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THE ST. REGIS, NEW YORK, FAST
MAKING FRIENDS.
luxurious Appointments and Perfect
Service at Reasonable CostNovel
Features of Pronounced UtilityA
Distinctly Comfortable and Inviting
Home Atmosphere Bids the Traveler
Welcome.
Some time hence, far enough removed
to give the proper perspective when the
historian of social development in
America comes to the year 190-i aWd the
opening of New York's most palatial
hotel, the St. Eegis, he will start a new
page, or, if he knows his business, digni
fy it with a separate chapter.
Certainly, however, the historian will
dwell at length on the fact that, with
out increasing its rates over any other
first-class hotel or restaurant, the St.
Regis introduced a new note in hotel
ke^pin'g, in that it blended a most de
sirable degree the best public conveni
ences with the genuine comforts of
home life.
To the second casual observer this
may not seem so important as the devel
opment of the turbine engine, or the dis
coverv of wireless telegraphy but when
we consider the multitude with good
homes ^ho frequently travel, or who
elose their houses for a week or a
month or more and live at hotels,
besides the masses in the big city
who, for one reason or another, fre
quentty dine out, the St. Eegis comes
near to conferring a positive boon on
JSTew York's well-to-do residents and so
journers alike.
What is particularly important in this
connection1
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is that its prices are no high
er than at anv other first-class institu
tion of its kind a room with bath ran
be had for five dollars a dav, or a
parlor, bedroom and bath for twelve
dollars a dav and upward while side
bv side with the rarest and costliest
vintages in the wine cellar, is the or
dinary claret at one dollar or so a bot
tle. The restaurant also con'tributes
its evidence in this connection by pre
senting the same scale of prices as
charged at all first-class restaurants and
cafes. While submitting these facts it
is interesting to note that many papers
throughout the country, which were in
nocently the means of creating false im
pressions about St. Eegis prices,
through misinformation from certain
New York sources, have since paid
splendid editorial tributes to the hotel
as such, and to 'the enterprise that had
contributed so grandly to the city's
adornment.
Continuing on the lines which the
social historian would probably pursue,
it is necessary to dwell paiticularly on
the no^e of esthetic refinement which,
in the St. Eegis, is introduced for the
first time. As vou enter its bionze
framed doors, vou recognize, in a vague
wav, the esthetic cause by the vision
of cameo work maible instead of the
tioual machine made production in a
6ense, you realize that the pleasing en
semble is due to the statuary, and that
the heavy Kurdish rug and other fea
1 tures contribute, just as on the upper
floors the gold-plated door plates super
seding the customary brass production
bear a share the effect of the whole,
'"but vo cannot dissect the pervading
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influencu of culture.
Enter
the. 1
dining-room the tea
room with E V. Y. Sewell'ordecoiativ
panels of "Cupid and Psyche," or the
connecting cafe, paneled thruout in
I quartered English oak, or else, if vou
prefer, ascend to the second floor, to the
library, public apartments and the won- i
derful banquet hall, lined with polished
1 Veimont marble, and you will at once
realize the refined atmosphere that is
I all pervasive. Every salon has a
Steinway piano, and everywhere we
notice that the management has ap
pioached the situation from*the point
of view of a host catering to the com,
forts of his guests, and the invisible1
I sign of "welcome, make yourself at
phome," is omnipresent.
i Turning from the esthetic features
I to the utilitarian, we find scientific con
1 ditions and improvements here intro
duced for the first time in hotol-keep
ing. The kitchen of white tile and
glass-top counters and tables, with its
1 eeries of improved machinery, need not
be dwelt upon: suffice it to say that
the motto of the proprietor, Mr.'Haan,
and perhaps the kevnote of his suc
cess, "if the kitchen is wrong, all
1B wrong," has brought about a food
producing place unequaled in the world.
1 The soup cook, roast cook, fish cook
and the pastry cook each has his head
quarters and his staff of assistants. No
woo has been employed in the ap
(ointments of the kitchen, thus insur
absolute cleanliness. As part of
the kitchen service, eveTy floor has i1
service pantry, thus enabling the guests
to dine as comfortably in their rooms
as in the dining rooms below. These
pantries are provided with warming
closets, refrigerators, etc.
Special mention is also due one of
the great luxuries of the St. Eegis
One that remains invisible, but, never
theless, makes its presence most benefi
cently feltH he arrangement for sup
Jlying pure air thruout the house. You
lose your windows to ventilate your
rooms, for filtered air enters the vari
ous apartments thru unobtrusive grat
ings, aften concealed in ^he ornamental
bronze works or decorations. The
process of filtering the air is original
and on simple scientific lines. The
guest has only to turn the dial in his
room to hot or cold, dry or damp, to
be supplied with air according to the
liking, making it an ideal house in
this respect in summer and winter alike.
The easy accessibility of the St.
Regis from all parts of the city is an
other all-important feature in its favor.
The New York Herald of May 30
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nrinted an interview under the head
"St. Eegis Vindicated," with Mr.
JR. M. Haan, proprietor/of the St. Eegis,
who sailed on that date for a three
months' holiday in Europe and inci
dentally to transact some business in
onnection with the hotel. He said, in
part:
"The impression was spread through
out this country and in Europe that no
one could spend a night in the St. Eegis
without expending a small fortune.
Playful exaggerations were accepted by
strangers as statements of fact. Many
persons, I have no doubt, still think
that it costs twenty-five dollars a day
to obtain the most modest accommoda
tions here, although there are plenty
of rooms in the St. Eegis for five dol
lars a day.
"It has been precisely the same with
the menu. The most expensive articles
on the bill of fare have been selected
and described as the frugal fare of the
t. Regis. This idea of excessive prices,
am happy to say, has been generally
dispelled. I leave tomorrow for an
absence of three months, and my mind
is easy because I know that the public,
for whom this hotel was built, has
i gained the_ correct idea of its policy.
''The suite which has been called the
I 'state suite' and the 'royal suite,* and
the other most handsomely furnished
&ut*r. occup.ied fgssssiL
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Special to The Journal.
Chamberlain, S..
6'aturday Evening,
HOTE PERFECTIO N LEffiST WOODEN RAILROAD
NOW A FACT
Milwaukee Company's Crossing at Chamberlain Will Be
Ready for Trains in JuneAnother Step in
the Conquest of the West*
D., June 3.At
Chamberlain, on the bank across the
Missouri river, are now heard the clang
and the roar and the clash of building.
Immense steam pile drivers belch out
volumes of smoke which hang over the
town like a cloud, a sawmill on the
eastern bank shrieks and hums and
buzzes and tiny donkey engines spas
modically spit out spurts of steam.
All this is caused by the building of the sturdy oak is split asunder in its
the new bridge across the river by the proud defiance so is this bridge ex-
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad
P?eteda tnoiweatherattempte
and the extending of its line to Eapid \hl
City and the Pacific coast.
It is another step in the white man's
victory over the stubborn west, and his
tory is repeating itself when the glory
of the conquest falls to a railroad com
pany.
Some twenty odd years ago, Captain
J. A. Eaglin, commanding the steam
boat Josephine, was plying up the river
IHh OLD PuiNUOON BRJDUe A i
and had his attention attracted by a
man on the eastern bank, who waved
his hand fiantically.
"You ha\e some lumber me,"
cried the man.
name ifor
and this is Chamberlain."
"Wheie is Chamberlain?" asked
Captain Eaglin.
"Here," yelled the man, pointing to
a strip of sand, a barren, rocky hill
side and rolling prairie reaching out
to the east.
The lumber was put ashore and on
that day was erected the first house in
Chamberlain. In the years that fol
lowed Captain Eaglm left the river and
is now living in Sioux City. The Jose
phine was run ashoie at Eiverside park,
at Sioux City, and is slowly rusting
away, and Chamberlain has rapidly
gone thru the stages of an Indian trad
ing post and frontier town and is now
reckoned as a railroad center with a
future.
As the country in this vicinity began
to be populated, it soon became appar-
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BRIDGE OVER THE MISSOURI
some engineers who say a wooden
bridge will not be able to withstand
the crush when the ice breaks or the
regular springtime floods come down.
They argue that substantial steel
structures have been unable, often, to
resist the ravages of the river and that
a wooden bridge will go with the first
onrush of the waters.
But as the reed can withstand a
storm by bending to the wind, while
WEST END OF THE NEW C, M. & ST. P. RAILROAD BRIDGE AT CHAMBER
LAIN, S. D.
ent that the railroad would have to be
extended to meet the increasing de
mands of commerce. A short time ago
the need became pressing and the Mil
waukee & St. Paul railroad began to
hurry the extension.
Bridge Ready in June.
J. E. Pinson, a young engineer in
all th
the employ of the company, who had the ranchmen the great grass coun-
been at Kansas City, Mo., was ordered
to construct a bridge at once at Cham
berlain and three davs later was on the
spot looking over the ground. This was
on April 1, and on April 4, 150 men
were at work. On April 8 the first pile
was driven and by June 25 the bridge
will be ready to receive a train.
This haste naturally necessitated a
structure which, tho suitable for pres
ent purposes, is intended to last only
ten or twelve years. Except for a small
portion there is no steel in it, lumber
alone being used. There are, in fact,
two bridges. One stretches from the
town of Chamberlain to American
island, in the middle of the stream, and
another from the west bank of the
island to the west bank of the river.
Tracks will be laid on the island to
join the two bridges.
This is the first wooden railroad
bridge to be constructed over the Mis
souri river. There is much scoffing by
SPANISH QUEEN'S GEMS
ENRICH STANFORD U"
New York, June 3.Jewels originally
the property of Queen Isabella of Spain,
valued at $1,000,000, it was learned to
day, were left by Mrs. Leland Stanford,
wno died under mysterious circum
stances in Honolulu from arsenic pois
oning recently. The gems were given
in^her will to Leland Stanford, Jr., Uni
versity of California. In a few weeks
they will be sold and the proceeds will
go toward a library building for the
university, the cornerstone of which was
laid about ten days ago.
The jewels are divided into five sets
and include some of the most famous
diamonds in the world. Eomance sur
rounds them, as they were taken from
Spain by Queen Isabella in her flight
in the early '30s.
Mrs. Stanford paid $1,000,000 for the
jewels at a private sale.
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Turners' Picnic at Young America.
On Sunday, June 4th, the Minneapolis
& St. Louis E. E. will run two special
excursion trains to Young America,
leaving Minneapolis depot at Washing
ton and Fourth avenues N 900 a. m.,
and 10:15 a. m., on account of the Twin
City Turners' Annual Picnic. Eeturn
ing, special trains leave Young America
6:00 p. m. and 8:00 p. m.
Carey Eoofing will neither run in hoid0*'
weather nor crack in cold weather.
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Z ^No will made
to fight the Missouri. While other rail
road bridges, with their steel and
wrought iron pit strength against
force, this one, in a manner, takes off
its cap to the "Big Muddy," and will
open to allow the river to wend on its
way.
Big Boat Forms a Draw.
In order to do this, a "draw" will
be employed. This draw is nothing
more or less than an immense boat
which will form a part of the bridge
and will swing from the shore to the
standing bridge when necessarv. This
will be used also to allow steamers to
pass up and down the nver.
Jutting from the standing bridge
will be huge .pointed piers, which will
act as guards for the solid part of the
structure and will direct the ice to
the opening. This boat will be 336 feet
long and will be launched shortly.
As the bridge now stands, that por
tion over the west channel is already
completed and the one which is to
span the east channel _is more than half
finished. Beyond the river some 200
men are busy with shovels, erecting
the grade for the rails that will run
straight to the Black Hills.
The piles on which the' bridge stands
are driven twenty-seven feet into the
liver bottom, not to bed rock, but to
something just as substantial and net
as expensive. They are diiven till
they reach a layer of hard gravel and
then seven feet more.
The Old Pontoon.
About a hundred yards from the
bridge, is another very different from
its fellow. This' is the old pontoon
biidgo which has been standing for
eleven vears and which was built by
the citizens of Chamberlain so that
try beyond the Missouri could bring
their droves here for shipment to mar
ket. As these droves bften filled whole
trains, Chamberlain became a familial
name in the development of stock
growing.
This bridge has no pretensions to
style as far as modern engineering is
concerned, but it is remarkably useful.
It is known as a pontoon, supported
by a long row of boats. Just before
the floods come, the bridge is unhooked
and put in a place of safety. At other
times, the floating structure rises and
falls with the stream.
The majority of Chamberlain's citi
zens are overjoyed with the proposed
extension of the railroad,, but there are
still a few of the old timers, who eye
a^railroad suspiciously and grumble of
"no range these days." These men
are by degrees moving across the
river, and their places are being taken
by new-comers.
AMERICAN COUNTESS
SUES FOR A DIVORCE
New York Sun Special Service.
Detroit, Mich., June 3.Countess
Louise May Hecker de Szilassy, daugh
ter of Colonel Frank J. Hecker of De
troit, ex-member of the Panama canal
commission, has begun a suit for di
vorce from Count
GhiylAustria. rde
a Hope Joseph
Szilass of Vienna
Count de Szilassy was for many years
secretary of the Aiistro-Hungarian'lega
tion at Washington, and it was while
on a visit at the capital that Miss
Hecker met the count. They were mar
ried in 1898. The count took his bride
to Austria, where she remained a year,
later coming to Detroit.
Tales of cruelty, never published,
were heard on all sides, but the coun
tess, after a short stay in Detroit, re
solved to go back to the count. She
soon returned to Detroit, however, and
has lived here ever since. Countess
Szilassy charges only non-support in her
bill. She has one child.
YANKEES TO SEE MANEUVERS.
Washington, June 3.It is announced at
the war department that Lieutenant Gen
eral Chaffee, chief of staff, and Brigadier
Generals William Crozier and J. Franklin
Bell will represent the United States at
the maneuvers of the French troops. The
invitation to send United States army of
ficers to that country was extended to
Secretary Taft hf tha French ambossa*
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Our Prize Offer
How the Prizes
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The Men Who
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