The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-06-07

that apartment cool and airy. Attached TO the
dining room j. large steam table, which is well
adapted to keep the meats. SC, moist and warm.
All the table farniture--slver, china, cutlery, and
glassesis Of massive and costly description, and
the cooking apparatus Of the most modern and
improved kind. All the rooms on the four upper
floors fronting on Broadway and Spring street,
measuring one hundred and seventy-fye lineal feet,
in suits, large, airy, and rchiyfurnished, for
the accommodation of respectable families. The
ladies' private parlor, the second floor, attached
to which are the most complete toilet arrange
ments, is fitted up in an elegant manner. There
are three spacious and splendidly furnished bridal
chambers, with massive marble centre tables, and
all the other neat ct vaaas, to make the SLOWING
twain feel happy, which is most important APP
pendage to any respectable hotel, where there are
so many ''young men and maidens" every day join
ing hearts and hands at the hymeneal altar there
are in this city Nearly all the bedrooms light
ed with gas and there three water-c closets on
each floor. The house is well supplied with shower
baths, and on each floor all the rooms capable
II being thrown into one, by communi eating doors.
The beds are hair mattresses. On tho whole, the
Collamore House, being fitted up in a costly, airy,
and well furnished manner, is well adapted to afford
every comfort and convenience to respectable fami
lies and single ladies or gentlemen. 1t is capable
of accommodating about two hundred and thirty
persons.
THE wAvERLEy HOUSE.
This hotel on the corner of Broadway and ourth
street, was opened on the 10th Of May by Mr.. l.W.
| Rcnalls, proprietor. 1t includes four buildings,
fronting ninety feet on broadway, and seventy feet
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twcpty-seven parlors and drawing rooms, elegantly
furnished, with bedrooms, water closets, and sepa
rate toilet rooms attached to each. Besides the
bedrooms adjoining the parlors there are fortysix
| other sleeping apartments. They all rich, and
furnished in uniform manner, from the first floor
| to the upper inclusive with rich and unique carved
| rosewood chairs and sofas, all cushioned and
yered with costly green plush velvet All the rooms
on each floor are capable of being thrown into one
/ by communicating folding doors. Each parlor and
bedroom has new style Of ornamented cast iron
CRATE, and marble centre table. The mirrors
throughout the entire house are large valformed,
and the gilt work the frames is costly and
| piece Of workmanship. Every room. from the
| smallest sleeping apartment down to the parlors
| and drawing rooms is lighted with gas. All the
beds of handspring and the carpetng
| of every room, is English velvet tapestry, richly
lowered. The gentlem ems principal water closet,
| on the second floor, Is on new and improved prn-
ciple, with self adjusting springs, by which rush
| Of water empties itself with rotary motion into
the apertures. On the third foor are three large
rooms arranged expressly for artists, and are now
respectively occupied by Messrs. kensett, Roster,
is not yet quite finished, will be one hundred and
twenty feet long and twenty feet wide. The apart
nent now used dining room capable Of seating
about sixty persons. 1t is shortly to be turned into
a ladies' drawing room. The public entrance is on
Broadway: the private on Fourth street. TIL. cook
ing apparatus are all Of the newest inventions.
Vaults extend the whole length Of the building on
both streets. In the basement story there IS a
large restaurant, fitted up on an altogether diff
ferent style from any we have seen in the city. The
refreshment boxes more resem5le comfortable sit
! ting rooms than the ordinary description. They
arc about seven feet square. and partitioned Of
| 30 that those who may be standing at the bar
cannot perceive where the boxes are. The
hotel contains, in all, seventyeght rooms, besides
closets, pantries, Sc, and the furnishing of the
establishment cost about 80, 900. On the back of
the hotel there is excellent view into number Of
neat gardens shaded with trees Of various kinds.
! The whole building is well ventilated throug bout,
IA ia a
uniformity and taste displayed in furnishing and
fitting up the Waverley House, not to be found in
many hotels of similar size and the furniture Of
the smallest bedroom in the upper story is rich
first foor. On the whole, Mr.. Renalls has spared
neither pains money to render every part Of his
| hotel comfortable, airy and well adapted for the
accommodation Of respectable families, or single
Indies or gentlemen The hotel is capable Of SC
/ commodating about two hundred persons.
THE EorrAN HOTEL.
This house is No. S3i Broadway. u has been
open since the first Of May. by Mr.. G. Donald, pro-
prietor The building l. five stories high, hundred
feet deep, and forty feet front. II Is supported BY
elegant brown stone columns. 1t contains sixty
two bedrooms and twelve large we'll furnished suit.
rooms for first class families The ladies' public
drawing room, on the second foor is fifty feet by
eighteen, and il furnished IN the richest French
style. livery room in tine house is lighted with
gas, and they are large, airy, and we'll furnished
with elegantly carved rosewood chairs, sofas, and
marble centre tables. 1t contains plentiful sup
| ply Of shower baths, and every other convenience
necessary in q respectable hotel. The house is well
ventilated; and the adjoining buildings, on the back
part, are low, which allows the free adms o
ar to the various apartments of the hotel. In all
there eighty-two rooms in the building rcluding
parlcrs, drawing rooms, family suit rooms, dining
rooms and bed rooms. Ii is capable Of acccmmo-
dating about no persons in a respectable aud COM
Portable manner. The carpeting in all the rooms
i rich lngsh velvet tapestry and the table furni-
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