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Title: A miracle in hotel building : being the story of the building of the new Canyon Hotel in Yellowstone Park / by J.H. Raftery
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Raftery, J. H. (John Henry), b. 1866 Yellowstone Park Hotel Company
Subjects: Canyon Hotel (Yellowstone National Park)
Publisher: (Yellowstone National Park?) : Yellowstone Park Hotel Co.
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
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most a crime-To try to improve upon it, would be an impertinence. Ideas Sought Afar. Months of travel in the pleasure places of Europe and the great-tourist resorts of America gave to Architect Reamer and to the pro-jectors of the new Canyon Hotel many new and practical suggestionswhich have made surely for the composite simplicity and utilitarianscope of the edifice. In the course of these far-spread visits of in-spection, it was found, for instance, that hotel guests, as a rule, arenot apt for those small apartments which comprise seclusion as wellas elegant convenience. The writing-rooms, the reading-rooms, theTurkish smoking-rooms, were found to be less attractive to theaverage tourist than the great lobbies, where to see and be seen, to*witness the proud pageantry of the guests in promenade, to study-character and apparel, to gossip and to listen to the music, seemed the-sum and crown of the desires of the pleasure-loving guests. HAULING THE 8,000 POUND GENERATOR YELLOWSTONE PARK
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10 NEW CANYON HOTEL

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