New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-03-30
Tho fifth Avenun HoIeI.

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Metropolitan Police, and the House ad-
journed to Saturday.
The Fifth Avenue Hotel.
One of the attractions of New York is
the Fifth Avenue Hotel. No stranger com,
ing to this city fails to visit il. Hs renuts.
tion is national and even worldwide The
greatest celebrities have been its gueste.
The Prince of Wales stopped at this great
inn, seventeen years ago. Other guests
have been Presidents Lincoln, Grant and
johnson, Secretary Seward, Charles Sum-
ner, George Peabody, General A. e. Burn
side, the late Charlotte Cnshman, MIR.
Jacques Offenbach, and hundreds of others
no less distinguished. The families of Pres
iteDts Lincoln and Grant have al ways made
home of the Fifth Avenue when they visit
ed this CRY. Nearly all the smbassadors
from foreign courts make the Fifth Avenue
their stopping place when in New York.
The Brazilian minister last spring received
overtures from nearly all the leading hotels
OF the metropolis, so anxious were the pro-
prletors to furnish apartments to the EN-
peror Dom Pedro ii. and the Empress of
Brazil. But the minister from Brazil came
voluntarily TO the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and
engaged suites for thirty or more rooms,
twenty of which are on the parlor floor, and
stretch 200 feet on the Twenty-third street
side Of the immense hotel. 1t is doubtful if
boast of suit OF rooms equally extensive,
and stretching along in continuous line
THESE are the celebrated apartments that
were occupied by bis royal highnsss the
heir apparent to the English throne.
When George Peabody was in America
he gave most elaborate dinner party at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, at which we're
present the most distinguished literary,
professional, mercantile and public meH In
the country, including President Grant,
Admiral Farragut, William II. Seward,
| Governor Aiken, of South Carolina; Govern
or Graham, of North Carolina; Bishop Nc
Iivaine, Robert C. Winthrop, A. T. Stewart
and William B. Aston. And twenty years
ago or more, where this hotel now stands,
there was only wayside i'm called the
Madison Cottage" 1t was starting
point for omnib1ses which ran into the
business part of the city, all of which ives
then south of Blocker street.
Though the Fifth Avenue may not cover
as many square feet as some hotels in the
United States, it certainly has larger
rooms, higher ceilings, and better ventils-
| ton. Brick partition walls between each
| suite of rooms ia q decided advantage in
| this hotel. The two inches of cement be-
| tween the double floors not only secure per.
| feet quiet, but are a preventive against fire
| The Fifth Avenue is a remarkably we'll pa
| troled hotel. Each floor has its day and
night watchman, all of whom are under g
| general superintendent. They act also az
detectives and firemen.
Originally the Fifth Avenue Hotel cost
100000. To-day it is valned at 81, 900 900
1t occupies q whole block between Twenty.
third aud Twenty-fourth streets, and ex
tends back or each of these streets 800 feet
Built ia the form Of hollow square, with
| four magnificent faoadeF, il allows al
abundance of light for all the rooms, anC
permits perfect ventilation throughout thu
structure. Covering eighteen lots, rising
six stories high, exclusive of the basement
and upper floors for the servants, it standl
a giant among the great buildings of thu
metropolis of America. With It's thicl
outer walls, its numerous brick division
walls, its floors filed it with mortar, its pro
fusion of hose and pipes and well appointed
fire department. the building is PRACTICAL.
fireprOOf, Besides the new, magnificen
elevator model of work, which runs iron
the first floor to the top of the house, Their
are six staircases ascending from til
ground floor in various parts OF the build
ing. The hotel contains $40 rooms, and &C
commodities from 900 to 500 guests, besid
the 400 persons required to run the house
There are four entrances from the street
to the first floor of the Fifth Avenue. Tn
great hall of the hotel, paved with marble
handsomely frescoed, the rear lined wit
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long, twenty-eight feet wide, and sixtee
feet high. From this central hall one ma
pass to the large reading room, on the left
TO the office and clerks desk to the gran
marble staircase and elevator, o i the righ
to the extensive smoking room, barbe
shop, etc. In common with all great Amel
lean hotels, the Fifth Avenue has larg
newsroom and bookstore, thester-tickt
office, telegraph and express offices, stoc
indicators, etc. All these rooms are of gres
size, beautifully furnished, and kept in tn
most peri ct manner. The second floor col
tains six magnificent public parlors, a
fronting Oh Madison Square, each richl
furnished, like the drawing rooms of th
NEST sumptuous private mansion. The Ell
frances TO the hotel have lately been r
modelled and new woods and castings hay
been added. A large corps of mechanic
are now at work making new improve
ments.
The tea-room has Just been renovated
Eight double brackets and twenty-seve
chandeliers, from Mitchell, Vance & Go
and carpets of beautiful designs, from IL
Bigelow Carpet Company, have bee
I added. There is nothing loud about tn
apartment. 1t is as cosy as room at HON
The proprietors of the Fifth Avenue al
certainly good educators of the people Q
the subject of house furnishing.
! The great dining hall, eixty-iour
eighty-four feet, occupies the hollow squal
of the hotel and ia the finest room of i
kind in New York. 1t has been latel
l frescoed by Meleni. The four seasons an
3 other allegorical and NEUROLOGICAL tigur'
are represented in the most delicate and r
8 freshing oOlors on the ceiling. Frescoing
+ undoubtedly fine art, to judge by the pr
! | fusion of flowers which are painted on Il
l walls. The mirrors in this hall have
beautiful effect in multiplying the ROOF
8 The whole work of this dining room Is pc
feet
The superiority of the Fifth Avenl
l Hotel is we'll illustrated by little ane
4 dote told by Mr. James T. Fields, of BOsto
: in the Transcript Of that city. "Three
D dies and gentlemen in Boston, who hi
travelled all over the habitsble globe al
! had lived at all the renowned inns wor
q mentioning on the planet, were playil
4 games of best authers, best cities, b
everything, in short, and they all wrote
:. slips of paper, unseen by each other, VIII
= each one considered the best hotel in t
world, and the same was written by
t six-viz, "the Fifth Avenue, in Nj
r York. "-IRdepeHdela
4 The German Republicans.
At a called meeting of the German i
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