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Haftor Hotel
rbor Inn *was corned by fire of undeter-^rJjglA at an early hour Sun-^	said that the' building
t" completely burned be-%	_ ife Jreached the scene.
C building, a two-story frame ijiiiati-40 rooms and 20 baths, ail recently been purchased by :w Orleans corporation from a pwner and had been renovated xipened for business two weeks «re it >burned. The estimated He of rthe property was said to $40,000. and carried $11,000 insur-, it is not known whether it rebuilt.
At -.-the time of the iire there was id to be 40 guest* registered who ? ^he ‘greater part of their per-*vjeffects and some of whom got |«t)n their night clothes.
hotel HSr^an interesting hack-ilind with its struggles against the •'-obstacles which retarded its lopment. The hotel was built Charles Hopkins, at that time vlng in New Orlean* and was com-dn 1915 4and .had opened for ness when me 1915 storm struck Shis coast with a heavy force. The »Jj£h winds dfove a large schooner through the .building doing consid-ble damage. After that it was several times to different par-fbut not successfully. Then H. air at the request of Mr. Hop-came down irom Washington ^temodeled the building and it about ten feet and it ap-red to .be going to be a success, t the depression of the early 30’s on and the hotel became a sing proposition and passed into ■ther hands. .Mr. Wilford Guerin, ew Orleans ai>d -summer -resident if Clermont Harbor, manager and art owner of 'the hostelry has not ven out any statement as to the dans.a^the «wners. -	.