Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-30
PAPA SCHURTz's PALACE.
The Popular Resort at the Corner of
Spring and First Streets.

Spring and First Streets.
In the basement of the new Wilson
block, at the southeast corner of First
and Spring streets, is one of the most
elegantly fitted up family and pleasure
resorts to be found on this continent, If
not in the whole world. There is moth
ing to compare with it in San Francisco
and nothing that excels it for beauty
and grandeur in New York City. 1t is
the wonder Of all who visit in, and is in
deed a credit to Los Ange' s and monu-
ment to the memory of "fapa" Schurtz,
as he is familiarly called, who designed
it, superintended its construction, and is
now its happy possessor. He expended
nearly $50, 900 in it's structure. And it
is as orderly and we'll kept in it's man
agement as it is elegant in design.
Though nearly go years of age now,
Papa" Schurtz personally superin-
tends it's management, giving orders
and directing the manner in which
everything shall be executed in the
minutest detail, during fourteen to
eighteen hours every day. A HERALD
reporter was shown through the various
departments of the Palace this morning
by Papa" Schurtz himself. An air of
scrupulous cleanliness and perfect sys-
tenn pervades every department from
the Office and private rooms for guests
to the kitchen, including the bar and
dining room. Not fly was to be seen
in the entire institution.
The numerous private rooms, with
seating capacity of from half dozen to
twenty-four guests each, are simply
marvelsa of beauty and elegance-nice
enough in their furnishings and ap-
pointments to do honor to a king or
any other potentate. Here family or
private party can resort and spend a
quiet hour unmolested by the guests,
enjoying anything they may desire to
eat or drink. And right in this connec-
tion it may be said in justice to Papa"
Schurtz that he ia scrupulously exact in
eliminating any and all boisterous or
loud people Of either sex from not only
these 'private family apartments" but
from the Palace altogether. So strict is
he in this regard that he will not allow
any employe to drink with customer,
even in a "treat"-neither does he him
self--nor does he permit any attache of
the Palace to make himself in any way
familiar with the guests, on penalty, for
the slightest deviation from these rules,
of a discharge from his employ. A
number of otherwise valued employees
have been dismissed from his service
for failure to conform strictly to the
above rules. 1t is due largely to this
fact that the Palace has become so pop
ular in the minds of the leading-both
financial and moral-citizens Of the city,
many of whom resort daily to the Pal
ace for their lunch, which in it's cuisine,
is equal to any hotel or restaurant to be
found anywhere. "Papa" Schurtz told
the scribe that he loses every day large
amount of custom of certain class of
people, just because they can't go
there and conduct themselves as they
are allowed to in other places of some.
what similar character, but that he pre-
fers to conduct the Palace in manner
which will do an honor to any guest,
and thus cater to the best class OF citi-
zens, who are manifesting a hearty ap-
probation OF his efforts by their liberal
patronage.
The free concerts which take place in
the above place from to IL every even
ing are executed by number of the
very best artists, and it may be said in
this connection that these concerts are
greatly admired by thousands who visit
the Palace.
Mr.. Fentzter, with his violin; Mr..
Meyer, with his cello; Mr.. Stanzoni,
with his flute, and our popular and well
known Douglass, with his cornet, are
artists which cannot be equaled in the
world.