The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-07-02
Its Magnificent Suite of Rooms
i'm the Missouri Trust Com
pany's Building.
1t Already Numbers l4l Mem
berS and Will Receive
Its Lady Friends To
morrow Evening.

A BAZoo reporter was permitted TO look
throughthe magnificent suite of roomswhich
the Commercial Club, an organization
composed entirely of prominent bushes:
men of the city, has fitted up for the use OF
Club members.
The rooms are on the second floor of the
Missouri Trust Company's elegant new
building on the corner of Fourth and Ohio
and all that care, excellent taste and money
can do to make them attractive have been
freely utilized.
The suite numbers four rooms, smok-
ing or reading room and three large recep-
ton rooms.
All of these are pspered in two-toned
brown dado of Lin Crusta Walton, with
side walls of heavy gilt The frieze, extern
sion and ceilings are also finished with
heavy gilt, softened with white, and the ef-
feet is rich as we'll as beautiful. The floors
of the three reception rooms are covered
with the richest noquet in two shades OF
wine brown and the floor of the reading
room is covered with Brussels in oak
relief, The finish of the rooms
throughout is In hard wood and the
Madras drapings for the pier glass and
doors are arranged after an entirely new
French design.
The windows of the reception rooms are
richly draped with lace and the furnish
ings are tastefuliy arranged so that the
softened light from the Windows briBg out
their finish In a most pleasing manner.
Among these may be mentioned the lol-
towing: Twelve polished wood seat chairs;
six arm antique oak, wood seats chair;
six cherry wood, leather upholstered chairs;
three antique, oakleather upholstered chairs;
one secretary desk chair; one mahogany
plush divan, with rich fringes; one plush
rocker; one sage green plush corner
divap; two cherry rockers; one
leather upholstered chair for the use OF the
president; one scarlet cut plush lounge (;
one large oak reception chair one dozen
folding chairs one leather covered lounge
for the reading room one elegant antique
oak table covered with leather for
the reading room !; one hall tree
in antique oak; one magic table" In
antique oak one elegant large pier glass
and q large centre table of real mahogany,
with oxydized silver feet and mountings.
In addition to the above fine piano will
be added some time tomorrow and then a
number of handsome ornaments, quaint de-
signs in cuspidors, brackets, etc.
The selection of the furnishings is due
TO the taste of an executive committee
composed of the following gentlemen {:
President, B. w. Zimmerman, Messrs.
Henry Lamm, DR.. Wood, Henry Meuschke
and G. ID. Minter.
The elegant table in the reading room
was made at the mandatory of Heck &
Dickman in this city and nearly all the
cd Of no
known furniture emporium of Mclaughlin
Bros, the entire cost being in the neigh
borhood of $1,000.
The club has secured choice collection
of literature for the reading room as fol-
lows;
illustrated and humorous papers: Puck,
Judge, London News, Harper's Weekly,
Frank Leslie's Weekly, London Punch.
The magazines are the Har-
per's, Century, Lippincott, North American
Review, Atlantic, Kansas Magazine and
Current Literature
Among the weekly newspapers are:
Wilkes Spirit of the Times, Forest and
Stream, Scientific American, New Orleans
Picayune, Charleston Courier, Atlantic
Constitution, Memphis Appeal, Detroit
Free Press, New York; Evening Post, Phil
adelphia Press, New York Independent,
Louisville Courier Journal, Washington
Post, Baltimore American, Galveston News,
San Francisco Chronicle, Washington, d.
c., Public Opinion, New York Herald,
New York Tribune, Boston Journsl.
The dailies will be represented by the
st. Louis Globe-Democrat, Republic and
Post-Dispatch, Kansas City Journal,
Cincinnati Enquirer, Chicago Tribune and
the several Sedalia publications.
The hall leading to the club rooms is
not yet furnished. but will be ia a few
days, the walls being hung with Lin Crusta
and the floors covered with linoleum.
There are now 141 members in the club,
with the prospect of several additional
members in the near future. No less than
thirty-fve names were enrolled in the past
few days.
Tomorrow evening the club will open
its doors and entertain the wives and other
relatives and friends of the club, members,
also the clergy and press, and as
refreshments will be served and music
and pleasant features added, it may be
confidently predicted that the occasion
will be gala one in every particular.
The BAZoo takes pleasure in congratu-
lating the club on Its handsome new quar-
tiers and trusts that its future will be pro-
ductive of rich results.