The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-12-28

handsome velvet carpets. comfortable
beds with felt mattresses and double
Idecked springs, running water. hot and
cold in each room, and most of the
irooms have private baths. The hand
some MarsaiIles spreads and new style
comforters have on them the monogram
of the hotel and the name also The
towels and table linen Is all marked in
this way.
Every bed in the house is of brass
or Vernfce Martin and their style and
finish is strictly first class The beds
are very heavy, massive and have a
quiet elegance with nothing fancy
about them.
The cheapest rooms in the house are
furnished beautifully IN golden oak
with Vernice Martin beds. velvet car
lpets, running water, hot and cold and
every other convenience.
The telephone system of the house.
made by the Western Electric Co. is
a very complete one, there being a
Iphone in every room in the house.
| Two rooms in the east wing of the
house are furnished in mahogany with
/ twin beds. Weathered oak, walnut.
birdseye maple and golden oak com
! prise the bedroom styles in furnish
iings.
| 1t is with no little pride that the
ITheus- -Zachry Co. points to the fact
that it supplied all of the furniture in
/ the house with the exception of the
carpets. supplied by Messrs McIver &
IMacKay
| There is steel fire escape. a ladder
of easy descent. from each floor on the
rear and the big. fire hose is connected
! in two places on each floor in the hall
and these fire hose and the hand fire
extinguishers are in plain sight one
| of them, from any position in either
hall wing.
The pretty tables in some of the
rooms and suites Will please the lady
guests, being something you do not
| often find in hotel
| The halls Will be handsomely carpet
| ed their full width. but these carpets
are not yet in place.
! All woodwork throughout the house
is in the pretty and novel weathered
oak finish and it gives a most agree
able impression to the eye
! In the wings of the house is a COM
Portable stairway giving egress from
either third or second floor to the
ground, and saving one the time and
trouble of going to the main stairway
| or elevator from these remote portions
of the hotel
! The verandas will be furnished in
rattan or fiber chairs and settees. but
these furnishings viii not be in place
| until the railings are finished.
The big linen room is located on the
isecond floor and is very completely
stocked.
! The pretty little hall parlor on the
Isecond floor is handsomely furnished
with comfortable chairs, handsome
rugs and a eombinat on ano-player,
put in by Mr.. A. NJ. Lansford.
The sample room for the accommo-
dation of the guests is on the Fort
King side of the house, on the ground
floor.
The barbershop Mr.. Detterich pro-
Iprietor, the Main street side, is one
Iof the handsomest in the state and has
an opening into the loggia of the ho-
tel, as we'll as onto the street.
Mr.. r. s Hall owns the Harrington
Hall hotel
Messrs. J. F. Jenkins and G. X Will
Iliams built it,
| The Star named it for Mr. Halls
Iyoung son and the naming was pro-
Iphetic, long before the first brick was
laid; in fact. on the day Mr.. Hall
bought the site.
Mr.. L. NJ. Gibson is the manager Mr.
~ d. Macarthur is the chief clerk. Mr.
Herman F. Passut is the steward
Ichef; Mrs A. Y. Strunk is the house
keeper and the dining room is presided
over by Fred Bentley, head waiter,
late of the Hotel Burbridge of Jack
,sonville.
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