Notes

Host of Hosts. In Chicago Harry C. Moirs threw open the doors of his new ten-room bungalow atop the Hotel Morrison, welcomed in for its dedication 300 members of the American Hotelmen's Association who were in Chicago for a three-day convention. Later they re-elected Thomas D. Green (Woodward Hotel, Manhattan) president; chose Fred Bering (Hotel Sherman, Chicago) secretary, Samuel E. Leeds (Atlantic City) treasurer.

Maiden Voyage. The Roma, new ornate, oil-burning, 33,000-ton queen ship of the Navigazione Generate Italiana docked in New York harbor last week after its maiden voyage from Genoa and Naples. She outrode a two-day storm without damage. But poor plumbing let cabins be flooded with tap water. The defects will be remedied.

Record Freightage. Car loadings, notable indicator of U. S. commerce flow, reached 1,187,011 for the week of Sept. 18, the American Railway Association reported last week after the normal 21 days necessary to consolidate the country's statistics. That week was not only the record week of all time for such freight traffic; it was also the tenth successive week, and the seventeenth so far this year, when more than a million freight cars were loaded. Only once since the year's start (the week of Jan. 2) did car loadings fall below 900,000.