Identifier: 1910tripofhmmbat00jame (find matches)
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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izens, who meet us with autos andtake us to the hotels. It is a warm welcome indeed that we get from thesehotelmen and the city, and we are made to feel as big as if we were thewhole H. M. M. B. .\.! Breakfast over and we become the guests of the hotel association andautomobile club, of which M. C. Dickinson, the president of the OregonHotel Association, is also ))resident, and are taken on a forty-mile autodrive, to the grounds of the club; to the aviation field, where we see bothlocal and foreign flying machines, returning to the Commercial Club, wherewe are given a com))limentary luncheon at 1 :30, followed by address ofwelcome by President Beckwith, and responded to by members of our dele-gation. At 3:30 special trolley cars are in waiting, and we are taken to thepleasant resort on Council Crest, where a splendid view of the city andsurrounding country is obtained. An hour is )nit in visiting the roof gardenof the Nortania, where we are entertained by the proprietress, Mrs. Hogue,
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TO CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST 847 and Manager Rowley, after which the Oregon. Imperial and Perkins Hotelsare visited. Owing to the seniority of the hotel and its manager in Portland hotelaftairs, and the excellent facilities of the hotel for the purpose, the enter-tainment committee selected the Portland Hotel as the place for holdingboth the banquets for the gentlemen and the ladies, tendered by the PortlandHotel Association to the visiting hotel people. This Portland mens banquetis a most elaborate affair, choice, unique, artistic, elaborate, and the ladiesdinner is c;uite as exquisite. The table is set in a square, the diners allseated on the outside, while the center, about which the one hundred gen-tlemen are grouped, is filled with plants and flowers, a veritable park. Allaround the room are most elaborate floral decorations, formed of roses andother flowers. From the purely artistic standpoint some of our party declareit the finest dinner of the trip so far. The entertain

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