Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-02-04
night AT
TONOPAH CLUB
WILL BE THROWN OPEN TO
THE INSPECTION OF
FAIR SEX.

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open this evening for the inspection
of ladies and their escorts, when the |
beauties of the bar and it's surround
ings will glitter and glisten in all the |
effulgence of myriad electric lights
The Tonopah Club, which was the
| first building in the town and cost |
| $25, has been rehabilitated into one
of the most magnificent structures in
the city, built by the same man who
put up the shack six years ago, when
the future of Tonopah was as much |
of speculation as any of the later
camps which started on it's should
ers. The builder was Tom Kendall,
who is today the proud owner of the
new Tonopah Club, a stone structure
of three stories ana basement.
1t is the bar that is to be thrown
open for inspection tonight, the grill
below stairs, and the hotel part OF
the building not yet being ready for
occupancy; but the bar alone is a
sight well worth seeing, monument
to the enterprise and pluck of the
men who own it, and an ornament TO
any city in the United States, no mat
ter on which side of the Rockies it
might be placed, or in what portion
of any city it might stand. The men
who own and who have furnished the
bar are the former proprietors of the
old Tonopah Club, Martin P. CATER
alta and James McCloskey.
AS Mr.. Kendall spared no expense
in the building of the new home of
the Tonopah Club, neither have the
leasers spared any expense in the
elaborate ornaments, fittings and fin
ishings of the interior. The entire
color scheme is red, to match the
magnificent mahogany bar, stand
= of twenty-six feet, and the second
of it's kind built in the United States.
The offices are in red, the pillars,
with which the place is studded is
of the same design, and the tables,
:, the games and the furniture is of the
same color. The dull thing, which
;, counteracts the glare of the electric
;. Nights, sets off the whole scheme to
! a harmonious whole.
Behind the bar is a dazzling array
y of glassware, all of it cut glass, in
Guiding the bottles, and there are
some familiar and attractive titles on
. the case goods which are already in
e stalled in the cold storage cabinets
. at either end of the bar A beauti-
full mirror reflects the entire appar-
atus of the bar The back of the
q latter, the bottle rests, the stands
and the drainboards are all sheathed
in copper, highly polished. The beer
will come up trough two pipes, and
so will the water to be used over the
bar, and both will always be at the
same temperature. The contents OF
= the glasses which have been used will
u never find their way into the water
i that is for the purpose of washing
the glasses, for there is a receptacle
at eacsh end of the bar where the
II waste is to be thrown. There does
1t not seem to have been overlooked
t. the slightest detail for cleanliness
, and perfect service.
= There is a great system of bells
% and alarms, and all sorts of signals
a. A special wire leads into the house
- from the office of the Western Union
= and there is a special system of tele-
" phone calls, and special wire to the
/, police station. There will be SNUG
- Office at the further end of the bar
4. as there was in the days of the old
a. club, and there is privat coffee al
:. the nigh end for the use of the pro
u prietors, and also for the electric
!, light switches. Above head the gild-
ed chandeliers combine gas jets and
/, electric bulbs, and when these are
= lighted they give to the place the
- effect of an amphitheater, magnifi'
n, cent in appearance.
The Tonopah Club will be open foi
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o'clock tomorrow night, when the
lights will be turned on, the beauti'
full front exposed, the games set go
- ing in full blast. There will be tn;
\ same men behind the games and be-
U hind the bar as there were when tho
order was given to close down the
old Tonopah Club. Tom Kendall.
80 himself. will operate the games, and
Cal Shaw will be the manager fol
them. 1t will be an opening some
what different from that of six years
u or more ago, when candles and Goa
s. oil were the illuminants, a MAHOGANY
r. bar joke. and cut glass dream
~ beyond the men before the bar. Tit
in shack of the old days cost twenty
ne FIVE dollars, the stone structure of TO
ne day, a hundred thousand dollars.