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THE HUTCHINSON NEWS KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1923 SECOND SECTION HUTCHINSON AND TRAVELERS WILL WELCOME NEW HOSTLERY Plenty of Room (or Hotel Stamey WhicK Opened Today. MODERN IN ALL DETAILS Attention Given to Comfort of Guests in Fitting Place by Experienced The opening of the Hotel Stamey today brings Into oxlstencc a much, needed hostelry, one located, up In the newer uortli end pitrt or K'H 'tiou, where business has neon moving during the year. The llolel Stamey. Is one of the very best examples of modern hotol oulMftift and the fltlinK up of been carried out to be in with building. First Impressions.

Entering the lobby froili (lie Fifth avenue entrance one in struck by the tvindsome Gothic style wblrh is pre eyo. The heavy walnut beamed ceilings, the soft of the Tiffany tlntod walls, the quaint Golli- lighting effects, all tnako a bar v.onlous on the visitor. The lobby Is fitted with comfortable chairs, 1he desk Is over In the noi'lhwest cor- of the room and rinint; out of the center of the lobby Is the handsome titairwuy to the mezznuiue Hoer. Here a cozy effect is made to bo and the visitor has a fooling'of being in the center of the hotel Itto and yot out of the hurry of The floor is covered with a mulberry padded with three thicknesses of felt, and t.he furniture Is ot wicker with tapestry cushions, to tone the'color scheme of the room. This room looks small yet it look one hundred yards of carpet to cover it.

120 Rooms, Half With Bath. Above the first floors are Lhe sleeping rooms, a most important part of hotel keeping. There are 120 rooms, In the hotel, CO of. them with Uath rooms, all have running bo' and cold water In them, together with ice cold drinking water which Is a fcatuie of iill modern hotels Uiday. The (Xilor In the bed rooms hud been tarried out all over tho house.

The furniture is a specially prepared grey wood, I'hich will resist the hard knocks ICE WATER CIRCULATES TO EVERY STAMEY ROOM The Hotol Stamey Is tho first In Kansas to adopt the modern system of dispensing ice water to its quests. In every room thero It a tap v.hloh brings Ice as tho guest desires, dispensing with the annoyance of ringing for a boll hop and Incidentally saving a considerable amount In tips. The. ico water circulating sys- tern was added to Hutchinson's newest hostelry at a coat of $2,500. An Immenso filled from an' outside chute fur- nlshes the necessary chill for the water.

"It means that Ice water there for letting just a littlo wa lor run from the tap," said Willis Malone, one of the proprietors. The Hotel Stamey EXPERIENCED MAN TO HANDLE FOOD Paul Hogan, Late of Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, Engaged by Stamey Management. Tho rnlHiue department of tlRrHotel Stamey will bo prosified over by Paul Motrin, us malt re dc hotol, furmorly of tho Hlar-ksione at Chicago. Hogan wasn't certain ho wanted to oorno nut to tho prairie town of Mutch- iii when, tho xuaitor wan first broached to him. Ho was parthuilar about tho salary, anyone who ralln himself a nfaitre do hotol would ho that.

hut. especially wanted to know uhout the equipment be was to preside Ho came to Hutchinson, he gloated over tho arrangements, his fingers fairly to begin on tho handling of the -strives, t.lio Itumaeuhito steam serving tables and ho eaRerly put his name down on the contract. Everything Compact, And who wouldn't want to preside over such a room who had the least inkling of cooking at their end. Tho kitchen is 48x10 feet, ARCHITECTURE OF HOTEL PLEASING Stamey Adds to Appearance of Main Street. GOTHIC IDEA IS FOLLOWED Terra Cotta Carried to Making Attractive Cost Near $200,000.

ROSE ROOM IS which hoUsLfurnlturfl worli "'Oo-Unea with stoves- the bods are of irrav ne apparatus. This consists of twelve quick service ranges the beds are of gray bus besldo the bod. two chairs, a dressing table, writing table, small sUiiut for the reading lamp. The car- pot Is of a soft gray with a conventional design, tho ecru curtains have draperies of a warm mulberry shade which tones well with the gray. Tole.

'Phono service Is 1n each room, local and long distance. On each floor there are suites of rooms which can bo used for special parties seating forty or fifty guttata. And there are the double rooms which are used by salesmen for samplotnoins, Instead of the old stylo of showing goods In basement rooms or in stray corners. All for Guests' Comfort. Tho oorrldors are all carpeted In soft mulberry enrpot, the samo as used on "tone mezzanine floor, and on enoh.ftoor the etching which is used in decorating tho soft tintod walls is varied.

Not a featuro which looks toward the comfort of tho travelling public luis boon overlooked by tho hotel proprietors, Uuclianan and Malone. EACH OF LESSEES HAS HIS INDIVIDUAL TASK Veterans of Hotel Game, Each Has Followed Different End of Management. with two double bake ovons, cake, griddle and waffle stove, a duty range, with meat ovens, a fire proof compartment Ijnke oven for warming purposes. Tho steam table -Is all of white enamel wlbt a cutting board at each end. The -big Viking automatic refrigerator stands at the west end of tho room.

Can Serve Many. The dish washing will all be done, at tho east end ot the kitchen, a hinged window allowing the soiled dishes to be passed la to the dish, washer without having to iuiarioii: with the serving of food. This small room Is so equipped that 1.500 to 1,800 people can be served at each meal, some 60,000 if necessary, nccordlng to Landlord Huchanan. Two shifts of five cooks each preside during tho service hours. Wooden Water Pipes.

an excellent state of preservation, ono ot the old wooden waterluains put in more than 40 years ago was workman-engaged ill- excavating a trench for a twenty-four in main at. the intersection of Waco and Douglas streets, they reported. It was necessary to chop out a section of the pipe to enable them to dig ttfcthe required depth, they said. The wootMs cedar and the pipe is bound by iron hoops. GOODFEATURE Provides Place for Small Supper and Dancing 60.

The- Rose room, the special dining room of tho hotel, Is one feature which will appeal to hostesses-- who havo parties away from homo. Situated at the west end ol the building it separate from tho hotol proper and the Coffee hero real, recihercbe imrlics will be given. Rose.Color Scheme. Tho color scheme will be carried out lu ashes ot roses and gray, tho walls In panoled effect, with a stoticilled design in roses. The floor Is of two inch oak, will bo waxed and polished for dancing.

When the room Is being used for dinner ties only, the floor will bo covered with a carpet of ashes of roses hue Seating capacity of the Kosu room will be 75. Balcony for Small Parties. In tho Hose room is a balcony where tho very nicest ot parties can given. Tho seating capacity of tho balcony will bo sixteen and tho tablo appointments will be In keeping with tho sorvico. Tha ohina tor tho balcony parties will ho a cloverleaf, gold band- (Coutinued on Page Second Soc.) SERVICE IS IDEA IN COFFEE ROOM SHADES CHOSEN FO Fine Ventilating System K.eep.i,P.egues-Wright Store Had Cfln- it Free From Odor of Ccoking Food.

tract to Cover in Hotel Stamey. The Coffee room of the Hotel Stamey, separated from 'hotel lobby by an art lass partition Is tho latest word in hotel serving. The heavy expense entailed by dining rooms lias caused cutting (ml the rooms in all modern hotels and Instead having coffee rooms which can serve tho patrons at all hours of the day and most ot tho njglrt when they want to eat and tho way they want to eat. i Tho Coffee room is decorated the beamed celling and panelled walls carried cm in tho lobby. White porcelain topped tables will be scattered around tlie room and a wide counter will also take care of the patrons.

The room will be just off the kitchen and yet by the fino ventilating system whidh has been inaugurated not a bit ol the cooking odors will annoy tho diners. 'Plie south siilo of tho room Is all of, windows which by a patented method can he opened so that tho fresh air circulates yet not blow directly on the tables or the guests. Aiso tiio Coffee and Hoso rooms and the kitchens will be i uoled oft every six minutes by a flow fresh cold air (Continued on Pago ocoml Sec! FIXTURES DELAY OPENING OF STORE Weesner and Collins Prevented From Sharing in Glory of Formal Opening- Today. W. i'l archifuou of tho now Slanicy Hut ol can wo 11 bo proud of this building which a givat doal to tho heaivty of Bon.

Tho has ed at a cost of approximately $170,000. The following description of tho archi- tectum of iho huildinj: is tfivim by Arthur Barnfts, of the llul.se Co. "The final havo horn applied on the fin; ork ot iho new hotel. Tho urehitei; of (his ing luta boon carried nui to a tJvthie effect with th" oxi 'M -ii-r the rttnn'turi' trimim-d In terra Tiiui trimming has ic-ed around first story so as to i "nr very design with the space Inv- t.ween tho windows and up to the water tablo beiiiK eompk'ted with a smooth face grey hrtrk sMrfare. Has Pleasing Appearance.

"The architect uru! terra volt a has been workod into the design so as to feature tho end nf build- wlt.U the same decorations capped oft Willi Cnthje ornaments so as to r.i>mp]e[.' the in very iirlistie nuuiiier. "The buiidiiiK bus bei'ii (le.u;;ned that tho Kifth Avenue lMupf will occupy the Main corner of 4 ho buildiiie, with ho hof.d lobby lnea in the center. It is ai'rangt-d that It also has an cutrancp from l-'ii i li Avenue. This room has been provided with a vontilation Msiem so arranged that it wiUi tlie Utndien SVH rein. A Inn is toeafed uti the roof for all the ventilation, of tho lobby, wHMhroom.

r.i)i:'"e i-ho 5 Hose mom and kitchen. Can Throw Open Windows, 'The coffee has b-ea provided A Itirhard -W ix win- 'hat. Iho he thrown in the completion of the Stumev liotel, Co. hoid con tracts for tho window Khado.K. "Thci-o aro 185 windows in the hotel and each was Kupplicd with a.

cream colored Hretilin Khado," said (M A. itodman, liead of the IV- fAUes-Wi'lgttt drapery department. 'This jAWtic.ular make wan chosen he- cauHo of woarlng qualitieia. "Bienlin shades aro mado of a good (pialiiy and are guaranteed against cruoking and pinholes. Tlmy are not ftllod with a chalk composition like many at tho "Tho ilronlin ahodoa are exoolleut for use lu 3uch a -laco for they are durable and will stand the more or less hard usage given thorn by lers," said Mr.

Hodman. Brenttn shades aro handled exclusively by Pogues -VViight Co. Draperies Tor the Coffee. Room were also BUppliod by PeguoH-Wright. They are not eluborato but.

very attractive Lwith frlnge-trinuned pongeo valances at tho casement windows. Oxford orosH not in roso and blue will he usud on the Moiswinliio floor. tleeoratittg for the U-oso Uoom will also ho by ('o. Tho details for t.hls room wilt bo elded upon in the near future. which are tin front, of lw Tho of design has been carried out In the interior of tho building as well on the outside.

Tin of tlio lobby and tho coffee have been with Cloth ic typo wooden beanie. The Ha mi design in carried nit in the wooden doors, windows. paneling, stairs and also into the lighting "Tho ligtiting fixt ures leave bfct: manufactured especially fortius build designed by the mateh with the other interior finish' lug. Fireproof Throughout. Thta building bus cons! rueted Inability J.p get delivery on fivtiires icevenU the fine new Weesner Collins drug atoro which occupies the comer room of tho new Motel'Slainoy building from sharing honors in today's opening.

The drug store will jm formal opening at a later dale, nrub nf fireproof materialu, with all of superstructure made of reinforced ably at the same time aa the reeni, a special dining room in the hotel which til no is nuoompleted. The new drug store will ho t.he most modern being light and airy. In these days drug Btoroti and, their soda fountains are just im-' hotel Miitruneiw have bet worked out to hotels a.s the bar room w.vt in a design i.o toatch with tho in the days before Volstead. exterior of the building- Those can- No date etui be sot for the drug store oab's nro bejrig fini'-dp-it In a opening, pending receipt of the per- vu lor Wire glusn celltngs have been essary fixture- store la nepar-! prov idod In ihos-e canopies no that they crefe. All the main stairways: aro of stool count met hm Incbhllng tho I ire escape on I.lie we end of i ho building.

Tho whieb cover the two Mod from the corridor loadlug from the. Main street entrance by a glass wall. As a nuttfer fact tho entire store is largely Kurroimtiud by gla-s, The mere fact that man has a sou! doesn't seem to caime him to behave belter than animals (ilobo. will bo water proof ainl still provide all th" light ueco-euiry for the The Alien County Fair, work on tho exposition building' for the Allen County Fair, which will open tit the park on ust. L'7, la prael completed.

Willis Ma-lone and Claude Buchanan, Jesseos of the new Hotol Stamey wlthih. waa iformally opened today never conflict in their management tor each talcea a separate end of the overseeing. The two grew np together in HniitsvtUe, and each gained an ambition aa a hoy to enter tho hotel jHUiiiiesH. Perhaps it was tho sleek looking clark at the HuntHViUc tavern who inspired t'hla ambition. At all events eadh onlered tho hotol business eventually and each look a separate line.

Malone has his attoutfon to office management and admits bo knows little about the kitchen end of the game. Mr. Buchanan on the other hand would like to stay around the kitchen all tho time nnd does not lntorfere witlh the other details. HOTE OPENING COMES AT AN OPPORTUNE TIME The opening ot the Hotol Stamey comes ut a very opportune time witlh tho KanBas Stute fair and tall conventions approaching. Never haa Hutchinson been to accommodate Its atate fair visitors despite fairly good tiotol accommodations.

Addition ot the Hotel Stamey means accommodations for perhaps 250 or more additional visitors, because everyone 'la-slad to double up for that period. Hotol rooms are usually at A premium. Hutchinson residents will probably still bo called upon to supply mapy roonie but this, will reduce the uunibur. CORNER ROOM HOTEL STAMEY Owing to our fixtures not yet having arrived we are compelled to delay our opening until a later day. Meanwhile we will be glad to take care of all patrons at the Weesner Drug Store, No.

3 S. Main Store W. A. Coffin TONIGHT IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY To Visit the Hotel Stamen And See the Plumbing and Heating System That Our Experts Have Made I'ossible fur Hutchinson and 'this Community to Enjoy. BRING YOUR PLUMBING AND HEATING PROBLEMS TO US.

Fred Weesner Arnold Sawyer 105 West 5th Phone 3645 Hutchinson, Kansas.