The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-23
INVITES PUBLIC
TO INSPECT HOTEL
G. S. Holmes Wants Everyone
to See How Well Equipped
the New SemI0h Is.
ALL READY TO OPEN NOW
NO INTENTION TO COMPETE
WITH LARGER HOsTELRIES.

The new Semloh hotel will be open
for inspection today from o'clock I'M
til 1880 in the evening. The public is
cordially invited The management
has announced that it viii be especial
ly pleased If the citizens will view this
beautiful new hotel, including the
sleeping rooms, power plant. refrigerat-
ing plant, kitchen and rathskelier. The
inspection viii be a great surprise TO
most people, who viii find in the new
hostelry one of the best furnished
places in the city.
The notice issued by the management
of the hotel yesterday called attention
to the completion of the new hotel at
the corner of State street and Second
South, which will be ready for occu-
pancy on the completion of the tour of
inspection by the citizens Saturday
night. Few people who have seen the
great change which has taken place in
the prominent corner realize that just
about one year ago, lacking one week,
work of raZing the old building was
started. Since then an entirely new
structure has been completed, beauti-
fully furnished and now presents ac-
commodations equal to the best in the
city.
T. q
KnutsfOrd hotel. and owner Of the
Semloh, has spared no expense to make
the furnishings of the. best. visit to
the place shows 200 rooms. all large
and airy, and with unexcelled arrange
ments for placing them en- suite, with
or without bath. All rooms are pro-
vided with hot and cold water, and most
of them are provided with baths, or
can be arranged so as to connect with
baths. Carpets, rugs, beds and all fur
nishings of the place are the finest to
be obtained The chairs are of the best
type and match the dressers and the
beds. There is no veneering on the fur
niture, solid wood of the finest known
being used in every room.
Furniture is Very Best.
A feature of the appointments will
be the outdoor balcony, where band
concerts will be maintained for the
guests in good weather in the midst of
a bower of palms. Office fittings, writ
ing rooms and other adjuncts of the
hotel are of especial convenience also.
A small army of pOrters and bell boys
will be in attendance night and day
to attend to the calls of guests. A tele-
phone system is provided in every room
in the house. There are private writ
ing rooms for women and men and in
fact, every desirable appointment of
a first-class hotel.
Especial attention has been given to
the restaurant and cafe cOnveniences,
and the rathskeller in the basement of
the place is the finest between Chicago
and San Francisco. This feature of the
building, under the charge of Manager
E. L. Willie, has been open since the
first of January. A longer time has
been required for the completion of the
remainder of the building, and in spite
of a delay of four weeks on account of
nOr-arrival of steel for the building
the completion has been brought about
in record time.
An example of the manner in which
matters have been carried on is shown
from the fact that carpets, and other
furnishings for the new hotel arrived
here little more than a week ago and
have been unpacked and set up ready
for use in about seven days. Only four
days were required to bring the fur
nishings to Salt Lake from New York.
When one understands the rapidity
with which work has been carried or
in the building and the difficulties
which have been encountered in con-
stTuction. one wonders at the beautiful
effects produced throughout the in
terror of the structure. Accommoda-
tons are 10 be furnished equal to the
best, and it is intended to show what
can be done in the way of good hotel
at moderate prices, where guests will
be well provided for. Mr.. Holmes
scouts any intention to compete with
the two big hotels now being erected
by Newhouse and the Utah Hotel COM
pany, and points out that while his
furnishings are the best that can be
obtained, the house. new clean and
thoroughly up to date, there is no in