Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-12-06
The St. Louis Hotel,

The st. Louis Hotel
The following description of this magnifcer
Hotel, now just gone into operation, under its enter
prising l~essees, Messrs NUDGE & WILSON, we Ell
tract from the Paayune:
1t is a difficult to realize, without a detaile
personal inspection, how completely the s,
Louis has been transformed, enlarged and em
bellished by the new proprietors. 1t was al
ways a fine and spacious building. 1t is nov
one of the largest, most comnodious, and mos
sumptuously furnished and completely arrang
ed hotels of the United States. Three hun
bred and eighty bed chambers, airy and elegant
ly furnished, arc now ready for the entertain
ment of guests and when all are completed
there will be comfortable accommodations fol
more than five hundred.
The old portions of the hotel have been all
II modelled, so, however, as to give the whole,
with the new additions, an air of uniformity.
! The splendid room on st. Louis ST., which was
occupied as a bar-room, has been converted in
to a vestibule, or grand public entrance to
| which the vast columns give a fine effect. 1t
is the centre Of a front on st. Louis street of
325 feet, presenting that exposure to the
south. ~.
The ballroom, which formerly occupied two
stories, has been changed into Il series of cham
bers and parlors, with The exception ola portion
on the second floor of the hotel, which has
been appropriated for the Office.
The vast rotunda has become the bar-room
and the circular gallery above has been enclos-
ed, and converted into a spacious l~ounging,
reading and smoking place for the boarders. :,
The private entrance for ladies' is retained1on
Royal street. The pavements have been re-
laid with marble, and the grand staircase COM
pleted in the most luxurious style. Itnow pre-
sents a fitting access to the magnificent ladies'
d~rawing-rooms, of which there are two, COM
municating by folding doors. These have been
preserved in their outlines, although newly en-
bellished and gorgeously fitted up. Indeed,
there was no need Of any essential change in
these magnificent saloons. Two more grand,
spacious, lofty and finely propor,ioned rooms
are not to be found in any building in the coun-
try ; and they are now decorated as such rooms
should be, with thick velvet carpets, splendid
curtains, vast mirrors, costly chandeliers, and
the richest rosewood furniture.
We mus not forget, amidst all this lavish
elegance, to enumerate some of the more util-
ltarlans improvements which have been intro
duced. anew dining-room for the gentlemen's
ordinary has been erected, as we'll as a new
Kitchen, more spacioas and accessible than the
sid one, with other oat-buildings. In the base
ment q steam engine has been set to work to
a great number extremely of useful off,
ces. 1t raises water at the rate Of seventy-fye
gallons a minute to reservoirs in different parts
OF the house, affording a constant supply Of
cold and warm water for bathing. and other
purposes in every story. and an e~ffectual pre-
sentative in case of fire. Besides this, it is
made to do a vast amount of household work.
pumps water, heats it. grinds coffee, cleans
knives, wrings out wet linen, dries it by hot
steam, and is errand boy for the kitchen, carry
ing up all the articles Of daily use. Ss l<'
The magnetic telegraph is pressed into SER
vice, to dispense entirely with b~eIl-paulls, cranks,
AND all that cumbrous machinery. BY a simple
touch in the room the bell is made to sound in
simultaneously in the office. Lightning thus be-
comes a hall-boy in the st. Louis. '@-
We might fill a column with a description Of
ne elegancies, conveniences, and improvements
of this splendid establishment. It is a worthy
of the ST. Charles, and under the
thorough, liberal, and Industrious man
agement, will keep up to the same reputation
popularity. The traveller Or the resident
may consign himself to the care Of Nudge g.
Wilson with perfect c~oEtentnIent that be will
as well as experience, iiberalty,and con-
slant civility and attentionscain provide for
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