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2 » THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES -- Greater Oshawa Edition -- SATURDAY. AUGUST 11, 1928 EXTENS IVE REMODELLING ) COMMERCIAL HOTEL % Complete Transformation Will Be Effected at a Cost of $70,000--Proprietors p : # iH e . 2 =n Plan to Meet Demands of Long-Established Clientele--Extra Storey Will Provide Twenty-one Additional Bedrooms--Dining Room to be Enlarged to Requirements of Banquet Hall. BLE Fr LJ The mew and greater Commercial Hotel, as it will appear upon com pletion, N the life of an individual, the first requisites are food and shelter, In the life of a community, hotel accommoda- tion is an essential and insep- arable part of the problem of housing and food supplies, for the reason that trade depends largely upon the facilities pro- vided in the way of intercourse, The hotel accommodation provided by a city is an unfailing barometer of its standard of progress. Hotel im- ions are abiding. The reception accorded by "mine host" is a fore- taste of the business attitude one may expect. The difference between good and evil report broadcasted by the stranger within our gates is fre- quently accounted for by the impres- sion gained at the local hotel. No progressive . community seeking a place in the sun can evade the hotel question, At a time when the city of Osh- awa is witnessing such rapid indus- trial growth and increase of popu- lation, at a time when widespread interest is being taken in the oppor- tunities afforded by our development, it is reassuring to find that the ho- tel question is not being sidetrack- ed, In the vanguard of progress is the Commercial Hotel, whose record of half a century of service places it in the front rank of provincial hostel- ries. A popular rendezvous among commercial men, famed among hun- dreds of motorists on the Toronto- Montreal highway, the Commercial is part and parcel of Oshawa's business life, Among the travelling men--and among quite a few Oshawans for that matter--the cuisine at the Commer- cial has become a proverb. In hotel service there are good traditions and bad: the Commercial has always lived up to the best. The prestige attach- ing to fifty years' service is one of its greatest assets, Hotels may come and hotels may go, but the Commer- cial continues the policy of service upon which it was founded in 1878, An Expenditure of $70,000 It is such considerations as these, coupled with an appreciation of the forward trend of the city's progress, which induced the proprietor of the Commercial, George McTaggart, to undertake the extensive scheme of al- terations illustrated in the accomp- anying sketch. The enterprise is a considerable one, involving the ex- penditure of $70,000, The work is to be started without delay. A few months hence the Com- mercial Hotel will be an entirely dif- ferent building irom the Commercial of today, both in appearance and in the facilities it provides. The building will be transformed by extending the first floor to the street line, the provision of an at- tractive balcony above, and the addi- tion of another storey which will give twenty-one bedrooms, raising the total to sixty-one. The flat roof shown in the illustration will replace the present peak roof, The remodelling of the interior will provide an enlarged rotunda and enlarge the dining-room to the pro- portions of a banqueting hall. = This will enable the management to mect the growing demands made upon it by fraternal societies, sporting organ- izations and others. The interests of the commercial traveller are assured by the provision of additional sample rooms on the ground floor, The completion of the proposed ex- tensions will give the enlarged Com- mercial Hotel a frontage of ninety feet and a depth of onc hundred and fifty feet. The proprietors of the Commercial Hotel are to be congratulated on their enterprise, which is in keeping with the general trend of progress- iveness evidenced in every other phase of Oshawa's development, "Nut-Krust"' a " Household Word The Nut Krust Bakery shares in | the progressive clement of Greater | Oshawa. Its enterprising proprietor, Robert Fraser, specializes in service, quality and satisfaction, In the se- lection of his employees he impresses the need for cleanliness and civility. In the Nut Krust, everything manufactured under strict sanitary conditions and is regularly inspected | by the health authorities. Mr. Fra- ser operates two restaurants for the convenience of employees of Gen- | eral Motors. These are both named | "One Minute Lunch""--one at 106] William street and the other at 164 | Division street. Nut | 15 Krust Bakery | products are served there, and all the help employed is British, Every de- tail is under the personal direction | of Robert Fraser, Mr, Fraser's busi- | ness has the sizeable weekly payroll of fifteen hundred dollars. It is do- ing its part in the provision of effi- | cient service in one of the most im- | Addi l ss RL | a SALLIE LS 008 a v Seb drinriidridrdridhdridhi ddd dd BB 8 8 8 8 2 8.8 2 0 8.0.0 0.000.080 TeTTeee RI a a i | Field SAA L800 08020008000. TETTTTTTTTTTYTe J a Johnston's Cab Service Popular Fifteen Cars Now In Use To Meet Demand--Growth Since 1922 Turn a statistican .loose on John- son's Cab Service, and the first thing he'd try to do would be to say "Put- ting all of Johnson's fine taxis end- to-end, they'd stretch from the Fire Hall to here-and-there." The trouble, however for the statistician, would be that he couldn't get them end-to-end, for they're too much in demand, too constantly on their swift, efficient way for any such by-play. That's why, amongst other reas- ons, Johnson's Cab Service has grown irom one taxi in 1922 to 15 fine new machines in 1928, The other nine of the ten reasons is C, L. Johnson, himself. He is al- ways on the job and he has built up such a courteous staff of drivers, friendly young men for the most part who like their work and the city they live in, "My business has grown through adherence to the best standards of courteous service and lowest farcs consistent with expense and a fair margin of profit," Mr. Johnson told the interviewer, As a matter of fact, the taxi in Oshawa takes the place of street cars in less favored cities, People in a hurry, who haven't their own cars, immediately ring up Johnson's. Then, instead of waiting an infinity of time and finally starting out to walk it, the taxi promptly appears. The service runs night and day, The office beside the Y.M.C.A. build- ing is merely the despatching cubicle, Once in a while the taxi park will scem fairly full," but then central connects up a run of right numbers and they melt away to every point of the compass The Johnson Cab Service maintains its repair and supply garage at 637 Simcoe Street South. At present, Mr. Johnson is devel- oping a new feature to his business on the big city "Drive Yourself" plan. Efforts so far have been largely experimental buf with developments indicating possibilities for much addi= tional business, Further announce- ment in this connection will probably be made in the near future, No man is in true health who can not stand in the free air of heaven, with his feet on God's free turf, and thank his Creator for the simple lux- ury of physical existence. -T, W. Higginson, Paving work now in progress in the city of Oshawa will entail the TrTETTTTeeee PW Dh J A J ll ln a Sd id ds RR WELL PLANNED FEATURES OF NEW "GENOSHA" HOTEL One Hundred and Ten Rooms with Bath a Welcome Addi. tion to Greater Oshawa's Sleeping Accommodation --Erection of Modern Six-Storey Building Proceeding Apace SHAWA'S nearest ap- O Fans rst? a the new Genosha Ho- tel, which is being built with rapid progress at the north. west corner of King and Mary streets. The steel work, wh is now about finished, illus. trates the height of this build. ing, which will be a full six stories, with exceptionally deep basement and first floor, Not only will the hotel be the highest building in the city, but it will be one of the largest single buildings in point of area. Including the one-story dining room, at the north-west corner, the structure will be 131 feet 10 inches by 96 feet 6 inches, with the long side facin on King street. Besides a group o stores, one the ground floor, and the kitchen, dining room, rotunda, and other rooms, there will be 110 sleep ing rooms in the building. Fe front part of the building, fac- ing on King street with a depth on Mary street of 52 feet, will be built to the full six stories in height. At the rear, the north-east corner, 52 hy 44 feet on Mary street, is being built to a height of two stories, but the steel reinforcing is of such strength that this can be raised the other four stories if needed at a later date, giving an additional ninety rooms to the hotel. The balance of the structure, 70 by 44 feet, will be the one-story dining-room. Genosha Hotel, Limited, is the new company incorporated as owners of the hotel, which is being built by J. W. Butler Company, Limited. The Butler firm have had considerable ex- perience in the construction of hotels and other large buildings in both Canada and the United States, and are now engaged in the erection' of a hotel at Avenue Road and Bloor street, Toronto, and a large building in Windsor, Ont. Their home office is in Detroit, and their Canadian of- fice in the Royal Bank Building, To- ronto. The architects and engineers of the hotel are the Hotel Engineer- ing Company, Chicago, whose Cana- dian offices are also in the Royal Bank Building, Toronto. Donevan & Smith, local surveyors, have had charge of this division of the work for the structure, while much work is heing done in connec- tion with it by logal firms, The Dixon Sand and Gravel Company is supply- ing sand, gravel, cement and lime; Bathe & McLellan also had a gravel supply contract; and McLaughlin Coal and Supplies furnished brick, cement and other materials. Trick Company, Limited, were re- cently awarded the contract for 85,.- 000 facing brick and seven carloads W, J] of tile, for use in the outer walls of the structure, The sub-contracts awarded so far on the structure are: electric wiring, W. H. Weale, Toronto; plumbing and heating and ventilating, C. E. Green- an and Company, Windsor ; marquis- es, Luxfer Prism Company Limited, Toronto; ornamental iron and bronze, Canada Wire and Iron Goods Com- pany, Hamilton; structural steel and massillon bar joists, Sarnia Bridge Company, Sarnia; limestone, Scott Brothers, Toronto; granite, Thom- son Monument Company, Toronto: "Simplex" partitions, C." J. Moll & Company, Chicago; elevators, Turn- bull Elevator Company, Toronto. The plans for the structure show that it will be not only ene of the larger hotels between Toronto and Montreal, but perhaps the most mod- ern of them all. Each of the one- hundred and ten sleeping-rooms wll have a private bath, including show- er, and most of the rooms will Le fitted with twin beds. A radio will be installed in every bedroom, and the furniture will be most-complete. Electrical refrigeration will be in- stalled in the building, and the equip- ment will include two elevators, one for passengers only, and one for both freight and passengers. The general lay-out of the building in- cludes three stores fronting on King street. The ground floor will con- tain dining room, kitchen, coffee room and rotunda. The main en- trance to the hotel wil be on King street. In the basement there will be six sample rooms, storage room, boiler room, etc., and a barber shop Lounge rooms, card rooms, smoking rooms and two private dining-rooms will be provided on the second floor, Hudson Super-Six Leading Them All "Something entirely different," is the Hudson Super-Six motor, accord. ing to Chadburn Motor Co.,, Hudson distributor here, who is conducting a special demonstration campaign. Mr, Gartshore tells an interesting and enthusiastic story of Hudson design and construction, "Not since the introduction of the famous Super-Six balanced crank- shaft has Hudson made such an ad- vance in engine design as this motor represents," he said. "The Super-Six principle has for ten years been the envy of designers and has been as nearly copied as patents permit; and this new motor design will prove portant fields of the city's develop- | expenditure of nearly a quarter of | equally worthy of imitation, but it ment, [ a million dollars in 1928, also is fully protected by patents, The most interesting features are: "1, The motor employs unusually high compression for modern power and cfficiency, yet avoids 'spark knock,' roughness and the other qual- ities hertofore thought unavoidable with such a motor. "2 No special or doped fuels are necessary or even desirable; the de- sign of the motor cares for this prob- lem, ! "3 Fuel-energy formerly wasted is turned into power. 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