The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-27
In THE CHILLY ROOM
A Description Of the Montana Hotel
Storage House.
COLDER THAN GREENLAND
1t Is a Triumph In Convenience,
Beauty and Neatness-An Inn
portant Adjunct to a First
Class Institution.

An Idea that is common to many per-
sons Is that a man who is incapable of
conducting all other lines of business
successfully can, when all else fails,
keep hotel. Few understand the
numberless details which have to be
considered in conducting an enterprise
and they never will until they have
like many, tried 1t and failed or more
happly have been shown the inside
workings of an institution like the
Montana, where may be seen the diff
culties faced and overcome.
"A tour through just the commissary
department is a revelation. Manager
Reynolds spares no expense in supply
ing his tables, as the menu cards at
test and his guests bear witness, while
the travelling public extends an APP
preciative patronage giving the name
OF peing the best card that is set before
them In the Northwest, and how such
dainties can be provided In Montana,
so far from the sea and winter market
s gardens. Is the marvel of strangers.
Thls has been true in the past and
VIII be to an even greater extent in the
future. Manager Reynolds has just
completed an Improvement in which he
justly takes pride.
1t is a cold storage building, built
upon the most modern plans. 1t has a
capacity OF 200 tons of ice and there
are compartments in which butter
eggs and meat can be kept at an even
temperature for a year or more If de-
sired.
The building is two stories in height
and stands close to the kitchen door in
the rear of the hotel. In dimensions 1t
Is 30x35 feet on the ground floor. The
walls are IL and is inches in thickness,
or solid brick. On entering the build
Ing there Is a large hallway, which
may be called receiving room. This
Us provided with weights and measures
on which all goods received may be
checked up before going to the cold
storage vaults in the rear. There is a
second receiving room in the rear of
the hrst apartment and out of that
opens the doors into the cold storage
proper. The entire building is lighted
py electricity. AS the heavy doors are
swung open the visitor is invited to
step inside quickly and they are closed
promptly behind him.
In the eggroom carload of them
can be stored and a thermometer on
the wall shows a temperature that is
steady at the freezing point. The walls
are perfectly dry, so dry that match
can be lighted upon them by friction.
The butter room is of equal size but
the air in that is moistened by evapo-
ration from drain pipes. as moisture
good condition.
The apartment for meat and game
Is triumph and a wonder to the meat
market men who award the medal for
refrigerators to Manager Reynolds.
Nowhere but in the markets can a
similar array OF meats be found and
even these are excelled by the Mon
tana which carries game the year
round that they handle only in season.
EVERY buyer of meat knows or should |
know that a roast or cut of any meat |
10 only prime after 1t has hung for !
weeks In preserving temperature, |
that dyes the skin like parchment and |
seasons meat tissues. In this room |
there will hang a perpetual supply of |
poultry. chickens. turkeys, ducks. teal |
and canvasback. geese and wood fowl, |
such as grouse and pheasant; beef |
steaks and roasts, milk veal, spring |
lamb and mutton, pork in all cuts and |
styles. and all kinds of game.
In the basement there is a cellar and
nsh store room, and the browning
triumph of IT all. freezing room. In
the latter the thermometer can be seen
through peep window registering 10
degrees below freezing The cold
comes from three zinc cylinders in
which Is packed a freezing mixture
composed of salt and ice. Around the
walls of this cell which is large enough
W PERMIT men 10 walk around in. |
arranged shelves from floor to ceiling.
The use OF the room is sweeping-water
is frozen in bottles for table use. thus
great saving of ice, and
in serving water to the
guests. Anything that 1t is desired TO
freeze can be treated successfully in
this room during the hottest days of
summer.
An adjunct of this building is found
IN the basement of the hotel where is
kept the groceries and canned goods.
The merchandise is stored in a system
attic way and kept with neatness. such
as the average grocery knows but little
about. at least in practice The stock
Is greater than that kept in many
stores and the consumption by the
hotel patrons reaches a figure at whole
sale prices is close upon 49, per
This brief sketch may give to the
average man a new light upon one fea-
ture of the enterprise which he sees
every day but seldom realizes its mag
nitude.