New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-07
About $4,000 Spent on Re
decorating Restaurant
for Summer Season.
NO COOLER PLACE,
DECLARES AN EXPERT
Ballroom de Luxe, Where Latest
Modern Dances Are
Enjoyed.

The elaborate Improvements that nave
been made at Rector'S have attracted
wide attention. Many leading interior
decorators and Il large number of the
foremost builders OF TINS city, who nave
inspected them say that their general de-
sign and effect, which is 10 make the
diners and other guests OF the house en-
10Y themselves to their hearts content
surrounded by all comforts and con-
veniences that money can provide, mas
been most splendidly attained
\ Numerous skilled hands were employed
on the improvements and about 5000
WAS spent on the work. But neither the
number of persons VINO helped to give
Rector.s a new interior form Of oecOra-
tive grandeur nor the cost gives true Iued
Of the extent. the beauty and the pans
taking labor TINS task represents. ON.
inc views OF experts on such matters as
the redecoratnG OF famous restaurant
ike Rector's furnish the basis for
correct estimate OF what Il biz ana note
worthy undertaking has been accom-
p.shod
The contract provided for the compile
ion OF the improvements so thal tine
restaurant, iu face every part oil TINS
Great establishment, would be ready TO
open on June ] for the summer season.
ga the meanW nile. there must Ice AS little
disturbance TO the ordinary business OF
the place as possible. Before the cas- loi
fine opening OF thc summer season OF the
nouse The contractor mad fulfilled ms
agreement and had Won the dnSt'h'e"
praises of the proprietors. Eettors Is
IL .sIN Tff T.
with George Rector.
The new interior decorations Oh hectoI
we're designed 70 produce many dehEhu"i
effects" said foremost decorator ldih"-
lar with the work done. 10 Tribune re-
porter YESTERDAY The varied ana the
exacting tastes Of myriads OF persons
we're always kept in mind while the p'dh9
we're being perfected, for one ehect "hlo''
will please thousand persons may "o'
win the appreciation OF many other per
sons. Some people Ike more Woo'' al'
lighting effects than others some iolhs
arc not in their happiest moods uh'cSs
tho furnishings, decorations and the iIghl-
,rs, features Of a room are in harmon.
!. "Nbat WAS one OF the principal
Nbarms sought and attained by the sKilIed
Hands that has made Kectors "a more
Ydeliehtful place for the epicurcan and the
person who likes to dance the most h'oo-
,rn dances" was asked.
To bring the rapturous delights saId
the expcrt. .of the beautiful far away mn
and dale regions and the picturesque
,iaip lands 10 the diners and the oth"f
a,,ests of the house 80. not all these
highly priced things can be brought from
their original haunts To Broadway eve"
a. the craftsmanship of a genius. hu'
.,,,. of tho finest species OF palms nave
Leon brought from thu spots where 'hc\
,.ro,c loyeucst and set down in rccfptd-
,... ~ mort artistic design in Rector =
and those palms truly recall. and III a
sense furnish, under the rool Oh INC
t,lding some OF the feelings the out
door enthusiast has as he sits or Walks
under the palms in their native nome
10 scceutuate these feelings II rs nc'cS-
gary 10 rely in large degree u not
wholly. upOn the mechanical SIKH "i me
incentive genius Of TINS century Az"
hence by gathering the air on inc Io0i
Of the building, many feet above Inc
street level. ana whiriing II through cor 10
,ogated tubes that run through AIR spa
.t,,ost Al the r., eziug point ii IS possi'.f
20 gently force u into every room Of the
byudlug at a temperature which VIII not
,su.e any one 10 feel chilly The tenn
rersture is just right and whether the
t.., In the street be- almost at The hn-
bearabie point persons IN Rcctors wiIl be
- comfortable ~ n they were by the
sDashore or in the cool piaces in the
n.Juntaing.'
he expert waH silent for eeYcral min
at,n. and then exclaimed;
In tho summer lime 30 one can cat
an enjoy ment unlcfs be ~ In comfort
.,lte and congenia1 surroundings. IN max
..g the improvements at Rcctor's every
f,log has been done, repeat 10 have
IA. place 80 cool ~ possible IN the hot
lest dsys. ~ that no comfort is sacrificed.
..You know h0w much time scenle
artist deyOteE ~ studying lighting ef-
feets IN order 10 obtain just the cHaet
,hsde u light and shadow he desires ~