Good Old Days: Aug. 3, 2017

­125 years ago

The Commoner

July 29, 1892

In the successful upbuilding of a city there are many essentials; but in the line of progress and healthy advancement, none other are so necessary as first-class hotels, and plenty of them, for the accommodation of not only the traveling public and occasional or frequent visitors but the home people as well.

Though served by a number of good houses already, the large influx of people into the city has resulted almost daily in an overcrowded condition of affairs. This fact has been the seed from which a clamorous demand for a new and first-class house h...