The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1860-11-08

in extent On the same floor and con-
.iguous, is a kitchen, GO feet by 46, and
20 feet high. This hotel can accommo-
date with case l,2OO persons. Some
idea may be formed of its great extent by
few statistics of materials used IN Its
construction. The brick laid in its walls
number eight millions, sufficient TO pave
an area of more than thirty-eight acres.
This is in addition to 5000 perchcs OF
rubble stone in the foudation, $4,000
cubic feet of cut stone in the fronts, and
other stone (in all costing over SlOO, O,oVO)
Aud also in addition to 730 tons of cast
| iron, and an immense amount OF other
iron work in the building. The plate
! glass in the window would cover an acre
Of ground, and the floors between seven
apd SIGHT fTss The WassP3Eardy 3,ns wound ana
reach thirteen miles. ana II boarder de.
sires to take walk through the wide
and lofty corridors before breakfast, he
may travel one and quarter miles with,
out going over the same floor twice. -
Besides the marble flooring and Other
tagging, 100000 feet of lumber has been
used in its flooring, and it will require
$4,000 yards Of carpet to cover them
Thrtytwo tons of sash weights are to be
used Some 16,0o feet of gas pipe are
required to light it, with many thousands
of burners; 10000 pounds lead and
$4,000 pounds of iron pipe to supply it
with water, besides that for heating it.
Forty to fifty miles of bell wire will be
required, and three water tanks, contain.
ing 10000 gallons or fifty tons of water,
will rest upon its roof. Doubtless this
monster hotel when finished will be the
most complete, commodious and elegant
establishment in the world The actual
cost of the building, unfurnishcd, is owe,
5000, 900; which, with the ground, now
valued at 1926, 400 makes the Who'll,
value in round numbers one million dol
lars. 1t has just been leased, for a tern
of fifteen years, to the Messrs. Leland, o.
the "Metropolitan," New York, on yer,
favorable terms to the lessces We may
easily judge of the liberal spirit with
which such gentlemen of thorough ex
poricnee as the Lclands will fit up, furn-
ish, arrange and supervise the house
they have taken. 1t will require not
only men Of wealth, but of large exper-
fence and capacious minds to control such
an immense establishment. Not only dc
all other hotels fall below it in size. bu,
all the other immense buildings in thi,
extensive city are as but pigmies beside
it. From its roof, ll2 feet from thu
sidewalk, (even before the observatory i:
constructed the city Of Alton, % miles
distant, is distinctly visible, with vast
stretch of the Father of Waters at the
foot, and TO the north and south of St.
in the gTrsat Anfer;cafh Bottom, strctcn
ing out over the rich prairics of Illinois
and away towards the Iron Mountain OF
our own Missouri Immediately eontig
uous, with the exception of the Mercan
tile Library, the U. s. Custom House
and Post Office, and the tall marble build
ing rising up like gem beside it, all the
other structures look comparatively small
even the Merchants Exchange, the
Ten Buildings, the large foundries and
machine shops, the score of mills and
hundreds of manufactures, do not, be-
side this, seem to possess their usua
large proportions.