The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-06-13
The New Hotel.

The new hotel in this city is rapidly approach
ing completion, and although it is found imprac-
tcable to have it open by the 4th of July, as was
promised month ago, the "grand opening"
will probably not be deferred beyond the 18th of
July.
The building, as our reader have on former
occasions been told is Of brick four full stories
in height, with a basement and is finished
throughout in style excelled by no othsr hotel
in the country. There is no wood where there
ought to be stone, no stone where there ought to
be iron, and no polished plank where there ought
TO be marble. In the way Of heating, ventilation,
plumbing, drainage, cooking apparatus, laundry,
DC, DC, everything is perfect-no modern inven-
tion or improvement having been omitted, what
ever the cost Of procuring it.
The building stands so by 100 feet on the
ground. The basement contains fine large bill
lard hall and bar room, barber shop, gentle
mems bathing room, servants dining room, wash
room, dry house, engine house, sculllery &C., &C.
On the first main floor are the offices, dining room
and kitchen, ladies' and gentlemens parlors, sit
ting rooms &c. On the second floor is another
ladies' parlor and ladies' bathing ROOM and 25
sleeping rooms. On the third floor are some %
sleeping rooms and about the same number on
the 4th floor. The rooms are all beautifully
finished, large, airy, many so arranged that they
can be used as double rooms all furnished with
gas, cold and hot water, and perfect means for
heating and ventilation. The view from all the
is tfa II hot l.
imagined. On the east and south are the Fox
and Illinois rivers, and beyond is vista up the
valley Of the Illinois and Fox, far as the eye can
reach, and particularly at this season Of trans
cendent beauty. The choice Of location, in this
regard certainly, most happy one.
But our present objec: is not to give descrip-
ton of the hotel This is task we reserve for
future occasion, when the building is completed
and furnished. Our object to-day is only to give
the name Of the lessee, the future host and land
!ord. This is Mr.. LEWIS HOWARD, hitherto of
the Howard House, Freeport, Ill. He comes
recommended TO the Ottawa Hotel Company as
man eminently able to keep tavern-in other
words, az the most accomplished hotel keeper in
the state-a recommendation which is not based
only on individual certificates, but on the actual
knowledge of many of our own citizens, to whom
Mr.. Howard is by no means stranger. Mr. H.
takes the Hstel on lease of five years. furnish.
ing it himself, and obtains terms which are at
once liberal to himself while they are not dis
advantageous to the Hotel Company.
Is remains only for us to-day to give the name
of the new Hotel-a matter which has perhaps
puzzled the Directory more than any other single
matter connected with the structure. The mat.
ter was, however, We have the pleasure of being
able to announce, happily settled At a meeting
Of the Directors on Thursday, and the name
chosen is" Tho" Well, there Just as
We were about to write it, one of the Directors
touches our elbow and tells US to "hOld on !
The name is not yet agreed on" So our road.
ers must hold their breath another week