleaned out spoiled food from their
freezers and talked of opening on Monday. Out on the street, utility workers tried to make
sure the lights would stay on - and ... ...losses. A few blocks away, the New York Statler
Hotel started taking reservations again...Light Sale.'' The lobby of the New York Statler
Hotel on Seventh Avenue was empty but...spent Wednesday night at the darkened Statler were
compensated for their discomfort...
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August 17, 1983 :
Real Estate; New Phase Beginning For Statler
By SHAWN G. KENNEDY
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WHEN Ellsworth Statler and the Pennsylvania Railroad built the Hotel Pennsylvania in 1919, on Seventh Avenue between 32d and 33d Streets, their aim was to serve travelers arriving at the recently opened Pennsylvania Station across the street.
Since then, air travel has replaced rail travel as the dominant mode of transportation. And the New York Statler Hotel, which was designed by Stanford White and until 1927 was the world's largest, has operated under several owners and several names.
The hotel recently changed hands again, and the new owners are looking for patronage from visitors drawn to Manhattan's West Side for another reason: The city's 1.8-million-square- foot convention center is going up five blocks from the hotel.
''We will have a distinct advantage in being the closest major hotel in the new convention center's vicinity,'' said Elie Hirschfeld. He and his father, Abraham Hirschfeld, and Arthur G. Cohen have joined with Penta Hotels, which owns and operates dozens of medium-priced hotels in Europe and the Middle East, to purchase the 1,700-room landmark from an investment group headed by Willim Zeckendorf Jr. for an estimated $46 million.
With 58,000 square feet of ballroom space and 24,000 square feet of exhibition room, the hotel, at the edge of the garment district, has long drawn its share of convention delegates and business travelers. The hotel was the headquarters for the Democratic National Convention in 1976 and 1980.
An underground passageway at 33d Street links the hotel with Pennsylvania Station, Madison Square Garden and other buildings, providing easy access for hotel guests.
Abelco, the name of the Hirschfeld- Cohen partnership, and the Penta organization each have a 50 percent interest in the venture. Penta will manage the hotel, which will be renamed the New York Penta.
The Penta Hotels chain is owned by British Airways, Lufthansa, Swissair and three major European banks. According to Pier Weidt, director for marketing for Penta, the consortium was formed in 1970 to secure hotel accomodations for the airlines' travelers in major gateway cities where the airlines flew.
''The acquisition of the Statler is the first that Penta has purchased in the United States, but there are plans for future development here,'' he said.
Although the hotel was upgraded just four years ago after Mr. Zeckendorf's group bought it, the new owners have announced a multimillion- dollar modernization program, to be completed in several stages during the next 18 months. All of the hotel's public spaces, including the lobbies and restaurants, and about 1,200 of the rooms and suites will be redesigned. The facelift will include the hotel's exterior.
Despite the money the new owners plan to put into the hotel, which is now the city's fourth largest, Elie Hirschfeld said the group was committed to maintaining its current room prices.
''We want to fit into a particular niche, to reach a market of business travelers and tourists who are not looking for a super-luxurious hotel,'' said Elie Hirschfeld. ''The current average price of a double room at the hotel is less than $100 per day, and we will maintain that price structure.''
The Penta-Abelco partners are not the only investors outside the city who are investing in Manhattan's West Side. In May V.M.S. Realty, a Chicago-based national real estate investment firm, acquired the New York Sheraton Hotel, on Seventh Avenue between 55th and 56th Streets, from the Sheraton Corporation. V.M.S. paid $60 million for the 1,450- room hotel, the city's fifth largest.
At the time of the purchase, Peter R. Morris, the 34-year-old chairman of V.M.S., called the acquisition a ''once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.'' He added that the company's decision to take over the Sheraton reflected its strong belief in the further economic growth of New York City in general and in what Mr. Morris called the renaissance taking place on the West Side between Times Square and Lincoln Center.
V.M.S. Realty, founded by Mr. Morris six years ago, is jointly owned by him and the Van Kamp Group, an investment banking firm. Since its beginning in 1977, V.M.S. has acquired 3,500 hotel and motel units. The company also owns 3.5 million square feet of commercial property in office buildings, shopping centers and hotels and owns or manages more than 12,000 residential units throughout the country.
V.M.S. selected the Dunfey Hotels Corporation, a hotel and restaurant chain owned by Aer Lingus, as its manager.
October 12, 1983 :
NEW YORK DAY BY DAY; Some Things Never Change
By DAVID BIRD AND MAURICE CARROLL
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When everyone was much younger, the Pennsylvania Hotel's telephone number was PEnnsylvania 6-5000 and Glenn Miller's band made a hit song with that title. The Pennsylvania, at Seventh Avenue and 32d Street, became the New York Statler and now, under ownership of a group headed by the builder Abe Hirschfeld, it is the New York Penta. And the telephone number - you could try it - is 736-5000.
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== 1985 == |
Sunday, April 28, 1985 : Late City Final Edition, Section 6, Page 28, Column 1, 4128 words
THE GREAT QUEST FOR HOTEL GUESTS
By ANNA QUINDLEN: ANNA QUINDLEN IS DEPUTY METROPOLITAN EDITOR TO THE NEW YORK TIMES STEVE RUBELL IS IN HOTELS NOW. (NYT); Magazine Desk
Some of the same people who were his guests before are now his guests
again, although this time he is on Madison Avenue, not West 54th Street. His good friend
Calvin Klein designed some of the uniforms for the handsome young men who carry bags and
staff the front ... ...unfurls its red awnings where once was the Alrae. Even the
Statler Hilton, after renovation in 1983, took on the odd name the...Sixth Avenue and
Avenue of the Americas, still call it the Statler. No one can say for sure whether this is
some pivotal time...
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== 1988 == |
May 9, 1988 :
THE MEDIA BUSINESS: ADVERTISING; Penta Hotel's Agency
By PHILIP H. DOUGHERTY
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Kirshenbaum & Bond has been named the agency for the New York Penta Hotel, which older New Yorkers may remember as the Pennsylvania or Statler Hilton, at Seventh Avenue and 33d Street. According to the agency, the hotel is part of a 16-unit chain operated out of West Germany as a joint venture by Lufthansa, Swissair and British Airways. Its previous agency, James Parry Inc., went out of business.
| == 1990 == | |
== 1990 == |
June 10, 1990 :
The Elite No Longer Meet, So a Landmark Heads for Auction
By CHARLOTTE LIBOV
MANY a political deal was made behind the scenes at the Parkview Hilton in Hartford,
with hopes for office realized or dashed. Cabinet officials, vice presidents and
presidents were among the hotel's visitors. But now it is to meet the same fate as two of
Connecticut's other landmark meeting places: the auction block.
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== 1995 == |
December 3, 1995 :
PERSPECTIVES;Its Name Restored, a Hotel Rides the Tourism Wave
By ALAN S. OSER
TIME seems to bring change to hotels more regularly than to most forms of commercial property. To maintain quality, renovation work has to be undertaken constantly. But the ownership of the property, and the character of its use, often changes as well.
In the case of what is now formally known as the Hotel Pennsylvania, in Manhattan, the
changes extend also to the name. It was built in 1919 as the Hotel Pennsylvania by the
Pennsylvania Railroad, whose late-lamented station faced it across Seventh Avenue between
32d and 33d Streets. It became the Statler in 1949 when the Statler Company bought it.
Five years later, Conrad Hilton bought all 17 Statler hotels, and renamed it the Statler
Hilton.
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== 1998 == |
March 31, 1998 :
Metro Business; Vornado Buys Hotel Stake
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Vornado Realty Trust of Saddle Brook, N.J., says it has doubled its stake in the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan to 80 percent by buying one of its partner's interests for $70 million in cash and assumed debt.
The move leaves Vornado, a real estate investment trust, and Planet Hollywood International as partners in the hotel, which they plan to turn into a sports-theme hotel and entertainment complex called the Official All-Star Hotel.
The hotel is on Seventh Avenue across the street from Madison Square Garden.
Vornado said last week that it had bought the 40 percent stake in the hotel from Ong Beng Seng, a Singapore businessman, for $22 million in cash and the assumption of $48 million of debt.
The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter.
In September, Vornado, Planet Hollywood and Ong Ben Seng acquired the 20-story hotel for $159 million.
The Hotel Pennsylvania has more than 1,700 guest rooms and 400,000 square feet of retail and office space. It was previously run under the names Penta, the Statler-Hilton and the Statler.
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== 2004 == |
February 10, 2004 :
William B. Tabler Sr., Architect of Hilton Hotels, Dies at 89
By DAVID W. DUNLAP
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William B. Tabler Sr., an architect who gave Hilton hotels the crisp and clean but sometimes stark face of corporate America, most notably in the 46-story slablike New York Hilton near Rockefeller Center, died on Feb. 3. He was 89.
He died at his home in Upper Brookville, N.Y., said his son, William B. Tabler Jr., who continues the architectural practice in Manhattan.
Though he was not well known outside the profession, Mr. Tabler's designs affected generations of travelers after World War II when downtown hotels began to trade charm for efficiency, looking more and more like the office buildings around them. Nonetheless, Mr. Tabler could be counted on for architectural gestures that would make Hilton hotels stand apart.
Broad boomerang swoops in a figure 3 distinguish the 12-story Washington Hilton of 1965, as does its location on a bluff overlooking Connecticut Avenue. Mr. Tabler's design permitted all of the 1,250 guest rooms to face outside, rather than having some overlook courtyards. More than half of the hotel's floor area, including the ballroom, was built below ground so that it would conform to Washington's strict height limit.
The 1,200-room Hilton in San Francisco, built near Union Square in 1964, was called a motel within a hotel because Mr. Tabler's design allowed guests to drive their cars up ramps through the core of the building to park on the same floor as their rooms. On the exterior, windows alternated with structural panels, creating a kind of checkerboard facade that masked the X-shaped braces providing earthquake resistance.
And in New York, Mr. Tabler created angled window bays that allowed ductwork to run outside the main structure. Aesthetically, that imparted texture and dimension to an otherwise monolithic facade and gave a sense of extra space to the rooms. The glass was tinted blue, which also helped the tower, between 53rd and 54th Streets, distinguish itself from nearby corporate headquarters along the Avenue of the Americas.
Mr. Tabler designed the 2,153-room New York Hilton at Rockefeller Center with David P. Dann for a partnership called Rock-Hil-Uris for its principals: Laurance S. Rockefeller, Conrad N. Hilton and Percy and Harold Uris. It opened in 1963 and is now called the Hilton New York.
''The directness of the concept, the expertness of the plan and the quality of execution are commendable,'' Ada Louise Huxtable, then the architecture critic of The New York Times, wrote in 1963. ''If the building has a look that suggests that one might put change in at the top and get something out of the bottom, this is only because today's slickly designed commercial structures more and more frequently resemble a product, a machine or a package.''
Mr. Tabler was born in Momence, Ill., and received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Harvard. In 1939 he joined the Chicago firm Holabird & Root, where he worked on his first big hotel project, the 1,000-room Statler Hotel in Washington.
After serving in the Navy during the Second World War, he was asked to head Statler's in-house architecture department in 1946. He formed his own practice in 1955.
He designed more than 400 hotels. Among his recent projects were the 376-room New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, 333 Adams Street in Brooklyn, which opened in 1998, and the 714-room Grand Hyatt Cairo, which opened in 2000. Mr. Tabler designed Hilton hotels in Baltimore, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh and St. Paul; Statler hotels in Dallas and Hartford; and InterContinental hotels worldwide.
Besides his son, of Locust Valley, N.Y., Mr. Tabler is survived by his wife, Phyllis Baker Tabler; a daughter, Judith Tabler Cook, of McLean, Va.; and three grandchildren.
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