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Title: The 1910 trip of the H.M.M.B.A. to California and the Pacific coast
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association Hotels
Publisher: San Francisco, Press of Bolte & Braden company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ed at the fine Hotel Washington, and what theladies particularly applaud is that for the first time during this long journeyat an evening banquet the ladies and gentlemen dine together. It is a finedinner in a fine room in a fine hotel. The bill of fare is very expensivelygotten up, heavy cards tied with broad blue and white satin ribbons, thetitle page engraved: Reception and banquet given to the visiting membersof the Hotel Mens Mutual Benefit Association by the Seattle Hotel MensAssociation, on Monday, April the twenty-fifth, one thousand nine hundredand ten, at the New Washington Hotel, Seattle, Wash. Another page isengraved with the ofificers and committees, including the names of W. J.Blackwell. W. G. King, Charles F. Lyons, W. G. Potts, Charles Perry,J. M. Lux, H. E. Kennedy. The speakers are Hon. H. C. Gill. Hon. J. L.Wilson, J. E. Chilberg, W. J. Blackwell, and W\ G. King is toastmaster..Mter the dinner there is dancing in the ballroom. TO CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST 359
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-.■»m»M«arii 360 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. The Hotel Butler, Seattle, Wash. The king among the eastward hotel boys who have gone westward inthe past ten years is William G. King, who in his younger days was knownas Billy King of Alilwaukee. When he left the Plankinton House in thebeer metropolis, the hotel in which he had risen from a position in thestoreroom to that of manager, his friends thought he probably made amistake, but he didnt. Mr. King assumed the management with a proprie-tary interest of the Hotel Butler at Seattle, and in that hotel set a newstandard for hoteldom in the flourishing Northwest country. Since heopened the Butler his eastern friends have heard nothing but tales of pros-perity about him. He sized up conditions aright, and notwithstandingSeattle has been, and is, building hotels galore, they do not seem tomaterially affect the prosperity of the Hotel Butler. The continued growth and development of the Butlers business is duechiefly to three thi

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