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Show SEIDH HOTEL OPENS DOORS 1 Salt Lake's Fine New Hostelry Begins Business Under Auspicious Aus-picious Circumstances. APPOINTMENTS MODERN IN EVERY PARTICULAR Ten Thousand People Visit the Place and Extend Congratulations Congratu-lations to Proprietor. At 7 o'clock Saturday evening the new Hotel Scniloh. at the corner of State and Second South streets, was thrown open for business, and within ono hour, more than a ttozen names appeared on the register. It is a magnificent hostelry, one of the best in (he west, and the opening Saturday evening was truly a momornblc event for Salt Lake's year-book. During the day fully 10,000 people visited tho new hotel nnd expressed their delight at the beautiful corridor, which is such an important im-portant featuro of a hotel. The first iiersons to register at the hotel wcro Mr. nnd Mrs. Van Alstino of New York City. Mr. Van Aistinc is a friend of Otis S. Holmes, proprietor pro-prietor of thev hotel, and aleo of the Knulsford. and is a prominent cnpilnlist of New York. For throe vcars Mr. Aistinc lived with Mr. Holmes in Los Angeles, and when Mr. Aistinc happened hap-pened to bo in Salt Lake City Saturday Satur-day he told Mr. Holmes that he wanted to sta' at the new hotel, and Mr. Holmes wrote Mr. Alstine's name on the register himself. 'Mr. and Mrs. Aistinc Ai-stinc occupied rooms A-l and A -9. Twenty yoars ago Mr. Holmes was just getting the .Knutsford ready lor opening, which for many years was the leading hotel of the .Intennountaiu country. The late O D. Bandall, of the Corticnllo Silk company, was tho flrst to register at tho Knutsford, Mr. Jiandall died last year, after coining to Utah at intervals for the last qunrtor of a century. After its opening lie always stopped at the Knutsford whon in this city. The second name lo appear on tho register was that of II. C. Griswoiri of Bridgeport, Conn., who is m the city, accompanied by his wife, and the third was that of Mrs. E, Wash-burne Wash-burne of New York City. ! During the ovoning music was furnished fur-nished by Held b band, and tho big cor-vidor, cor-vidor, which has entrances on both State and Second South streets, was crowded till a late hour. The hold is an honor to Salt Lake Citv, and Mr. Holmes received many compliments on it last evening. The corridor was beautifully beau-tifully decorated with carnations for tho opouing, -which together with the handsome furniture and tho artistic oak finishing made a pretty sccno. |