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DOW JONES NEWS SERVICE VIA DOWVISION                  12/23/99 03:08 PM
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                DJ PSH Master Partner Stops Claims Against Partnership >PSHPZ

         COLUMBUS, Ohio (Dow Jones)--Equity Resource Pilgrim Fund, a limited
partner of PSH Master LP I (PSHP2), agreed to stop its claims related to the
sale of partnership hotels in 1997.

         In a press release Thursday, PSH Master said Equity Resource
discontinued its claims against James Pickett, chairman of PH Management Co.;
Stephen Denz, secretary of PH Management; PC Development LP and Nuho Co.

         The partnership will make a final distribution of $950,000 to its
limited partners on Dec. 28.

         As reported Jan. 9, 1998, PSH distributed $15.7 million as a partial
liquidating distribution from the sale of the partnership's three hotels.

         PSH Master trades on the over-the-counter Bulletin Board.

- -Donna Fuscaldo; Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-5388


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