The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-17
THE MANIT0U.
An Apartment House Complete
in Every Detail.
a Modern Building that Is Handsome, Conve
nienily Arranged and Most Elegantly
Furnished-Re6l Estate Transfers.

On Third South adjoining the Knutsford
on the east, is one of the new modern build
ings Of the city which mas just been COM
pieted and is now being furnished. TRAY
elers and residents who seek board and
rooms will here find complete comfort and
every luxury that delights the soul even 10
the filing Of the stomach with choice food
ueliciousiy served. Here is complete
apartment house, complete in all its fur
nishings and equipments, and connected
with il dining hail unsurpassed in the
west. Messrs. lngersoll, Thompson &
Moody have spared no means to make this
unqualihedly the finest apartment house
between Chicago and the coast.
The Manitou, for that is the name of the
new structure, is a four-story, red brick
building. The main building is 75x90 feet
aud faces Third South street. IL contains
eighty-one rooms divided into twenty six
suites with every room so arranged that
sunshine and pure air can enter through
the windows. There is no room without
an outsice window.
There are thirty bathrooms in the build
ing, one public bathroom on each floor and
one for each suite
The wood work throughout is finished ia
hard Oil and not drop Of paint is used.
The Railways are wide aud roomy and the
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The rooms are lighted with both electric
light and gas and heated throughout with
steam. Electric bells are IN every room
and line passenger elevator saves stair
climJing. The furnishings of the main
building arc elegant and unique. Three
Thousand i've hundred yards Of carpet
were needed 10 carpet the main building
This carpet was made specially by the
Sloan Carpet company, and is the finest
carpet IN any public building IN the city.
The rooms, corridors. halls and stairways
are all covered with this beautiful hued
softly gliding carpet that gives back no
echo.ng football The curtains and hang
ings should be seen To be appreciated. The
furniture Of the rooms is OF highly polished
oak and was manufactured expressly for
the building. No hotel In this city can
boast such furnishings as the Manitou.
Mrs. Emma Wormuth has leased the
main building and will have entire charge.
Her long experience is guarantee Of the
best Of everything.
THE REAR BUILDING
Is detached from the main building by
l5-fool alley and is connected with il BY a
conservatory which spans the alleys and
leads from the hail on the second floor Of
the main building to the vestibule and or
binary just of the beautiful dining room.
The dining room is 2Sx52 feet with q
10 foot ceiling, and there are nine windows
or the east and two each on the north and
south. The ventilation is perfect being
by a new system which draws the air
through apertures in the ceiling by means
Of electric fans on the roof
The dining room is finished in Quarterad
oak, heavy oak wainscotting and polished
oak floors. There are two large fire places
Dne on each end. At night thirty eight
electric lights and ten large gas Jets will
illuminate the room. 1t viii scat one nun
dred people comfortably and is tbs dining
room OF the city.
The steam room is just OF the dining
room. Here all the food is brought frsm
The kitchen and from here the walters
serve IT,
''Harilands" is stamped oD every piece
Of china used and the service is very
dainty and beautiful. The glassware
linen and cutlery would delight the heart
Of the most fastidious housekeeper Tho |
rear building has been leased BY the well |
known caterer Mrs. Nesbitt, who is un-
Bqualled In getting up fine dinners OF /
every description. She has everything
arranged TO the queens taste and her din