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is a large room which will be fitted
up as a billiard room and pool room.
There are several large rooms for the
storing of goods and other rooms along
| the south and west which VIII be
rented for stores. From the lobby on
the street floor grand staircase leads
pas. a huge mirror to the first guest
room floor. Each room or suite con-
talns a private telephone, semi-inclosed
lavatory and unusually large closets.
A full length plate glass mirror is on
the outside of each door. Two-thirds
of the rooms overlook the ocean.
Nearly $4,000 was expended in fur
nishings for the guest rooms. Their
selections have met with universal ap-
proval. The bridal suites are furnished
in Circassian walnut or mahogany.
with Napoleon and colonial furniture.
Other rooms are furnished similarly
or with rosewood, silver maple or
birdseye maple. The carpets used in
clude velvets, moquets, Brussels and
d-fashioned rag carpets" The car
pets are placed in keeping with wall
tints and furnishings. All suites are
separated by the double-door system.
The corridors are broad and are car
peted solidly with green velvet Will
tons.
IoeSluc llOSe dllcet0y
Clerk e. B. Lambert, Chef Frank Mar
tin and Chief Steward Aurand are i'm
portant members of the hotel staff.
The chef who is an importation from
Paris, will have about eight cooks
under his supervision. An experienced
waiter, with four assistants and sew
eral score of walters and Mattresses,
assisted by twenty Koreans, will be
employed in the dining room.
Beautiful Grounds Surrounding
The grounds about the hotel will be
beautified with gardens of rare, rich
flowers and with MOSES. Elaborate
plans were drawn by an eminent artist
and landscape gardener. The grounds
are protected by concrete retaining
wall.
For the musical entertainment of the
guests of the Virginia Manager Lin
nard has secured Tom Karl and Miss
Lucille Saunders formerly with "The
Bostonians." These artists have fire.
quently delighted the guests of the
Maryland with their art.
Automobiling, surf bathing, yachting,
motor boating, tennis, croquet ana
probably golf will be among the amuse-
ments provided. Tennis courts, cro-
quat grounds and putting green Will
be found on the grounds and the Bixby
I11dy Ut III NiC llSoi
future into a splendid country club.
One of the finest bathing pavilions in
the United States is that owned by
the Bath House company and located
two blocks from the Virginia. Here
are a big salt water plunge, private
hot salt baths and free runway to the
smooth beach, Tapped by old ocean.
Two vaudeville theaters are building
within a block of the hotel. The $780,
600 pleasure pier and huge auditorium
are close at hand. Pacific park, in
the midst of which the Carnegie library
will be erected, is just across the way
from the hotel.
Across the water. twenty-six miles
southwark, Santa Catalina island. the
magic isle of beauty, rears out of the
sea. Near it are the famous marine
gardens. Southwesterly from the hotel
can be seen the government break
water reaching far out into the sea,
and in whose shelter the biggest ships
of the, world can quietly ride at anchor,
fleet at time. A few miles east is
the Naples of America, with concrete
lined canals. gondolas, Neapolitan res
licences and hotel.
First Social Event
The first social event held in the
Virginia was the reception given by
the women. during the Young Mems
Christian association state convention.
Mrs. NJ. II. Kingore gave the first pri-
vate dinner party in the hotel last
week, when Mrs r. j. Baldwin of San
Francisco was guest of honor. Man.
ager d. M. Linnard has brought num-
erous parties of from fifty to one hum
dred people down in special electric
cars from other hotels for days visit
at the Virginia, and these parties have
taken luncheon in the dining room.
1t is estimated that the building cost
million dollars and that the furnish
ings cost $500,000. The corner stone
was laid on the afternoon of July 81
Jotham Bixby, then president of the
company, handling the trowel.
Next Tuesday afternoon there will
be a reception in the hotel. Invita-
tions have been issued. The dining
room will be open for the first time for
dinner that night and after dinner
there will be a dance and entertain
ment in honor of the opening. These
afternoon and evening functions will
be occasions of brilliant gatherings.
At the time of the visit in this and
nearby ports of Admiral Evans fleet
the Virginia is expected to be the scene
of many social gayeties. On Easter
Sunday the fleet will steam past the
uuet of the chamber of commerce will
be held in the hotel the night of April
7. The first guest to register in the
Virginia was H. l. Bettis, auditor for
the Salt Lake Railway company and
a director of the Pacific Electric COM
pany. A number of wealthy folk from
New York, Boston and other cities are
now guests at the hotel.
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