Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-03

Scenes In the Bali Room-The Music
and the Banquet-A Description Of the
Magnificent Hotel-Its Finishing, Fur.
niture, Etc.
ANAooNDA, July L. Especial to the
Miner. Tonight Anaconda's great hotel
the Montana. was formally opened and
dedicated to the comfort and convenience
OF the thousands who will find food and
shelter under its hospitsble roof during the
years. 20 come. The blessings of the muse
Terpsichore, were invoked to pfopitiate the
event; and if worship and homage have
that influence with the deities which frail
humanity lie led to believe they have, then
indeed will be the Montana g future bright
and rosy one, and the best of fortune will
ever betide it, for the oblations to the fss.
tive deity at whose particular shrine the
hundreds who were present worshipped to.
night were OF such a devout and enthusias.
tic nature that a god much more stern and
awful than he whose kind Offices were in.
voked, could not have remained Indifferent,
and would have showered his blessings
right and left.
It is not exaserstion to say that for it's
size the Montana is the most perfect, the
most elaborately furnished and
THE MOST CONVENIENT HOTEL
in all this broad land over which Uncle Sam
holds sway. What human ingenuity could
suggest and money supply has been pro-
vided. and that with the most lavish hand,
and the result has been that the Montana
is not only the grandest hotel in that grand
domain whose name it bears, but also one
Of the very best in the constellation oi
states and territories. Not only should
every resident OF Anaconda feel proud oi
the magnificent pile, but every Montanian
should take pride in it and sound it's praises
wherever he may be, for it is worthy Of it
and that in the highest degree.
The Montana is located on the corner ol
Main and Second streets, is 12O feet
square, four stories and a basement high.
Above the first story is an open court,
facing Main street, So feet wide and 80 feet
long giving an outside exposure to every
room. OF which there are 135, in the i'm.
mense building. The interiors Of the first
and second stories are finished in red oak
and the remaining stories in Eastern pine
polished and oiled. On the ground floor
are the rotunda, 32x44, main dining room
36x66, with ladies ordinary 35x22, ad
Joining. The main entrance is on Main
street and is thirty-four feet wide. Ladies
entrance is on Second street and adjoining
it on the right is the ladies' reception room
1Ax22 feet, fitted up with toilet and retir
ing rooms. The kitchen, pastry room
coat room, wash room, closets bar and Office
are also located on this floor. A ladies
gallery surrounds the rotunds and an
open arched passage way leads from the
ladies' reception to the dining room. AL
the floors on this story are
INLAID WITH ENcAUsTIC THING.
On the second floor 10 the main parlor
25x42, and adjoining it are two smaller
parlors, one 1Sx1S, and the other, 14v1S
Sliding doors connect the three and they
can oe thrown into one large room when
ever occasion demands it. A club room
14x1S, adjoins the small parlors. The re
mainder OF the floor is taken up by bet
rooms, thirty.three in number, OF which tn
average size is 14x14 feet. The third ant
fourth stories are devoted to sleeping
apartments, each of the same average di
meusions as the rooms on the floor under
meath.
All the rooms in the house are ensuit
and each suite is supplied with q crate
Tennessee marble mantle, bath and toile
rooms.
The furniture throughout the entire hous
ia oak and cherry, alternating in each room
and is the most costly and beautiful in tn
territory. Moquette and brussels carpet
of the most exquisite designs and choices
quality, cover the floors Of the parlorf
club and guest rooms, and hardly any pat
terms are duplicated. A steinway Gran
and several
COSTLY AND BEAUTIFUL ETcHINGs
BY some OF the most famous artists, ador
the main parlor. Silk plush-covered TO
tellss, tetetetes, sofas, arm-chsirs an
lounges are provided for the parlors an
sleeping rooms, and hold out an almost il
resistable temptation to the beholder t
drop into them and experience the delight
full comfort which they are capable OF b.
slowing.
| The entire house is illuminated by ele'
tricity, and arrangements have also bee
made for the introduction OF gas, should
ever be desired. Each room Is connected b
electricity with the Office, and in addition
thermostat is placed in every room whic
sounds an alarm in the Office should tt
temperature ever reach 80 degrees.
A two-inch water plug with full cempl
ment OF hose is located on every floor, an
six fire escapes, in addition to the roI
escapes, placed in every guest chamber, a
ford ample means Of escape should iii
break out in the building. The building
heated by steam and CRATES. A stea
laundry in the basement will keep all Il
house and guests linen clean. The laundr
like everything else in the hotel, is OF Il
best and most approved design. An'h
draulic elevator and four stairways CO
meet the upper with the lower stories.
i Plans for the building were prepared
w. W. Boyington, Of Chicago, and But
architect, D. F. McDevitt, was the supt
intending architect. Professor John Nor
superintended construction OF electric
:. apparatus, and did itwell. Charles Scha'
lein. of Butte, was the artist who did t
decorating and painting, and showed hi
, self to be a master Of the brush.
IL THE COST OF THE BUILDING
is $500, 900, and the furniture, silv
ware, etc., sec, 900 more.
De L. Harbaugh, an old eastern hot
. man. is the general manager; @. j. sha
, late of the Palmer house, Chicago, is d
} clerk, and G. NJ. Switzer, of Minneapol
!. night clerk. 3. J. Kelly, 'Roxie," is ch
Frank Osborne, assistant; e. B. Blan