The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-14
WILL OPEN ITS CAFE
TABLE D,HOTE DINNER AT NEW Ex-
 CHANGE THIS EVENING.
Ladies Palm Dining Room Ready for Public pud There Will De Csn- cert Tonight-Hotel Now
 Complete.

Tho Ladies Palm Dining Room of the New Exchange Hotel will be formally opened this evening when table dhote dinner will be served there from 6:30 O clock to 9:s0 o'clock. and Hoffman's orchestra will give concert of select ed music
 With the opening of the dining room all of the obstacles which stood in the way of Manager J. E. Hickey of the handsome new hotel will have been overcome. It will be recalled that about the time the hotel was ready for business a fire in the kitchen anbex completely destroyed the ranges. the boilers and other valuable property Tn
 that part of the building. thereby de- laying the opening of tine dining room.
 Owing to the fire and some delay on the part of the contractors the hotel began business before all of the details were completed. Its success and its, enthusiastic patronage by the travelling public has exceeded the expectations of its warmest friends which Include all of the people of Montgomery. Just as soon as the fire insurance on The kitchen annex was adjusted Mana ror Hickey placed an order for du- plicatfon of the kitchen apparatus which has been pronounced to be the most modern, the most effective and tue most complete in this part of the coun- I tTV. All or Ire kitGHSn in ow in place, the large corps of kitch- en and dining room employees has been organized and after the formal open l ing tonight the New Exchange will be equipped to serve its patrons with as ! full service as any of the great hotels | of the country.
 The Ladies' Palm Dining Room is on | the second floor of the hotel and just l off the beautiful Palm Garden. The 1 fa ,x,ifl mo ha fnappA nnfil | a few weeks have passed but the palm dining room will be opened from early
 morning until midnight each day on the | la carte plan.
 The kitchen of the New Exchange Is l in charge of a famous chef. His as- l sistants were brought to Montgomery by Manager Hickey from Atlanta ho- | tels and other hotels of the country. Tickets for the table d'hote dinner | this evening will be sold at S1 each. | They may be secured from the cashier | in the hotel office. Manager Hickey | said yesterday that It was possible an | arrangement would he made whereby table d'hote dinners would be sold on
 certain evenings of each week, H- though this plan has not been deter mined Epon.
 With tho opening of the handsome | tilliard hall and barber shop In the | basement of the hotel and the an- nouncement that the Palm Dining Room | is ready for business. everything about
 the New Exchange is comllete. The
 barber shop and the billiard hall are in
 charge of experts in their respective Hines and every one who has patronized
 them have spoken in the highest praise
 of the service.
 | Speaking yesterday of the patronage | which had been accorded the hotel Man
 ager Hickey expressed himself as more
 than gratified.
 We arc daily entertaining high class
 travelling salesmen and tourists" he | said, who never came to Montgomery
 before. They express the keenest ap- preciation of the new hotel and its ser
 vice and they leave Montgomery with
 good impressions of the city"
 An examination of the registers of the New Exchange shows that an av- | craze of 100 persons record their names
 there each day and that many of them
 stay at the hotel from two days to two weeks. adv.