Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-19

been erected. The old bottling house is
soon to be taken down, the grounds beau.
titled, and things so changed that those
who dozen years ago knew the Iodine
Spring would hardly recognize it as the
Star Spring of to-day. But the iodine is
still in the water with its curative quail
ties; and through the efforts of Abel Put
nam, Jr., the general superintendent, and
Melvin Wright, who has charge of the
bottling and shipping department, Star
Spring water is now as common bever-
age in this country as that from the fam
Gus Congress Spring, and for many COM
plants it takes precedence over any of the
medicinal waters of this place.
A great change is also being made at
the Union Hotel. Fifteen years ago the
Union Hall, wooden structure, was
reckoned among the good hotels of Sara
toga, but not vestige of what was then
standing now remains it has been takeu
down or moved off to give place to larger,
better and more substantial structures.
The two outer brick wings, each of
which is $50 feet long, facing on Congress
and Washington streets, were built few
years since, but with a view of having
them united by a brick front, facing
Broadway. That brick front is now built
and being rapidly pushed to completion.
The entire front is 450 feet in length, sur
mounted with tower in the center,
through which light enters and descends.
This open space at each floor is surround
ed with balustrade, thus affording an
opportunity for person en- any floor to
look down into the office. A short, arched
corridor extends south between the re-
ception room and the elevator from the
office to the parlor. This will probably
be the most spacious, elegantly finished
and furnished parlor in the world. 1t is
100 feet long and so wide, finished in
stucco overhead, with heavy cornioe
mouldings extending round the sides.
The windows are four feet apart, and each
is four feet wide and thirteen and one-half
feet high, to be filed with four panes of
French-plate glass, each of forty pounds
weight. The space between each window
is to be filled with single French mirror
with narrow gilt moulding that win serve
the double purpose of window casing and
looking-glass frame. Large mirrors are to
occupy the space at the ends of each cor
ridor, so as to make them appear TO be
double their real length. The carpet is
to be in single piece, made expressly for
this parlor, at a mandatory in France.
In front and in the rear of this parlor are
piazzas each twenty-four feet wide the
one in the rear extending round the front
and two other sides of the inner court, and
the one in front, facing on Broadway, is
$50 feet. long. This piazza is built entire
ly of iron manufactured at West Point
and will cost $4,000 This dining room
in the south wing is 200 feet by 60. In
what was the Opera House, on the west
side, are now 80 rooms and ball room,
which is 1875 by 65. In the northern por-
tinr &c IL 74ouuds are severAl o.aAaI1 oet
tages, one of which, report says, the EN-
press Eugenie is to occupy the ensuing
summer; and President Grant is expected
to occupy one of the others. From Mr..
o. J. Brown, to whom 1 am indebted for
the foregoing facts, learn that there are
S24 rooms belonging TO this hotel.
Rutland county furnished the slate for
the roof, also the marble to be used for
the finish of the Office counters and vain
scoting, also for the floors and sidewalks
in front. The mantles are also to be made
of Rutland marble, by Fish & Bird, of
New York. II.
MAN1rnRA Official infornnatin WAS