1674-16 Charles S. Krom •
April 18, 1930.
Memorandum to Yr. Fisher:
Referring to the attached letter from Harry McCarthy, would
advise that at the Flamingo we have a valet who has been here
for ten seasons. Prior to his coming here he was with me for
seven seasons . . He is not a Jew but a Yankee from New London,
Connecticut . We furnish him with a little shop over in our
laundry building giving him his room and board with our em-
ployees and we get sixty percent of the receipts from the
valet shop and he gets forty percent . When the Sunshine
Laundry was operating at the Beach they handled his dry clean-
ing but it was not particularly satisfactory and many of our
guests started sending their dry cleaning work to the La France
Cleaners who have had a shop here at the Beach for several
years. Since the Sunshine Laundry closed we have had the dry-
cleaning work done by the La France Cleaners for two reasons:
First, we know that their work is satisfactory, and second, if
we were to send it some where else the La Frame would get a
lot of business out of the hotel on which we would get no
commission. Our valet department has always been handled in
a most satisfactory manner and I don' t think in the ten years
our valet has been with us it has been necessary to refund
twenty-five dollars to guests for anything which might have
been lost or damaged. The valet concession has always been a
profitable one to us--the average net return to the hotel from
the valet concession is better than $2000.00.
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At the Nautilus they have the same man who has been there ever
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since the hotel was opened and have the same arrangement that
we have with regard to commission. Their dry cleaning work,
however, is sent to Harry McCarthy Establishment .
At the Lincoln and Boulevard they do not have their own valets
but send their work to a shop in the Spanish Village and get a
commission on all work sent to this man. Mr. Bennett an d Mr.
Noble tell me that the arrangement is very satisfactory and
Bennett advises it is particularly so because of the nearness
of their s hop to the Lincoln.
I know Harry McCarthy very well and like him very much but
personally I would not be in favor of turning down our valet
who has been with us for so many years and who has given us
such splendid satisfaction. I would, however, be glad to try
• out McCarthy' s dry cleaning if it were not for the fact that
the La France people have been doing work for our guests for a
number of years and are well known to moat of our regular
Mr. C. G. Fisher -2- 4-18-30
patrons so that they would be more than likelyoccontinue
ento get
business from the hotel on which we would
get
no
I don't know where Harry McCarthy getshis information that arrange-
ments are made shortly after the close of each season as we have
never made any arrangements for things of this kind at the Flamingo
until along in the fall and I don't believe they do at the Nautilus
either. And I don't quite understand his reference to giving the
business to him instead of a lot of Jews over town. I am not fond
of the Jews and have a Connecticut
clearn frnomee theor the valet at other managers,t none of
he
Flamingo and so far as I can
their work is sent to Jews over town.
I shall be glad to talk with Harry next fall
boarrangements ryenls for
dry
work from the Flamingo before making any dllia
having it done elsewhere .
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