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Waldorf Manager Had An Enjoyable Trip To The Orient And Talks Interestingly Concerning Affairs In Japan.(Special Correspondence National Iiotel Reporter.)New York, June 16, 1922.Returning yesterday from a three-months* trip to the Orient with his bride, Roy Carruthcrs, managing-director of the Waldorf-Astoria tells how he aided in the opening of. \ 11 ^ /VI a . . i • •Japan’s, and the Orient’s, finest hotel, the New Imperial at Tokio, which has been called “the Waldorf-Astoria of the East”.Baron K. Okura, the Japanesefinancier, and head of the hotel company, presented Mr. Carruthers with a wonderful gold and silver loving cup on the date of his sailing, May 27th, on the S. S. “Silver State” from Japan. The New York hotel man is sending a banquet manager, assistant manager and steward from the Waldorf-Astoria to join the .staff of the new Tokyo house, they having planned to go in largely for “American banquets”.The new hotel has been five years in building, under the direction of a Chicago architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, who was given carte blanche by the Japanese owners in planning and building the new hotel. It is in two wings, 650 feet long each, 250 rooms, and is electricallyoperated throughout. It is after#the Persian in architecture, and looks like a stanza from Omar Khayam, says Mr. Carruthers, who declared the Hotel the most unique and the equal of any in the world.Both the Hon. Okura and the managing-director of the new hotel,Mr. H. S. K. Namaguchi, are Cambridge graduates, the latter spending much time in New York in a study of American hotels, while his brother spent a year at the Waldorf-Astoria in similar research work.“Japan has not liquidated its war conditions as yet”, said Mr. Carruthers, “and the new premiere is warning the country to economize in every way. Labor conditions are very bad, being up about 300 per cent since prewar times; imports are away in excess of exports and have been so since the war. The steamer we traveled from theUnited States on carried 6500 sacks of California rice almost every ship takes similar quantities of foodstuffs, although some, of the higher grades, is being returned from Japan.They are carrying out the disarmament programme completely and in fine spirit. I saw the sister ship of the “Mitsu” being dismantled. They have only the friendliest feeling toward everything American and appreciated the friendship with this country greatly.The Manchurian railway through Korea into China, fully American equipped, is the best road in every respect, equipment, roadbed and service, that J have ever seen, without excepting our own splendid lines here.“Shanghai, the Paris of the East, is doing an enormous business, and is very active and alive in point of numbers of world tourists and business men there; the war conditions naturally prevent tourists from visiting Pekin in any numbers and the merchants there having hidden their best merchandise in the ‘go-downs’ or burglar proof vault cellars fearing looting, while most of the railroads have been commandeered by the fighting factions”, said Mr. Carruthers,4 44 (
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Chicago Daily National Hotel Reporter
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Tue, Jun 20, 1922
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