v:mm The Collings family as tourists from Charlottetown enjoying . loaned by Helen Dalziel During World War I the tourist business dwindled, so that in 1915 the hotel was not operated, and in 1916 it was sold with 45 acres of land, to Donald MacMillan , son of Angus MacMillan , founder of Point Pleasant Hotel. Donald operated the hotel under the name of the MacMillan Hotel, and later as Seaside Inn, with the help of his sister Catherine, and his daughter Hazel, who was married to Jack Warren . Donald's son George and his wife Elsie (Bryenton) lived at the hotel from their marriage in 1922 until 1945, and from them we learn something of how the hotel was run in the early days. There was the arduous task of "lugging" water up two flights of stairs to the bedrooms, twice a day; the wash basins in the rooms were emptied into slop-pails, and the chamber maids carried these huge buckets up and down and dumped the chamber pots into them each day. In the day?? time the outdoor toilet was used, but at night the guests were pro?? vided with chamber pots under their beds. Laundry was done on a washboard out behind the hotel ??? "under the big tree" ??? the stump of which still remains. Carrying cans of oil and cleaning, trimming and fining the oil lamps was another chore. Jack Warren rented the hotel from Donald MacMillan from 1934 on, and in 1945 he bought it, together with 2 acres of land, and operated it with his wife Hazel and son Rhodes , and the latter's wife 217