RECLAIMING BLADES

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13014, 4 December 1942, Page 6

RECLAIMING BLADES

AMERICAN HOTEL MANAGER TRIMMING TPIE ENEMY New York. The troublesome cast-off razor blade may yet come into its own in this war. Millions are left in hotel bathrooms throughout the country each year, and one New York hotel manager thinks they can be hauled from their repositories and made to "rattle like sabers at the front." He found 70,504 old blades weighing over 3001 b. resting behind disposal slits in his SOl-room hostelry, and immediately went into action. First, Charles E. Rochester, of the Hotel Lexington, checked up and found that there were 1,614,892 sleeping rooms in the 15.550 hotels of America. In his hotel alone he discovered that guests deposited an average of 13.33 old blades in each room each year. "This leads me to believe," he said, "that there must be upwards of 10,000,000 pensioned-off blades behind the walls of hotel bathrooms throughout the country- " Melted down, they ought to be good for one more good trimming," he suggested. "They can use them in tank or gull parts to cut down our enemies. "They've always been a nuisance to householders and hotel operators, but now I think the lowly razor blade will come into its own."