The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-05-18


are elevators, eight by fifteen feet in size,
running from the first to the upper story
of the building The courtyard is o. by
ll6 feet in size. Rising all about it and
looking down upon this quadrangle are
the interior walls of the hotel The deptb
from the extreme projection of the grand
entrance to the courtyard is sixty.one feet
and that of the rest of the Fourth avenue
front filtytwo feet. The depth of the
Thrty>second and Thiriy,third street
fronts, Or rather the width Of those por-
tons Of the building communicating with
the courtyard, is also lifty-two feet, while
the depth or width Of the main portion at
this point is thirty,six feet nine inches.
In the basement, which extends fourteen
feet below the level of the street, in the
massive underlying walls is a monster
engine, generating steam for heating the
entire building, lending its strength in
raising and lowering the vertical elevators,
giving rapid motion to a series Of gigantic
fans used for furnishing fresh air to all the
halls and rooms, and also helping 70 do
the work of the kitchen and laundry
Extending from tho basement to the roof
are ventilating shafts eight by ten feet in
size. These shafts pass upward through
the four angles Of the grand hall. AS
ccnding from the basement by large
stairway leading to the first story, the
kitchen is directly in the rear of the court,
yard 1t is thirty.six by ninety>sx feet
in size. Double elevators for raising and
! lowering stores, for communication with
the dining room and for the use of the en-
poyes of the hotel, are here. At each
end are large smoke shafts, having VENT
lating air chambers around them. There
/ : also stairway leading TO the second
story. Adjoining the kitchen is the laun~
dry and dining room, in which ia TO be
found every needed appliance of first ca.s
hotel
Ascending again 10 the second story
this story and all above it are used entirely
for the hotel purposes-we 90 from the
large hall opposite the grand staircase in.
to an ante or reception room, through
which there ls communication TO the bal
cony over the porlico. The second story
is mainly devoted to rooms for the guests.
There are no series Of suits of room AS in
ordinary hotels, s3ch rooms from the ma
ture OF the case not being required Ihe
grand staircase at this story leads into a
holl twelve feet in width, extending from
Ihirty-sccond TO lhirty-thrd streets.
Communicating with this hall and also of
the same width are parallel halls on each
SIDE, and continuing to the rear, and there
again communicating with similar hall
parallel to the first. On either side of
these halls are rooms fer the guests, those
, IN front looking On to the street and those
in the rear into the courtyard. The
rooms on this story are double rooms, and
| intended ior two sisters TO occupy, or other
cases where two occupy one room. These
! rooms are sixteen by seventeen feet in size.
On this floor and directly over the kitchen
and laundry is the grand restaurant or
dining hall, being thirty-six by ninety>six
feet in dimensions, The third. fourth.
fifth, sixth and seventh stories of the ho,
tel arc constructed on the same plan with
the second story, except that the rooms are
smaller, the latter being each eight by
seventeen feet in size. Over the dining
hall, however, is room of the same di,
menslons as the former, occupied for meet
ings, concerts, lectures and similar purpo-
ses. On the fourth floor and also of the
same size, and over the last room named.
is the library and reading room. Over this
space in the remaining stories are rooms
for the servants. The hotel is constructed
to accommodate about 800 guests, there
being altogether $50 rooms for their ac.
commadatlon. Each room is neatly furn-
ished and is well supplied with water and
marble basins. Besides this every room
has an air duct and register for fresh air
and a corresponding one for taking Off the
impure air. Furthermore, each room is
heated with a steam coil placed under the
window sill and supplied with fresh air
from the outside through an opening under
the window sill A more thorough and
| perfect plan for ventilation could not DOS.
sl5ly be devised. The frequent and spa
clous windows afford ample abundance of
d "5"'' WI ShSh HooI ~ inc angles
of the open court in the rear Of Fourth
avenue are bath rooms and other conve
nlenoe' Tor the use OF guests. All the hall
floors are marble and the other floors ore
OF hard, narrow wood. The door and
sashes are also Of hard wood. and each
room is furnished with inside shutters.
All the shutters are glazed with single
plate glass The building is constructed
wholly OF iron and brick and is thorough,
ly freproof. There is used in its con,
struction about 1000 tons rolled wrought
IRON floor beams and from 5000 TO 6OO0
tons OF cast iron. Mr.. Stewart bought
himself 5000 tons of Scotch pig in Scot
land to make up in part the iron required.
The beams of the floor are all of iron, and
brick arches turned up between them and
levelled off with the top of the beams
with cement All the stairways are made
OF iron, and are likewise iireproof Mr.
John kellum, who has put up nearly all
the fireproof building in New York, is the
architect, and thegrand result of his work
will BE- hotel, not only one of the finest,
but most commndious on the continent.
Except the double rooms, to be occupied
by two sisters, each boarder will have u
room to herself, and as shown in the dc,
scripIion of the building, of good size, fine,
ly furnished and well ventilated and heated
when required. There are servants to
wait on every one, and TO take care of the