ment $995,000, and the furniture and furnishings $195,000.

The campaign for the erection of the hotel was launched and carried thru to a successful issue by the Chamber of Commerce, with the loyal support of the publicspirited citizens of the community. When it became apparent that outside capital would demand such exorbitant terms that the city would be the loser in the transaction, the Harrisburg Hotel Company was organized and incorporated. The Commonwealth Trust Company of Harrisburg agreed to advance one-half the cost of the hotel on first mortgage bonds if the other half were subscribed in cash. The stock was accordingly put on sale and was quickly taken up by the citizens. It is held by 427 stockholders, practically all of whom are residents of Harrisburg, or were when the project started, and have retained their shares even tho subsequent events caused then to leave the city. Three local business nien each subscribed for $80.000 worth of the stock, three others took $25,000 each, and one individual took a block of $55,000 worth.

The hotel is operated by the United Hotels Company, which leases it from the owners, the Harrisburg Hotel Company. The latter holds 49 per cent of the con:mon stock of the operating company.

An interesting feature of the campaign for the erection of this community hotel is that the popular subscriptions that built it were secured with the understanding that the hotel would sell no liquor. On this basis the stock found a ready sale in Harrisburg, which is surprising in view of the fact that the prospects at that time of the adoption of the national prohibition amendment had not become manifest.

The hotel is ten stories high and has 250 rooms, nearly all with bath. It covers a lot 17,000 feet square. A luxurious lounge, a ball room of pure Adam style, an assembly room adjoining, several private diningrooms, a handsome grill in the basement, and numerous parlor suites round out the magnificence of the hotel. The first night it was open all the available rooms were occupied, and the accommodations for dancing, dining and other social functions had been engaged two months in advance, so that the people who owned stock in the company had no misapprehensions as to

were being carried on by the War Department and the huge shell plants that were being operated in and near the city nearly drained the community's man power, but the work went on, the building rising story by story until its ten complete floors were reared above the flanking buildings.

WARREN R. JACKSON, Secretary, Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce. Seattle's Industrial Survey Being Made by Students

SEATTLE, WASH.-By making an intensive survey of her industrial resources and possibilities, Seattle has prepared for the postbellum reconstruction period which will tax the industrial stability of the country to the utmost in the next eighteen months. With the cessation of war contracts, the city was confronted with a possible large surplus of workers along various industrial lines and with a wealth of raw materials. As a re

sult of the survey, the city expects to keep busy and even to increase its army of industrial workers.

Thru the Industrial Bureau of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club and the University of Washington, a survey of opportunities is being made along more than fifty different lines. Among them are iron and steel products, the development of pulp resources and the tanning industry.

Just how Seattle attacked the problem is interesting. Thirty-five graduates and seniors from the College of Business Administration and the Department of Industrial Chemistry were enrolled in a special seminar course and used the city and the surrounding country as a laboratory. Each group of students was assigned one industry. Interviews supplemented by intensive research and a survey of the field gave them a grasp of the situation as it existed in Seattle. The problems were attacked from every angle. An experienced business man, who is a college graduate, represented the university. The directing of the survey was carried on thru the Industrial Bureau's offices, in order that it might at all times follow strict business principles. Experts in each line were consulted; separate surveys of raw materials were conducted, and the result is that Seattle has laid the foundation for an intensive industrial opportunity inventory.

With the city's vast foreign trade, embracing South America, Australia and all of the Orient, as well as Siberia and Alaska, markets are constantly being opened, new sources of raw materials are being found, and Seattle is collecting these facts and adding them to the city's manufacturing catalog.

The survey has been arranged in three phases: the local, which embodies the work of the students and the Industrial Bureau; the eastern, which is covered by an engineer and public-spirited business man; and the comparative, which will show definitely Seattle's present and future advantages along each specific line in comparison with its eastern competitors. Raw materials, markets, sales expense and labor are being investigated. In fact, all the information that can be used as a basis for comparison is being gathered. It is expected that the facts collected will be published in bulletin form by the University and the Chamber

of Commerce for distribution.

Using the data thus assembled, the Industrial Bureau has planned to launch a nation-wide campaign to interest the right men with experience and capital in the profitable openings for manufacturers in Seattle.

I. R. A. CURRY, Industrial Bureau, Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club.

Cincinnati's Bureau of Industrial Counseling

CINCINNATI, OHIO.- The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce recently organized a Bureau of Industrial Counseling whose purpose is to offer to employers information and consultation service on all phases of employment problems connected with women in industry. The steps leading to the organization of this plan are significant. During the war the Ordnance Department realized that in order to keep production at a maximum it was necessary to provide the machinery for labor adjustments. To meet this need, the Industrial Service Section was organized and placed under the Production Division. It was the function of this section to act as a mediator in smoothing out and regulating all conditions that were obstructing labor efficiency. Adjustments in shop conditions, recruiting, training, transportation, housing, and labor disputes, all came within its jurisdiction. A special branch was provided for handling problems relating to women employes.

The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce felt that the principle of this work-good labor conditions for efficient business-was a basic one in business life, and that it would be valuable to conserve for local use in Cincinnati as much as possible of the material and experience that had accrued during the war. Hence the present Bureau of Industrial Counseling.

The work is being organized and directed by Miss Edith Campbell, who was supervisor of the Women's Branch in the Cincinnati District of the Ordnance Department. She comes equipped with valuable experience in that work, and in the activities of the Schmidlapp Bureau for Women and Girls, of which she has been director since its foundation by J. G. Schmidlapp in 1907. This bureau has initiated and furthered a number of civic and educational plans for women and is