San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-28
The NEW MAVERICK.

That fire at the Maverick hotel some
three months since was by no means
an unmixed evil. Out of it has grown
a new order of things and better.
The new buildings and the changes
IN the old ones has made of the Nav
erick hotel as comfortable and well
appointed hotel as can be found in
the state. These changes are now
about completed, and on the first of
October the hotel will be opened to
the public.
Beginning where the fire originated,
in the kitchen, complete change has
been effected. The new building,
joining the hotel proper on the east,
is as complete hotel kitchen as can
we'll be conceived. tits supplied with
two Van ranges 10 feet long, with
latest boiler, toast and cake attach
ments. These ranges rest on brick
tiling extending four feet III front of
the ranges, and the fiues reach nearly
80 feet above the kitchen roof, fur
nishing ample draft and full guaran-
The hot water boiler has a capacity
of $50 gallons, and supplies all the
service of the kitchen as we'll as
the IS guest rooms OF. the: hotel. The
hot water passes direct through coils
OF pipe, which heat tier of plate
stands, to the dish washing cradles
which are ingeniously contrived to
effect the greatest amount of work
with the least labor. Convenient to
the ranges is the twelve foot steam
table for keeping all cooked dishes as
hot as on leaving the ranges a; also the
carving table, while across the kitch-
en- is the supply room and pantry de-
partment. In the basement and con-
venient to the kitchen is the bakery,
where all pastry and bread are made
and baked, the hotel doing all its
own baking. This pastry room is
30X30 and the oven l0x10. The sup
ply room, in charge of steward,
debts the ranges and bakery with all
disbursed, and each night
the proprietor can ascertain just what
his table has cost him for that day.
There is complete system of service
from the point at which supplies
reach the store room until they are
sent to the dining room, and every
economy is practiced to make that
service as simple and direct as pos
sible. Even the hot water supply, as
it passes, accomplishes more than one
GRAND, and as it energies from the
waste pipe merely makes room for a
fresh and hotter supply.
The dining rooms are two in num- |
Der, besides ladies' ordinary. The
general dining room is 50X25 feet; the |
with ladies are admitted, |
is BOXES, and the ladies' ordinary is
30Xlo. All these rooms are elegantly |
and frescOed; the floors of the |
larger rooms finished in fancy wood
and the smaller one carpeted. These
rooms are airy, splendidly lighted
and ventilated. The ladies' dining
room opens into a gallery on the
south, through glass doors which vir-
tually form that side of the room.
The courtyard upon which this dining
room opens, will be sodded and plant
ed with shrubbery and underwriting.
All wagons will be excluded from this
court, and baggage and kitchen sup
plies will be taken from the alley
through raised gangways for that
purpose.
The guest rooms throughout are be-
ing overhauled, and all of them new
papered and carpeted. Additional
bathrooms and closets have been add
ed, and for the use of these bathrooms
there will be no additional charges to
the guests of the house. The renova-
ton of the parlOrs and guest rooms
will De complete. corridors and halls
share in the general change, and all
floors. ceilings and walls will be uew-
ly and richly covered. The house is
as clean as new pin and as bright
as dollar just from the mint.
Capt. Mackey proposes to pay spe-
Cial attention to the table, and the
cuisine will be the feature of the
hotel. He has engaged the services
of an experienced Chef from New Or
leans, Henry Perryn, and with the
most completely equipped kitchen in
hotel Is permitted to boast better
table than the Macbey after October
lst.
The Office will be in charge of John
J. " headon, and under his manage
ment, backed by the liberal policy of
Proprietor Mackey, the Maverick will
be the most popular hotel in Texas.
1t is centrally located, one block from
the new federal building, and cars
running direct from all the depots in
the city pass its doors every few
minutes.
No more popular man than Capt.
n. Mackey walks the streets. of San
AntOniO He ia husineSS from the