Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01
WESTERLY HOTEL.
William Land. Proprietor, a0o o ei.
II street.
ONE OF THE HANDsoMEsT AND CoMPLETEoT

II street.
ONE OF THE HANDsoMEsT AND COMPLETEsT
OF HOTELS.
Without any exaggeration whatever,
this is the most ornamental hotel outside
of San Francisco and in decorative art Its
walls show to greater advantage than those
of any hotel in the State, the frescoing
being surpassed only in few private res
licences in San Francisco. The hotel was
erected in 1875 upon the ruins of the old
Western Hotel, which was destroyed
by fire. 1t has an ornamental front,
and, architecturally, is great
addition to the street The hotel has a
frontage of l2l 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 It's 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 new building was frescoed admirably
at its erection, still the taste and unstinted
enterprise of William Land, the proprietor
and sole manager of the Western, led to
refrescoing CT a large portion of the build
ing, and so constant has been his improve
ments and embellishments that the fresco
artists first employed are still engaged, and
have scarcely lost working day. The work
is being done in style more elaborate and
artistic still, and being extended to all the
leading rooms indeed, nearly every room
in the large establishment. The entire
work of frescoing has cost Mr.. Land over
S25. 900, from which figure some idea
can be gained of the interior. The fresco-
ing in the dining room, with still life work
upon the panels, is exceedingly handsome,
and makes this chamber, which accommo-
dates 240 at a sitting, a real gallery of art.
Even the saloon and barber. shop and the
bathing department, in greater or less
degree are representative of modern deco
rative art. The store-house of the hotel
build solid with cement, is not equaled by
that of any establishment on the coast, and
is model of excellence. The yard is laid
in cement, and the premises has the best
drainage of any in the city. 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 pablo 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 employees
of the hotel, from cellar to roof, are
organized into a fire brigade. The
hotel is conducted upon a rigid, but
perfectly easy-working system, and is
throughout a notable, economic and well
conducted hostelry. The annpnciator of
the hotel is worked by electricity. and
connected with every department Of the
building. Electrical fre-alarms connect
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 depart
ment, and provided with hose, fire
buckets and all the necessary appliances of
house fire brigade. For a hotel, adj
dressed to the patronage that this is, it has
no equal on the Pacific slope, and it proba-
bly, would be no exaggeration to say that
no similar hotel system is to be found in
the Union.