Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1913 — Claim That Logansport Hotel Held Up Its Guests. [ARTICLE]

Claim That Logansport Hotel Held Up Its Guests.

A Chicago traveling man named Greffoz informed other traveling men whom he met in Rensselaer today that when the floods struck Logansport and made it impossible to get out of the city there were 76 guests marooned at the Barnett hotel, most of them being traveling men. According to Mr. Greffo;. the guests were treated with very unfair and even impudent manners by the landlord and if Mr. Greffoz and others have their way the hotel will be passed up by all commercial men. Mr. Greffox states that no blame attached to the hotel proprietor because the lights and the heat w’ere off, but that the guests were served with very inferior food, consisting mainly of soup and that they were charged the full rates by the house, and that when a committee went to the manager and urged that they be given a reduced rate he objected and said that they could pay the full rates of the hotel or leave. Mr. Greffoz indicated that traveling men were a unit in getting back at the manager of the hotel by a systematic boycott.