The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-04-27
Splendor, with Home Comforts.


THE COMMERCIAL HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO.
1t is the common testimony that hotel
keeping reaches its utmost perfection In San
Francisco. 1t would be proof OF faultless
accommodations that any hotel in any place
was managed by one who for 25 years had,
as San Francisco host, kept abreast OF each
wonderful improvement in innkeeping, or
that the appointments would be perfect of
modern San Francisco hotel managed ny al
most any one. The two are combined in the
Commercial Hotel, ut the corner of Mont
gomery avenue and Kearny street, and con-
Quoted by our friend, John Kelly, Jr who
for twenty-five years made the Brooklyn the
sought-fur resort OF all eager for the COM
forts of home with the c0nveniences of the
modern caravansary. The shape of this pal
ace made to tit its property is that of
smoothing iron, with its apex at the street
corners, and has enabled the construction of
unique conveniences and beauties i'm
practicable in the tiresome square. Its
architect modelled 1t after the famous
Grand Hotel, Paris, and by its roomy pentag-
onal court, the paved floor of which, edged
with eXotics, makes
A DELIGHTFUL RESORT.
Floods of sunlight and sweet air reach every
room. On every floor, midway between the
magnificent street facades OF bay windows
and the area walls, run triangles of wide,
rich carpeted halls, with rallied openings
through their floors to the transparent roof
above These halls meet each other in oc-
tagonal shafts, with mirrored walls running
to the roof, and topped with stained glass.
Wide and winding, softly covered stairways
connect the perfectly lighted and ventilated
floors, but their use is rare choice, and the
unfatiguing elevator receives the chief pat
ronage. The high ceilings OF the upper
rooms, their rich and elegant black walnut
furniture, their other appointments OF equal
elegance, with those OF lower stories, with
their splendid view of the bay with its thick
ct of spars, or Mob Hill with its eXtrava-
gance of archtecture--all combined with the
ease of the swift and silent elevator-make
sojourn on the upper floors almost more de-
sirable than elsewhere. Electric bell-pulls
in every room.
COZY FIREPLACES,
With sculptured mantels in every suite;
baths on every floor, and every necessity,
every convenience, and every luxury that
the hotel-keeper of all time has devised, and
the complex ingenuity of the San Francisco
otel-keeper has combined, with special i'm
provements of his own thrown in, make the
Commercial Hotel, from the hospitable Office
in which the guest is received TO the luxuri-
Gus rooms in which he is lodged, or the mag
niticent dining hall in which he is fed, the
very perfection Of earthly tarrying places.
If Kelly would only charge nine dollars in
stead of five for faultlessly perfect suite of
rooms, or three dollars instead of two for an
equally perfect single one, the one only diff
ference between the Commercial and its cost
ly contemporaries would be eliminated. We
see by the arrivals that Mr.. Kelly's old friends,
who patronized him ut the Brooklyn, as also
those who could not get accommodations
there while he was its host are now leaving
other hotels and seeking quarters with him
at the Commercal.-.S. Il. Chronicle.