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IHE CITY OF AERQH and her eitixens have been

the recipients of men]; congratulations on the opening

of their new hotel. the May?ower.

I went to extend my congratulations to on
having such an nggresoive. far-seeing and courage?ns
group of business exeCUEi'I-res which molt. this hotel
project out of the realm of eivie dreams and made it :t
eivie monument. i believe that in the May?ower. Akron
has on hotel, which. for its size. is second to none in the
United States. Its location is excellem, and its layout.

furnishings, decorations and equipment are the last word
in modern hotel construction. Its personnel. from the

start. will he experienced and capable. I feel the: the
pride which Akron feels in its new May?ower Hotel will
grow steadily as the years past.

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T IME was when ships, hotels and other
christenings were conducted with ceremonies
involving bottles of champagne, great enthusiasm,
etc. The modern launching of the Mayflower Hotel
retains the old enthusiasm but alas, the bottle of
champagne has givenway to a shower of rosebuds

The dropping of roses on the Zeppelin
Observation roof of the hotel at noon by a fleet of
airships and air-planes, dedication of the Pilot’s
Room and the signing of the Mayflower Log, with
two of America’s leading airmen placing the initia

Appropriate enough, Akron, airship center of the
United States, opens its new hotel in a distinctly
aeronautical setting. While the formal opening will
be made by Gov. George White, at the dinner in
the evening, outstanding figures from two divisions
of aviation will share honors with him. Lt.
Commander C. E. Rosendahl, skipper-elect of the
super-airship “Akron,” will represent the lighterthan-air fraternity, while Major James H. Doolittle,
premier experimental and stunt flyer of the country,
will speak for the heavier-than-air.

signatures, to be followed by an inspection of the
Zeppelin Dock where the “Akron” is nearing
completion, accompanied by suitable air car-nival
activities, including the initial Blimp hook-on to
the mobile mooring mast, also a demonstration of
the autogyro plane, with possible air acrobatics,
promises to make the day a very full one.
Gov. White, accompanied by his daughter and
several guests, will arrive just before noon. They
will be brought from Columbus by a plane and pilot
furnished by the Goodyear Company. Many

 nationally known hotel men are planning to attend Fred M. Harpham of The Goodyear Tire &
the opening and as the majority of them will arrive Rubber Company is the Toastmaster and among
by air, arrangements have been completed for the the prominent hotel men attending are Gene
use of the Firestone Tri-motored Ford to bring them Eppeley, Harold Van Orman, Ralph Hitz and J. E.
from the Cleveland Airport to the Akron Airport. Frawley. President DeWitt declares that while the

Music for the opening party will be furnished
by Dick Fidler and his Neil House Orchestra, a
nationally known band and outstanding favorite
with the students and grads of Ohio State
University. Dick has become an institution at the
years in the main dining room where he broadcasts
regularly. Newspaper representatives and sound
news reporters from all the principal cities of the
country have in-dicated their intention to attend
the opening ceremonies.

Mayflower was built to serve primarily the
business travelers who come to Akron, the growing
volume of air travel points to the necessity for
special provisions for air travelers and pilots. The
unique character of the opening has attracted
attention all over the country. It looks as if Monday,
May 18th, will be a red-letter day for Akron.

 THE Mayflower Hotel is a monument to civic energy
and cooperation. For many years prior to 1930, various
business men and executives of the city had from time to
time discussed hotel conditions of Akron. There was a
general feeling among them that Akron did not have a
hotel in keeping with its high standing as an important
manufacturing city.
Visitors from all
over the United
States and from
for-eign countries
had remarked on the
inadequacy of the
city’s
hotel
accommodations
and the various
Akron business
concerns and social
and commercial
organizations felt the
lack of facilities for
holding parties,
m e e t i n g s ,
conventions,
banquets, etc.
As time passed,
this
feeling
gradually assumed
definite form that the
city should have a
new hotel, something of a very fine character, adequate
in size to accommodate Akron’s visitors and large enough
to serve its commercial and social organizations. For a
long time however, this feeling was merely one of
personal opinion and the only action was conversational.
In 1930, however, Chas. Herberich of the Central
Depositors Bank and Trust Company and Jerome Dauby
of the M. O’Neil Company decided to find out just how
active this feeling was on the part of Akron’s business
and professional men and they crystallized their decision
into action. They devoted a considerable time to finding
out Akron’s interest and discovered that there was a very
definite opinion that something should be done and that
immediately.
At this stage they consulted with Theo. DeWitt, Vice
President and General Manager of the Hotel Hollenden,
considered one of the most capable and well informed
hotel operators in the country. From this consultation very
definite ideas were obtained and the Main-State Holding
Company was formed with Chas. Herberich, President;

Theo. DeWitt, Vice President and General Manager; L.
L. Kinsey, Secretary, and Harry Williams, Treasurer. The
following men were placed on the board of directors in
addition to the officers: H. S. Fire-stone, Jr., S. G.
Carkhuff, J. D. Tew, V. I. Montenyohl, Fred Harpham, P.
W. Litchfield, H. 0. Polsky, F. A. Seiberling, Walter
Herberich, Fred W.
Albrecht, W. E. Wright,
J. G. Robertson, G. F.
Burkhardt, W. A.
Boesche, H. E. Andress,
E. E. Workman, Con
Mulcahy, A. C. Blinn, H.
B. Stewart, Frank
Howland. The Main
State Holding Company
was organized for the
purpose of deciding upon
the site for the new hotel,
the purchase of the land
and the erecting of the
building as soon as
practical. The various
officers and directors
immediately got busy to
obtain the necessary
financial support. The
result of this campaign
was surprising and
almost without exception
the leaders in Akron’s business life, both corporate and
indi-vidual, extended their fullest support to the
campaign.
Akron’s three great rubber companies, Goodrich,
Goodyear and Firestone, were outstanding in their
support of the hotel project. In f ac t their strong and
en-ergetic action made it evident from the outset that the
prop-osition w o u Id be successful. These rubber
executives not only were gener-ous in their time and
energy but also sup-ported the proposi-tion financially
in a very generous manner, assuring its success.
From the list published at that time we give the names
of the men and institutions who supplied the financial
support for the project.
Frank Adams, Fred W. Adams, Akron Engraving Co.,
Fred W. Albrecht, A. E. Albright, J. M. Alderfer, Ster-ling
Alderfer, Claire B. Alexander, F. J. Andre, Harry E.
Andress, Edward D. Andrews, Claude L. Baker, William
A. Baker, Dr. Edward C. Banker. Max Bear, Edward L.
Billow, George W. Billow, William A. Boesche, 0. E.

 Bowdle, C. I. Bruner, J. A. Burger, G. F. Burkhardt, H.
H. Camp, The L. W. Camp Company, S. G. Carkhuff,
George Carle, Dr. C. J. Case, J. Fred Cast, Nate Cohen.
Comar Realty Company, W. Lee Cotter, J. D. Crawfis,

Jerome Dauby, N. L. Dauby, John H. Dellenberger, Jr.,
Theodore DeWitt, G. Carl Dietz, John Doran, George H.
Dunn, F. E. Dyer, Louis D. Fairbank, H. Ferbstein, H. S.
Firestone, H. S. Fire-stone, Jr., Russell A. Firestone, The
Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, W. E. Fouse, Franklin
Brothers Com-pany, M. L. Freeman, Hugh Gault, W. G.
Gintling, J. Edward Good, The. B. F. Goodrich Company,
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber. Company, T. G. Graham,
H. L. Graves, R. R. Gross, William C. Hall, Fred M.
Harpham, Stanley Harris, Mrs. A. H. Harter, Alfred
Herberich, Charles Herberich, Walter Herberich, Ed-ward
Hirsh, Frank C. Howland, J. B. Huber, India Tire and
Rubber Company, Lee R. Jackson, S. M. Jett, L. E. Judd,
Mark Kindig. M. D. Kuhlke, Otto Kuhlke, W. P. Lewis,
P. W. Litchfield. R. S. Leonard, Louis Loeb, H. B.

Manton, Elias Margolis, Ben Markes, Frank H. Mason,
Dudley Maxon, M. J. May, Thomas May, P. T. McCourt,
Blake McDowell, Ross Mendenhall, George W. Merz,

C. Merriman. C. J. Miller, Mohawk Tire and Rubber
Company, V. I. Montenyohl, Mrs. Crannel Mor-gan, Dr.
Simon Morgenroth, C. Mulcahy, Ira E. Myers, Dr. Carl
C. Nohe, N. 0. P. & L. Company, B. A. Oberlin, Jr., Fred
Palmer, People’s Dairy Company, J. B. Pergrin, Dr. John
F. Planz, B. A. Polsky, H. 0. Pol-sky, F. C. Prentice, C. R.
Quine, H. K. Raymond, E. W. Reynolds, J. G. Robertson,
B. M. Robinson, R. L. Robinson, G. A. Rohner, Albert
Rosenzweig, William I. Ruof, John S. Rutledge, F. A.
Seiberling, Francis Sei-berling, N. Sharp, Henry Shaw,
John J. Shea, Ben Shechter, C. B. Sidall, C. E. Slusser,
Edward J. Smail, Frank K. Starbird, J. C. Steese, Dr. Carl
G. Steinke, H. B. Stewart, Sumner Company, J. V. Swartz,
A. G. Teeple. J. D. Tew, John W. Thomas, T. B.
Tompkin-son, W. D. Turner, J. H. Vineberg, C. W.
VonGunten, Ross F. Walker, Claude Farley, Harry
Williams, E. E. Workman, W. E. Wright, R. G. Yeager,
Zimmerly Brothers, Samuel F. Ziliox, Fred Zindle and
Gilbert Zindle.

The financial campaign was short and snappy and the
directors of the Main-State Holding Company were soon
able to move ahead with definite building plans. The site
of the Y. M. C. A. building on the southeast corner of
Main and State Streets was finally decided upon and the
building was purchased from the Akron Dry Goods
Company. Additional land to the East as far as High Street
was also acquired to provide for additional growth and
work was immediately started to demolish the Y. M. C.
A. building to make way for the Mayflower con-struction.
Graham, Anderson, Probst and White had been
se-lected as architects and were busily at work on plans
and specifications.
To a person who comes today to the Mayflower Hotel
there is fortunately no consciousness of the months or
years of careful study and planning which has gone on
before enabling the work even to start at the site, or of
further study and pains which go on as the building
progresses. This is as it should be. The purpose of the
Hotel is to care for the wants of the traveler and the guest

 without any thought of worrying them as to its functions,
however complicated and involved they may be.
The project of this hotel was given to the Architects
to study some two years before any work was started at

either by natural or artificial means. The proper fire
protection must be provided, supplies of hot and cold
water, disposal of all laundry and soiled dishes,
transportation for all the conveniences and services which
the hotel provides. The electrical detail involved the
wiring for the lighting fixtures which had to be located
both as to efficiency and design; and the signal systems,
must be carefully schemed out before being put into
existence by the proper control and constant
watchful-ness. Examples of the work of Graham,
Anderson, Probst and White are many. They were the
architects on the entire terminal development in
Cleveland and also the Union Trust Building of
Cleveland, not to men-tion many others in all parts of
the country.
On March 11th Mr. DeWitt announced that a loan of
$1,500,000.00 had been granted by the Prudential

the site. After careful study of various general schemes,
the one finally selected was criticized as to plan, operation
and appearance, and then careful de-tailed drawings were
made to illustrate the findings of the preceding months
of study. In this study the Ar-chitects held constant
meetings, not only with Mr. DeWitt but with his
Executive Committee, and through the period of building
there were constant conferences for decisions which were
impossible to foresee at the be-ginning of the work. The
result as we now see it is Akron’s great gesture to its
guests—The Mayflower Hotel.

Going along all at the same time as the study of the
areas, heights and characters of these interrelated
func-tions, was the important consideration of every
modern electrical and mechanical convenience suitably
worked into them. All rooms must be ventilated properly

Insurance Company for the Mayflower Hotel, the said
loan to be used in the construction, plans for which had
then been approved and the construction contract for
which was ready to be awarded. This is one of the few
telephones and other electrical fixtures all must not only
go into the modern hotel, but must do so in an efficient
and esthetic way. This work naturally involved a great
deal of patience on the part of the contributing en-gineers
and designers who gave their time, not only to the solution
of the problem, but to the coordination of all these
different activities.
These tasks, of course, required all the exacting
de-mands which are imposed upon the modern Architect
today—the economic, the structural, the esthetic and the
creative—all being woven together, and the Archi-tects,
Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, are to be

 congratulated on their achievement. The mere discov-ery
of a solution is only the beginning—this solution
instances where large loans have been made by an
insur-ance company on a hotel project and represents
the only outstanding financing in connection with the
building and furnishing of the Mayflower, the balance
having been taken care of by the business leaders of
Akron. The bids were opened on March 4, 1930 in the
offices of Graham, Anderson, Probst and White in
Chi-cago and were brought back the next day by Mr.
Dewitt and Mr. Herberich. The CarmichaelCom-pany was
the only local bidder; other bidders were the HunkinConkey Construction Co. of Cleveland, Lun-dorffBicknell Construction Company of Cleveland and
Aronberg-Fried Company of New York. Carmichael
Construction Company was formally awarded the
con-tract to build the hotel on April 13th, 1930, at a cost
of approximately $2,000,000.00. As soon as the building
contract had been awarded, construction was pushed
forward as rapidly as possible. The Carmichael
Con-struction Company announced the following
sub-contractors for the building:
The Franklin Bros. Company of Akron immediately
started work on the demolishing of the old Y. M. C. A.
building and as soon as the site was cleared, steam shovels
were put to work excavating. Before the ex-cavating was
finished, compression and boring apparatus was busy at
work establishing the footings for the foun-dation. There
was not much question as to the solid-ity of the foundation
of the Mayflower Hotel as the ex-cavators found
themselves confronted by solid rock in most all of their

operations. The footings were com-pleted about the
middle of July and before the middle of August the steel
work was being erected by Burger Iron Company of
Akron. By the middle of August the steel construction
had reached the third floor level and by the latter part of
August the hollow tile and concrete flooring contractors
were busy laying the floors and erecting the partitions.
The concrete men hung right on the heels of the steel
erectors right to the top of the building and the first week
in October found the steel workers finished and the
concrete being placed on the eleventh floor, while the
stone facing on the three lower floors was practically
completed. The middle of October found the brick-layers
completing the second floor level and the concrete men
having but one floor to go.
The first week in December finished the exterior
con-struction work and saw the placing of the window
cas-ings and hanging of the sash and the inside of the
hotel was a swarming hive of activity as various craftsmen
in the employ of the sub-contractors set actively to work
on their various jobs.
As the construction definitely assumed shape the
Mayflower Hotel Company, the operating company, was
formed with Theo. DeWitt as President and General
Manager, S. G. Carkhuff, Vice President; D. W. Maxon,
Secretary; Harry Williams, Treasurer, with the follow-ing
in addition to the officers on the Board of Directors: Theo.
DeWitt, S. G. Carkhuff, Harry Williams, D. W. Maxon,
Jerome Dauby, Chas. Herberich, H. E. Andress, Fred
Harpham, V. I. Montenyohl, J. G. Rob-ertson, M. E.
Woolley.

  



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me. 1930, found the concrete
work completed and Eb: stone work steadily

climbing.

Akers 5r. Harpham Co.
Armatrong Cork Iris.
Bignall-Taylo Co.

BOth Fireproo?ng Co.
Burger Iron Co.

Carle Elect. Const. Co.
Aaron Carlson, Inc.
Chicago Art Marble Co.
Cleve. Marble Mosaic Co.
Concrete Engineering Co.
Cutler Mail Chute Co.
Dauntless Plumbing Elecr. Co.
Day-Lo Sign Co.

Federal Seaboard Terra Cotta Corp.

Flower Marble St Tile Co.
Franklin Bros. Co.

Chas. Haas Co.

Hardware SUPPIY Co.
Haworth Marble Co.
Hardware 8: Supply.' Co.
Indiana Limestone Co.
Lamson Co.

MCNUIIY Bros. Co.

Metal Vitrix Co.

W. Beck

Morse Boulger Destruetor Co.
Nat?l Kellastone Co.
Niedringhaus, Inc.
Ornamental Iron Work Co.
Otis Elevator Co.

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.
Reliable Floors Co.

Sanimetal Products Co.

J. D. Smith Co.

John Swenson Granite Co.

C. P. Wood Co.

C. H. Yeager Co.

Zindle Plumbing 86 Heating Co.
Brown-Graves Co.

Franklin Bros. Co.

Little Wrinder Scaffolding Co.
J. P. Loomis Co.

Northern Ohio Granite 8: Stone Co.

Owen Concrete Co.
W. E. Wright Co.

Roo?ng, etc.
Insulation
Plastering
Hollow Tile
Struct. Steel
Elect. Work
Cabinet Work
Art Marble
Terrazzo
Concrete Forms
Mail Chute
Lighting Fixtures
Roof Sign

Terra Cotta
Ceramic Tile
Excavation

Steel Windows
Rein. Steel
Marble

Finishing Hdw.
Limestone
Pneumatic Tubes
Models

Laundry Chute
Painting
Incinerator
Carpet Strips
Hollow Metal
Ornamental Iron 8: Bronze
Elevators

Glass 5: Glazing
Wood Block Fl. 31. Rubber Tile
Toilet Partititms
Stack Lining
Granite
Refrigeration
Linoleum
Plumbing, etc.
Window Frames 8t Sash
Mason Sand
Sca?olding
Mason Sand
Curbing

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December 14.61:, ?30, found the exterior of
to? building, as far as the stone and brick
Mini, the setting of the easements, etc"
considered.

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1925 E. 18th, Cleveland, Ohio
Hippodrome Annex, Cleveland, 0.
405 Erie Bldg, Cleveland. 0.
Akron, Ohio

425 Ohio Bldg, Akron, O.
Minneapolis, Minn.

2383 Hillock Ave., Chicago, Ill.
2070 W. 7th St., Cleveland. 0.
1900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, O.
Rochester, N. Y.

E. State St., Akron, Ohio

E. Tallmadge Ave., Akron, Ohio

10 E. 40th St., New York City

56 N. Summit St., Akron, Ohio

49 E. Glenwood Ave, Akron, 
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

475 5. High St., Akron, Ohio

1.785 Union Tr. Bldg, Cleveland, O.
475 S. High St., Akron, Ohio
Redford, Ind.

Syracuse, N. Y.

1028 W. VanBuren St., Chicago, Ill.
35 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, 

375 E. Cuyahoga Falls, Akron, Ohio
205 E. 42nd St., New York Cit},r
155 E. Superior St., Chicago, Ill.

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929 Sweitzer Ave, Akron, Ohio
1373 E. 6th, Cleveland, Ohio

3349 Hamilton Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
306 Ohio Bldg, Akron, Ohio

1705 Urbana Rd., Cleveland, Ohio
76 S. Canal St., Akron, Ohio
Concord, N. H.

1012 Webster Ave, Cleveland, Ohio
Akron, Ohio

1055 S. Main St., Akrou, Ohio

191 E. Miller Ave., Akron, Ohio
49 E. Glenwood Ave, Akron, Ohio
342 Erie St., Chicago, Ill.

N. Main St., Akron, Ohio

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N. Howard St., Akron, Ohio

5. High St., Akron, Ohio

C. J. FITZPATRICK
Manager of the Mayflower Hotel

I N ANNOUNCING the appointment of C. J. Fitzpatrick as Manager of the Mayflower, President DeWitt assures the hotel of a
capable and careful administration. For the last three years, Mr. Fitzpatrick has been Manager of Fenway Hall, one of Cleveland’s
largest and most prominent apartment hotels, located on Euclid Avenue at University Circle. Previous to coming to Fenway Hall, Mr.
Fitzpatrick was Maitre d’Hotel and Catering Manager of the Hotel Gibson, at Cincinnati, then under the management of Ralph Hitz.
Mr. Fitzpatrick is an experienced man in every field of hotel activity and it was his outstanding success at Fenway Hall which resulted
in his appointment to the Mayflower.

 THEODORE DEWITT had little idea when, as a youth
in Vienna, he became an apprentice waiter, that one day
he would be one of the outstanding leaders in hotel
management in the United States. He is President of The
Mayflower Hotel Company, and the Operating Receiver
of Hotel Hollenden, the beautiful Lake Shore Hotel,
Cleveland, and President of the Neil House in Columbus.
Yet through his long career every bit of his training and
experience in some way helped to fit him for these great
responsibilities.
Mr. DeWitt was born in Austria. After serving his two
years’ apprenticeship as a waiter he was called to the
Austrian army for the regular three years of Aus-trian
compulsory military service. But after 20 months, he
decided he had seen enough
of army life and ran away,
making his way as best he
could through Europe to
Eng-land—no
small
undertaking in itself—and
from there sailing to
Boston. On landing he
caught the first train to New
York and on arriving there
set about to find work.
Though speaking
French as well as Ger-man,
he had no knowl-edge
whatever of the English
language. But he found a
room with some German
people in New York, and they found an ad for him in a
New York paper want-ing a third bartender in a Bowery
saloon.
He was put on a street car by his friends and the
conductor told where to let him off. There were nearly
150 applicants for the job, but the hiring was in the hands
of the first bartender who happened to be a German and
DeWitt was given the job.
DeWitt considers the landing of this job the most
important step in his career, as all the rest of the
em-ployees were Irish and he was forced through
association to speak English. His pay was $4.00 a week
and board.
The average waiter who came to America from Europe
in those days usually started as a bus boy and
conse-quently was thrown entirely with Europeans,
having no chance for English-speaking contacts. But
DeWitt had been a waiter, and he was too proud to be a
bus boy.

After three or
four months as
third bartender—
which really meant
porter—the chef in
the saloon became
ill one day. The
boss came in and
wanted his lunch.
D e W i t t
volunteered to fix it
for him, and the
boss liked it so
well, DeWitt was
made chef on the
spot, at $8.00 a
week and board.
After eight
months at this job
a friend introduced
DeWitt to the head
waiter at the old
Waldorf-Astoria, and DeWitt was hired as a waiter. This
was a great step up for the young boy, for it was only the
finest trained men who were picked for this famous
hos-telry. A n d as DeWitt couldn’t tell him he had been
working in a Bowery saloon, he had no refer-ences of
any kind to offer.
Before leaving
New York, DeWitt
also worked at the
Astor and the
Belmont, and then
in the Hotel
Windsor
in
Mon-treal.
Returning from
Canada, DeWitt
met his former
head waiter at the
As-tor, who was
then on his way to
behead waiter at
the Seneca at
Rochester,then just
opening.
So
DeWitt was hired
as captain of
waiters for the
Seneca.

 From Rochester DeWitt’s head waiter went to the
LaSalle in Chicago as head waiter when it opened and
DeWitt went along as head waiter. The LaSalle was then
the finest thing in the way of hotels west of New York.
From the LaSalle, he went to the Congress, also as
head waiter. After he had been some time at the
Con-gress, one day a not infrequent patron asked him
how he would like to go to Kansas City. He said it “might
be all right if I had a job there.” His guest told him he
could go as cater-ing manager of the Hotel Balti-more.
DeWitt served in that capacity at the Baltimore for four
years, leaving in 1916 to become stew-ard of the
Gruen-wald at New Orleans. Here he remained two years,
resigning in 1918 to come to Cleveland as manager of
the Union Club. His work at the Union Club at-tracted
such attention that in February, 1925, he was made
manager of Hotel Hollenden which was rapidly losing
its position of Cleveland’s leading hotel, which it had
held for several decades.
When DeWitt took charge he immediately set about
taking care of housekeeping problems, decorating,
reno-vating, painting and refurnishing.
He soon saw the need for additional facilities and
accommodation for the increasing patronage the hotel
was enjoying. Accordingly he presented to the directors
a plan whereby a four-story service building adjoining
the hotel could be eliminated by moving the service
facilities to the hotel proper.
This was done and on the site occupied by the old fourstory structure was erected a 250-room addition which
was as fine and complete as modern ingenuity could
devise.
The new addition also houses the offices of the
Cleve-land Automobile Club, which are said to be the
finest quarters of an organization of its kind anywhere in
the world today.
Improvements made in the Hollenden Hotel during
the four years of DeWitt’s management amounted to more
than $1,000,000, including among other things:
New Kitchen
Lobby Rebuilt
New Power Plant
Replacing all Plumbing
New Coffee Shop
New Commissary
Complete Laundry
New Refrigerating Plant
New Soda Grill
Dining Parlors Overhauled
New Water Tanks
New Shops added to entire
Circulating Pumps
frontage of the hotel
Mr. DeWitt’s connection with the Mayflower has been
since the very conception of the idea of a new hotel for
Akron. All of the wide experience which he has gained
is embodied in the design, equipment and furnishings of
the hotel. This fact alone is evident that the Mayflower
is the ultimate in modern hotel construction and
equip-ment and has been designed to give the guest the
last word in comfort and convenience.

THE installation of six elevators in the new May-flower
Hotel was handled entirely by the Otis Elevator Company
of Cleveland. Four of the elevators are adapted
exclusively for passengers, one for service and one for
freight.
Passenger elevators which serve guests between the
lobby and the 15th floor have a capacity of 2,500 pounds,
equal to 16 passengers and the operator. Speed averages
500 feet per minute, the second fastest service in town,
exceeded only by that of the elevators of the Central
Depositors Bank Building.
The Mayflower installation, however, represents the
smoothest type of elevator ever made because of the
complete elimination of gears which reduces all vibration
to the minimum. Another improved feature that
con-tributes to the smooth, even operation is the multivoltage control that gives the last word in smooth start-ing
and stopping. The self-leveling feature assures the
platform level with the landing at all times,
accom-plishing this automatically without the aid of the
elevator operator.
Each hatch door is equipped with a closing device
that locks the door shut and prevents slamming, there-by
not disturbing any of the guests. The lobby doors are
bronze.
The red and white lantern indicators on all floors show
up only over the door at which the car is ac-tually going
to stop and also indicate the direction in which the
elevator is traveling.
The service and freight elevators are of the same type
as the passenger ones except a little larger, having 3,000
pounds capacity. This equipment was selected for its
speed and to enable the hotel to give the fastest possible
room service to its guests. These elevators serve from
the basement to the fifteenth floor.
The passenger elevator cabs are a combination of
aluminum, bronze and steel with a plaque of the ship
Mayflower in bronze on each car and are equipped with
the latest safety devices known to elevator art. It re-quires
a total of about 210 horsepower to operate the elevators.
The elevators will require a force of about fifteen
operators to give twenty-four-hour service.

 HOTEL officials have long realized that nothing is more
vital to good service and guest satisfac-tion than a good
telephone system. With this in view, the Mayflower was
designed to pro-vide excellent facilities for
communication both within the hotel and with the Akron
telephone system. Archi-tects, builders and engineers of
The Ohio Bell Telephone Company worked together from
the start to insure an ideal telephone arrangement.
The result was a highly efficient switchboard with
positions for four operators. These operators have 550
telephones at their fingertips so that the hotel patron may
expect a response within a few seconds after he lifts the
receiver.
The goal strived for, according to C. J. Fitzpatrick,
manager, is a response within five seconds after the
re-ceiver is lifted and the conditions have been made right
for this service.
The hotel is adequately wired both for telephone and
broadcasting service. Guests have their choice of four
programs by the simple turning of a dial on the speaker
which is built in the wall of every room, but also, music
and other features may be broadcast from the ballroom,
dining room and banquet room.
There are 33 city lines, over which a like number of
conversations may be in progress simultaneously between
the hotel and outside points. These calls have a radius of
14,000 miles, as they pass between the Mayflower and
the building across the street or between the Mayflower
and Australia.
Passengers on the first Mayflower were completely
out of communication with land from the time they set
sail until they landed on Plymouth Rock, little dreaming
that some day the voices of persons on land could be
heard distinctly over thousands of miles of rolling deep.
Today, the Bell System can search out a ship hundreds
of miles at sea and establish a communication channel
between that ship and the Mayflower at Akron.
One of the innovations in the service is achieved by
the installation of “cradle” type telephones throughout.
The Mayflower is the second hotel in the state to adopt
this plan, the first being the Onesto Hotel at Canton. These
convenient instruments contribute to the case of the guest
who may make or receive a call while lying in bed as
easily as he can while sitting at a desk.
There are four long distance terminals which connect
the hotel patron who wishes to place a call with a long
distance operator at The Ohio Bell Telephone Company.
The Ohio Bell operator puts through the call, while the
guest remains on the line. This plan contributes to the

speed of the service in two ways. First, it diminishes the
time taken for the call to go through inasmuch as the
patron deals directly with “long distance” and is on the
line when the call is completed. Second, it allows the
hotel operators more time to take care of local and
intercommunicating calls.
Just off the lobby is a small telephone room which
contains the house telephones and 12 pay stations. Also
there are six coin telephones in the private dining rooms
of the hotel.
Each minute during the telephone “rush hour” it is
estimated that 12 persons in the Mayflower lift the
“cradle” and send calls through the new switchboard.
The busiest hour is between five and six in the evening
when hotel patrons, returning from the day’s activities,
start placing calls.
Calls canceling dinner engagements, ordering a suit
pressed or a multitude of other services invariably arc
concentrated around the period immediately preceding
dinner. This is especially true in all hotels during
con-ventions when they arc filled with guests. For this
rea-son, the new switchboard at the Mayflower has ample
facilities to handle a large number of calls at the peak of
the rush so that service may proceed without delay.
The switchboard is designed to accommodate a total
of 5,500 calls daily, 2,750 of which will be to points
outside the hotel. The peak hour capacity is 750 calls,
half of which are usually intercommunicating, within the
hotel.
Since Akron has dial service, all local calls must be
transmitted orally by the guest to a hotel operator who
then dials the number. Hotel attaches, with dial
tele-phones, however, may dial their own calls after
request-ing the operator to give them a city line.
Service at the switchboard is handled by a force of
seven operators, working in shifts according to the
vol-ume of traffic. They are all former employees of The
Ohio Bell Telephone Company. Miss Florence Hattan,
formerly of Cleveland, is their chief operator.
Miss Hattan has had seven and one-half years of
ex-perience in switchboard operation, three of which
were in Cleveland hotels. She served six months at the
tele-phone company in Cleveland, taking the regular
train-ing course that is required of operators. For three
years she operated the switchboard at St. Luke’s Hospital.
From there she went to the Statler Hotel and thence to
the Hollenden where she was when she received the
Akron appointment.

  

 

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In her years of experience, Miss Hattan has handled
calls to practically every city in the United States. The
thrill of distance has diminished until she can hear a
request for Los Angeles without a quiver of the pulse,
but she is still looking forward to hearing the voice of a
London or Paris operator.
Most long distance calls come in a group between 8
and 9 p. m., she says, as patrons are eager to get the benefit
of the lower night rates.
From the standpoint of operation, the newer
May-flower switchboard has a number of improvements
over the one she left at the Hollenden. There arc lamps
to indicate whether or not a line is busy so that the
oper-ator can tell at a glance which trunks are available.
On most switchboards, the operator must test the line by
touching the plug of her switchboard cord to the edge of
the line socket. If she hears a click, she knows the line is
busy. Many times, it is difficult to keep this same clicking
noise from the ears of the patrons.
In addition, all the lights are amber instead of white.
This color is more restful to the operator’s eyes.
The system employed for transmitting telephone
charges from the operating room to the cashier is most
efficient. In one corner of the room is a pneumatic tube
through which the tickets are sent. By this method, the
call tickets are in the cashier’s hands not more than 60
seconds after the conversation is completed. This en-ables
the cashier to keep her records up to the minute and
provides a system that is practical for a large hotel with
its constant stream of transient checking in and check-ing
out.
This ideal set-up for the Mayflower was made possible
by the close co-operation maintained at all times between
hotel officials, architects, builders and the telephone
com-pany, according to Manager Fitzpatrick. A service
plan suggested by telephone engineers was incorporated
into the building plans so that when the structure was
com-pleted, adequate wiring facilities were available to
serve every room and to provide for administrative
telephones, conveniently placed.

COMFORT, Convenience and the Cuisine—such
constitute the stock in trade of the modern hotel in its
bid for public favor and patronage. And, in all of these
refrigeration plays a major role.
Chilled drinking water is on tap in every room. No
longer need the guest phone the desk “for ice water”
which in another hour is flat and warm. When he desires
it, cold water is available there in the room. Always there!

The sophisticated, urban appetite (most folks have this
in a hotel dining room) is critical in the extreme, and the
cuisine, playing a most vital part in the suc-cessful
operation of the modern hotel, is directly de-pendent upon
refrigeration. At breakfast, the fresh tree-ripened figs, or
the frosted glass of orange juice could only be enjoyed
in season and in the locality where the fruits were grown,
were it not for elaborate fruit pre-cooling and storage
plants, and the well iced cars of the shippers.
The luncheon menu suggests, amongst other items,
Cape Cod Clam Chowder and Ragout of Montana
Mut-ton. Artichokes from the west, Iced Blue Points,
Fresh Shrimp Salad (from the Gulf Coast Line), Long
Island Duck, Kansas Capon or Texas Turkey may tempt
the guest at dinner.
Avocado Pear Salads are no longer rarities in the
North-ern Hotel. Crisp Head Lettuce comes East from
Cali-fornia, Strawberries are rushed North from
Louisiana. Or Milk and Butter, produced in Wisconsin,
supply the human needs in the Florida wintering places,
solely because refrigeration makes these things possible.
It is entirely feasible and easy of accomplishment to
serve a meal of fresh foodstuffs gathered from every
corner of the continent. Contrast the condition as it stands
today, with that of former years when the
menu was restricted to the products of the immediate
vicinity.
An extensive and well refrigerated system is
neces-sary for the gathering together of various foods.
But this complex system of food distribution would be
of small benefit to the hostelry if adequate refriger-ation
were not provided for the continued preservation of these
perishables. The demands of the dining room of the
modern hotel justify several refrigerated rooms, for the
miscellaneous foodstuffs demand not only dif-ferent
temperatures but different humidity conditions.
Fish, Oysters, Shrimps and other sea foods should be
held in a temperature of 25° Fahrenheit. Poultry, and the
dairy products—milk and butter should be kept at 32°;
but they would hardly be stored for any length of time in
the same space. At 36° bacteria action is allayed in beef
and other meats, though at this tem-perature the various
enzymes continue to break down the fibrous tissues and
the result of this action is a steak or roast that will please
the palate of the epicure.
Vegetables and Fruits demand a slightly higher
tem-perature with the air rather moist lest they become
somewhat dehydrated.
The artist-manager of the cuisine, the chef, knows all
this—knows full well his dependence upon the cold
preservation of his materials and realizes the advantages
to be gained by the proper placing of the provisions within
the storage space.

 A tremendous problem would be his to serve three
hundred guests at a sumptuous banquet at seven o’clock
if his salads and other dishes could not be prepared at
three or four. He is aware that certain pastries and batters
may be safely kept for days, ready for use, if stored at
the proper temperatures.
The same machine that refrigerates the food storage
rooms produces ice for the chilling of refreshments. And
of particular desirability, this ice is frozen from the same
pure water used for drinking purposes.
Sanitation and thrift go hand in hand in this
de-partment. Arrangements may be made with some
farmer for collection of refuse. Food scraps and other
refuse are refrigerated rather than burned. Though both
methods are sanitary, the former has the advan-tage that
silverware, which not infrequently finds its way into the
container, may be reclaimed. Incineration will not permit
this.
Mere circulation of air in the dining room is not
suf-ficient when the weather is warm. The air must first
be cooled, then gently distributed. No drafts and no
defined currents. Patrons linger longer in the aircon-ditioned restaurant. Particularly is this true if
provi-sion is made that guests may dine and dance. The
fact is established that people will cat more during the
warmer weather in an air-conditioned room held at a
temperature of about 70°, than will these same people
under identical room conditions in the winter.
Heated rooms contribute to the comfort of the hotel guest
during the winter months. As logical to cool these rooms
in the summer.
In a relatively small space in the basement of the
modern hotel is located the one refrigerating machine
which will do all of these things—preserve the perish-able
foodstuffs, chill the drinking water, manufacture ice and
condition any or all the rooms of the building.

AKRON has been for years the largest rubber
manu-facturing center in the world, and recently has
become the center for the production of lighter-than--air
craft in the United States.
In addition to these types of industries, Akron has
about 175 other kinds of diversified industries. Akron’s
original industry was clay products and there still are
extensive factories of this class; next came the cereal
industry in Akron, which has some of the largest cereal
mills in this country. Akron has the largest fishing tackle
plant in the United States.
Among the other products of Akron factories are the
following: chemical stoneware, porcelain insulators and

porcelain molds are outstanding types of the city’s
manufactures; salt, rubber factory equipment, sulphur,
zinc oxide, braided wire for tire building, reclaimed
rubber, power belting, dynamos, furnaces and stoves,
ornamental and structural iron, twist drills, sewer pipe,
wood handles, trusses, mattresses, barrels, hard rubber
goods, upholstered furniture, paint and var-nish, oil
filters, paper bags and boxes. Akron well-drilling
machinery and gasoline lighting systems are ex-ported
to all corners of the world; its lumber milling business is
large; the automobile rim industry is said to supply 50
per cent of the consumption of this product; batteries are
a new and rapidly growing article of manu-facture.
Akron has excellent transportation facilities over the
Baltimore & Ohio, Pennsylvania, Erie, and Akron,
Canton & Youngstown Railroads, and interurban railway
and bus transportation service to cities throughout Ohio.
Akron’s banking facilities are of the best and its
department stores rank with those of much larger cities.
Akron has especially fine schools, and its educational
system also includes a Municipal University. Exhibitors
are as follows:
Booths
Companies
1.
Furnas Ice Cream Co.
2.
Excelsior Stamp Works
3.
Akron Lamp Company
4.
Electrical League of Akron
5.
Mohawk Rubber Company
6.
Akron Grocery Company
7.
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
8.
People’s Dairy Company
9.
Palmer Match Company
10.
Waldorf Ice Cream Company
11.
Seiberling Rubber Company
12.
Day-lo Sign Company
13.
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.
14.
Akron Pure Milk Company
15.
The Akron Chamber of Commerce
16.
B. F. Goodrich Company
17.
Akron Varnish Company
18.
The Sumner Co.
19-20. Wise Grave Vault Company
21.
Enterprise Manufacturing Company
22.
Bailey-Walker China Company
23.
India Tire & Rubber Company
24.
XXth Century Heating & Ventilating
25.
American Hard Rubber Co.
26.
Imperial Electric Co.

 TO ESTABLISH in Akron a hotel of the Mayflower
calibre, probably the most luxurious hotel of the middle
west, was an extraordinary undertaking. Akron has been
a city of unusual growth during the last few years, so
that in many respects the visitor returning after an absence
of a couple of years is impressed as by a new city. The
modern buildings recently completed, a sky-line
indicative of industrial and financial prosperity, its
crowded stores and busy streets give a definite aspect of
industrial and commercial prosperity. It is therefore small
wonder that in the planning of a hotel for Akron, its
sponsors should conceive a hotel second to none in every
respect.
One of the most striking characteristics of the hotel is
the suites, furnished by the Daley Furniture
Manu-facturing Co., Cleveland. They are lavishly
furnished with massive furniture, luxurious deep pile rugs
and gorgeous tapestries. The upholstery is of antique
bro-cade and needle-point—for, after all, decorative
textiles constitute the most important and beautiful part
of the furnishings. Upon them we are principally
dependent for our esthetic environment. Upholsteries and
dra-peries with their interwoven patterns in rich colors
appeal greatly to both sight and touch, and transform
palace and cottage alike from cold to comfortable.
How-ever, damasks, brocades and velvets, after centuries
of aristocratic seclusion, have by modern industrial
methods and by modern machinery been brought within
the reach of everyone. All of us are constantly surrounded
by ornament in the form of decorative textiles, on chairs
and couches, and floors and walls and windows.
AND NOW A WORD ABOUT THE PRESIDENT OF
THE DALEY FURNITURE MANUFACTURING CO.
J
ack Daley is a very interesting character and his
friends delight in telling how he started several years
ago with a hammer, two dollars and a box of tacks; then
with no backing other than a charming personality, a host
of friends and an uncanny knowledge of how people want
to be made comfortable, built his business to a point
where it now passes a half million dollars a year. Many
of the finest hotels, clubs and institutions throughout the
country are now users of Daley Fur-niture.
But this is about the man and not the business, so let
it here be said that his fame as a manufacturer of fine
furniture only slightly overshadows his fame as
“Cleve-land’s Man-About-Town”; playboy of New York
and Paris and already famous as an impromptu master of
ceremonies on transatlantic liners.
Jack’s genial smile and casual manner are at one time
as naive as a schoolboy’s and as sophisticated as

Menjou’s. But don’t let the playboy attitude deceive you;
his very charming manner conceals a vast store of
knowledge, and as an associate member of the Cleveland
Hotels Association his advice and counsel are often
sought by its members.

THE mechanical equipment installed in the May-flower
Hotel by the Zindle Plumbing & Heating Company is
comprised of the very latest plumbing, heating, and
ventilating equipment for this type of building.
HEATING SYSTEM
The heating system is so designed that steam is
fur-nished by the Akron Steam Heating Company and
car-ried through a series of pressure reducing valves
which are set at the required pressure to supply the various
services throughout the building. There are separate
services for the kitchens, cafeteria, vento radiation, di-rect
radiation, laundry and pressing machines; all of which
are individually controlled.
The latest type of concealed radiation is installed in
all the hotel rooms. Each radiator consists of a copper
heating unit enclosed in a steel cabinet on the wall with
a grille for circulating the heat. With this installation there
is no radiation nor piping exposed or seen in the hotel
rooms.
A Warren Webster Moderator System of steam
heat-ing control is installed. This system regulates the
re-quired flow of steam into the heating mains according
to the outside temperature, and is governed by a
thermostat placed on the roof of the building.
VENTILATING SYSTEM
In addition to the direct radiation there are 17
mul-tivane supply and exhaust fans. The supply fans draw
in fresh air from the outside of the building and this air
is passed through a series of oil filters which remove all
dust and dirt from the air. The air is then tem-pered by
passing through a series of blast heating coils after which
it is discharged through sheet metal ducts and distributed
throughout the building in such a man-ner that all portions
of the building will have clean, fresh, tempered air at all
times. The volume of air which passes into the different
rooms is controlled by an automatic system of
temperature regulation which permits the proper volume
of air to pass into the room.
The circulation of air is maintained by a series of
exhaust fans which remove the impure air from the
building through a series of sheet metal ducts, which

 discharge into a main shaft. These fans are motor-driven
and have the very latest automatic starting and stopping
equipment for the regulation of the fans.
There is a special type of air conditioning system installed
in connection with these fans for the purpose of cooling
the air during summer months. In this manner the dining
rooms and ball room will always be supplied with cool
air regardless of the outside tem-perature.
PLUMBING SYSTEM
The plumbing in the modern hotel is of necessity a
very complete installation. Every one of the 450 hotel
rooms is provided with a complete private bathroom
which consists of toilet, lavatory, bathtub, and shower.
These fixtures are the best grade of vitreous china
and the trimmings are of the finest quality chrome plated
brass and are of the very latest design.
In addition to the plumbing fixtures for the hotel rooms
there are public toilet rooms on the first four floors. There
are also toilet rooms and shower rooms for the use of the
hotel employees.
There are sufficient plumbing fixtures and material
used in this installation to completely furnish 500 average
homes.
The supply of water for the plumbing fixtures for the
entire building is run through two water softeners in the
basement which have a total capacity of 500 gallons per
minute.
Insufficient water pressure to supply the upper floors
of this hotel has made it necessary to install house tanks
in the pent house. Water for all fixtures is sup-plied from
these house tanks. The water is taken from the City Main
and pumped through house pumps up to the house tanks.
These pumps have a capacity of 30,000 gallons per hour.
The hot water for the building is furnished by four
hot water heaters. The heaters have a total capacity of
2,300 gallons of water per hour and a capacity of heating
9,000 gallons per hour. The water is heated by a series of
steam coils and the temperature of the water is controlled
by thermostats.
FIRE PROTECTION
The hotel is provided with an ample system of piping
for fire protection. There are a total of 67 hose racks and
cabinets placed throughout the building. In addi-tion to
interior piping there are also extensions brought to outside
of building to which the Akron Fire De-partment can
make connection.
From the above description of a few of the main features
of the mechanical equipment installed in this hotel it can
easily be seen that there has been no ex-pense spared to
give the patron the most modern con-veniences.

THE State Street corner of this beautiful new hotel will
be occupied by The Rutledge Drug Company with
another of their modern Pharmacies that have made their
slogan “Akron’s Finest Drug Stores” a literal fact.
The Rutledge Drug
Company, like the
May-flower Hotel, is
purely a local organization,
owned and operated by
local men. J. S. Rutledge,
President a n d General
Manager of the Company,
came to Akron in 1908 and
opened the first Rut-ledge
store at the corner of Main
and Bartges Streets. The
growth of this organization
has been consistent with
the growth of Akron and at
present they are operat-ing
thirteen retail stores. They
operate
their
own
warehouse, buy collectively at wholesale prices,
adver-tise and distribute as one unit. This policy enables
the individual store to stock only the best merchandise
and to sell on the lowest price basis, consistent with safe
operation. The Company has always endeavored to adapt
itself to existing conditions that influence the drug
business today and profit by every new feature which
may better serve their patronage. These stores, as a whole,
provide one of the finest, most attractive and reliable
types of drug service to be found anywhere in the State.
In opening this, their newest store, they have spared
no expense in endeavoring to install fixtures that would
reflect credit on their magnificent surroundings. The
seventeen-foot tile soda fountain, the copper-lined cigar
cases that guarantee the freshness of your cigars and
cigarettes, the conveniently arranged prescription
de-partment; yes, and even the wrapping counter have
been made to order from solid walnut to add to the
attractive ensemble and blend with the majestic gran-deur
of Akron’s finest hotel.
The new fountain is evidence of the many remark-able
improvements that have been made in these newer type
fountains. It is beautifully constructed of tile with a
harmonizing color design and combines every modern
improvement for time-saving and sanitary dis-pensing.
Frigidaire installation holds all the materials at the desired

 stage of coldness so that your drinks are always
uniform—always good.
Perhaps the biggest feature of this new store from the
ladies’ viewpoint will be the enlarged toilet goods
department—catering to such a diversified clientele, as
will be found in any large hotel, forces them to install a
much larger and more complete toilet goods section than
is usually found in the average drug store. All the popular
lines will be represented as well as the better and more
exclusive lines usually found only in select beauty parlors
and better department stores. This de-partment will be
in charge of a trained beauty specialist who will be glad
to advise Akron women on the care of the skin.
The prescription department, as in all Rutledge stores,
will be in charge of a registered Pharmacist and will
contain only the best and purest of drugs and chemicals,
regardless of cost.

THE Postal Telegraph Cable Company will have an
office in the main lobby of the new Mayflower Hotel,
to serve the guests with
its usual prompt,
courteous, and efficient
service. We will be open
from 7:30 A. M. to
11:30 P. M. The Misses
Evelyn Battles and
Marge Parry will be in
charge.
Everywhere is at the
end of a Postal
Telegraph
line.
Everywhere in 70,-000
cities, towns and
vil-lages in t h e United
States. Everywhere in
8,000 communities of
Canada. Everywhere at points throughout t h e world,
including ships sailing the seven seas.
Postal Telegraph is the only AMERICAN
TEL-EGRAPH COMPANY that offers a world-wide
service of coordinated record communications
through the great International System of which the
Postal Telegraph is a part. It reaches Europe, Asia
and the Orient over the Commercial Cables. South

and Central America
and the West Indies over
the A1 American
Cables. Ships at sea
over the Mackayradio.
Aside from
transmitting messages
we perform many other
services, such as, Errand
Service by Messengers,
purchasing of theatre
tickets, railroad tickets,
Air Line tickets and
telegraphing of money,
flowers,
candy,
Photograms, etc.
We are here to serve you with SPEED,
ACCURACY, AND DEPENDABILITY.

THE management in planning the new Mayflower
Hotel did not overlook a single item that would add
to the comfort of their guests. Perhaps the main
attraction that they have provided for is “RADIO IN
EVERY ROOM” as designed, engineered, and
installed by the Centralized Control Corporation of
Chicago.
This Centralized Radio and Sound Distribution
Sys-tem as installed consists of a Central Control
Channel, located in the Radio Room on the fifteenth
floor, and a speaker in every room. The Central
Control Channel is entirely automatic, turning itself
“on” and “off” by means of a time clock, which
operates a set of relays to control the incoming power.
The operator in the control or radio room is able to
determine a maximum volume of power to distribute
to all rooms, thus ob-viating the danger of excessively
loud reception which is apt to annoy guests in
adjoining rooms. Four dif-ferent programs may be
going simultaneously in four adjoining rooms,
without any one interfering with the others.
A unique feature of this system is that it may be
used for broadcasting throughout the hotel as well
as receiving and distributing the radio programs.
Micro-phone outlets are located in the Main Dining
Room and Ball Room so that music from the

 The Imperial Electric Company specializes in
orchestra in either of these rooms may be picked up
by means of the microphone and broadcast over any designing and building special motors for
one of the four channels, and transmitted through applications which require a type of motor different
the guest room speakers thereby permitting the guests to the standard line.
All the large buildings and stores recently erected in
to enjoy this entertainment in their own rooms. Then,
too, the man-agement may make any desired
announcements or page the guest rooms.
There is mounted in the wall of every guest room a
speaker, finished to harmonize with the interior. Each
speaker is equipped with a selector switch for selecting
any one of the four programs which have been pre-selected at the main channel. There is also a volume
control on each speaker enabling the guest to decrease
the volume of the program if desired.

THE IMPERIAL ELECTRIC COMPANY is an old
established business and is essentially an Akron
In-stitution.
For nearly 40 years this company has been
manu-facturing electric motors and generators of all
types and has gained an enviable reputation for
Quality and Service.
The Imperial Factory is unusually complete with
up-to-date equipment and facilities for building
motors and generators which enable the company to
turn out a product which meets with the approval of
architects, engineers and manufacturers and users of
motor-driven equipment.
Imperial motors and generators are found in every
state in the country and their list of users includes
practically every nationally known producer.
The business creed on which Imperial motors and
gen-erators are built is—Quality, Service, Right
Prices and Courteous Treatment—a policy which is
fully appre-ciated by those who have experienced
what it stands for.
The Imperial Electric Company manufactures a
com-plete line of alternating and direct current
motors for such applications as—pumps, heating and
ventilating fans and blowers, elevators, dumbwaiters,
cranes and hoists, also machine tools and all classes
of motor-driven machinery. D. C. generators for all
purposes. Motor generators for light and power
service, motion picture projection, storage battery
charging, and emergency lighting, etc.

Akron are equipped with Imperial motors and in other
large cities they are also found to be very popular.

MORE than a year of dreams and plans will be real-ized
by Roxy G. Lavery, exclusive milliner, with the formal
opening of the new Mayflower Hotel, on May 18.
On the fourth floor she will occupy a luxur-ious suite,
including liv-ing quarters and a spa-cious, beautifully
fur-nished salon for the dis-play of her distinctive line of
pattern and cus-tom made hats.
Just as eagerly as Roxy, hundreds of Akron wom-en
are awaiting her re-moval to this new loca-tion.
Society matrons from the elite West Hill resi-dential
district, as well as leading business and pro-fessional
women in the city make up her exclusive clientele—not
merely patrons in the business sense of the word but also
Roxy’s friends—personal, social acquaintances.
With unswerving loyalty they have watched her
ca-reer since she first came to Akron in 1920—followed
her in constantly increasing numbers as her business has
developed.
For in the hands of the talented, artistic Roxy, they
realize they can’t go wrong on headgear. Familiar with
their temperaments, studying their individualities for
more than a decade, she has designed hats to accentuate
their personalities as only a true artist can.
Roxy has been in the millinery business since the age
of fifteen when she first started designing exclusive hats
in Kansas City.
Unable to give up her beloved work entirely when
she came to Akron, she catered to a few of her more
intimate friends in her home on West Hill.
Since then the story has ever been the same. As a
pioneer in Akron in designing hats to fit the head, she
won a large following of fastidious patrons who never
were quite satisfied with ready-made millinery.
A year ago she added a distinctive line of pattern hats to
her custom made millinery, which has brought forth
enthusiastic approval from her patrons.
Plans are being made for a series of bridge parties in
her new quarters. Old patrons will be invited, asked to
bring three new friends to complete a table. A stun-ning
pattern hat will be given as a prize.
You are cordially invited to visit this distinctive salon.

 WHEN only eight years old, Henry F. Fritsch,
President of the Mayflower Floral Company,
Incorporated, began working with flowers. He
devoted most of his time until he was thirteen in
his uncle’s greenhouse in Canton. He then
re-turned to his home in Akron to complete his
schooling.
He secured temporary employment at the
Fire-stone Tire and Rubber Co. until such time as
he could again be connected with floral work.
How-ever, his love for flowers was so great that he
gave up his position so that he could sell flowers in
a store window one Easter! Shortly afterwards he
worked in one of the local floral shops, with
exception of two years of service in the World War,
where he remained until he set up his own
busi-ness known as the “Fritsch Flower and
Decorating Company” in which he has formed
many friendships during the last ten years.
All through his life his desire to have a
beautiful modern floral shop was so strong that he
was not satis-fied until it was fulfilled. Today his
dream has come true, and, to prove his confidence
in Akron and in the Mayflower Hotel, he is
opening his new, beautiful, modern, floral shop
which is located in the Mayflower Hotel Building.
Mr. Fritsch has devoted many years to studying
and designing floral arrangements, and his ability
has been recognized by the general public. He will
be glad to render his personal services at any time
you may desire.

THE Mayflower Hotel was designed, built and
equipped to provide the guests with the maximum
of safety against fire. The building is strictly fireproof
and every precaution that modern fire prevention
meth-ods make possible have been taken. This is true
in prac-tically all modern structures being built but
in spite of this fact minor fires ofttimes start in outof-the-way places and cubby-holes where rubbish
seems naturally to accumulate, in spite of the utmost

precautions. These out-of-the-way places are awfully
hard to check up on constantly and seem to exist in
spite of anything that can be done.
Recognizing this fact, the Mayflower
management has installed a little device, which,
while small in size, is mighty in its power to notice
and report any condi-tions where the temperature
above 135 degrees.

This little device, known as the Fire-Cry, has no
wires or batteries, no deterioration and requires no
complicated installation or upkeep. All that is
necessary to do is to place Fire-Cry (illustrated above)
in places where pro-tection is wanted and it is
constantly on the alert, twenty-four hours a day. If
fire should arise through spontaneous combustion
or otherwise, the strident ring-ing of a six-inch gong
draws immediate attention to that spot. This little
device is sold by the Wm. M. Acker Organization
with offices in The Arcade at Cleve-land and affords
Mayflower guests additional protection. It is the
ultimate in fire protection service.

THE first milestone in the forward march of Paula
Leve, Inc., has been reached with the
announcement of an additional showroom in the
new Mayflower Hotel just three years after the
original store was opened in the Keith-Albee
Arcade.
Again it is a story of “knowing how” combined
with an innate sense of the beautiful and an
uncanny knack of visualizing each and every

 woman’s particular style in dress, that has made
Mrs. Leve so successful during her Akron business
life. However, it is safe to say that Mrs. Leve has
developed this keen sense of the artistic to a degree
that not one in a thousand ever attain and Akron is
fortunate in having a shop of this type which
equals the best in New York, Chicago, or
Cleveland.
Under the management of such an unusual
personal-ity it is little wonder that the new, the
different, the fascinating and the appealing finds its
way into Paula Leve’s and that women in Akron
have found this store a veritable Mecca for
Fashion’s most distinctive frock creations.
The new showrooms are especially attractive when
one remembers that the Mayflower is an
exceptionally convenient rendezvous where one
may meet one’s most intimate friends, shop
leisurely and pleasurably in de-lightfully appointed
display rooms, then step back into the smart
Mayflower Puritan Room or Colonial Grill for
luncheon, to be followed by the matinee, perhaps.
It is certain that this additional showroom which
will carry as complete a stock as the Keith Arcade
shop will be an appreciated convenience for the
thousands of Akron women who desire ultra smart,
exclusive frocks.

THE Mayflower Barber Shop with ten expert
barbers I-and a capable staff of manicurists will be
located on the Main Street level directly behind the
stairway to the Main Lobby. It will be one of the
most sanitary equipped barber shops in the
country. Every sanitary precaution has been
carefully provided for the razors, brushes, combs
and other tools will be sterilized each time they are
used and individual shaving powder will take the
place of the old cake of shaving soap. The barbers
are the highest skilled men that are available.
The Barber Shop will be open daily from seven
in the morning until seven in the evening and on
Saturday from seven in the morning until eight in
the evening. Room service will be available by
calling “barber shop.”
The shop is under the capable management of
John A. Kerr who has had a wide experience as a
master barber. The prices will be the prevailing
Akron prices for first class barber shops and we
know you will like the Mayflower Barber Shop
and its expert staff of ton-sorial artists.

 The Firestone Ford Tri-Motored plane, piloted by Edward J. Quigley, which, on Saturday, Sunday and
Monday, flew nationally-known hotel operators and other visiting celebrities, arriving in Cleveland by
air, from the Cleveland Air-port to the Akron Airport.

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Cleveland on business or pleasure.
Within a block or two of the Hollen-
den will be found the leaders in prac-
tically every activity of the city. Just
a block 01 two away are the theatres,
the shopping centers, the banks, the
Public Auditorium and the principal
of?ce buildings. It is the business
meeting- -place and the social center of
this progressive community and its
facilities and personnel have matured
under these exacting requirements
over a long period of time.

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The Hollenden offers in grateful
combination, homelike comfort, luxu-
rious surroundings, an unexcelled
cuisine, and an atmosphere of smart-
ness.

A wide selection of private parlors
are available for meetings, luncheons,
dinners and dinner dances. Our con-
vention facilities are the ?nest in the
city, with public address equipment,
if desired.

The famous Dining Room is
a brilliant and delightful place to dine.
The Hollenden Coffee Shop is modern
to the last word, with fast counter and
table service for the busy man and
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faultlessly served; Moderate Rates, starting
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HE LAKE SHORE, newest and most exclusive residential hotel of
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Beauty and Charm of a private home combined with the perfect service
of an ultra?modern, smart hotel. A residence of distinction and indi?
viduality, its appointments and location embody the unusual, devoted

entirely to the comfort of its guests. Conceived and built as "Units of
Homes? unusual in size and conveniences, each unit affords exclusive privacy and offers
the ultimate in comfort. Maid serviCe is provided for the daily cleaning and a com~
pletely equipped garage beneath the building, easily reached by ramp, provides for the
storage and care of your car. Valet service, beauty shop and many other forms of
service are provided for the convenience of the guest.

Suites may be had either furnished or un? Just twelve minutes by automobile from
furnished and range from one to ?ve Cleveland?s downtown, adelightful drive
rooms in size. There is sunshine in every by boulevard, bordering the lake in its
room and all apartments have lake or entirety.

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criminating housewife. Ranges, iceless meetings of all descriptions. You are
refrigeration and cabinets are furnished cordially invited to inspect our delightful
in all suites. offerings at your convenience.

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The Centralized Radio and Sound Distribution System
in the

MAYFLOWER HOTEL

Designed, Engineered, and Installed
by the

CENTRALIZED CONTROL CORPORATION
100 West Monroe Building
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in every room the May?ower has acted ?the perfect

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justed for erasing every shadow from the face. They
s-l-i-d-e in slots at the very edge of the mirror and

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in sizes, styles, and ?nishes to ?t all needs, to har-
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 wish to acknowledge
our appreciation of the support given by the
advertisers in this, the ?rst edition of our
publication ?Fore and Aft.?

We also Wish to thank James A.
Braden, The Akron Beacon Journal for
parts of the Centennial History of Akron,
Hugh Allen, Wade Aydelotte and the Com-
mercial Printing 85 Litho graphin Company,
the Akron Engraving Company, the Louvre
Studio, the Frank Brooke Studio for their
invaluable assistance in its preparation and

completion.

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HEARTY WELCOME TO NEWEST AND

GREATEST OF ITS MAYFLOWER HOTEL.

For thirtyn?ve years . . . from the days when the Empire
House and Buchtel Hotel were gathering places of traveler
and townsman . . . we have kept our place in the growth
of the city. . . . Now in nineteen thirty?one we are proud
to have a part in the May?ower's equipment by producing
opening book??and furnishing its stationery.

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Population Employees

69,067
70,000
35,000
92,000
99,000

100,079

125,000

150,000

160,000

190,000

203,435

134,000

172,000

131,000

134,000

195,000

209,512

220,000

225,000

250,000

255,040

School

Enroll.

Year
Beginning

10,576
11,719
13,441
15,023
17,239
19,308
23,619
26,921
29,137
31,061
29,616
30,304
31,026
32,712
36,151
37,664
39,530
43,265
52,119
51,946

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Factory

23,450
26,400
33,979
33,390
33,277
39,375
57,322
63,269
61,991
37,390
74,350
46,100
49,703
50,950
52,390
62,466
60,596
62,013
64,796
65,726
51,530

Bldg.

Permits

1,365
2,491
2,545
2,092
2,532
4,653
5,039
2,135
6,391
4,253
2,374
2,662
3,902
4,414
5,546
5,212
5,743
5,764
6,147
3,101

General Akron Statistics

Industrial
Sales,
Millions

$122,713
121,779
124,939
156,173
226,669
342,733
411,120
522,436
640,923
337,463
320,603
402,375
433,527
536,970
631,465
603,519
610,092
624,923
539,344

Value
Bldg.

Permits

$3,654,697
4,303,362
5,217,170
4,030,015
6,030,950
12,777,036
14,166,605
4,112,236
27,133,251
20,347,625
3,300,943
4,550,533
7,435,066
3,337,421
14,499,742
16,063,106
20,967,461
19,652,235
21,336,309
9,393,333

Factory
Payroll,
Millions

3 25,300
40,623
66,423
74,501

117,975
145,143
31,139
75,643
79,934
33,705
95,009
93,223
105,336
103,555
119,506
93,627

Dwelling
Permits

1,133
1,436
1,344
359
1,126
2,321
2,691
593
3,325
947
234
337
631
1,133
1,916
1,323
2,159
2,127
1,343
310

Bank
Deposits,
Millions

(Nov. 1)

72,165
59,555
63,605
72,196
77,132
34,457
36,152
94,603
99,043
99,610
35,942

Value
Dwelling
Permits

32,110,533
2,312,310
2,527,550
1,334,300
2,560,550
7,065,639
6,636,990
1,732,155

13,371,935
4,694,535

993,300
1,652,005
3,104,220
5,125,010
3,332,931
3,346,033

11,034,295

10,934,743
9,051,653
1,735,030

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Bank
Clearings,

Millions

100,252
207,434
299,996
235,537
472,924
534,917
326,235
303,599
359,023
399,020
312,430
316,935
329,737
367,000
349,001
244,201

Tax
Duplicate,
Millions

31,653

93,967
105,612
113,753
132,216
144,710
222,405
256,626
277,000
349,000
343,236
317,334
316,753
313,365
320,763
344,640
366,732
332,000
421,000
430,000

Bank
Debits,
Millions

848,799

355,630
1,075,345
1,124,453
1,203,730
1,273,000
1,433,000
1,177,713

Posto?ice

Receipts,

Year End.
June 30

366,161

434,507
467,003
494,793
505,957
704,310
369,407
396,337
933,373
1,244,757
939,204
953,341
1,134,990
1,130,222
1,274,734
1,523,261
1,636,999
1,346,952
1,371,235
1,734,016

  

Bldg.
Loan Auto
Resources, Regis-
Millions tration
$15,000 
18,000 49,300
22,185 53,286
27,840 53,366
29,160 72,557
31,191
Tax
Freight Rate
Tonnage Year
In 8: Out Beginning
32.00
12.30
12.40
12.60
3,650,000 14.60
4,032,000 14.60
4,526,000 15.40
4,971,000 15.40
4,915,000 15.40
4,471,000 17.60
5,183,000 20.60
3,399,000 20.40
4,991,000 24.30
5,445,000 25.20
5,469,000 24.00
6,017,000 24.80
6,640,000 24.60
6,576,000 25.60
6,412,000 26.80
6,365,805 23.30

OFFICIAL SOUVENIR
of the OPENING of the
MAYFLOWER HOTEL
AKRON, OHIO
MAY EIGHTEENTH
NINETEEN HUNDREN THIRTY-ONE

Original available at
the Akron Public Library,
Main Branch, Special Collections