Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-05-28

wash stand combined, two sofa chairs, and
gilt China service. Besides these, the floor
contains thirteen bed rooms, ten feet by twelve
feet, and larger, the rear rooms furnished with
walnut bedstead, bureau, wash stand, ano
table, two cane-scat chairs, and gilt mir
ror, the front rooms furnished with marble
tables, wash stands, and bureaus, sofa chairs
sofas, wardrobes, and tapestry, six suits Of
rooms of parlor and bed room each, one sui,
Of parlor and three bed rooms, and one suit
of four rooms opening into each other, all fur,
nished in like manner.
The fourth story is eleven feet high in the
clear, traversed with halls, opening upon bal
comics, corresponding exactly with those of the
floor below, and contains twenty-one bed
rooms, seven suits Of parlors and bed rooms,
one suit of parlor and two bed rooms, and
one suit of three rooms opening into each
other, all corresponding to the rooms of the
floor below. -'t'l<-:' '' 'ss q" .'s.
The fifth story is ten feet high in the clear
traversed by halls like those of the floors be.
low, opening upon like balconies on the Prince
Street and Cross Street fronts; but on the
Second Street front opening into a Dancing
Room, forty By ninety feet, and nineteen and
q ha!f feet high in the clear, containing, sci
around the sides, two hundred and fifty stout
ample cane-scat chairs, for seating parties
with an elevated platform in the centre, front
ing Second Street for the orchestra, and light
ed, evenings, by five chandeliers, one of fif
teen burners, and four of nine burners. As
this is the largest Hall in the City, and only
one best adapted thereto, the proprietor pur
poses erecting a stairway to approach it on the
outside, from the Street, and then permit il
to be used for public lectures, concerts, ant
parties. Besides the dancing room, this flool
contains thirteen bed rooms, six suits of par
lors and bed rooms, and one suit of thre.
rooms, like those of the floors below.
The sixth or attic story is eight feet high ir
the clear, traversed by halls like the immedi
ate floor below, but opening upon no balconies
and contains twenty-five bed rooms, from ter
feet by twelve feet to fourteen feet by sixteer
feet, and furnished like the rear rooms of tn,
floors below.
On the four upper floors, at the end of thu
halls running along Prince Street, at the side
next Bank Street, are three water closets, /:
bath room, ten feet by twelve feet, containing
a bath tub, with pipes and faucets, for turnin,
in cold or hot water at pleasure, and two small
dark closets, for the brooms, pals, &C., of tn,
chamber maids.
The halls on the third floor are lighted eve
nings with five chandeliers of four burners
each, and the halls of the fourth and fifth
floors with three like chandeliers each. And
from each of the floors is a speaking or whist
ling tube connecting with the Clerks Office, SC
that the servants of each floor can be commu.
nicated with directly.
Gas fixtures are already on hand, and soor
to be put up, so that the whole house will be
lighted with gas.
In the yard, next to Bank Street, are the
wood house, carpenter shop, smoke house, ash
house, water closet, sink, and a half a dozen
pens of fine pigs and porkers, which are rails.
ed and fattened on the broken victuals from
the tables.
A water wheel and pump are erected at the
water power at the river in front of the house,
to which workmen are now engaged in laying
pipes for forcing water into reservoir in the
top Of the house, whence to be distributed to
all parts of it at pleasure-the waste water to
be thrown into the water closets, and thence
through the sink into the sewer and into the