Alamosa-Conejos County CO Archives Biographies.....Shields, E.A. ? - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Victoria Hotel Company.  The excellent hostelry conducted by this company,

which is one of the best and most popular houses of entertainment in

southwestern Colorado, is under the management of a partnership composed of C.A.

Biggs, Mrs. E.A. Shields and Leonard M. Wingert, and Mrs. Shields has the direct

charge of its domestic affairs. She is a native of Berlin, Germany, and has been

engaged in keeping hotel since 1897, carrying on the business from that year

until 1900 at Chama, New Mexico, and since 1900 at Alamosa, Conejos county, this

state.  The Victoria is a two-story stone structure, with thirty-two sleeping

rooms, and keeps one of the best and most satisfactory tables in the business in

this part of the world.  The rates are three dollars a day, and with enterprise

characteristic of the section and of people who understand their business, the

management arranges to meet guests at all trains and furnish them free

transportation to the house.  Generally speaking, the accommodations are

excellent and fully justify the reputation and popularity of the house.  Mrs.

Shields, the manager, is a very superior caterer, and a lady of the most genial

and accommodating disposition. She welcomes all comers with cordiality, and

provides for their entertainment with the utmost care, making them feel at home

in her house and exhibiting to all the judicious solicitude of a mother.

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From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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