Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03
BEAUTIEs oE LINCOLN HoTEL
improvements MADE This summer
Place it at the Front of
Nebraska HOsteIries.

Three months Of labor-and the artists
and workmen employed in their various
vocations have transformed the Lincoln
hotel. Inside and out the brush of the
painter has worked to the end Of beau
tiful rejuvenation. Artisans OF the humber
crafts at the same time have done their
part. The result is found In the enhanced
convenience and pleased artistic taste OF
ell visitors. The verdict Of all is that
the Lincoln hotel is not only the best ap-
pearing and best appointed hotel in Lin
coin, but one of the very best in the entire
west.
The work Of the decorators. Fuchs &
Fuchs of Omaha, has attracted the great
est comment and praise. Perhaps the most
beautiful example Of their skill in the ho-
tel, in the smallest space, is the work
done in the ladies' parlor on the second
floor. AS in all the redecoration on the
first and second floors, this parlor was first
given lining OF canvas The ground
color is a light terra Gotta, the woodwork
being given an ivory enamel. Pendant from
the painted border are festooned roses
large, lush and almost fragrant. A vast
wreath OF roses forms an immense oval
in the ceiling, through which float lightly
the clouds Of a delicately tinted sky ef-
feet
The most spectacular display Of hand
frescoing is to be seen, OF course, in the
rotunda of the hotel. Brilliantly alight at
night the sight is notably impressive. Nor
does 1t lose its beauty by day. The sun
light bearing on the colors and designs of
the skylght, through a creamy ground
tint, gives a semi cathedral effect TO the
interior.
The ordinary, on the second floor, is next
fO he daCOro % ba will not no
undertaken until after the fair.
The writing room, public parlor and ho-
tel office are decorated in rich panel ef-
feots, all of hand frescoing. The ladies'
reception room is decorated in brown
color scheme OF particular beauty In the
entry is suspended by a chain a massive
art lantern.
The parlor floors and corridor have been
recsrpeted. This work has just been COM
pleted, the parlor corridor being distin-
guished by a soft, dark green carpet that
yields like feathers to the step. In this
corridor, in the parlors and in the rotunda
new furniture will be placed.
The guest Of the hotel upon mounting to
the first stair landing on the way to the
dining room will be confronted by a huge
mirror that has Just been installed To
the left of the dining room door there
on the first landing will swing an art glass
globe chandelier of great beauty. On the
newell posts of the stairway will be
mounted two imported bronze figures, from
the outstretched arms of which will CLEAN
electric lights. Throughout the rotunda
and parlor corridors the Hollophane globes
will prevail Double mirrors take the place
of the old panels round the clerks desk.
These are the decorations in general.
Many rooms have been repapered and re-
carpeted. Most of these have been fur
nished with new iron beds or new box
spring and hair top mattresses. All of
those previously furnished with but a sin
gle drop cord light now glow in the light
of a chandelier with three or four incan-
descent globes. A wall press button con-
trolls the current. Every room in the house
has long distance telephone Fifty rooms
will be refurnished and decorated after
the close OF the state fair. They will get
new carpets, new beds and most of them
new wall paper.
Thirty-two new baths has been installed
This makes eighty all told-a number re-
garded sufficient to satisfy the most urgent
wants Of a transient public. The house
has been rewlred from top to bottom, to
conform to the requirements of the fire
underwriters, thus giving the best possible
assurance of safety.
More than $4,000 will have been spent
in the improvement and decoration OF the
hotel by the time the work is completed.
Everything in way of renovation and i'm
provement necessary to make the hotel
one OF the tip-top places in the west will
have been done. Already It is one OF the
most admired public buildings in tho stata