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

Dfacketed cluster lights are arranged
/ IN the panels around the room.
The kitchen, on the second floor is a
model culinary department. With 5000
square Feet of floor space, il contains
ances. All woodwork is in white
enamel anu the equipment is in bright
nickel ana FURNISHED copper An auto
matte freight elevator carries supplies
/ 10 the Kitchen and a battery of dumb
walters viii facilitate the handling of
orders. These dumb walters reach all
floors Of TIE building.
! The third floor is distinctiyely a wO-
man tloor Here in the trent is the
| Women's parlOr. separated BY wOmens
| reurlnS rooms from the ladies' dining
| room. on this HoOr are also the pri-
| vate dining rooms and openings along
| the corridor looking out over the BAN
| quet han below
In milady's parior delicacy reigns.
/ Carpeted in buff, with walls done in
| delicate green silk and the ceiling
/ beamed with white beams edged with
gold, dividing the ceiling into panels
| which are delicately tinted. il presents
| a scene Of daintiness into which man
| almost fears to tread. The hangings
! OF the windows. while not identical in
shade with the tinting of the walls,
| being IN a slightly darker green, are
| IN harmony with the surroundings
| These are OF heavy silk the lining be-
| ing of white satin.
The furniture in this pariOr is OF the
/ Louis NV style, upholstered in tapes
Try OF delicate shading and design
feature of this room is TO be the grand
piano in an art case, in keeping with
/ the other furniture.
The ladies' dining room is properly
/ the delft room, its carpets. wall finish
and ornameptatiOns being in delft
These cold cOlOrings are softly and
pleasantly relieved by the draperies at
| the windows, which are OF neavy silk
/ in cereSe. and by the chandeliers OF the
| lotus design in which the glare Of the
/ light is mellOWed by opalescent amber
shades. patterned after the lotus
Surrounding the room is an oak
wainscot seven feet in height. This is
made OF wide oak boards arranged per-
| pendicularly and dun finished, with
| blue-gra caste Near the top OF the
watnscOI in each alternate board. a
square panel is cut, and in each panel
is delft plate set in plaster or Paris.
the plaster surrounding the plate being
colored 10 narmonize with the finish OF
the wainscOt
An auxiliary kitchen is also a feat
ure Of this floor containing no pro-
visions for cooking. but equipped with
warming ovens and other utensils for
service in the delft room. This kitchen
is connected with the main kitchen by
both the freight elevator and the dumb
walters. An electric call system is also
arranged TO communicate with the
kitchen below.
Floor for Men.
AS plainly a mans floor as the third
floor is for femininity, the fourth floor
contains the card room. billiard room,
library and reading room. Each OF
these features has received the same in
diVidual attention as the more elabO-
rate rooms below that; in the whole
arrangement there may be no target
for criticism.
The billiard room floor is covered
with thick cork covering. The light
ing is arranged for utility more than
beauty. In the high oak wainscOt cue
racks are built into the wall, and the
whole is duh finished and matched by
the natural finish oak billiard room
chairs. Hanging to the windows are
rich heavy velvet in brown.
The card room is a model of its kind. |
Carpeted in heavy brown veIyet, with
heavy velvet curtains of the same shade
at the windows, each of the green baize
covered oak card tables is arranged be-
meath a pendant light with an Orna-
mental frosted globe. High oak vain
scot surrounds the room. Opening from
the main card room are several private
card rooms of sufficient size to accom-
modate one table of players each.
A system Of electric call bells reaches
these private rooms and the tables OF
the main card room, and dumb waiter
connects the room with the buffet on
the main floor.
The library is a mahogany room. fur !
niture and WainscOt being OF the same /
finish. Reading chairs are upholstered |
with brown leather. and the windows |
are dressed in tan velvet hangings |
The carpet is of blue velvet. of a shade |
both shades of brown. that of the hang /
ings and of the woodwork. In the Ii \
brary the lighting scheme has also been /
conceived for convenience, but nothing /
has been lost from the artistic. The |
bookcases are built in the wainscot
Fifty-twO private suites for club 4
members are provided on the fifth and /
sixth floors. These are not furnished /
with mOnOtOnOus uniformity, and no /
two OF them are duplicates. On the |
fifth floor each suite is equipped with
private bath. as are many of the suites
on the sixth floor. on this floor, how
ever, a perfectly equipped general bath
is convenient to all rooms whi.h have
not private baths.
Velvet Carpets.
Carpets throughout the suites are Of .
heavy velvet. and tire furniture is OF
various finishes in mahogany and oak
These floors are also reached by dumb
waiter from kitchen and bar, and every
is supplied for the comfort
of those who make the Commercial club
their home.
Beneath the entire building the i'm I
mense basement is finished for swim !
ming pools and gymnasium, which /