The Holly Inn Opens
Its Hospitable Doors
There is a flag now flying on the Village Green and the
sound of gay music floats across the street even to our Inner Sanctum, which
signifies that The Holly Inn is now open.
Informally, The Inn has been open since the 8th.
A kind hearted manager opened at that date in order to take in guests beating
at the doors and unwilling to wait for the furbelows and formality of the 10th.
These guests came and endured the odor of paint, and the sound of the hammer and
saw, and the clatter of moving furniture, rather than wait for the appointed
hour. This is complimentary.
Old guests, on entering the lobby, will stare in amazement
at the beauty of the new decorations. The lobby is newly lighted, and painted
in white; newly papers in a pale buff shade and curtained with filmy deep-red
draperies.
In the music room and in the parlors the decorator elected
to hang lovely gold-colored silk curtains. There are full length mirrors at one
end of the hall, and here ladies will gather after dinner and congest traffic
unless one of those new yellow “No Parking Here” signs be installed at that
point. The dining room is a heavenly vision in white—spotless, dainty, quiet,
refined.
And over all preside Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald with great
personal charm and unbounded hospitality. The famous Deschanel is in the
kitchen, and his French concoctions are the pride of the house. The staff
includes Mr. Wm. Kelly, Room Clerk; Miss Katharine Jones, stenographer; Miss
Lucy D. Perkins, Cashier; Mr. Henry Easton, Night Clerk; Mr. Earle Bedell,
front Clerk; Mr. Roy W. Bowles, Head Waiter; Mr. Harold Themmen, Steward; Mr.
Paul Anstey, Head Bellman; and Miss Belle Fitzgerald, Housekeeper.
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