P.D. Bihn, Veteran Hotelman, is Dead - Crosby House Manager Succumbs to Attack of Acute Indigestion: Peter Daniel Bihn, twenty years manager of the Crosby House and eighteen years connected with hotels at St Louis, Missouri, and Shreveport, Louisiana, died in a guest room of the Crosby Thursday morning at 10:15 o'clock from a sharp attack of indigestion. Mr. Bihn was 59 years of age, a familiar figure in the lobby of the Crosby, and traveling men in every state of the union knew him. He will be buried in Magnolia Cemetery today at 3 o'clock. Mr. Bihn is survived by his widow, Mrs. Laura Swanson Bihn, and a son, Eugene E. Bihn. Religious services will first be conducted at the Crosby House and Masonic honors will be given him at Magnolia. Mr. Bihn first suffered from a severe attack of indigestion in November of 1918. Recurrent attacks followed until the fatal one of early yesterday. Mr. Bihn, a Mason and Rotarian and a personal friend of hundreds of people in Beaumont, arrived in Beaumont in 1906 from Shreveport, Louisiana, where he was manager of the Phoenix Hotel in the Louisiana city. In St. Louis, Missouri, he for a length of time conducted the organization of the Hotel Stratford. His twelve years' service in Beaumont added to the years in Shreveport and St. Louis, gave him one of the widest acquaintances with thousands of men who make hotels. "We shall miss him more than I can tell you," said Mrs. Agnes Hageman yesterday. Mrs. Hageman is of the Hageman-Kidd Hotel Company, operating the Crosby, and she had known Mr. Bihn for over thirty years. In the lobby of the Crosby after Mr. Bihn's death was announced, and where he had greeted so many friends and guests with a smile and a kindly word, no one missed him more than his old-time friend, Capt. George W. Kidd, who had been associated with him in the operation of the hotel. Friends. of Mr Bihn were genuinely sorry, too that he had not lived long enough to hear of the promotion of his son, Eugene E. Bihn, to assistant cashier of the Gulf National Bank. The promotion of young Bihn was made in the afternoon, just a few hours after his father's death. Friends had talked with Mr. Bihn a few hours before his death and his appearance was as usual. The whole city received the announcement of his death in genuine sorrow. He loved the city and rejoiced in the rapid strides it has made as the pivotal point of Southeast Texans. ~Beaumont Enterprise, Beaumont, Texas, 17 January 1919