The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-04

tables are heavy antique oak, the chairs to
match, have high backs and are most com
| Portable. A large mahogany side board and
mirror extending almost to ceiling stands
at one end of the room. There has been
no stinting in plate and cutlery, for they
are all of the finest. The seating capacity
of the room is from 100 to 125 persons. The
kitchen is an apartment to which atten-
ton is especially directed, for it IS the in
tention of the management to set table
| that can not be eclipsed in the state. The
range, the steam table, the ovens and the
kitchen utensils are new, having been put
into position by parties from st. Louis.
a French chef and able assistant cooks are
in charge Of the culinary department, and
| the excellence of the cuisine may be at all
times depended upon. The dining room
service is likewise very complete, a compe
tent headwaiter and able assistants being
in charge.
The parlor is on the second floor, being
I in reality three parlors extending the en-
tire length of the front. In the
furnishings of these no pains has
been spared. The carpets are the finest
that can be purchased; the furniture and
curtains are elegant, while the arrange
ment of the whole is most exquisite and is
due to the artistic taste of Mrs Stewart
Upon the wall of the main parlor is hung
an interesting series of pictures, including
a large view in water color of Venice,
secured by Colonel and Mrs Stewart dur
ing their European sojourn. 1t may not
be amiss to observe here that the whole
idea of the furnishing is to avoid that
oh aF.oo CT IF a,-o1
and to make the place homelike and at
tractive in every particular. Another i'm.
portant feature to be borne in mind is
that the hotel was almost entirely fur
nished in Wichita, while the Kansas
Furniture company furnished all the
elegant bedrooms and largely all the other
furnishings of the hotel.
The Railways and stairs are all covered
their whole beadth with Brussels carpet.
Here and there in the halls is an inviting
settee or sofa.
The furnishings of the guest rooms are
worthy of more than a passing notice
There are, as before stated, over seventy of
these in the hotel. All are of good size,
well lighted and heated with steam. The
carpets are all Brussels, the furniture
either cherry, mahogany or antique oak,
there being no cheap job lot pattern in the
hotel. The same bright character Of fur
nishings prevails in everything else placed
in the rooms.
The location of the hotel is most favora-
BILE, on South Main street, the second
street south of Douglas avenue; in other
words less than two blocks from the bust
mess center of the city.
The hotel is under the management of
Casebeer & Co., and 'Mine Host" is too
well known to the citizens and travelling
public to require any introduction.
The MetrOpole is one of the most unique
structures in the west. In introducing
the multitudInous improvements and in
novatiOns that have been learned from
travel and experience the colonel has never
lost sight of the main object, viz: comfort.
and every part of the building is we'll cal
culated to minister to that essential of
happiness. Every suit of rooms has its
lavatory and bath separate to itself. The
kitchen and laundry are detached from
the main building and are complete in
themselves. Space will not permit
description of the kitchen, which is prob
ably the best equipped kitchen in the
west. No expense has been spared and no
modern improvement neglected, while the
best obtainable help completes everything
that goes to make q strickIy frst-class |
hotel.