St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-14

many times without suspeetlng that 1t is
what it is. The exterior is very plain and
unpretentious. But once the threshold is
passed its beauties begin to reveal them
selves. The thing of which the floor is
composed is of a rose Baune marble,
specially imported from Germany and the
hrst ever used for such a purpose in this
country. This marble is very beautiful. and
IL Is also used for the tops OF the buffets.
Inc cabinet work throughout, including
the cigar stand, the screen. the bullets and
the BAR is of the white mahogany OF South
America. 1t is quarter cut that is, cut so
as TO show the grain. and finished in the
most exquisite manner. The ceiling,
when Is otherwise plain, IS cut into
panels of the same wood. The de-
signs, even to the minute of the electric
light burners, the hooks in the walls and
the brass mountings that hold the bar rail,
were specially designed and modelled, and
are in the style of Louis XVI. Simple ele-
ganee is the rule throughout and even the
frleze, in design in which most artists would
have given play to their own fancy, is sim
ply decorated in ivory white and gold OF
the same peri0ss. The screen, which con-
slsts of swtaging gates, is something en-
tIrely new of it's kind, the spindle work
panels being all set in brass frames. Around
the bar runs heavy rail of real Mexican
onyx, held by solid brass mountings, and
the fireplace opposite the bar is composed of
white mahogany, Mexican onyx and old
brass. The frame of the fireplace proper
| and the andirons alone cost over $500. The
cost OF the cabinet work alone was not less
than $40, 600. 1t is claimed for this bar
room that it is the only one ever attempted
to be lifted up in purely architectural style,
| and it must be conceded that the work could
not have been more thoroughly artistic or
in better taste had it been intended for the
dlnng-room of Fifth avenue palace.
A COAL HOLE TO FAIRY LAVATOR Y.
Under this gem of a bar-room, and a
very important part of the establishment,
are the wine cellar, wine room, layatories
and the proprietor's private Office. Here
| the transformation is really wonderful.
six months ago the cellar was dark and
dreary cavern-now it would do no dis
credit to gentleman's house in Park lane
| or Belgravia. Six months ago there was
only coal hole under BrOadWay-now
| there are lavatorieS as fine as miniature
Roman baths. A cooler retreat in summer
or coSler nook in winter cannot be found
anywhere in New York than in this wine
room, which is between the lavatories and
the wine cellar. This basement is fitted ur
in less expensive style, but with scarcely
less elegance than the barroom above, the
cabinet work being in white ash and the
stone faeings of Italian Sienna mar
BILE. When one reads in the annals
OF the English stage in the early
| part OF the century of Edmund Kean's
orgies at the Coal Hole, he cannot fail
to be impressed with the idea of the grimy
sort OF place it must have been. There is
nothing of the kind about this coal hole un-
der Broadway, and the brokers from Wall,
New and Broad streets who resort to il
find it not only a quiet but an elegant re-
treat. At the rear of the barroom above
there are two small but elegant wine rooms.
| but most OF the patrons OF the place who
wish to have quiet chat over their wine
prefer the apartment below. On the walls
OF the barroom are some good pictures. the
smaller once being enamels on copper OF
| porcelain, but the real work of art provided
for the place is Mellochan's Salon picture
of 1888 After the Bath" 1t is not by
any means so elaborate as Bougereau's
painting at the Hoffman house To the
average mind, its importance will be settled
by its price-it cost 50, 500. In the base
ment also handsome pictures grace the
walls, and throughout the establishment
| there is an air of refinement that the pro-
hibitionist would not be apt to associate
with the liquor business. ''All this" the
proprietor says. Il consider necessary to
my trade. l have done all this to help me
sell my goods"