Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 27, 1909, Page 55

VO RN CUS— —— LOBBY OF HOTEL MARKHAM, F. 8. LYCAN. Popular I-'lotel Man of the Great Northwest. Mr. Lycan has been a resident of Be- midji for two years only, coming her from Crookston, where he disposed of his hotel interests in order to assume the manage- ment of the Markham hotel, the largest and most luxurious hotel in the state, bar- ring the Twin Cities and Duluth. The Markham hotel, interior and exterior views of which appear in these pages, is a three-story building, not counting the basement. It contains eighty-two rooms, aside from those assigned to the help, and its furnishings are superb in every way that that term implies. Every room in the house is commodious, clean and perfectly ventilated, the furnishings of each are conducive to absolute comfort, while the bedding is all that could be de- sired by the most fastidious or affluent, both as to freshness, cleanliness and tex- ture. The hotel contains private bath rooms, an exceedingly spacious office, and a dining room sufficient to accommodate, in an emergency, several hundred persons, F. S. LYCAN. It is steamheated, the service afforded is of the sort that all high-class ‘hotels ob- serve, and every detail for the convenience and comfort of guests is painstakingly attended to. The cuisine of the Markham hotel should be especially noted, as should also the table service. One of the best chefs ob- tainable is retained to produce the appe- tizing dishes for which the Markham is noted, plenty of help is employed so that promptness as well as- gratification may enter into the preparation of a meal, while the culinary equipment lacks noth- ing which facilitates service and improves the cooking, baking or roasting of edibles. The table service is metropolitan in every vespect, elegant silverware and immacu- late linen forming important adjunects. The tables are conveniently arranged, thus allowing either privacy or party gather- ings, and a corps of polite waitresses serves the guests. The Markham hotel is indeed a decided credit to the city of Bemidji, as it re- flects the fact that this city is an impor- tant railroad center and distributing point, else how could a first-class hotel exist here? The citizens of Bemidji are correspondingly vain in their boast that they possess a hotel of this magnitude and class, and for this they can be par- doned without comment. F. 8. Lycan, the proprietor of the Markham hotel, is @ man of many years of practical hotel experience. He can comprehend the neds of his guests, and he sees to it that their wants are at- tended to. Although having been here for but two years he has exhibited a busi- ness sagacity that has served as the me- dium which impelled his election to the presidency of the Bemidji Commercial Club, and he is conded to be one of the most useful and progressive citizens Be- midji can claim. He is not only alert to the exigencies of this day of grace, but he continually puts into practice all feas- ible theories which are suggested or which may arise. By virtue of his tenure of service in the hotel business, Mr. Ly- can can claim legion friends, he is one of the most widely known men in his business to be found in the state, and The Pioneer can unhesitatingly endorse Mr. Lycan as one of the most energetic and ingenious men that the city affords. = g 2 ¢ § { §