It Will Be A Fine Hotel

AVhen the extensive improvenients tliat are now in progress at the Cook House are completed, Mr. Xowlin will have here in Ann Arbor one of the finest hotel properties in the interior of of the state. The work has progressed so far now that sotne idea can be formed of how thines will look when completed. The office or lobby, as it is now called, which is an important part of any hotel, will coutain more than doublé the room it formerly occupied. It vAl liave about 40 feet front ou Huron st., including the old hall and stairway, and about 75 feet front on Fourth ave. taking in a portion of what was formerly the dining room. This lobby will have two large plate glass windows on the Fourth ave. front, one at the nortli end and the other at the south. The enterance on Fourth ave. has been moved about forty feet south, and will become the ladies entrance to the hotel, while a fine grate aud mantel will ocoupy the place froin which it was moved. The wainscoting and pillars, and office desks will all be marbelized. The south end of the lobby will be supplied with elegant furuiture, desks, etc, to be used for writing purposes and for a ladie's temporary waiting room. Directly opposite the Fourth ave. entrance amagnificentsolid marblestairway has been constructed leading to the second floor. The office will also be located within a few feet of thia entrance. The north entrance will have new doors with modern trimmings. A h andsome tile floor is alsp provided for the entire lobby. The bar will be located where the dining room now is, the front being on Fourth ave., and still south of this two new stores will be erected. The present bar, which is west of the office, will be transformad hito a barber shop, and in the rear of that there has been fltted up with marble furnishings, and all the new improvements in plumbing, the water closets. Probably one of the finest dining rooms in the state will complete the first floor improvementa. This has been erected west of the present dining room. It is 56x31 feet in the clear, and 140 guests can be .seated with ease. The light is entirely supplied from above during the day, and at night a row of incandescent electric lamps surround the room at the point wliere the ceiling and side walls Dieet. There will be a nuinber of chandeliers also, and side lights in plenty. On either side are flre placea, and in the center a large aquarium will be placed. The ceiling is oval in form, and the walls above the five foot steel wainscoting, which completely surrounds the room, will be handsomely frescoed. The floor is of tile in mosaic designs. The entrance is by doublé doors from the Southwest corner of the lobby and just south of the marble staircase. The appointments flttings and furnishings will be entirely new and very neat and complete. A new kitchen is to be built connecting with the dining room on the south. When all the improvements are complete the hotel will accomniodate 125 guests. This gives an idea of what Mr. Nowlin is doing for the Cook House. The assertion is often heard that Ann Arbor lacks a first class hotel, but after these improvements are completed it can be truthfully said no longer. And it is confidently believed that the increased patronage will warrant the outlay. In the meantime the hotel is being run right along, guests accommodated, and the genial countenance of Clerk Mnrnane never takes on an extra scowl amidst all the noise, and dirt, and debris caused by the workmen, He thinks of how fine it will be when com pleted, and lives in expectation. Fred Sèpaey, chief of tihe Aan Arbor iiire departmerrt, and A. V. Botoieon liveryman of tfciat city, were In IVundee. yesterday, in search of a team af liionses which to purchase for use im the fire department.- Dundee Beporter. In tliie snit for divorce brouht by Lora S. Beaeh against Irving Beaeh pi Ypsteati, in tbe Moiw-oo circuit the defendant filed a cnwae bill, securIng a dlvorce hinuseilff, wttb the cus tody of their little daughter. M Oavanaugli of Aun Arbor represente Mr. Beaeh.- Tpsiliantl Sentinel. i