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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 26. 1916.
Entertainment, Comfort, Privacy and Art Features of Variety
All West Farnam In fact, all
Omaha may enjoy the Blackston
family hotel. If It cares to do so. The
' splendid new facilities In the big build
ing are not to be restricted to the
; residents alone, but are thrown open
' to Omaha and her friends. Individ
uals of the right sort, even those
without a single friend living In the
building, can secure cards of admis
sion which will give them the priv
ilege of the roof gardens on top of
the building the finest viewpoint in
, all Omaha. So states Franklin V. Mof
fitt, the man who has been chosen to
manace the Blackstone hotel.
, High Class Details.
' "Since there are neither kltchena
nor kitchenettes In the Blackstone,
our dining room and the manner in
which we operate It, Is ot prime in
terest and importance to our cus
tomers." says Mr. MoffltL "Take
: It for granted that we have the best
chefs obtainable. You will make no
mistake In taking my word for that.
Our dining room Is operated on the
' European plan. There are Ave or six
different breakfasts, club lunch and
an a la carte dinner, the latter from
t to 8 o'clock. While primarily for
our residents, outsiders are welcome
to any and all of these meals, in
fact, we have had many applications
from people living In this end ot the
city and we expect to cater to out
siders, especially as to dinner.
"But we will not cater to the tran
sient trade, neither In rooms nor din
ing room. Transients are welcome
if we happen to have vacant apart
ments. The Blackstone is a family
bouse, not day-by-tbe-day hotel.
"So anxious are we to escape the
appearance of a commercial hotel that
we have not even a counter in our
office. Nor Is there to be a cigar
stand oat in sight For toe eonven
. lence of our residents, we have a place
In the basement, near, the billiard
rooms, where cigars can be purchased,
We have nothing in our office that
you would cot expect to find in the
most exclusive homes. That's why we
call this a bouse of homes,
"There li telephone exchange, ont
of sight, of course, because there Is
tree telephone service from every
apartment in the house. This service
is unlimited and operates twenty-four
nours out 01 ue day.
Beauty of Dining Room.
"But returning to- the dining room.
We are proud of that feature. It Is
the most beautiful dining room In
Omaha, beyond a doubt The walls
are in silk, the silverware is the latest
pattern "Wallace" ware. Hotel silver
Is entirely different from that used
In private houses. It is much heavier.
There are only half a dosen places in
the country where silver of this kind
can be purchased.
"In addition to the heavier silver,
our china Is much lighter than the
ordinary chlnaware. It is known as
the "Lamberton" ware and la very
beautiful. It breaks rnuch easier than
the ordinary china, but we expect to
have our affalra so supervised that
breakage will be reduced to the mint
inum. Breakage, after all, is mostly
, In the kitchen, not among guests.
"Our bead waiter: all ur .it.r.
In fact are girls, not men it h..'
been our experience that girls make
better waiters, are nicer, more polite,
and that their service is more satis
factory, especially In a family hotel.
Therefore, we nave engaged girls for
"Just n.word about our walls and
arpets. The walls in the corridors
: are covered with velvet; those In the
ladles' reception rooms are silk; we
.spent 120,000 for carpets, covering
every Inch of the corridors, halls and
rooms with expensive and pleasing
carpeting. All the hangings about the
hotel are beautiful.
"The lighting system Is Indirect and
the fixtures are the latest and most
pleasing effects we could find.
"While we can see very little nse
for private servants in the house, yet
we have arranged to take care of anv
servants our residents wish to bring
with them. We are furnishing free
tnald service to every room. But sev
eral of our residents asked to bring
their private maids or their butlers.
Manager of the Blackstone Hotel
MV.t,
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fflr&ANKLnr v. $1- I
so we arranged for them and they are
installed.
, Privacy Assured.
"Do you know, a hotel ot this kind
can be the moat private place In the
world? No one, not a resident Is per
mitted to go above the first floor
without permission having been se
curer at ue office. And that per
mission Is given only at the request
of some resident. In that way no
strangers nor objectionable characters
of any kind, can enter the building.
Because ot the 'silencer used between
the walls, absolutely no noise can
filter from one apartment through to
another. Silence will therefore be the
rule of the house, although residents
make ever so much noise. As for
safety from fire there's nothing to
burn but the window casing and the
furniture. You might bum everything
In the place and It would scarcely
keep you warm on a winter's day. ,
"We adopted what we considered a
fair and reasonable plan In the renting
ot our apartments. We did not wih
lutlers, any to tie themselves up with a lease
Athey Metal Weather Strip
In all windows in Blackstone Hotel.
... . . Excludes cold and dust.
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LEW WEN WORTH, Inc.
Walnut 2065 4011 Cuming Street
Hoisting Engine,
Material Elevators and
Concrete Handling Equipment
Furnished by
Sunderland Machinery
and Supply Co.
1006-10 Douglas Street, Omaha, -
without seeing the rooms actually
ready for occupancy and without see
ing the other things that went with
the rooms. 80 when we had one floor
absolutely complete, we sent out in
vitations to all those who had applied
(or accommodations. We asked then to
come in and see what they were buy
ing, before we permitted them to lease
any portion ot the building.
Thosco Al Varnish
Throughout the Building
Furnished by the
Omaha Paint & Glass Co.
' 1015 Dodge St, Omaha.
1 "The room, or spartment, you know.
Is only a part of what you get for
your money at the Blackstone. There
Is the private bath. There is Ice water
always In the room, and maid service.
There Is the reception room on each
floor, just outside the elevator. There
Is the great lounging room occupying
half a floor; the big dancing room
occupying another half of Jk floor;
then there are the three- roof
gardens, the most complete and
comfortable things of their kind;
there are the billiard parlors, and
there are the thousand-and-one things
that all go along with the single room
which the resident has leased. No
matter whether the resident has one
room or an apartment of a dozen
rooms, he has the use of all the other
conveniences without one cent of ex
tra expense.
To Entertain Friends.
"If a man and his wife, with a one
or two-room apartment have friends
come In, the friends can be invited to
the reception room, to the lounging
room or to the roof gardens for en
tertainment The one-room or two
room resident has all the luxuries of
a millionaire. He uses his rooms to
sleep in or In which to retreat when
he wanta to get off by himself; at
other times he has a half-million dollar
home In which to entertain his friends.
Ball Rooms and Roof Gardens.
The big ball room on the eighth
floor Is forty by seventy feet and there
Is a roof garden opening right off
mis, so that when dancers become
heated they can go out into the gar
den. In summer this garden, shaded
by a pergola that Is covered with
vines, Is cool and pleasant. And In
the winter the garden will have a cov
ering of glass and will be delightfully
warmea Dy mvisiDle steam radiators.
The ceiling of the ball room is of the
arch type, the windows are extra.
wiuc oiiu mub ueep, me winuow nang-
ings are 01 silk and lace and the
chairs are upholstered in silk. We
maintain this, room for the residents
or me noiei ana lor their friends.
"And the great lounging room, on
the same floor as the ball room
that Is a feature new in hotels. There
is a grand piano in the lounge. The
residents can take their guests up
there, or they can go themselves. The
piano is of the "player" type, and
there are selections of all sorts all
for the amusement and pleasure of our
residents.
"For banquets and lectures, the ball
room will be used. Arranged for lec
tures, the room will seat 250 people.
And practically the same number of
banqueters can sit down at the same
time.
"In one of the roof gardens there Is
a soda fountain and lieht refreshment
tables.
Pictures of Quality.
"We are furnishing our nlace so
completely that there will even be pic
tures on the walls. In fact, every room
111 nave cnoice pictures. Not of
course, the expensive paintings we
have purchased for the public portions
or rather, for those portions of the
hotel where all our residents gather.
Now, that oil painting over there. It
is called "The Author," Is by Prlnet,
and cost us an even J1.600. It was
brought from Europe two yeara ago
for exhibition at the Carnegie Art In
stitute at Pittsburg and as one of the
International collections of painting
exhibited there it figured in a war
episode that for a time made its fate
rather uncertain. It was captured
while on the water, but through "in
fluence" was freed. It was brought to
umana Dy me -friends ot Art- so-
Blackstone hotel.
"And this picture, 'In the Berk
shlres," by Reyraud, Is smaller than
'The Author.' It cost us $250. But it
was just what we want ad to nil thiB
nook. So we purchased it.
We also have secured two other
beautiful paintings costing about
$1,350 one, 'The Head of Lock
Kathrlne," by Charles Stuart, is con
sidered by many to be the most beauti
ful of the entire lot, and the picture
entitled 'Roses and Lilacs,' painted by
Roule de Lougpre, is alto very beauti
ful. "Of course, all our pictures will not
be like those four, and yet those are
only 'starters.' We expect to purchase
others as we get around to it and to
hang them where our residents and
their friends can enjoy them.
"Some of our friends seem to think
that we must educate Omaha up to a
family hotel like the Blackstone; they
think we have built for an Omaha of
the far future. Listen! We have 131
apartments, all told, in the Black
stone. We had 252 applications for
apartments thirty days before the ho
tel was ready to open. Does that look
like Omaha is not ready for the Black
stone? As a fact, the demand was
here long ago; we simply took ad
vantage of that demand; we are sup-
clety. and we purchased It for the 1 plying the demand, not creating it Sev-
nialratnna hr.lAl ! I ,1 i . . .
ri in uifpiii-tiuit iur uiiruueuis in lae
Blackstone actually sold their homea
and got ready to make their future
homes in the hotel.
"The Blackstone Is going to be man
aged in a manner that is just a up-to-date
as Is the building itself. When
we do that, we can do no more. For
the Blackstone is the last word in fam
ily hotels."
Miss
WHAT A NERVE1
"Boy, take these flowers to
Bertio Bohoo, room No. 12."
'My, sir, you're tie fourth gent
wot's sent her flowers today."
What's that? What the deuce?
Who sent the flowers?"
'Oh, they didn't send any name.
They all said, 'She'll know who they
came from.'"
"Well, here, take my card and tell
her these are from the same gentle
man who sent the other three lots."
Structural Iron and Steel
Furnished by
Paxton & Vierling Iron Works
Manufacturers of
Structural and Ornamental
Iron and Steel
Office and Works: So, 17th St. & U. P. Ry.
OMAHA
We Installed the Plumbing
Sanitary Plumbing Co.
1951 St. Mary's Avenue.
Douglas 3497.
PLUMBING
HEATING
LIGHTING
ASPHALT .
PITCH, TAB
HOOFING SUPPLIES
BOOF COATING
SLATE, TILE
GRAVEL, COMPOSITION
ASBESTOS BOOFING
WATEBFROOFLVG
National Roofing Co,
(Incorporated)
.' 'i
Roofing Contractors
ESTABLISHED IN 1878.
Omaha, Nebraska. Branch, Slonx City, Iowa,
Growing With Growing Omaha
BAKER ICE MACHINE CO.
OMAHA'S FINEST FAMILY HOTEL
IS EQUIPPED WITH A
BAKER Modern
Refrigerating Plant
' COOLING THEIR ICE BOXES
Made and Installed in Omaha
BY
BAKER ICE MACHINE COMPANY
OMAHA - - NEBRASKA
Cool Sparkling
Water
At All Times.
INSTALLED IN THE BLACKSTONE
ILLINOIS VACUUM
HEATING SYSTEM
- THE ACIDS W HEATINa
Illinois Engineering Company
OMAHA OPTICS, Bee Bld. CHICAGO.
The Billiard Room Equipment
OF THE
Blackstone Hotel
was especially designed
and manufactured by
The Brunswick-Balke-Collcndcr
Co.
Omaha Office, 409 South 10th St.
A. P. THOMPSON, Manager,
Branches in all Principal Cities
Century Furniture
Company
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Makers of Period
Furniture Repro
ductions and Com
positions in Design
Factory and Salesroom New York Off ice jnd Salesroom
Grand Rapids, Mich. 25 West Forty-fifth Street