Life, 1925-06-18 · page 5 of 43
Life — June 18, 1925 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is **primarily advertising**, not satirical content. It's a promotional piece for Statler Hotels, a chain operating in Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, and St. Louis, with a new Pennsylvania location opening in New York. The article "What Keeps a Hotel New?" argues that cleanliness and maintenance matter more than construction date. The signed commentary (appears to be from hotel management) contrasts well-maintained older hotels favorably against newer properties lacking proper service standards. The advertisements highlight Statler's competitive rates and amenities—ice water, mirrors, delivered newspapers—positioning these as desirable features. This reflects early 20th-century hotel competition standards. **This is commercial messaging, not satire or political commentary.**
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+ LIFE - What Keeps a Hotel New? HE “new” hotel, from the guest’s viewpoint, is the one that’s kept new. These hotels are so kept; and they are “newer” in the sense of cleanli- ness, convenience, attractiveness, than many hotels built more recently. Step behind the scenes in any of them, or look around the room you occupy, and see if you aren’t in what is virtually a new hotel. Soap and water in tremendous quantities, paint by the barrel, constant renewal of furnishings, the unceasing labor of hundreds of people— those are some of the things which keep these hotels new. We know of no hotels which pay more attention to cleanliness and maintenance than do these houses. But to give you Statler Service, on the other hand, we have organ- izations which are not new but which are well-seasoned, well-trained. You do get an interested and helpful service in these hotels; and if something happens to go wrong you get prompt satisfaction and adjustment. Rates are unusually low, in comparison with those of other first-class hotels: Single rooms are from $3 in Cleveland, Detroit and Se. Louis; from $3.50 in Buffalo, and from $4 in New York. Twin-bed rooms (fortwo) are from $5.50 in Cleveland, Detroit and St. Louis, from $6.50 in Buffalo, and from $7 in New York. And remember that every room in these houses has its own private bath, circulating ice-water, and many other conveniences of equipment and furnish- ing that are unusual—such as, for instance, the bed-head reading lamp, the full-length mirror, the morning paper that is delivered to your room before you wake. In every room, too, is posted a card on which is printed the price of that room. We believe in the policy of one price, plain figures and a square deal— and therefore mark our goods in plain figures. Boston’s Hotel Statler is building: In the Park Square District of Boston (Columbus Ave., at Arlington and Providence Sereets) construction has begun on the new Hotel Statler—which will have 100 rooms, 1300 baths, and all the comforts and conveniences for which these hotels are world-famous. Bufalo—and Niagara Hotel emmedlge i reer street from it is the new Statler Gar arvel of cons ‘The largest hotel in the world with 2200 rooms, 2200 baths. renience trowhoueedee | Buffalo~Cleveland~Detroit~St.Louis | Sten tresrsrue we visiting NIAGARA FALLS, Pennsylvania Railway Station. A Statler-operated hotel, with which is but 20 miles away, all the comforts and conve. The old Hotel Statler ta niences of other Statlers, and Bufalo ts now called HOTEL Sourcown ieligter eel | BUFFALO. ful service by all employees. And Statler-Operated Hotel Pennsylvania~New York comicbooks.com