Bismarck tri-weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1881, 1877-07-02

ted to business, and Wnen the T2lllOad Is
completed to Puget Sound, as it will be
within six years, will be filled to its high
est capacity with transient guests. At
present it will serve with frst-class ac-
commodations at least $50 guests, and in
addition affords ticket Office and waiting
rooms, telegraph Office and rooms for the
U. S. Signal Station.
THE FIRST FLOOR
is divided into twenty rooms as follows:
Commencing at the west end in thirty by
thirty-four feet we have the N. p. r. R.
ticket Office, two elegant waiting rooms
and the telegraph Office, including most
complete arrangements for the battery,
end commodious coat room. East of
this division will be found
THE BILLIARD HALL
and bar room occupying 32x33 feet. Next
east is the Office 2ox28, barber shop and
wash room 12x21 and coat room 6x12.
Then we have the main entrance. with
spacious hall and handsome stair case
leading to the second and sd stories.
THE DINING HALL
will be found next. This is room 31x5o
situated in the southeast corner of the
building. It is lighted with eight large
windows, glass 16x42, four lights in each.
The ceiling is twelve feet high and is or
namented with five handsome center
pieces for chandeliers, which will be the
best that can be obtained. North of the
dining hall will be found two pantrys, Sx-
II, with a seven foot passage between
them. They are fitted up with all mod
ern conveniences and add to the appear
ance as we'll as to the convenience of the
house. Next we find
THE KITCHEN,
22x31.. This is complete in all of its ar
rangements, and for the use of the help
it has a stairway leading to the. ed and
I'd stories and to the attic. North Of the
kitchen will be found a pantry room TX
70, and store room 12x2o, with stairway
leading to the vegetable cellar. Adjoin-
ing this on the north is the laundry, wash
room and water closets. Under the bill
lard hall there is large
WINE CELLAR
having heavy store walls, and under the
kitchen large vegetable cellar of the
same character. Two cisterns holding
seven or eight hundred barrels, having
brick filters, are located under the Etch-
en-. The building is underpinned with
stone making a substantial foundation
A platform ~ feet wide extends the
whole length Of the railroad front and to
Maie st. along the 9Th St, or east front;
also along the west end Of the building
on the 4th St, front. Heavy,
HIGHLY oRNAlGENTED COLUMNS
stand at either side of the entrance to the
building on the south front, supporting in
part, two-story porch ox78 feet. The
porch has iron ratings guarding the sec
Ses 'tG;Z; s and Do.s,1 ,s elegant gasded balcony
porch will be conceded, particularly by
the young people, to be one of the insti-
tutions of the establishment.
GoFwith us to the ~a ~ a@sFs' =
SECOND STORY.
At the head of the hall which branches
off leading to the west and north, we find
a double glbhead window opening onto
the porch. Turning to the left, in the
southeast corner of the building we find
apafior 24x3I, and on this floor we find
E36 sleeping sTooins, some Of them double,
all of them arranged for heating, well
lighted and properly ventilated.
The hall is seven feet wide, and the
rooms are finished, in-keeping with the
general design Of the building Reach
ing the
THIRD STORY
we find at the head of hall similar to
the one described before, another double
gibhead window leading to the balcony
which forms the deck Of the porch. In
the south east corner we find fine double
parlor or suite, and 36 bed rooms as before,
making seventy-two sleeping +. pms on
the. second and third floors. |
ner of the third story will be occupied by
tgs rs: ss,- OLD PROBABILITIES,
who, by the way, is on tear, just now,
and is supplying weather of all sorts, and
in consequence, those who anticipated
much for the Fourth are considerably out
of sorts.
The two-story porch heretofore men,
toned, situated on the railroad front, is
we'll designed, and the builder has done
his work well in following the design.
The columns are round and rest upon a
heavy square base, and are decorated
with heavy doric and corinthian chap1-
ters, brackets and rentals.
The heavy iron railing on the second
story of the porch, and the ballustrades
on the balcony, add much to the beauty
as well as to the utility Of the structure.
Near the west end of the building there
is, a long balcony fronting on the railroad,
reached from the third story. Another
On the west end, facing on 4th street, at
double gibhead window leading from
the second story.
THE WHOLE STRUCTURE
is fine specimen Of architectural beauty