The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1902-03-25

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ferred and it was not wholly finished
till short time ago.
The upper floor is divided by main
hall eight feet wide, passing through the
center of the building with front and
rear stairway for entrance. On the east
side of this hall the Commercial club
occupies rooms and has them fitted up
in style that makes them the finest in
the whole northwest. Entrance is
gained to these rooms by large double
doors swinging into a spacious ante
room, used also for hat and cloak room.
In the front there is a billiard hall 35x50
feet and just back of this is the card
room 25x35 feet which is entered from
the ante room and from all the other
rooms. This department is elegantly
as banquet chamber. The grand
reception room is magnificent. 1t is
35x45 feet. 1t is elegantly furnished
with rich brocade carpet and costly oak
furniture. In this room the general
sessions of the club are held. Adjoining
( this to the north is the library in which
the committees and governing board
holds sessions, and off from this is the
ladies dressing room. In the northeast
corner of the building is the grand ball
room 35x50 feet. This room is reached
/ through massive folding doors that are
the largest in the northwest. They are
each 10Xl2 feet and are so hung that a
child can slide them
! On the west side of the main hall way
/ there are suits of rooms for offices or
living rooms. There are seven of these
| in one apartment and nine in another.
The whole upper floor is furnished with
the latest modern improvements. There
is water in every room and closets are
handy. Wood boxes on rollers in the
Railways are provided for the occupants
and any one living there does not have
to go outdoors for anything except for
provisions.
/ The four store rooms are occupied by
four progressive merchants and they
! have every convenience at minimum
rental that anybody would wish for.
The Yakima Furniture company occu-
! pies the corner room on Third street and
the avenue. This firm keeps big line
of house furnishing goods and do prac-
/ teal undertaking. The store is divided
into three departments, furniture, up
/ holstering and undertaking. The line
OF goods kept by this firm consists of the
latest style furniture, carpets, wall paper
and other goods. The repair shop and
upholstering is in the central part of the
first floor with a side entrance on Third
street. Fred Shaw is the upholsterer
and repairer. To the rear is the under
taking department and morgue, where
nothing is kept but material used in
looking after the dead. The firm has a
good and growing trade.
Briggs & Dam, the music dealers, oc-
cupy the adjoining room, which is %
feet wide and 100 feet long. The main
store room for the display of their goods
is 25xS0 feet and just to the rear is a re-
ception room and parlor for private use,
and adjoining this the Office sxl2 feet.
Light in this department is received
from skylights and is ample for any
kind of day. To the rear this firm has
a repair shop where bicycles and all
kinds Of musical instruments are mend
ed by expert mechanics. Briggs & Dam
are well-known business men here and
have one of the finest and most SNOWY
store rooms in the state of Washington.