The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29

with the opening of the new refresh ment rooms on Dexter Avenue, near tne postonce, Montgomery will see long felt want filled. Thursday has been set for the time the doors of rne Lions Head" to open. and at o'clock the place will be ready to receive us future patrons.
 Messrs. c. W. Hopkins and J. L.. Rhodes. promoters of the West Vir- ginia Land Company, are the patrons of inc new enterprise, and when IL is known they have spent about *io'VvV on the new establishment, 1t can read ily be seen that 1t will be most attrac- tive. xnovn Montgomery architect. noted for i,is exouislte taste. was selected by the Lions Head Company to design the interior of the place and In his efforts for an artistic and attractive enect ne has outdone himself.
 The front of the building will be painted the color of old ivory with white trimmings, and will be crowned by an enormous electric sign, designed especially for the local establishment. The sign will be e soda fountain fau- cet illuminated with incandescent bulbs, and below 1t will be great glass with a steady stream of what will seem to be illuminated water pouring into it. The cost of this item of the establishment Is not included In the general sum. for the apparatus Tor running 1t and the big display sign would run the total cost up consider ably.
 The big show windows. attractive old English door, and the fixtures of the place were all made by the Mont gomery Show Case Ce., and are built of the best material. On either side of the door are two big windows Tn which will be an arrangement or plants and shrubbery. The door itself IS made Of dark oak, the upper panels being made of leaded glass. Above this Is a ground glass panel running the width of the building, which Will De H. luminated from the Inside. When nn- ished this front will be one of the handsomest in the South.
 At the left as one enters Is Q soda fountain which. when built by the Arnerican Soda Fountain Co, after Architect Lockwood,s design. the builders were loath to part with, wish ing to keep 1t for their own display rooms.
 MT. Lockwood's design Is as unique as 1t Is attractive and artistic, the facings of the long counter from the ton of the serving shelf down IS made of Alps green marble. dark, cool and beautifully polished. Faint streaks of a lighter shade of green run in chaos of turns and twists through 1t, making A very handsome effect In bold con- trast to this deep color is the Onyx top with it's opaiescent lights and creamy tinRe. The frosted silver ornamental work of the syrup apparatus above this lends the whole a richness of ef- feet that Is beautiful. There are two actual fountains on the counter, one at either end, and here again the archi- tect has deviated from the rapidly be- coming tiresorne and common forms {. Bronze shafts two feet high are crowned by cut glass globes that scin- tilate and sparkle with lights partially concealed in them, and cover the <ahki brown wood work of the fixtures axaiast the wall with subdued light that makes them background for the hirher lights of the fountain that is artistic In the extren1e.
 Al the other side of the room cabi- nets of the same color and material as 4he brown woodwork behind the foun- tain have been placed and these will be filled with beribboned and tempting boxes Of bonbons. Above the wooden fixtures that arise from the floor nine or ten feet. old ivory panels have been placed. These artistic pieces were made by the Johns Plaster Co. of Att lanta- The ceiling matches and Is done