Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-22
CoMMENDABLE ENTERPRISE.
Renovation and improvement of The
Golden Eagle Hotel.

When the repairs and improvements tina
are now being made TO the Golden Eagle
Hotel shall have been completed, it will b.
one of the handsomest in the State. The
painters are now at work on the exterior o.
the building, and will complete their laborS
| in few days. The prevailing color is olive
green. with trimmings of q darker hue,
the effect being heightened by lines of red
about the windows, cornices. etc. The bal
cony has been renewed on the X and Sew
enth street Sides and makes q great i'm
provement in the outward appearance of
the building. In the interior neither ex-
pense nor labor have been spared. The
spacious dining-room has been repainted
and frescOed throughout, and supplied with
new floor. The reading-room, office,
bar-room, corridor and barber shop
have all been reprinted, vanished and
frescoed, the designs being executed
in the most artistic manner. The
upstairs parlors, halls and chambers
have been either newly papered or painted
and frescoed, some of the furniture newly
upholstered and the rest replaced with
new. The kitchen-a very important part
of hotel, but one very little known to the
average guest-has undergone a thorough
renovation and overhauling, and is row q
perfect model of neatnesS and utility. The
laundry attached TO the hotel has also had
to come in for its share of renovation. as
indeed has every department. The bill
iard-parlor, on the first floor, has had
perhaps more labor and money expended
on it than any other room in the hotel 1t
is probably the most spacious billiard
room outside the metropolis, and in its
present rehabilitated condition is not ex-
celled-if it is equaled-by any there. The
ceiling has been newly frescoed and deco
rated, gold leaf and softly-blended colors
having been used in profusion, Civ
ing bright and pleasing effect,
while the warm crimson and gold
papering on the walls gives the room more
the appearance of 4 cosy parlor i'll private
residence. The room has been supplied
with five new and modern tables, the floor
has been newly carpeted, the wainscoting
grained in walnut and laurel, and all the
appointments selected with a view to max
ing it a model biiliard-room. (The Oldest
article in the room is the efficient manager
thereof, +. r. Robbins, a gentleman who
thoroughly understands the business and
is popular with the knights of the cue. J
There is not another billiard-room in
America that numbers among its embel-
lishments painting valued at $4,000, but
here may be seen, in a prominent place on
the north end of the hall, Nahl's magnifi-
cent painting known as the & Eutrado la
Corrida de Toros the entrance to the bull
fight This is one of the most brilliant
OF that painters efforts in depicting
life among the natives of the Pacific coast,
and some years ago was Il great attraction
at the State Fair. 1t can be seen to the best
possible advantage in its new place, as it
has splendid light from overhead in the
daytime and the full benefit of gas and
electric lights at night. And here it may
be remarked that the Golden Eagle billiard
room is the only public hall in the State
that is supplied with the incandescent
electric light. The bar has been restocked,
and is kept in first-cass style. All of these
improvements have been the result of the
recent leasing of the hotel by w. 0.
Bowers the gentleman who has for some
years past so successfully conducted the
Union Hotel, on Second street. He is de-
termined that the Golden Eagle shall be
nothing less than frst-class in every re-
spect. 1t certainly viii not lose under his
management any of its former popularity
but, on the contrary, must add to it.