New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 21, 1928, Page 27

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 19 Fifth avenue frontage with the Wal. | suppressed two of thp m-:t bloody doff, and ordered an addition built|uprisings in the history of the new to the hotel. That was completed | kingdom, that of Sicily and Emilia. two years later, and the name of the| Lujgi Cadorna entered a military hotel was changed. The fame of the | school in 1860 and became attached Waldorf-Astoria increased after the | to the general staff as a second lieu- Prince of Wales, the king and queen | ienant when he was only 18 years of of the Belgians, and the sister of the jage. Later he was transferred to Emperor of Japan made it their the military division of Florence, headquarters on visits to New York. | over which his father was chief in Every effort was made to increase | command, but he was not allowed to the comfort of guests. When ping- accompany his father upon the ex- pong became a fad, tables for the | pedition to Rome, either because his game were installed; free billiard | father did not wish to be accused of tables were put in and the first Mon- | favoritism or because he expected day morning musicale was held iu | criticism of the expedition, which he one of the ballrooms. did not wish his son to share. ed next summer to make way for! Among prominent Americans who | Captain In 1873 an ofiice bullding. |made their New York home there| Cadorna became a captain in 187 Announcement was made yester- | were Charles M. 8chwab and Elbert and began the publication of a ser- day that the hotel and its valuable | }. Gary. ies of pamphlets concerning the dif- #ite at 33rd street and Fifth avenue, | Artists Contribute | ferent zones of the Italian frontier had been 8014 to the Bethlehem En-| I'amous artists contributed to the i that proved to be very interestin gineering corporation by the pres-|hcauty of the building. Edwin Blash- | not only from military considera. ent owners, the Waldorf-Astoria [ficld was commissioned to do the tions, but because of the clearness Realty company. | ceiling of the grand ballroem and | with which he developed his concep- No price was given, but it was Will H. Low was engaged 1o do the tions of the offensive and defensive seliably reported as being some- |murals. *on the hypothesis of future battles. WALDORF-ASTORIA T0 BE TORN DOWN Famous Hotel to Give Way to Olfice Building New York, Dec. 21 (UP)—The ‘Waldorf-Astoria, one of the famous hostelries of all time, vill be wreck- by the Austrians. Removed From Command Three years later occurred the great disaster to the Italian armies at Caporetto, which resulted in the famous retreat to the Piave and all | but lost the war for Italy. A com- mission of inquiry was appointed by the Itallan government following a | wave of indignation which swept the | country, and after more than a year | of investigation, it submitted & re- port holding General Cadorna nndE three other general officers respon- | sible for the disaster. In the mean- time he had been removed from the | office of commander-in-chief of the | army and given a place on the | Inter-Allied war council, where he sefved for more than a year. Declines to March In 1921 General Cadorna was ask- ed to participate in the ceremonies attendant upon the burial of Italy's unknown soldier, but he declined to consider the invitatton on the ground that it would offend his dignity to march in the procession behind gen- where near $20,000,000, Social Life The passing of the Waldorf-As- toria will recall what a prominent part the hotel had in the shaping of social life in New York. In real- ity, it is two hotels in one. The Waldorf was built in 1893 by Wil- liam Waldorf Astor. Four vears la- ter John Jacob Astor erected a sev- enteen-story addidon, and the name of the hotel was changed to tho Waldorf-Astoria. George C. Boldt, who opened the ‘Waldorf, came to New York from Philadelphia with a new conception of hotel operation. He believed hotel Keeping was a quasi-public husiness and that every effort should be bent toward making the guests comfort- eble; When the announcement was made that there would be 350 pri- vate .bathrooms in the hotel, people ®ll over the country laughed and called the project “Boldt's Folly,” or “Astor's Ioll For a time it seem- The purchascrs announced that |He also published about that time & |erals who during the war were his the building which will bc‘ erected on the site would be 50 storics high. GENERAL CADORNA EXPIRES INTTALY (Continued from First Pag |of nis staft by the ease with which he cowld enumerate in precise de- [tail the difticulties and natural ad- |vantages of the most obscure route, | puths and passages, especirlly among [the Alps. | As one of many instances of his quick observations and exceptional {memory the story is told of how m‘l‘ollaborflléd in the preparation of |identical with that submitted to 2 g | France and which has since been‘ |the early days of the mobilization of |the army in 1915, General Cadorna. {while riding by a railway station in an automobile detected the fact that ‘\\ ork upon the Franco-German war | of 15%0. | When he was named major in | 1583 he introduced a veritable revo- lution into the teaching of tactics. | Stupefied at first at the radical de- partures of his instructions, the | voung officers of the regiment inter- | ested themselves in his teachings. | The colonel, more attached to tra- | ditions, resisted at first but was |linally obliged to recognize that Ca- | dorna was putting new life into the | regiment. | Later on Cadorna had the good fortune to collaborate with General | Pianell, military commander of the | province of Venice during 26 years, and celebrated in the more recent history of the Italian army as the last and most active of generals who | the defense of the Austrian frontier. Pianell conflded to young Cadorna work of the greatest importance on this subject, took frequent excursions subordinates, but who later had be- come his superiors. TREATY NEGOTIATIONS UNDER WAY FOR YEAR Draft of Agreement Between U. 8. and England Submitted to Howard Last December, {treaty was submitted to Sir Washington, Dec. 21 (M —Negotia- tious for a mnew arbitration treaty | | between the United States and Great | | Britain have been unddr way for al- | | most & vear. The draft of the new Esme Howard here last December. It was signed and ratified. i The new treaty was formulated by Secretary Kellogg in his plant to | 2 &, The Best Gift ' of All MUSIC! The Enduring, Entertain- ing All Year 'Round Gift And From New Britain’s ed they were right, for the hotel did [gn."of the cars of a military train | With him upon the Alps and in every |make the Root arbitration treaties not prosper immediately after it was | \(jich he saw at the station loaded | Circumstance took into account his|bronder in scope. The Root treaty | built. The financial panic of 1593 |\ith munitions was being sent along | {1dgment and appreciations, When |with Great Britain lapsed June 4 made it diffienlt to obtain Patronage |, yrong route. The mere number | the day of promotion arrived for |and no effort was made to renew it ALL ELECTRIC JUST AS PICTURPD 9 TUBE SET LESS TUBES 'CHOOSE THIS and on one Sunday in there were only 40 guests register at the Waldorf. About 970 employes were on hand to serve those 40 per- &ons. Wonder of World that year !o¢ (he freight car had sufficed for | d | General Cadorna fo perceive the er- ror—although there were hundreds of trains moving at that time with {munitions of war for all parts of Cadorna, General Pianell refused to separate from him and he remained lat Verona, where during the six | years from '36 to '02 the most im- portant military manoeuvres of the Italian army were held. Named [1taly. & i . 2" O Soon, however, the hotel became Fighting Family (poorelin tihsaline aesol ) £u one of the wonders of the new| o fumily of tighters from which dorni received (he }(}xnn.m;d ik world. Its Rose Room, its Peacock | aia) cadorna came assured him :‘fn’i'f:“{° l’Y-"XFri'["')' ‘”}' _“L:” Alley, the grand ballroom and the O "ol vty from the start. His 1"]0“,"“&"";‘“» ::" U5 rlo’f‘t‘"d”_"! 3; 0 magnificent bar fronting on 43rd | . qeather led an army against the | >1f Conin A Kreal dlec il 2 grandfa Y | wrian as well as a tactician. Named street became the topic of convers I battalions of the revolution t ] {17rench ba i major-general six years later, Ca- tion in the capitals of Europe. |when they invaded Pledmont, and | o T o hanual of rules Princes were feted there; a party | -efused 1o serve the govern- | i S i hen refus that is a model for officers of in- of Spanish grandees headed by the ot that was erected on the ruins | o ey Duke and Duchess of Veragua, 810D- | o¢ the throne. His father, General | 01 (1o death of General Pollio in ped at the Waldorf and after thal Raphacl Cadorna, fought beside the | 1414 e was appointed chief of the the hotel had the approval of 80- |jirench at Crimea and was minister ciety. |of war in Tuscany before he com- In 1895 John Jacob Astor torc ipanded the little army that marched zeneral staff. and when Italy entered the World War he immediately took down his mansion which shared the [on Rome in 1870. 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