Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-11-15

REoPESISG or THE SEAToS HOUsR-This
superb hotel, built on so liberal scale of expen-
tirely re1itted, and was reopened Monday night
by the new lessees, hessrs. John T. Brodhead
and L. l.. Gilbert, gentlemen of known enter
PRISE and energy, and abundantly able to sskeep
u hotel" Very extensive alterations and i'm
prOvements have been made, bringing into
TequisitiOn the labOrs of some of our best me-
chanics, the wood work being by Bird & Baker,
brick work by CasselI & Shaw, painting, &c,
by J. T. Cassen, plumbing by Thos. Tbomp-
son, paper hargin. by Bishop & Alexander,
stone work by Acker, and iron work by Mead.
A fine billiard room takes the place of the
office on Louisiana avenue, and the bar-rOom
has been changed 10 the e. street front TO make
room for the office. Adjoining the billiard
room is a wash -roOm, with marble basins and
the luxurious appliances of hot and cold water
The readlng-rOom has been transferred also To
the q street front The bar-roOm is a spacious
apartment, some fifty feet square. and with
fifteen feet ceilings. The main parlor, one of
the finest rooms of the kind in the country, has
an exceedingly rich set of furniture by Kirby;
and the diBlng-roOm, near by, has been admi-
rably fitted up. The carving room adjoining
with its bright furniture and coy apparatus
for tea, coffee, egg boiling, &c, Is q worthy
VISA Wis to the handsome dining room and the
culinary department below presided over by
John A Edmondson, Of Philadelphia, one of
the best cooks in the country,) is in the same
apple-pie order Of brightness, neatness and
convenience. Outside of kitchens, baking
rooms, stOre-roOms, &c, are the remarkably
extensive vaults Of the SeatOn House, which,
running under street on one side and nearly
10 the middle of Louisiana avenue on the other,
increase the capacity for storage purposes of
tbe hotel 10 an indefinite extent.
Mounting TO the upper stories, we have ocea-
ZION 20 note the completeness Of the room fur
hl-hlngs, an being of the ne west and best de-
stFlPuoh-rich walnut and chestnut furniture
by stevens Son, of Baltimore: mattresses by
q. NJ. Wight of this city. &c &c There are
us of these bedrooms in the house there hainS
on the lower floors several sets of roorng e.
the use OF families The laundry has been
removed to the upper floor, and is unique in
ats appointments for doing its work In perfect
order IN wet or dry weather
The arrangements for the ventilation and
lighting OF the hotel, and also for supplying
water, attract attention by their completeness.
Every floor has its fire piug, with ample hose
and Il should be mentioned in the same con-
nectiOn, that every room Is supplied with wa
ter and gas 1t would require much more
space than we have at command to note ali the
features Of the building, going to make it one
of the most luxuriously furnished and COM
Portable hotels in the country.
DIR. A. IL. Jones, formerly of the Metropoli-
tan Hotel here. and more lately of the Spots
wood House, Richmond, is the room clerk, and
Mr.. L. q. Grant, the book keeper for the
Avenue House. The caterer is Walter Burton,
late Of the National. SO the new hotel starts
capitaIIy oficered and manned, as well as
bOUnteously furnished and proyisioned.
STEALING CHICKKNs.-Monday night, Sam1
CALVIN, colored, was arrested by officer Gibson
Tor the larceny OF forty chickens, the property
OF Quincy Page. The chickens were alive
when stolen, but when recovered were killed
enc picked for market. The prisoner was
Tracked by his shoes from the hen roost to his
Hpuse He had been employed BY Mr.. Page as