The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-11-10


took OCCASION to call upon lis gentemany propeors and
arraD gemenls We expected to find
aetaiio and improvements but had formed
idea of The fac as we found them instead of finding few
changes such as new door in one place new partition in
another and nsw staircase in third we found almost
new Interior.
On each of the main entrance on ST. Louis street,
fine wide been leading the office
which flied up much in the style of the Office in the old
ST. Charles and CONNECTS with balcony fronting on ST.
Louis with the fine gallery OF the rotunda.
The man passages from the office ladies' pariors
Royal street, and the emens psros Charities
The latter, together office and fine Intermediate
rooms, been formed from the old ballroom, which
and, including the LADIES' parlors. present
continuous front OF 800 feet ST. Louis street,
The reception room, the paro and the ordinary ali
priad the lady CUES conveniently placed within
distance oil eaoh other, and similar
lists on the gentlemen side of the house. New wng have
been added the building Of which is occupied
kitchen, with seyants' above. and the other The
gentlemens dining below, and suite, OF parofs and
bedrooms above.
One pleasant feature in the arrangement Of the house is
that there only stories above that on which the Office
psTs. e;c are sdasd in ths house there no ostng
of Madame Dina il reaching ones room, and no aching
bones. frequently suffered In first class hou es
from travelling up half dozen flights oil stairs
The throughout the houss are large and admirably
arranged The accommodations Tor families are exeelent-
dozen rooms In sone Instances connecting win each olsr'
and the suites embracing every desaoe convenience oil pa
lors and bedrooms,
ihe ihHu ihs"ees ~ s"S 'u"'s' l"
large anu lAhumefaue oelooms' every ohe Vi "mch Is
e1ceuenty gheu anu Dy similar arrangement ventilated
a. The VIII oil the occupant
want called to any room In ths house. by touching
butt0n in the wall This button closes the connections OF an
eleca circuit and bell rans In he ounce py the current
electric telegraph the bakery oil which paced In
the office and the wires extend to every portion OF The in
nense building.
The furniture throughout the house Is OF the latest style
and the richest description The sofas, the chairs, the
tnbe the carpets the curtains the bedding, are equal to
any thing in the way OF house furnishing That we ever saw
In our explorations we were much pleased with the atten-
ton that has been paid to the accommodations OF the ser
wants We have often In the course oil our travels winch
have been very extensive. occupied rooms In hrst class
hoe far inferior in comfort to those appropriated here TO
the servants male ana emae Luxe the guests they are
quaTtered on different sdes OF tue puhuhg.
From the examination oil the upper portions OF the honse
we descended to the ground MOOR where we were let Into
oil the mysteries oil providing Tor such an immense
household, We first led by Mr. Hail, of the pro
peois, the Kitchen where found cooking apparatus
the Of which were beyond the reach Of work
They explained however, satisfaction BY Mr.
Hall, who is the inventor of methods of preparing
his life turn out badly dressed or badly cooked article
Huge ovens for baking and boiling long ranges for
neous cookery toasng and boiling furnace for roasting
the heat of which graduated as to give the most deca
brown chicken penetrate the round of an OK to I'm
marrow and steam machines in which a vegetable is pu
into most palaeable condition without touching wasr Thu
OF this part of the premises are too numerous an,
ts new building entirely disconnected with the front
and that steam smoke or any thing to interfere witt
the com fort the reaches the part of the house
pied by them
We next visited the engine room, where we found tw
boilers which generated the steam to do an inmens
amount labor besides supplying the bar room in the
unda with hot air sufficient to produce most comfortabl
temperature that latitude during the coolest season.
also does large portion of the cooking by means of pipe
reading kitchen furnishes the drying room'' wit
hot air. sufc dry sheet in twelve thirteen minutes
works the engine by which goods ansfe red iom on
uat of the premises to sno Their and deposited with the
ary of cot work. and by which water il conveyed to tn
immene els ems and reservoirs at the rate of rs to ga
IONS per minute.
We have slready carried our description beyond the limit
that assigned the subject and have no room for an
ooun OF the washing anu drying rooms, the barroom tn
yard and the Fountain and will close with saying that the 81
LOU. has accommodations for seven hundred guests.
whom five hundred and fifty can he seated at the dim,
tables at the same time that the cost of the recent ater
on reached very nearly the sum of one thonrand doas
that will be opened for guests on the 18th instant and nj,
that in our opinion in every respect the hest
and best furnished hotel in the United States
ST. Louis CArHEDRAL-We yesterday vi.ited this mob
edcs, and passed. half hour within its walls with niue
satisfaction
The view of the interior, pass in at the main e
trance. is rich and stng-the first object that
which lakes in the grand whole at glance being II
rich painting the altar representing ST. Louis in the
ofsurendeng his crown TO the Holy Virgin. As a work
art probably this altar piece would bear criticism
but certainly produces fine effect There are, also,
good paiatings on the arched ceiling, alegoical. who