The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-08
THE HOTEL JEFFERSON
 ID OPEN SOON
One of HandSomest Hostel
 ries In City
OLD EAGLE BUILDING
Will Be Completed Before January i. Elegantly Furnished and Equipped. The Appointments Second To
 None In Birmingham.

The Hotel Jefferson, Birmingham's latest first-class hostelry will be ready to en- certain guests in a short while, certainly before January 1.
 The opening of the Hotel Jefferson means the passing of the old Eagle hotel at the corner of Second avenue and TWenty-fourth street, one of the citys landmarks and one of it's first hotels. Practically all that is left of the old Eagle hotel are the bare walls of the structure
 Mi. J. B. Kennedy, president of the Kennedy Slave and Cooperage company, is the proprietor of the new Hotel Jeff ferson and is sure to make a marked success of the new enterprise. MT. Ken nedy is widely known in the community and his energy and push assure the Hotel Jefferson place at once among the first-class hostelries of the city.
 The interior of the structure has been practically rebuilt. The improvements begin at the ground. A new steam heat ing plant has been installed. New an1 elegant lavatories and toilets have been built of the latest model. The floors are laid with handsome Mosaic tiles, the walls wainscoted with solid marble and the ceiling finished in steel. The office is elegantly done in marble with tile floors, counters of marble and steel ceiling. The office has been arranged to face on Twenty-fourth street, instead of Second avenue This arrangement makes the hotel more accessible to Third avenue.
 The dining room is to the rear of the office and that, too, is beautifully fitted up with tile floor, steel ceiling and att tractive mural decorations. The New Jef- ferson dining hall is among the hand Somest in the city. The kitchen adjoinS the dining room and with its massive brick walls and cement floors Is abso- lutely fireproof. The kitchen is perfectly equipped with new ranges, warming clos cts, serving tables and automatic dish washing machinery.
 Elegant stairways and a capacious pas senger elevator makes it easy to reach the three upper floors. On the second floor are located several bedrooms, singiy and en suite, and here is also the grand parlor and reception room. It is eX- quisitely carpeted and draped, and opens out on the broad and spacious veranda. This parlor is also equipped with a mag nificent 5000 Mason X Hamlin grand piano, purchased from the Cable com- pany, and similar to the ones sold by that company to the Hotel Florence, the Birmingham High school, the Birming- ham Academy of Music and others.
 So fine a plano is not usually found in hotel parlor, but MT. Kennedy has spared no expense in the furnishings of his hotel and is being congratulated heartily on providing so excellent an in- strument for the pleasure of his guests
 The hotel is built on large lnes-the rooms are commodious, all have outside exposures and the ventilation is care fully looked after. The furniture through out is new and artistic. The halls and all of the rooms are handsomely car peted and made comfortable with rugs. The new hotel will receive guests in a IL, .G T~e son will enjoy the best hotel service to be had anywhere.
 i. Several elaborate banquets will be served at the Jefferson this season, among them the banquet for the Howard college professors pupils and friends.