The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-24
Kenyon to Have UnbrOken Front
of Marble and Plate Glass
Finish on Main.
EXTERIOR AS WELL AS
:. INSIDE TO BIZ CHANGED
Enough Money to Be Spent to
Bring HosteIry Well Into
First-ClaSs Rank.

According to accepted plans for i'm
provements TO be made at the Kenyon
hotel the building is 10 undergo q great
change In its exterior appearance, MS
we'll as In the interior arrangements,
Messrs Waters and Haverson, the
now proprietors OF the hotel, havo ap-
proved the plans OF their architect for an
unbroken front on the Main street Aidc
OF the building OF marble and plate glass
finish. They have arranged To move the
barber shop from It's present location on
the south side OF the main entrance OF
the hotel TO the north side, while the
drug store. now al the north of the ld-
dies entrance, Will 60 10 the south side
of tho main portico, The iron steps at
the entrance 10 the hotel are 10 be moved
now doors and doorwsys put in and a
better approach To tho hotel lobby 10 be
made in marble, The big portico Is TO be
entirely remodelcd, too, as are the ap-
proaches from the Second South street
side Of the building In the basement Is
to be the cafe, which is TO be fitted al
an estimated cost of 100000 and is TO be
conducted by TWO OF the best experienced
Will be n marble stairway leading from
the sidewalk near the main entrance as
well n similar ono approaching from
the Second South street sidewalk.
Marble Finish
The hotel Offices and counting room
are to he finished entirely in marble
after the fashion OF the new Copper
bank. All the accessory departments are
TO be rendered directly accessible from
the main office OF the hotel, allowing
patrons quickly TO reach either the ro-
tunda gallery, the ladies' observation
parlor, which Is to give fine view up
and down Main street. tho cafe, the
buffet. the barber shop, elevators. tele-
phone and telegraph booths and opera
tors, writing rooms, general reception
room. stenoeraphers' and manicures
booths. and so on.
AS TO the changes 10 be made in the
present condition OF the rooms, the pro-
prietors say that there will be fifty new
bathrooms put in, well as sevcnty-dvc
additions TO rooms with running water,
giving seventy-hve apartments win
view OF the stringent requirements OF the
new health laws for cleanliness, there is
TO he special effort put forth In this re-
spect, the barber shop 10 have twenty
chairs and to be so constructed and
equipped as TO make for the most sanl-
tary conditions.
Vacuum Cleaning System.
Along this line, there is TO he installed
a vacuum system OF cleaning, which VIII
do away with the old dust arising from
carpet sweeping. Besides, there is TO be
installed I'm the basemnt q complete light
ing and heating plant. as well as n cold
storage plant, 10 be operated by the
power generated for that and other pur-
poses. AS catering specially to CONNER
cial travellers there are 10 be forty sam
pie rooms altogether,
II is said by Mcssrs. Waters and Hal
vcrscn that the original estimates will be
much exceeded before all is done, includ
ing the new furnishings. the contract for
which was let last week. but that the
matter OF outlay will not stand in the
way of making a complete renovation
and reconstruction before all Is finished
They say, too. that the work IL TO begin
at once. so that tho Kenyon may come
Immediately into the ranks of Salt Lakes
first-class hotels.