Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1919 — “FAMILY HOTEL” CAUGHT ON [ARTICLE]

“FAMILY HOTEL” CAUGHT ON

Ridiculed When First Established In London, Idea Has Met With Enormous Success.

The first “family” or “temperance” hotel in London, the forerunner of tens of thousands of such hostelries in all parts of the world, was opened in Covent Garden about 145 years ago. An inn for the more or less permanent accomodation of families, and minus bar, was an undreamed-of thing,, and other hotel-keepers laughed the project to scorn.- Despite their derision, the scheme was successful, and made a snug fortune for its founder, David Low. London now has hundreds of family and temperance hotels, and the United States has thousands of them. The edifice in which Low -started his hotel is still standing. The building was erected early in the seventeenth century, and was origjpally the home of Sir Kenelm Digby. Crom-t well’s council held sessions in the building, it is said, and it was the scene of many other noteworthy gatherings before it was converted into • hostelry.