The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-01-02
THE DOWNING REOPENS
Savoy Is Merged With Famous
Old Hostlery.

Following the formation OF new
operating company made up of the
property owners of the buildings, the
Downing Hotel and Savoy Hotel prop
critics have been merged and win here
after be operated as one house under
the name Downing Hotel"
The Downing Hotel Company has
been incorporated for term of ten
years and the property will be oper-
|ated upon the American plan under
the personal management of Mr.. X. l..
.Pethybridge -..,: an4" w. > ~
Under the merger of the properties
the name of the Savoy Hotel is. drop
ped and the business office, cafe and
dining rooms are discontinued, yacat-
ed and transferred to the Downing
Hotel. The plan or operation is
changed from European TO American.
All that is best In the two properties
goes to make up the equipment OF the
Downing Hotel. Telephone connec-
ton with the SAVIOR rooms will be
moved to the downing Office and what
ever else of equipment or furniture
is desirable from both places goes to
make the equipment of the one house
complete and best. With the throw
ing of the two properties together the
Downing becomes a hundred room
house having a total Of ninety-eight
guest rooms, each with running hot
and cold water and equipped with in
Idividual telephone, operating with the
clerks office and having connection
with the local exchange. Telephones
in hall and kitchen, basement and
store room also connect with the Of
fee. The rooms of the hotel are
Icapable of accommodating one hun
bred and fifty separate beds. With
two occupant to a bed gives shelf
ering capacity under ordinary condi-
Itions for three hundred people. By
placing cots in larger rooms and sam
pie rooms provision can be made for
sleeping between three hundred and
fifty and four hundred people in the
new house. W ~
Mr.. Woodin last year spent fifteen
thousand dollars in the improvements
TO the Savoy Hotel and seven thous-
land dollars were spent on the Down
ing Hotel. The furnishings are call
of the very best Inc market contains
but betterments on the new house
are to be made. .sa -
In addition to what may be done in
the guest rooms and Office. New out
fits of silver, glass and linen are to
be placed in the dining room and no
Expense is to be- spared to make the
house the best in the state.
Both houses are to be heated from
the Downing Hotel boilers.
Under the direction of. Manager
IPethybridge the two working forces
are being recognized and announce
ment will be made later of positions
filled under the new plan.
All day Sunday force of fifteen or
twenty people were engaged in the
house making ready for the change,
marking the linen, listing the silver
and dining room equipment, making
the openings in the walls on the Sec
Iond and third floors between the Sa-
voy and the Downing and doing other
necessary work.
Monday morning, Dec. 80, was the
date of the opening Of the properties
under the management of the new
operating company and breakfast was
served in the Downing Hotel dining
room.
But much Is yet to be done in the
way of Improvement, decorations, al
Iterations, betterments, etc. The ele-
vator of the Downing Hotel has been
newly equipped with new wire cables
and operating apparatus at consider
able expense.
ne Hotel Downing is known
through the length and the breadth of
the land and is one of the institutions
that contributes to the greatness OF
Oskaloosa 1t is likewise one of the
Oldest houses on the state and under
the new management will be made
one of the most complete, comfortable
and luxurious guest houses In the
land. a.." ''."