Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-02-11
HOTEL DE RYAN.
Opening Of the New Public House
at Dodgeville.

at DodgevilIe.
Hotel de Ryan, the new public
! house erected by Iowa county at
| Dodgeville, during the past year, was
formally opened for the reception OF
guests On Tuesday. The house is a
substantial stone structure, 35x39 feet,
two stories in hefght-outwardly pre-
senting very respectable appearance,
and inwardly provided with all necessa=
ry conveniences for the safety and COM
fort of its patrons. Indeed, one can
not enter the house without being fore
IDLY struck with the precautions which
have been taken to provide for the alb
solute safety of guests, that evidently
having been considered the great de-
sideratum on the part of its projec-
tors. The building is divided
somewhat north of the center, by
very substantial partition wall the
northern portion being sub-divlded in
to rooms for the use Of the landlords
family, while The southern portion-a
room 31x33 feet contains the "guests'
chambers" These chambers, eight
in mum ber-four above and four be-
low-are cozy little affairs, SKI feet
and eight feet high, made of boiler iron
securely rivited together, and provided
with locks Of the most approved pat
terms. Each contains an iron ham
mock, swung to the wall, and arranged
so as to be readily drawn up out of the
way in day time and lowered for use at
night. Around the chambers there is
a passage four feet wide enclosed by a
fence or cage, of inch iron bars, extend
ing to the roof. So that to gain ad-
mittance to the room Of guest, with
out the consent of the landlord, one wolld
have to first make his way through a
heavliy-barred window, then through
the bars of this cage, and lastly through
the heavy iron door Of the cham
Der, while, as the iron floor of these
chambers is raised some three inches
from the stone floor of the main room,
any attempt at saving or fling on ei-
Their the chamber or cage would result
in such racket as would awaken ev-
cry inmate in the house from the sound
est slumber.
That this house presents unusual cat
fractions for guests, and is destined to
prove a SUCCESSES we'll evidenced by the
fact that on the first day of its OPEN
ing FIVE gentlemen who had previously
been boarding at a popular house in
Mineral Point came out and took their
lodging in it, to-wit: Hugh McKin-
stardy, young man of Apple River,
Ill f, who is waiting to see what the
March term of the Circuit Court will
say about his having taken horse be-
longing to Richard Biddick, of M if
fin, last December; VIM. B. DAVE, Of
Mineral Point, sswh, will remain till
March 9Th, on account Of his being
unable to find some good, responsible
parties to vouch for his maintaining
a peaceful disposition; Julius lIaletso,
of Mineral Point, who thought to start
himself in the granger business, and
with two accomplices) last December,
appropriated Is bushels of clover seed
belonging to Alonzo Cushman, Of Milf
fin; Cbas, Mcconnell, also of Mineral
Point, seeing that it placed his
wife's life in jeopardy for hioi to re-
main at large-was adjudgod worthy to
board at the countys expense for six
months from the 9th of last December;
and last, (poor fellow y James Shay,
of the town Of Arena, who, though
bound over to keep the peace toward
his wife, is no doubt insane, and would
be sent to the ASYLUM if there was
room for him.
The hotel starts off under the manage
ment of Thomas Kennedy, sheriff
Ryan's deputy, who will no doubt
prove himself an excellent landlord.