The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-15

OPENING OF A FIRsT-CLAss HoTEL.-The
Bingham House, built by Adams Express Com
pany, at the corner OF Eleventh and Market
streets, in connection with their Express depot,
was inaugurated last night by handsome ban
quet, participated in by numerous prominent
citizens, business men, and others, who were
invited guests.
The Bingham House is q considerable increase
to the business accommOd Odations of the city. IL
IS literally a very iarge enlargement OF the late
Unlted States Hotel. lis location is avery de.
sirable one, and its accommodations consist Of
ore hundred and seveDty-hve rooms. 1t Is
leased, al a rental OF $4,000 per annum, by lIr.
Curtis Davis, OF New jersey. Mr.. Davis kept
The house on whose sitelt stands, years gone by,
made fortune, and retired to farm in New
Jersey, to amuse himself with shorthorns and
Hovey's seedlings. He enacted the part OF Gin
clnnatus for while, and when the company
bought the property, and began TO enlarge the
building he made application to lease 1t.
He has furnished II handsomely. 1t is rs un-
like the former hotel as any two different things
well can be. Everything is Lew and fresh, and
many OF the appointments are as handsome as
could be procured. Save that the Express Com
panles have grand depot upon the ground
floor all the rest is appropriated to the pur-
poses of hotel, while well-kept restaurant is
in operation upon the basement floor.
The house externally is painted pale lilac,
and the portlco, which is entirely new, is stately
and handsome The house was Just ready for
occupation when the Southern Loyalists came
to meet In convention in this city. They a.
OuCe ulleu DluSudH1 House, SO bOaU 0OJ uUJll
to-day could Mr.. Davis throw it open to the
inspection oil the public. Our readers are in.
vited to make a tour of the building tcom tn
maIbled ground floor to the attl5s behind the
mansard 70 ding.
The Bingham House is named in honor OF
Colonel Bingham, the superintendent in Phila.
delphia OF the Company's business. The house
is rapidly filling up, and promises TO be sue
cess. Its caterer is MIR. Donald Mcdonald, well
known in this city and at Cape May.
The architect of the structure is Mr.. John
CTump. The countng-room is upon the ground
floor. The dimensions OF the entire structure
are 1856 by $50 feet, OF which the hotel taxes 90
leet on Eleventh and 60 leet on Market. Above
The ground floor the entire building is the hotel.
Ali the ceilings and walls are frescoed, with
Italian marble mantels; staircases and doors of
solid walnut. The ladies' parlors on the second
floor are go by "a feet in area. The dinlng-room
On the same floor Will seat $50 guests, with a
ladies' ordinary seating 40 more.
The three wings fronting Market street are
| four stories high. The main building on the
corner OF Eleventh and Market streets Is six
stores nigh. The appointments generally are
superior. The gas fixtures and chandeliers are
| of the handsomest kind; the carpets are rich;
| the table services are as good as those OF any
| other hotel III the city; there seems to be
| nothing of deficiency in any part OF the arrange
| ments and appointments of the establishment.
Architecturally speaking, tae structure Is
| more effective than any other in Philadelphia
That it win prove successful to it's enterprisna
lessee, Mr.. Davis, we cannot for moment
doubt. The house owes its excellence to the
| enterprise OF Colonel Bingham, after whom il
has been named.