Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 26, 1916, Page 42

e A i 6—E All West Farnam—in fact, ."l Omaha—may enjoy the Blackstone family hotel, if it cares to do so, The! splendid new facilities in the big bulld- ing are not to be restricted to the residents alone, but are thrown open to Omaha and her friends. Individ- vals of the right sort, even those without a single friend living In the building, can secure cards of admis- slon 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 manage the Blackstone hotel. High Class Details. “Since there are neither kitchens nor kitchenettes in the Blackstone, our dining room and the manner in THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBEh 26, 1916. Entertainment, Comfort, Privacy and Art Features of Variety which we operate it, 18 of prime in- terest and importance to our cus- tomers,” says Mr. Moffitt. “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 five or six different breakfasts, a club lunch and an a la carte dinner, the latter from 6 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 of 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- irg room. Transients are welcome —if we happen to have vacant apart- ments. The Blackstone is a family house, not a day-by-the-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 out in sight. For the conven- 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 not expect to find in the most exclusive homes. That's why we call this a house of homes, “There is a telephone exchange, ont of sight, of course, because there is free telephone service from every apartment in the house. This service . 18 unlimited and operates twenty-four hours out of the day. Beauty of Dining Room, “But returning to the dining room. We are proud of that feature. It s the most beautiful dining room in Omaha, beyond a doubt. The walls are in silk, the silverware is the latest ttern “Wallace” ware. Hotel silver entirely different from that used § In private houses. It is much heavier. . awl‘ half 'll dozen places in where silver of this kind be purchased. “In addition to the heavier sflver, our china is much lllglmr kt:u the ordinary . It is known as |’ the “Lamberton” ware and s very beautitul. It breaks much easfer than t.hoordlur.y,dcm:u. but we expect to rs 80 supervised that breakage will be reduced to the mini- mum. Breakage, after all, is mostly | - the kitchen, not among guests. “Ovr head waiter; all our walters, | 80 We arranged for them gnd they are | without seeing Manager of the Blackstone Hotel 3 is only a part of what you get f0r|ln!ernallonnl collections of painting your money at the Blackstone. There {12 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 |18 the great lounging room occupying (half a floor; the big dancing foom {occupying another half of floor; |then there are the thrée roof gardens, the most complete and comfortable things of their kind; |there are the billiard parlors, and ! i there are the thousand-and-one things | “hnl all go along with the single room | which the resident has leased. No| matter whether the resident has one ! iroom 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 jcome in, the friends can be invited to the veception 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 wants 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 {i1s a roof garden opening right off this, 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 warmed by invisible steam' radiators. The ceiling of the ball room is of the “arch” type, the windows are extra wide and extra deep, the window hang- ings are of silk and lace and the chairs are upholstered in silk. We maintain this room for the residents of the hotel and for 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 light refreshment tables. Pictures of Quality. “We are furnishing our place so completely that there will even be pic- tures on the walls. In fact, every room jwill have choice 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., 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 Omaha by the ‘Friends of Art' so- ciety, and we purchased it for the Blackstone hotel. “And this picture, ‘In the Berk- shires,’ by Reyraud, is smaller than |“The Author.’ It cost us $250. But it was just what we wanted to fill this nook. So we purchased it. “We also have secured two other beautiful paintings costing about $1,350—one, ‘The Head of Lock Kathrine,’ 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 ;rLE;ule de Lougpre, is also very beauti- iul. i “Of course, all our pictures will not ibe 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 Inunlly hotel like the Blackstone; they think we have built for an Omaha of the far future. Listen! We have 131 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- plying the demand, not creating it. Sev- eral applicants for apartments in the Blackstone actually sold their homes 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 as 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.” WHAT A NERVE! “Boy, take these flowers to Miss Bertio Bohoo, room No. 12.” “My, sir, you're the 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 sald, ‘She’ll know who they came from.’” ( “The room, or apartment, you know, ystitute at Pittsburg and as one of the apartments, all told, in the Blacke ——E—_“*——*:———'—‘——fi 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 I “Well, here, take my card and tell her these are from the same gentle- man who sent the other three lots.” We Installed 1951 St. Mary’'s Avenue, PLUMBING Sanitary Plumbing Co. == the Plumbing Douglas 3497. g HEATING : LIGHTING —_— | the rooms actually |vitations to all those who had applied| Now, that oil painting over there. It ready for ocotipancy—and without see- |for accommodations. We asked theny to| is called “The Author,” is by Prinet, ence that girls make Privacy Assured. ing the other things that went with|come in and see what they were buy-|and cost us an even $1,500. It was are nicer, more polite,| “Do you know, a hotel of this kind |the rooms. 8o when we had one floor Ing, before we permitted them to lease|brought from Europe two years ago service is more satis-, can be the most private place in the |absolutely complete, we sent out in-|any portion of the building. for exhibition at the Carnegle Art in- Thosco A-1 Varnish mitted to go above the first floor without permission having been se- Throughout the Building Furnished by the Omaha Paint & Glass Co. | the corridors | mission is given only at the request 1615 Dodge St., Omaha. girls, not men. It has |installed. i those In the |of some resident. In that way no are silk; we|strangers nor objectionable characters carpets, coveringlof any kind, can enter the building. Because of the ‘silencer’ used between easing | the walls, absolutely no noise can ut the | filter from one apartment through to 3 another, Silence will therefore be the system 1s indirect and | rule of the house, although residents are the latest and most (make ever so much noise. for ts we could find. safety from fire—there’s ‘nothing to very little use{burn but the window casing and the furniture. You might burn everything in the place and it would scarcely bring | keep you warm on a winter's day. “We adopted what we considered a fair and reasonable plan in the renting tgubrlhg of our apartments tlers, any to tie themsel: 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 ASPHALT SLATE, TILE Cool Spakling AtheY Metal Weather Strip :g)cl“%ggrrnms fi:::::&:}gggox At x‘“firm“' Made and lnsgllled in Omaha ROOF COATING WATERPROOFING e X e In all windows in Blackstone Hotel. . . 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