Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-15
cONANT HOTEL
HANDSOME and
comfortable
Marvel Of Beauty Is Newest
Hosiery Added to 0ma-
has List of StruC-
lures.

Another splendid hotel has been
added to Omaha's hostelries. the Co
nant hotel, Sixteenth and Harvey
streets, which threw open its doors 70
guests yesterday with appropriate
ceremonies.
A handsome and comfortable house
inside and out, is the Conant. Its
location is ideal, being in the very
center OF the city's business life, with
in block or two OF all the big stores
and thea,ers and only seven minutes
by street car from the railroad sta
tons.
Ten stories OF solid steel and con-
crete, absolutely hreproof and with
every appointment known to up-to-
date ho,eldom, these are facts about
the new hotel.
II has $50 rooms, every one OF
them with private bath. II has two
restaurants, one on the second floor,
opening off on the spacious lounge,
and the other. a grill. in the tiled and
marble basement.
The exterior OF the building 10 par
tieularly pleasing to the eye. The
finishing building materials used are
a dark red tapestry brick and gray
stone. The street floor. excepting
the hotel entrance and lobby space, is
used for high grade stores.
Lobby in Walnut.
Entering the hotel. the visitor finds
himself in the lobby, marble foored
and with sides OF polished black wal
nut and panels OF tapestry.
From here he can walk up the steps
and, by way OF the mezzanine floor,
come to the lounge on the second
floor, north end OF the building. This
is very large room, richly carpetcd
and furnished with luxurious chairs,
writing tables. and so on. Opening
from this to the south is the dining
room.
Both OF these rooms are flooded
with daylight from the plate glass
windows which occupy the entire
space of the walls.
From this place II will be welt to
take one of the three Otis electric
elevators to 60 to the tenth floor.
As he steps from the elevator he Is
impressed by the deep
velvet Wilton carpet which makes
footsteps both pleasant and silent.
These carpets cover all the halls and
rooms Of the house. They are of |
Iine quality and cost . pretty penny
these days.
Bedrooms In Redgum. |
The woodwork OF the bedrooms Is
redgum wood and all are pleasingly
papered. The furniture Is of high
quality, made OF black walnut with
upholstered parts In tapestry. The
tops OF all bureaus and writing tables |
are covered with plate glass, an extra |
equipment for perfect cleanness
~ The furniture Of all rooms, whether
they are $l.S0, $500 or $3.50 rooms,
is OF the same quality. The difference
is in the size and location OF the
rooms.
OF course, every room has teie-
phone and electric light and there is a |
peculiar sense OF cosincss about them |
all. The beds with their box springs |
and mattresses are inviting to the
tired traveller.
Having inspected samples" OF the
$50 rooms we now descend again to
the lobby by q quick. noiseless eie-
vator, and 60 down by the stairs to
the basement, where everything 10
spotless tile and marble.
Here is the barber shop with seven
chairs. presided over by Master Bar
Der Pafdun, who has slso shops at the
Henshaw and Sanford hotels.
Grill In Basement.
Here is also the grill room, . nice
secluded place such &C Is dear to the
hearts of men. And close by Is the
kitchen where all the cuisine Of the
hotel is under direction Of company
of skilled cooks who have at their
disposal everything Of the latest in
the line OF ranges, refrigerators and
cooking utensils.
A separate stairway leafs directly
from the street to the basement so
that one may enter II either from
the street or from the lobby.
The building 10 heated BY steam,
the big boilers being In the sub-base-
ment. There Is also ventilating sys-
TEN which changes the air all over
the hotel every few minutes.