The San Francisco call., 1896-09-09
TO Be "MINE HOST AGAIN
Norman, Long Known TO Bohe-
mians, Will Greet the
Public To-Day.
An Attractive and Airy Cafe Under
the Baldwin, With Famous
Brands of Beer.

With the anniversary of the admission
of the State, the new cafe under the Bald
win Hotel will be thrown open this after
noon and evening to the public for gene
raj inspection, and tomorrow it will begin
business.
Otto Norman. who for so many years
conducted on Bush street what was fami-
iarly styled "the home of Bohemians," :"
and who has been in the catering business
in San Francisco for the last seventeen
years, is behind the enterprise in a part
nership to be known as Norman g.
Iverson.
1t is pretty place, this new resort, and
something of a revelation in the con-
venlence of its appointments.
There is sweeping double stairway of
white marble leading down from the cor
ner of Market and Powell streets, to the
main entrance, which is fanked by the
fresh dark green of choice tropical foliage
and small decorative palms boldly set off
by the panels of beautifully colored costly
marble behind them. Then on Powell
street, Immediately opposite the Columb bia
Theater, there Is a similar entrance for
ladies, with a screened interior passage
way leading to the private rooms, which
are arranged along the entire length of
the Market-street side, Immediately below
the sidewalk
These rooms are private without the
objection of being so, for they have no
doors but all open their whole width to
the pretty hallway from which they are
separated only by loosely draped soft
toned portieres that blend with the pre-
vailing tints of the walls and the mosaic
floors. Lighted from above by translucent
glass and from within by the brilliant
glow OF several lncandescent electric
globes, each of these rooms is in itself
dainty retreat, apparently enlarged by
mirrors arranged for that effect along the
three walls.
On the other side OF this hallway. and
separated by wall with openings here
and there for pots of delicate palms, is
the great dining-room, larger, with only
one exception, than that of any other cafe
on the coast. 1t too is finished in the
same way as the smaller rooms, mirrors
and electric lights not excepted. But the
most novel and at the same time the most
unnoticeable innovation is the ventilating
apparatus, by which the air of the whole
place can be changed completely eyerv
fifteen minutes, to avoid entirely the dis
agreeable effects OF accumulated smoke
and heated air.
1t was Norman who years ago first intro
duced Eastern beer into this City. For
the new place he has secured the exclusive
agency for another Eastern beer the Iro-
quois, made in Buffalo, and now having
the biggest call of any beer in New York
City. Another drink entirely new to this
City will be that OF the celebrated Citizens
Brew House of Pilsen, Austria, the beer so
long initiated by American manufacturers
and that by which the town of PIlsen be-
came known to the world. In addition to
having the agency for this celebrated
european beverage the new cafe will carry
all the leading brands of Bavaria beer. 4
speciality will alsa be made of the cold
lunch counter that was such an attractive
feature IN Norman's old place, for here it
is to be duplicated and improved upon.