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THE WAUPACA REPUBLICAN Friday, June 29, 1906 Grand View Open The
Grand View Hotel Co’s popular summer resort hostelry, the Grand View at Chain
o’ Lakes is now open for the reception of guests. Extensive improvements which have been under way during the past
two months are now practically completed, and there is not a more complete, up
to date, attractive summer hotel in the state of Wisconsin that Grand
View. A large addition two stories
high, with wide verandas and an attractive gallery, has just been
finished. The office occupies the
entire first floor. The dining room has
been increased in size and the former office transposed into an ordinary. The seating capacity of the dining room and
ordinary is now one hundred ninety-two.
About one hundred fifty new electric lights have been installed and
nothing seems to have been left undone. The
chief employees of the hotel for 1906 have been employed and are as follows: Wallace
H. Lord, resident manger; J. J. Sullivan, recently of the Great Northern Hotel
Chicago, chief clerk; J. E. Thomas, late of the Clifton Hotel, Ottawa,
Illinois, steward; Jacob Schrohe, chef; Mrs. Edith Hawley of Chicago,
house-keeper; John V. Vosburg, of the Great Northern, in charge of buffet; J.
S. Wood, boat manager. The
hotel will be conducted this season under the direction of the board of
directors, consisting of Irving P. Lord, Andrew G. Nelson and Wallace H.
Lord. These gentlemen are the principal
owners, but there are other leading Waupaca businessmen interested as
stockholders. The
company has appropriated about $1,000 for advertising, and this amount is to be
expended in booklets and newspaper advertisements in the leading papers of
southern cities. Already
scores of inquiries have been received, and the prospects are that the hotel
will be crowded with guests during the entire season. The rate by the day are $2.00, while by the week the charges are
from $10.00 upwards, depending entirely upon the rooms occupied. A large amount has been invested INCOMPLETE ARTICLE |