The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-09-06
One of the Great speculatiOns that
Broke the Bank or California.

A correspondent OF the New York
Tribune gives n description Of the great
Palace Hotel in San Francisco, which
will be interesting just at this time.
Writing about ten days before the crash,
he says: Ii was projected by NJ. Rails
ton OF the Bank of California, who has
personally done more TO popularize not
only the city OF San Francisco, but the
whole State of California, than any
body else. He owned much of the land
on which the hotel stands, and he and
Mr. Sharon, tits understood, own much
of the land near it. These gentlemeh
joined purses for the purpose Of building
the finest hotel in the world. The
size Is simply gigantic. 1t covers one
whole sQuare-from New Montgomery
to Annie, and from Market to Jessie
streets. In fact the building is $50 by
275 feet, covering nearly one hundred
thousand square feet, and being seven
stories high. 1t is severely plain. In
respect to bay windows, architect, owners
and lessee have al run mad.
Some Idea may be obtained
the appearance OF the hotel when 1t IS
stated there are no large columns, no
domes, no arches, no steeples-nothlng
but bay windows. Every room fronting
Un the street has one, aid the appear
ance from the outside is very novel. At
first il seems fnical and tr-
fling, giving the appearance OF II mons
trOus building covered with pigeon houses.
There are in all about tour hundred bay
windows so that in the language OF
advertisements, mo family should be
without one" The interior departments
are admirable. The entrance Is on New
Montgomery street, through - porte cOchere
extending to court similar To That oil
the Grand Hotel in Paris. The court
Is IA bv 81 feet, and reaches 10 the top
Of the building, being covered with
glass. In this court will be walks,
fountains, statuary and tropical plants.
The court differs from that of the Crane
Hotel in Paris III this respect: On every
floor II veranda II fee: wide extends Ell
tirely round the court, forming prom
enudc above the garden, which i to be-
Illuminated in the evening From the
garden level to the second floor Is the
grand stair case, which i ornamented
9,i,b .,.,r,rv srd flower vase. Their,
wa ,oa.Ir ,b.rso,d rooms in IN,
na,.,. ,h.-o ar. fyabnndred hath room.
Thsr, :. 49,, rnon, in tho hons. for
,,n..,s ,bo, :, lass th,n ~ fee, SQUARE
and ,,rro ,ho, b,If If tb.m mr.. % feet
square. Every room has closet, fire
place, marble maEteI SIX feet long
Frarrh.n's,. mirror and standard ga,.
LIGHTS Every room is provided with "A
81 or ,.,:i.,.r c,,pIuur ic.,,,,., with
tho Street And q due ,csdjur To- the
roof Perfect ventilation j, therefore 50.
,ur.d Fscb hath room husa tlc LEADING
TON b,, mir chamber on the roof thu,
s.,rrioo n draft which carries of all
ir,rur.gs.es Their. are yOIJ ycutila-
ting tubes opening outward on the roof
of the hotel. To carpet the hotel, incluI-
IN rooms. halls and stairs, will require
IS mile, OF carpet of ordinary w!dth. rs
before stated, the hotel covers one hun
drcd thousand square feet o. IRrd-thc
exact figures being $3.50. The Wind
,or in New York Is only one third a.
large. The Fifth Avenue hotei i 200 iect
square, while the Palace is $50 by 30,
and contains j6, 30 more squarc feet.
The Palace j. in all e,,cniia. particulars
fire proof. All the partitions and walls
are built of brick and iron, the brick
portions being plastcrcd in the color of
sandstone. and the iron painted in the
same shade. Within the walls Of the
building are four tcn-inch ar,esan wells