Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-29
No Detail Has Been Spared to
Make It Unsurpassed for the
Travelling Public and People Of
CiV-FormaI Opening Monday,
Machinery and Equipment Latest
Devices for Aid Of Sanitation
and Comfort-Mural Docora-
tons Picture Events Of Georgia,

Monday at the Hotel Ansley viii &
De given in fullest measure 20 say,
with Shanstono that they havo found
iife,s warmest welcome at an inn"
At least, the builder and the lessee
and the press agent have cadoavored
to make Il even so, and the very few
favored persons permitted 20 inspect
the building and its appointments IN
advance Of the opening agree they
planned wisely and builded well.
When the Ansley, Atlanta's newest
hosiery. opens its doors 20 guests on
Monday, it viii be unexcelled among
the inns Of the country for efficiency,
service, accommodations, equipment
and moderni;y Of its appointments.
No Detail was overlooked In the plan
ming; no expense was spared in the
building.
Banquet Hall Seats 600,
With its banquet room seating 600,
its rathskeller accommodating 800
ana it's hundreds Of rooms supplied
with fresh filtered air continuously;
with its costly historical mural deco
Tatfons. each a work Of art, the stump
fuous furnishings OF its rooms and
suites and its perfect service system
the Ansley will be without a superior
for business, cOnveniences ana Sate;y
As "Marse" Henry Watterson eX-
pressed IL, at no place "On the Ranbla
and in the Ring In Piccadilly and the
C,orso, beneath the Colonnades OF the
Rue dc Rivoli Of Paris and Inter den
Linden Of Berlin-indeed, all the way
between Chicago and Cannebiere, in
GLIDING many hooks and corners ~
little old New York can the man
or woman with a trunk and hand
bag live higher, sleep safer and spend
less than at the Hotel Ansiey.
Two well-knOwn quotations I'M
printed on the tapestry viii greet the
eve OF all who pass the portals OF the
Hotel Anscy. The first one Is the
hotel mans favorite verse, from
Shenstone. as follows;
Whoe'er has Travelled life's dun round,
Wrhere'er his stages may have been,
Nav sikh TO think he still has found
Lies warmost welcome at an inn.
The next Is a Scriptural quotation.
taken from Hebrews and the Ansley
management promises to apply the
precept and the compliment to every
guest alike Here 1t is:
NfFEiI ItiiI l'' 1AlNN wv 49,
STRANGERS for thereby some have en-
teriaiuyI angels uuawares'
Indicate Spirit of Hotel.
These two familiar quotations are
printed across the underbeam OF the
v.irFiup marble stairways in the Ans
lev foyer They are intended TO indl-
cate the spirit In which guests should
aprly and expect 20 be received.
AppearauCc OF the lobby is en-
HANGED by three historical paintings
on tapestry. each ~ by 10 feet, stu
ated on the upper mezZanlne moor
and facing the Forsyth street en-
trance. The paintings recall impor-
taut historical happenings In Georgia,
The first panel depicts the meeting
OF General Oglethorpe and Tomocht-
chi al Savannah. May q, 1888. IN"
next represents John Wesley teaching
the Indians under the oaks Of st ST.
mons. and the third shows the burn
ing OF the Yazoo fraud papers at the
state house in Louisville, Jefferson
County in the year 1895.
The papers were igulted by means
OF a nagnifying glass and the suns
rays showing that the fire which de-
stroyed such an iufamy should come
from Heaven.
on the ground floor are dozen or
more other paintings Of historical L.
terest
Dining Room Is Italian.
The dining room Of the Ansley is
known as the Italian room on ac-
count Of its architecture and mural
paintings The latter consist Of tine
Vatican gardens. showing the cupola
of ST. Peters I'm the distance. the
garden os Villa Borchcse in Florence
the garden OF villa Lante the Her
cuIps fountain I'm the garden Of Villa