The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-20
OPENED THANKSGIVING EVE

TOMMlITEES in charge OF the build
ing and furnishing OF the new
Commercial club building verify
the statement that having the money is
rot the only requisite 10 carrying out
huch project In way that viii be the
most satisfactory 10 the most OF those
interested.
IL has been said that men work with
more zest when labOring with their
IellOWs in common cause than when
working for themselves. and the decla-
ration has been eXemplified in the
building OF this magnificent CONNER
clal home Months have been spent at
the task by men who have robbed their
personal enterprises OF valuable time.
The work Of the finance committee
Is, however, not TO be discounted. II
they made their brains save their
heels in the enterprise. it is 10 their
credit. and n was due 10 the keenness
of the men chosen for the task that IL
became almost no task al all 10 pro-
vide the means necessary for the work
As for the building and furnishings
committees, they were face 10 face
with an entirely different proposition.
In financing the project, there was
precedent 10 be followed. In cOnceiV-
ing the plans for the building and the
schemes in the furnishings. il was 10
be desirable that precedent be avoided
70 the end that the final results excel
the efforts in like projects which have
gone before.
MInutest Detail.
Plans for the arrangement and fur
niShings Of each room have been gone
over again and again in the minutest
detail They have been considered as
carefully as thlng not yet in sub
stance can be considered. plans altered.
color schemes and general effects
studied IN the light OF contrast and
luNtapOsluOns men who understand
light and shade and the relation OF
colOrs 70 the fainIest tintingS have
given OF their best knowledge, and now
that their work is finished. the praise
FaaNn aFr nv
their fellows for whose pleasure il has
all been accomplished. is well deserved.
In the general architecture OF the
building. the COrlnthlau. Ionic and
Doric have been adapted 10 one an
other with pleasing results II stands.
six stories in height, at the corner of
Exchange place and Cactus street. En-
terlng the building from Exchange
place, the outer doors open into a mar
BILE entFaYce stair, within the Vestibule,
Thanked on either side by a Verde mar
BILE wainscOting. The walls above the
wainscOt are OF Italian marble, and on
either side, within panel, is a bronze
tablet bearing in relief the names OF the
club officials and board Of governors
according 10 the personnel at the time
the cornerstone was laid.
Through double doors from the yes
tlbule, the lobby Is entered, on which
open the offices TO the right. where the
ager and their assistants are housed.
and in which is the telephone system
Tor the uululnE.
The offices are luxuriOusly fitted,
earpeted in rich floor coverings in YER
digrls green, with wall tinting and
draperles In perfect harmony, windows
being hung with the heaviest OF silk.
In green. The furniture throughout the
offices is OF mahogany.
Through the main entrance from the
lobby. the first glimpse Of the real
beauty OF the scheme followed through
out In the decorations. is beheld. This
Is the rOtunda. Craftsmen have here
reveled In the Spanish renaissance and
have brought forth a work OF marvel
Gus beauty Supported by immense pi-
lasters, the dome is circled with a
frieZe of special and unique design,
miniature buffalo skulls moulded in
plaster and linked together with fes-
looming OF fruits of the white plaster
constituting the frieZe. The buffalo
skulls are patterned after the natural
skull found on the old Mormon trail
some years ago containing an inscrip-
ton written on the face Of the skull
by Brigham Young designating the spot
where il was found as one OF his
camps on the journey 20 Utah. This
skull is contained in glass case and
viii be placed prominently in the ro-
tunda.
Rich C0lOrinEE.
The floor OF the rotunda is in Span
ish mosaic. the hangings. wall tintings
md upholstery being in soft Pompeiian
green and old rose. Furniture of a spe-
cial design was purchased for the ro-
tunda. many Of the pieces being ex-