Sebastian-Scott-Pulaski County ArArchives Biographies.....Manning, Henry Grady
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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)
HENRY GRADY MANNING.
Henry Grady Manning is displaying marked efficiency as the manager of the
Goldman Hotel of Fort Smith, although one of the youngest hotel managers in the
United States in charge of a hotel of this size and character. Back of his
present work, however, there has been long practical experience in hotel service
from the position of check boy to that of control of all the business interests
of the hostelry. Throughout the intervening period Mr. Manning, has made a close
study of the desires, wishes and demands of the public as to hotel service.
Mr. Manning is a native son of Arkansas, his birth having occurred in Scott
county, his parents being Dr. Henry G. and Virginia (Fuller) Manning. After
completing his early education in the public schools near his home Mr. Manning
came to Fort Smith to pursue a commercial course in a business college and while
thus employed he accepted the position of check boy in the dining-room of a
hotel in order to pay for his meals. He afterward entered the serivce of the
Eastman Hotel at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and there learned to cater to a very
fastidious and discriminating patronage. Subsequently he was employed in the
Queen Royal Hotel at Niagara, Canada, which received the wealthiest and most
exclusive patronage of any hotel in the Dominion. He served there as room clerk
and his painstaking efforts and unfailing courtesy marked him as one "to the
manner born." Since that time he has been widely recognized as a most desirable
man in connection with hotel management. His tact and agreeable qualities in
meeting the public have been most potent forces in his success in hotel life. In
1917 he became assistant manager of the Marion Hotel at Little Rock, Arkansas,
taking that position during the momentous days which marked the early
preparations for war with Germany. Camp Pike was situated near Little Rock and
his duties were increased to a notable degree in caring for relatives who came
to the city in order to visit the boys who were training at Camp Pike. In 1919
Mr. Manning accepted the management of the Basin Park Hotel at Eureka Springs,
Arkansas, a popular summer resort in the Ozark mountains. A little later he was
offered and accepted the management of the Goldman Hotel, the leading hostelry
of Fort Smith, and has Drought this hotel up to the present high standard, which
he has maintained in connection with all of his hotel ventures. The Goldman has
one hundred and fifty rooms, well appointed, maintains a splendid cuisine and
excellent service in the cafe and is the center of almost all of the important
social affairs, halls and other interests of similar nature in Fort Smith. Mr.
Manning always demands that the highest type of service he rendered to patrons
and by reason of this the business of the hotel has constantly increased. He has
introduced many improved methods into the Goldman and has made it a hotel which
would be a credit to a city of much larger size than Fort Smith. He is at all
times energetic and alert, watchful of the interests and comfort of patrons and
quick to adopt any new method or improvement that he believes will be of
advantage in hotel management.
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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922
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