Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-01
WESTERN HOTEL.
ONE OF THE HANDsoMEST AND COMP
LETEST OF HOTELS.

ONE OF THE HANDSoMEsT AND COMP
LETEST OF HOTELS
A NOTABLE, ECONOMIC AND WELL con-
QUOTED HOSTLERY.
The Western Hotel is located from 209
to 2l7 K street. Without any exaggera-
ton whatever, this is the most ornamental
hotel outside of San Francisco, and in
decorative art its walls show to greater adj
vantage than those of any hotel in the
State, the frescoing being surpassed only
in few private residences in San Fran
cisco. The new building was frescoed ad
mirably at its erection, still the taste and
unstinted enterprise of William Land, the
proprietor and sole manager of the
Western, led to refrescoing of large
portion of the building very recently, the
work being done in style more elaborate
still, and being extended to all the leading
reconstructed, nearly every room In
the large establishment. The entire
work of frescoing cost MIR. Land
nearly ZOO, from which figures some
idea can be gained of the interior.
The frescoing in the dining-room, with
still-life work upon the panels, is exceed
ingly handsome, and makes this chamber,
which accommodates 240 at sitting, g
real gallery of art. Even the saloon and
barber-shop and the bathing department in
a greater or less degree are representative
of modern decorative art. The hotel has
frontage of III feet, and extends back
100 feet to the alley. 1t has three stories
upon K street and four stories upon the
alley, and has 200 rooms. Its halls are
broad and spacious, its parlors large, and
all of its public rooms commodious. From
top to bottom the house is furnished in
black walnut of chaste pattern the floors
are carpeted with Brussels throughout !;
the gas fittings are of the best designs, and
all the ornamental parts are representative
of advanced art. 1t is the only hotel in
the interior of California with an elevator
The house was erected in 1875 upon the
ruins of the old Western Hotel, which was
destroyed by fire. 1t has an ornamental
front, and, INTELLECTUALLY, is great adj
dition to the street. Although the hotel
is thus fitted up and ornamented, it bids
almost wholly for the patronage of men of
limited means, and accommodates more of
that class of the boarding and transient
public than any other hotel in the State
outside of San Francisco, the terms being
from one to two dollars per day for board
and lodging. The yard is laid in cement,
and the premises has the best drainage of
any in the city. The storehouse of the
hotel, built solid with cement, is not
equaled by that of any establishment on
the coast, and is a model of excellence.
The hotel is conducted upon rigid, but
perfectly easyworking system. The an
nuneiator of the hotel is worked by cleo
tricity, and connected with every depart
mept of the building. The employees of
the hotel, from cellar to roof, are organized
into fire brigade Electrical fire. alarms
connects every hall and floor with the Office.
Upon an alarm of fire being sounded,
button is pressed and every employee within
the building is instantly notified to fall
into line under proper captains in each de-
partment, and, provided with hose,
fire buckets and all the necessary appli-
ances of house fire brigade. For hotel,
addressed to the patronage that this is, it
has no equal on the Pacific slope, and it
probably would be no exaggeration to say
that no similar hotel system is to be found
in the Union