Show GETS THE KNUTSFORD i I Gus Holmes Will be > the Landlord of the East Side House rJ J r rI I I r HAS ORDERED TH FURNITURE I I Will be luxuriantly Furnished and nil the Appointments on a Metropolitan Scale I Other Business Notes I I When the Knutsford opens its doors to I the public Gus Holmes will be the landlord land-lord This is settled In fact it was agreed upon six weeks ago but the intelligence I was not made public owing to an arrangement I arrange-ment between Mr Wendell Benson the lessor and Mr Holmes the lessee J THE KEIULD always on deck for the I news wan first to announce to the public I of that Mr Holmes chances were the best all the competitors and it is again the first to inform its readers from official information informa-tion that Mr Holmes has secured the prize Less informed journals went around in search of other landlords and that those obscure informers may know what is going on in the hotel world it may be well t say here that Mr Warren Leland who wa credited with I desire to pluck tho Knutsford plum has secured a lease on the Browne hotel at Denver An far back as six weeks ago Mr B en son and his partner Mr Cunningham came to an understanding with Mr Holmes in regard t I lea o and since that time they have not looked olsewhoro Matters progressed s satisfactorily that tho numerous nu-merous telegrams and letters of other applicants appli-cants received no further attention than a courteous reply imparting the information t that the matter had already bern settled Gus Holmes 1 t be congratulated A little over a year ago he took charge of the I Continental when it wrs without any particular par-ticular reputation or a remunerative patronage and with a building lily adapted t compete with other and better established estab-lished houses he built up a trade thai enabled en-abled him t pay off the 20000 debt which he contracted In launching that enterprise afoot and to lay up a comfortable sum which he quickly put to good account both for himself and the city in Holmes block on State road NoT that he has secured a L hotel building modern in all its appointments L appoint-ments Gus will administer his stewardship t steward-ship in a way that will place his name l prominently among the leading hosts f of the country The Continental has r been the commercial drummers home I and the fine drawing qualities of Chief Clerk Harris will be transferred to the Knutsford with all the potential magnetism magnet-ism of his dashing blonde hair and incisive olfactory that pries into every mans wants and courteously supplies them I is especially agreeable news that a Salt Lake man came out winner as the aspirants as-pirants Included some thirty men many of them with reputations that reached to both sidos of tho continent Gus will bear the honors with equanimity and devote his time to making the Knutsford equal to tho best i the land and thus popularize Zion far and wide to tourist commercial drummer and healthseeker While certain newspapers were trying t discover a landlord for the Knutsford Mr Holmes was ordering the furniture |