The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-01-21
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Of the grill room are served in the
wee small hours, and beyond this is
The machine that keeps all these
looms in running order, the kitchen.
This kitchen is marveli in its way.
It is two hundred and thirty-one feet
long aud one hundred and fifty feet
vide. Rudolf, the French chef, has
q small army under his control-cooks
for broiling, cooks for entree-making,
soup-cooks, fish-cooks and even abuck-
wheat-cake cook-full two hundred
strong with their assistants, and not
q woman among them.
Rudolf is an admirer of the fair
sex anywhere and everywhere ex-
cepting in the kitchen. Hesays that
there must be the strictest discipline
f6ere and of course a woman cannot
eSpected not 70 have her own way.
This hotel in a way reflects the
cosmopolitan spirit of New York
it gathers within itself every nation
and every cline.
The St. Regisis the most luxurious
hotel in this country, yet this is not
the impression that one has on first
entering it. The building, which is
of the sky-scraper order, is eighteen
stories high, and is situated at the
southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and
55th Street. This is in the heart
of the millionaire district of NewYork.
There is no room on the first floor for
a wide parade corridor, like the one
which has made the Waldorf famous
to its out-of.town guests. On this
floor, however, there are three dining
rooms, opening one into the other,
which even to the art connoisseur are
a study and delight.
The main dining-room has its en-
tire ceiling Of shimmering gold
bronze work of art in itself the
color tone of the room is deep red !;
the chairs are richly upholstered in
silken brocade to match, while in the
center of each round table is a cut
glass bowl filled with American
Beauties. the sort that sell at one dol
lar and fifty cents apiece. The china
is Ropal, Worcester, Minton, Sevres
and Dresden, and there are ten differ
ent services used in the three dining
rooms, so it is not hard to imagine
the amount of money it costs just for
the china at the St. Regis.
The tea room, as il is called, connects
the state dining with another
dining-room known as the oak room,
where the woodwork, the fireplace,
tables and chairs are all magni6cently
carved Flemish oak.
But the tea room, that surely is the
most delightful spot imaginable in
which to eat simple little ten-dollar
luncheon. The ceiling is stained glass
divided into three sections, while the
upper part of the walls are frescoed
and framed in white mahogany. From
the arches of the ceiling hang huge
baskets filled with Boston fern aud
trailing ivies. AT the sides of the
walls, here and there, are bronze Gu
pids holding Towering branches hav-
ing as the center of each flower an
electric-light bulb.
A suite of FIVE rooms is the feature
of the second floor at the St. Regis.
The ballroom is in white and gold,
and contains one of the sixty-seven
pianos which are used in the hotel,
this particular piano being gold lac
quered and hand painted. The other
rooms are library, writing-room
and two reception-rooms.
But for regal elegance these rooms
are as nothing compared with the
royal suite-the state apartment-the
six rooms which the man who would
live like king may occupy if he hap
pens to have one hundred and twenty
FIVE dollars a day to spare after he has
satisfied his appetite. There is no
gorgeous display in these rooms; in
stead, there is an air of quiet elegance
about them, while every appointment
is an art treasure in itself.
It is in the bedroom of this suite
there is the ten-thousand- dollar bed,
which the proprietor of the St. Regis
bought from Jansen, the great Pari-
sian dealer in antiquities. This bed
is made of beautifully matched tulip
wood of shaded brown color. The
headboard shows an inlaid design of
tulips in different shades of wood,
while the decorations of the bed are
in gold bronze. Above the headboard
is silken drapery, and-just think
of it THE bedspread is a rare old
piece of genuine gobelin tapestry. To
those who find comfort in the old
saving, Uneasy lies the head that
wears crown" it may be said that
the first multmilliohaire to occupy
this regal couch found his legs too
long for solid comfort. Off from this
bedroom is a marble-walled ba t b
which is entirely in white and silver.
In the Du Barry rose reception
room of this suite there is the mag
ni6cent ten-thousand dollar piano
which won the first prize at the St.
Louis Worlds Fair. There is no
other piano in the United States equal
to it excepting the famous one in the
White House at Washington.
The private dining room of the
royal suite is walled in beautifully
carved Flemish oak. A magnificent
Persian rug covers the polished wood
floor. The table is round and also of
carved Flemish oak, while the chairs to
match are upholstered in tapestry.
Upon the table is a bowl which is a
treasure in itself. 1t is of japanese
cloisonne, each one of its many panels
differing from the other. The buffet
in this room is filed with rare china,
and there are candelabra and side
lights for candles in solid silver.
Before the air is allowed to per-
meate the rooms of the St. Regis it is
filtered, a barrelful of dust being
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