Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1872-01-03

and the black coal-hole, where the thir- !
ty-fve horsepower engine tolls day and /
night ior lis six hundred guests.
sTATIsTIcs.
How many people are employed in
the hotelo Iasked Sir Thompson, stew
ard
Abou. four hundred, including NE
chanic- !
What 10 YOU have mechanics fprG
Why we manage alme@t every branch
Of bu=ino-= here. Wa have MACHINE
shop, plumber shop. and shops for
decorating upholsteriug. gliding, cabi-
sud caIpenteriug We are
e little community. Iga water pipe. Or
81 gas pipe gives out 81 = mended in the
house. We also havea complete laun-
dry.
How is .he balyl divided up as ode
partment-s
Well, drst comes the Office, then the
stewards department, then the cookery,
launjry diuing-roonl, Porter-, ete.
What is the stewards duty?
To buy all provisions, employ cooks,
walters, etc, and dispose Of the refuse
from the hotel?
LAUNDRY.
We now passed into tue laundry,
which is situated ia the rear OF the hotel
under the Twenty-tbird street sidewalk
Here are hot rooms for heating flats
drying rooms, ironing rooms, and 'man-
Cling rooms. Alrs. Ellis supsrintends
this department, employing forty-eight
girls and three men, The clothes are
all washed by machinery in soapstone
boxes, and dried in a revolving dryer.
This is curious maehine. -Four bushels
of clothes are put into wire wheel,
which is reviewed Bith great raPidity.
the centrifugal motion sending the wat
er to the outside In ten minutes the
clothes are dry enough to iron. Bundle
washing, or the washing Of guests, is
all iTcned by hand, while the hotel
washing is mangied, Or iroaed by ma
chnery. The hotel price for washing is
$3.50 per dozen. BEFORE the Clothes
reach the laundry hey are all received
in the linen room, where they are
checked, given out, and mended aBd
stored after washing. &
ENGIEEER's DEPARTMEEI
This department consists or three
large boilers, thirty-five horse power
steam-engIne, aud several smsller en-
gines Of running elevators, roasting-
splits il the kitchen, etc., pumps for
forcing water above the third story, etc,
Borton water only runs Ut il Own nc
cord 70 the third story. &
KITCHEN
one oS tie features Of the kitchen is 81
large chimney ventilator. which extends
higher than the hotel. There is q strong
draft TO this ventiIatoF, which draws all
offensive smells from the landry and
kitchen, and sends them In q strong
current beyond The roof Of the hotel.
No odor can travel from the kitchen
toward any other part Of the house, for
the draft is always toward the kitchen.
This is one OF the finest features about
the hotess. The cooks are divided into
roaster=, broiIers, bakers and pastry
cooks. The head cook is Gustava Fere-
and, with 3 salary Of about $50 per
month. There are uine French and
0ermsn meat-cook=.
Every thing Is baked In Tue hotel ex-
cept crackers. The wages Of the cooks
are frotn 10 to $50 per month.
NOTHING WANTED.
What becomes of The bones and parts
OF meat yeu can't use. I asked Mr.
Thompson.
We gather them into this iron vat
| tpointing to long iron vat), turn on
the steam, and fry out the grease-tbis
we sell for soap gresse.
When have done dining what do
you do with the food have left untoueh-
ed or barely tasted of?
Well, it's all taken into the surtIn'
room. The untouched portions are sent
into the kitchen to be wormed over for
tie servants table. The remnants are
collected and gold TO old Thullingron,
who lives on the Bowery.
What does old Huntington do with
them?
He arHnges them and sells them u
the poor people, who come into his shop
to buy ten or fifteen cents, worth at q
time.
Then nothing is wasted?
No, nothing. The very dish.water is
collected IN q vat ana the oil on the tnp
is skinned of and saved.
| Can this filthy greese bRanade purei
Yes, purified till it as white an,l pure
and clean as leaf lard.
Is the hotel fre-pIooi@
Yes; the partitions are brick and there
Is layer Of mortar between every fool
to deaden the sound and prevent tn,
spread Of fire. Fire cannot go from Oh,
room to another. We have had . dozer
small fires, but they never got beyont
the room where they originated. They
can't; for how can they 5uru through
the walls and through the lnortar IN tn,
floor?
PRICES.
What does your -four cost per year
IS9,l34, and we use three barrels daily
How much for milk? clU,Ju0, and W
use 500 quarts daily; ii comes iron
Parks great farm in He,tehester eouu
, ty, and costs to 5 cents per quart.
! Cream? $500; use 60 quarts daiIy
? Eggs? SIS, 500; use l,s01 daily.
: Butter? sci, 900; use 10 pounds daily
, Oysters? Sll, 500; use 1900 oyster
t daily.
What do groceries cost: i0,0UJ.
Beef, fish aud vegetables: S2l0,00O.
: IPhole expenses Of marketing? S575,
2 Nn0
. EErAIL PRICES.