Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-21

floor is of handsome thing. Directl!
across from the entrance is the clerk
desk, and just beside 1t the electric
passenger elevator. n marble stair
case, with broad, low steps, sweep
up from the lobby. At the northern
end of the room, just over the private
entrance balcony affords space fol
writing tables and for music on occas
sions. The wide doorway giving en-
trance to the main dining room opens
out from the north side of the lobby
This dining room will be easily the
most splendid apartment in the state
1t is of noble dimensions, 56x42 feet
The floor is of ornamental tiles and
the woodwork is in mahogany. The
decorations, designed by Walter Camp
of St. Paul, one of the great decorative
| artists of the country, are at once
splendid and satisfying to the eye. I'm.
posed upon the wainscotting are pol
ished plate glass mirrors running all
around the room at the height of tho
tables. The effect is brilliant and
striking and properly sets off the i'm
ported art paintings of delicate SYM
bolic subjects appropriate to the set
ting of banquet hall. The ceiling
is heavily beamed and the room is
effectively lighted by art windows
for the day time and diffused electric
illumination from high art fixtures by
night. To the right of the main din
ing room there is grill room, open
ing on to Fifth street, which will be
used to cater to the American demand
for meals served in such haste as to
suit the convenience of the business
man. This grill is 56x20 in size and
will be fitted with marble top tables
and mahogany furniture.
Beyond the dining room kitchen
has been constructed on such lines as
will adequately supplement the din
ing room capacity. The kitchen,
while a part of the main building is
but one story high, with plenty OF
air space, and is ventilated directly
into the outer air by great skylight,
insuring absolute freedom in the no.
tel from the scents Of the cuisine.
1t is fitted with every device for cul'
mary purposes and much attention
has been given to making it sanitary,
a notable feature of the equipment
being the regrigerating and the ice
making machine.
In the amply lighted and high CELL
ed basement, provision has been made
for modern barber shop, with Turk
ish, Russia, sea and plain baths, and
a fine billiard room will be provided.
There will also be store rooms and
in the rear freight elevator will
give access to the upper floors.
Having arranged the ground floor
to appeal to the eye and cater to the
appetite Mr.. Patterson carried his
broad ideas of splendid hotel to the
upper floors and the result is calculat-
ed to appeal to the traveller who looks
for comfort in hotel life. The halls
spreading from the grand staircase
are twelve feet wide, and the same
scheme of noble proportions is ap-
piled to the rooms. The interior
walls and partitions are built in OF
concrete, finished in plaster and tinted
in delicate colors. A parlor occupies
the rounded coxer over the entrance.
1t is a big room, 25x21, and a series
of guest rooms OF the same dimension
run above this to the roof except that
Mrs. Patterson will have an apartment
of three rooms over the parlor, on
the third floor.
There are $50 bed rooms and Mr..
Patterson did not make the mistake
of cramping his guests. All the in
terror space is utilized but the rooms
are all large, all finely lighted from
without-there is not an inside room
in the building-and all equipped with
modern conveniences of the toilet.
For the larger rooms, with two out
side windows, space of 16x17, in the
clear, is allotted. Each of these rooms
contain a private bath and clothes
closet, the bath rooms of large size
with the best class Of modern plumb
ing, and the clothes presses ample.
Each bath room is cut off from the
sleeping and other rooms ty con-
crete walls, and the double sewerage
system and direct ventilation in each
bath room running to the roof, insures
perfect sanitary conditions. These
same conditions apply to another SER
les of rooms that measure 19x11 feet,
having private baths and clothes clos
cts. The guest rooms that do not
have a bath carry out the general
scheme of roominess and there is not
an apartment in the house that has
not running hot and cold water.
Beauty and Utility.
In fitting the bed rooms with view
to absolute fire proof conditions there
has been nothing Of beauty sacrificed.
The indestructable floors are hand