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1674-17 Charles S. Krom PAC-) (!i\7 Spring Lake , D. J. november 1st, 1926 14. C. . Chase earl Fisher .eroperties it=i rami Beach, Fla. •Hear Pete: AcknoT1.edging yours of October 27th, relative to mid-winter conven- tion of the U. S. Realtors, note that there is sortie question about the Money-Plaza and i•iinmi Beach Casino being ready in time to take care of these people. ktegardin- the rate offered. by the :tonoy-Plaza, I had quite a talk with Arthur Boncoast about this and he told me he had quoted LT. Sheehan and other members of the Committee, a rate of ,pi8.00 a day each person, uropean plan, and had agreed to take care of 75 people, it being Arthur's idea to furnish them all double rooms so that the rate figured :16.00 a day double room, iur. opean plan. For some rea- son the Committee e.ot the idea that Arthur was offorin>., them double rooms for two people at 83.00 a day and they told this to stoney, who agreed to meet Pancoast' s figures, while in reality -sneoaot' s figures were just trice what the Committee told stoney. Mr. 1 ohlhopp 'wired lir. u z Behan from Dew York that we would t ak e care of some of the delegates at the Fisher motels at ;18.00 a day double and 412.00 a day single, European plan, which was right in line with Arthur Pancoast s quotation. From the point of view of a Liia.mmi Beach property holder, I can read- . ily see ,;here you people would be very anxious to have the realtors at Liam' Beach rather than at Coral tables, but from a more selfish point of view," as manager of the Flamingo, (and I believe I voice the sentiments of all the other Fisher managers) I have reason to believe having any number of realtors would do the hotels infinitely more harpad a Sot.off--experience with conven- tion =t- .7 i M_e every season - one just before the hotel opens and another just after the hotel closes. If we could have the realtors down there just prior to January first, all well and good , but to have them there during our regular season is an entirely dif- ferent matter. In fact, the class of peorle who vitIt the F1 her hotels have become quite disgusted sex ng so much of real estate in hA past few years— ! ;. ©es 72--Of our guests come down to Florida o rest, recreation and plersure, but they have been har- rascod on all sides by real estate and you know more than half of the papers for the past couple of years was devoted to real estate advertising. To have a lot of realtors from all over the U. 6. hanging around the hotel :while our regular people are there this • -2- winter, oven if for only a few days, is going; to create a most un- favorable impression on our guests. Furthermore, I know from ex- perience that convention people and regular guests in resort hotels of the class of ours do not go together. The regular guest feels that he is paying a big rate and is entitled to a lot of con- sideration. L=ost of them are more or loss selfish and you can not appreciate how they resent having any convention people around. All convention people are naturally noisy. They are all greeting each . other and saying: hello and in addi tion to this there are always some of them who go out and get "tight. " You may recall about three years ago we had 75 Canadian insurance men at the Tlaninge the first week in January. They were a fine lot of men. They arrived in i. iami on a special train at three o' clock in the morning and reached the Flamingo about foar-thirty and disturbed a lot of our pebple getting into their rooms, talking, laughing and taking; baths, etc. , at that hour of the morning. The first- day they were there they were very well behaved , but the sec- ond niFrht about eight of them wont over to the .:diver Slipper, or some place of that kind . and came back pretty well loaded about three in the morning, ,.while the last niOht they were there about half of them went out to various supper clubs and raised Hell when they came back. They were no different from any other convention people I have ever seen and I have had druggists, doctors, dentists, automotive engineers, hotel men and others. In the cast 15 years • I have handled no loss than thirty conventions and I can speak from experience and I know without the slightest o uestion of a doubt that our regular patrons are bound to resent having th in the hotel. I have never yet seen a convention that didn't ave scme Jews i the crowd and I don' t believe a bunch of realtors . re going to be differ- ent from any other. It seems to me that -�— it is up to hr. Fisher and r.-�ir. .ohlhepp to, in the final analysis , determine whether or not we want to take care of any large number of realtors at the Fisher hotels. If they feel that the interests of -doach as a whole are paramount rand be- lieve that it is for the best interet is of everybody to have the realtors there, why I shall be only too glad to do my share in taking care of some of them at the Flamingo, and I am sure the other members will do the same. I would sFay that we could take ccr ttit the Flamingo, and it should _be dist-inetl und_ersteed that LVA _,.v d not ha a any Jeer$ wished on to us. The Flamingo, as you kno:-1, is o e n -on the Ameri n plan exclusively, and is bound to cause more or less confa-stion if we take the realtors on the .o:aropean plan. I. -3- I would suggest nnuoting a rate of ,,;15.00 a day per person, .American plan for a double room with bath, occupied by two persons, and 4,17.O0 a day PinLle room with bath oceuried by one person. I would suggest a rate of not less than 0.00 a day each person for a double room with bath, two persons, European plan and 410.00 a day single room with bath one person. This is lower than the rate which George is getting at the Nautilus for the convention which he has booked just prior, to his opening. I would suggest your talk- ing the matter over with :-,r. George x-rom, iirthur rrncoast and Lund- berg, all of whom are at Liami Beach at the present time T.nd whatever decision is reached , after getting Mr. Fi sh or' s and Mr. Kohlhopp 's views, I Pm only too willing to abide by and co-operate to the ful- lest extent. Very truly yours, Copies: Ur. Carl u. fisher 1/Fisher Mr. A, i.ohlhepp lir. George 1,rom ti