Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-09-09
HOtei Building,

site of Niblo's Garden, under the super
vision and for the tenancy of the Messers.
Leland, late of Clinton Hotel, will open ON
Wednesday, Sept. 1st: and as making
step forward in the Social transformation
which so many blindly revile, but are
impotent to arrest or avert, we have Civ
en- it careful examination with view to
assuggestive description. -
This Hotel extends three hundred feet
on Broadway and two hundred on Prince
street; is built of brown stone, six stories
high, but three-fourths of the first story is
surrendered to stores, leavong only seven
ty-fve feet in the center for a spacious of
flee, baggage-room, &C., with two reception
rooms for guests, Zone of them for ladies)
who have just arrived and are waiting for
rooms to be assigned to them. The house
has five entrances, two of them for ladies
and their attendants, two for servants, be-
sides the main entrance from Broadway.
1t has three dining-rooms besides the SER
wants that for ladies being calculated to
seat two hundred and fifty persons, amid
every appliance for the satisfaction of the
palate. The third dining-room is for
children and nurses. The public parlors
near these, supplied with every fitting
auxiliary to comfort and elegance. The
privat suites of rooms on this floor include
parlor, one, two or more bedrooms, bath,
dressing groom, store-room, &C., and are
superb in all their appointments, as they
nfay well be, SINCE the most eligible are
charged from SIS to 800 per suite per
week, and are eagerly takeD up at those
rates. Thence to the uppermost story
the rooms diminish in size and expense,
those in the sixth story being let at So
per week. The price of board is uniform
ly 81 per week, and of board and lodging
to transient guests who do not require ex-
ira accommodations, is 81 per day. One
dazzling suite of rooms is fitted up for
bridal parties. The furniture is all of
solid oak, thoroughly polished; the beds
are all spring and hair mattresses; all of
the suites and some of the single cham
bers have private baths, store-rooms,
&C., while the cheaper single rooms have
wardrobes, Croton water, &C., Immediate
ly at hand The house is lighted by gas
and heated by steam throughout, though
any guest may have coal fire in his own
room if he sees fit-the steam heat being
diffused through the halls Ample pro-
vision is made for ventilation everywhere.
The chandeliers and brackets are of new
patterns, some of them of darker bronze
which seems an Improvement on the bed
izened lacquer-work generally in vogue.
One wing of the house is devoted to fam
lilies and ladies; the other to bachelors or
gentlemen transiently in town. No lady
need see or be seen by half dozen per-
sons out of her own set in the course of a
winter unless she chooses to be.
The numbered rooms are 333, of which
perhaps 100 are parlors, and $50 bed
rooms, though many are both. The house
is calculated to entertain in perfection a
bout five hundred guests, though one
thousand, including servants, might be
comfortably lodged under its roof. In the
basement are the general store rooms, re-
ceiving rooms for provisions, &c.,--all
bought at wholesale, after a careful scru-
tinty as to quality, &c.,-bakery, laundry,
ice-room, kitchen, &C., with two boilers
of twenty horse power each, and
steam engine which works the mangle,
turns the spits, forces water into reservoirs
at the top of the house, and will doubt
less saw the wood and churn the butter
whenever there are any of these jobs to
do. The Range is the poorest feature of
the establishment, wasting in stewing out
the cooks eyes, good deal of heat which
ought to be served for cooking the food
1t may be that there are no better in our
city: ifso, we should send persons to Paris
to learn how to construct ranges properly
1t is gross barbarism to cook the kitch-
en-maids when only the victuals are to be
eaten.
Here, too, amid congenial gloom, are
the groggery and smoking room, for smok-
ing is not allowed to make hideons the
office, halls, reading-room, &c. The grog-
gerry looks afraid of daylight and asham
ed of itself as IL we'll NAV. and evidently
ready to bolt.at the first appearance of the
expected Maine Law. Heaven grant that
it may not have very long to. wait,
The Metropolitan will be opened to the
public on Wednesday, September Isl, land
already a great portion of its rooms are
engaged, and its books have been open
but a day or two. Some idea of its extent
and thoroughness of appointment may be
gathered from the fact that its glass alone