The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-01-04
THE NEW NEWBERRY IS
NOW OPEN FOR GUESTS
Fitted Up New in All Departments
With Hot and Cold Water in All
Rooms-Beautifu Lobby.

It was for long time unpleasant
for Newberry man to hear as he
travelled on the train the travelling
men talk about the hotels of New
berry and how they arranged their
schedules so as to avoid the town for
a night. And they did. It was ia
miliar sound to hear them talk about
the poor old Newberry and the ac-
commodations they received. And
no hotel man, however expert in the
business he may have been, could
have run first class hotel in the old
building with the old furniture and
other things Of a former generation.
But now that is all changed. Let
the credit be given to MIR. Geo. W.
Summer, who bought the hotel block
some time ago, and for the past sew
eral months has had expert workmen
busy. tearing out the Old and putting
in the new. And to Mr.. Ernest Sum-
raer, the architect, who planned and
supervised the work. The doors OF
The New Newberry were thrown
open to the public on the first day
of the year, though all the work was
not entirely completed, but it was
necessary, because in the memory OF
the Oldest inhabitant Newberry had
not been without hotel until dur
ing the past few weeks when Mr..
Bolin decided to move to Spartan
burg and closed the National. It will
be open also in a day or two under
the management Of Mr.. Duff, who
has come to Newberry from Denmark
to take charge.
1t is difficult task to take an old
building and make a new one out OF
it, but Mr.. Summer, with the expert
supervision and expert men he has
had at work there for the past sew
eral months has. accomplished the I'M
! possible, and the entire inside OF the
building has been done over and ali
the rooms refurnished and new cell
ing and new floors put in, and you
can not tell that it is an old build
ing. And then the new part from rom
the ground up is SO connected With
the other building that you do not
know when you pass from the old to
the new, one continuous hall connect
ing the two.
AN the rooms are fitted up with
hot and cold water and mest of them
either with single or connecting bath,
and all with telephone connecting
with the Office or to any part of the
world. And the lobby and the din
| ing room are beauties and lovely to
behold. A main feature ,of the lobby
is the skylight overhead which gives
ample light by day, and the beautiful
electric chandeliers light it up by
night. Tile floors and marble Wains-
| coating make it a pleasant place IN
| which to while away the idle mo-
ments. The building is steam heat
ed throughout and the cold OF winter
will not bother you in the least.
Mr.. W. w. Bullock is the manager
and he is as happy over the nice new
place as little girl with her Christ
mas doll, and Mrs. Bullock is an ex-
pert in the line of the culinary de-
nartnent and the meals will be OF
the best that any market affords. Be
cause she knows how to have prepar-
ed and to have served. The two are
experienced hotel folk and appre-
| ciate the advantage Of being cour.
teous and polite to the travelling pub
lie, and that is the only way to make
a hotel popular. When you enter
the lobby at the New Newberry you
are reminded of what Mr.. Brlnson
said to US on the day before ne open
ed the Oregon at Greenwood the last
time. We happened in Greenwood
that afternoon and walked into the
lobby of this hotel and Mr.. Brlnson
was busy arranging the pot plants
around the room, and he said he had
lust returned from an inspection OF
hotels in other sections Of the coun-
trv and at some of them as he walk
ed in he had the feeling that they
hhad fixed up because he was coming,
and especially for him, and that ne
wanted the people who came to stop
with him at the Oregon to have the
same sort of feeling, that he had Tx
ed up because they were coming, and
he wanted to keep the hotel in that
condition all the time. And that is
the spirit that will make any hotel
popular, to be fixed up all the time
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