The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-06-10
THE NEW ST. .ALBANS
HOTEL.

FIRST room on lower story is designed
for post office second room for Tn,
st Albans Bank, the third is for n bar
ber's shop and fourth for "a saloon.
The following announcement is al
so published.
"There will also be billiard room
30 by 10 feet-a bar-room, &c, con
nected."
Considering the fact that there arc
two billiard rooms in this village al
ready and bar-rooms and drinking
places almost without number. we are
surprised that additional attraction.
and greater facilities for idle amnse.
monts and liquor drinking should be
furnished in the new hotel which is
about to be built in st. Adams. II
VIII be noticed that the space appro-
/ priated to "the billiard-room and bar
room, &c, connected is SO feet by 70
feet-a room magnificent in its pro-
portions, it would seem to those who
are not informed what the exc may
compri. e.
The architect is Levi Newcombe.
Esq, of Ogdensburgh, n. Y, gen
tleman of taste and skill The rest of
the description gives additional par
ticulars, as follows:
con the second floor will be the Of
flee, smoking-room, reading-room, gem
tlemen's sitting room, and ladies' re-
ception room; and in one wing di-
ming room SO by 20 feet. The other
wing will be occupied by suites of
rooms. The ladies parlor will be Is
by So feet.
The two upper stories will be fin
ished into suites Of rooms, parlors and
bedrooms alternately.
The house will have IS lodging
rooms for guests. In the rear of one
of the wings is building A by "A
feet, four stories in height in which'is
a kitchen, laundry, pantry, carving
room, &c. The stories above are for
the servants rooms.
The house is in the Romanesque
style of architecture, and will be fur
nished with all the modern improve
ments to be found III the best hotels
in New York and Boston.
The general plan of this new hotel,
if carried out, will undoubtedly be
decided improvement upon the nc.
commodations with which our village
is, at present, supplied. In the par
ticulars of saloon, bar-room and bill
liard-room, however, we trust there
may be modification of the plan by
which those expensive and dangerous
luxuries may be dispensed with alto
gether These saloons, bar-rooms and
billiard rooms usually attract in cities
and large towns class of customers
who do not always keep good hours or
add to the order, or responsibility of
such an establishment.
They do not seem to be required to
render this hotel in all respects attrac-
tive and comfortable for the large num-
Der of guests who may come hither on
business or pleasure For that reason
we have no hesitation in suggesting
the modification by which those super
huities may be ignored.
Perhaps we might IN justification of
our remarks properly refer to some in
stance where great evil has grown out
of the connection between saloons,
bar-rooms, billiard-rooms and a public
hotel. One in particular is suggested
TO our memory, viz; the Troy House,
Troy New York.
Travellers will remember the large
highly decorated, brilliantly lighted
or bar-room of the Troy
House, leading out into an attractive
and appetizing eating saloon and a
well finished billiard saloon. All that
could tempt the taste and appetite
was there genteelly furnished early |
and late. Such attractions gradually .
overcame the scruples of the young
and old citizens of Troy, and their
rooms became their gay and festive
nightly rendezvous for years, until it
became notorious that they made |
more loungers, drunkards, and game
sters than all other saloons of Troy.
The landlords paid their rents out of
the profits of the saloons and got
rich besides; but their profits brought
ruin and desolation TO many an 9th
erwise happy household in that
beautiful city. Many a young man
has been initiated into the mysteries