New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-31

EXTENSIVE CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS UNDER
JUDGE HrLrON's MANAGEMLSr.

EXTENSIVE CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS UNDER
JUDGE HmroN's MANAGrNESL
The A. T. Stewart estate was rich in hotel
properly This Included the Metropolitan Hotel DO us
city, together with Niblos Garden theatre; the Grand
Union Hotel NJ sara-oga, which was being rcAt'd ana
extended az great expense whom MI stewart deti tHe
hotel ~ NJ stewart. Garden CITY ana tle mammoth
woman, Hotel now almost completed EN-Jn'-. jil-
ton explaining last summer way he assumed personal
management o. e hotels OF tAc estate s,i4 ae learned
by making The experiment 20 Garden CRY, tna u was
easier 10 manage the hotels himself than o. see mat some
body else did o. property Last year be- took Tie Grand
Union upon himself, made great additional oiuty Ahd
began by oslacizn- the IcbrrT> Ih' lt.t'sg.. -'a.
coutrDvcrsv viii lc rnemhted 't ~ 'n-t .'t t'.5
Summers The failure 81 the Grand Union as rs an I'-
vcstmcut was predicted DIT ~ was t',t,l 4. ~
NitOn'> authority th't l'.l year 'I' t'iill l..-
better Investment ~ tIittl c!ll 81"
per The profits Of Oh" previous year. NAleD were
exceeded during me past season. ,,,. .,
,ersonal control OF tho Metropolitan i'm Hrury Claire.
VINO vas for many years engaged lu The wholesale dry
,,, fr,u IN, rgIire OF thr downtown hotel lu,i-
ness, anI Mr. Hilton determined 90 rrNoiutoNZe matters
there Within two or three week, POO mechanics mad.
descent on ne hoie ana are h.' oI.F lc' 'i''- '
rcmodcug the cuiic interior ore latt 't % une.
Nibo's Garden viii be no more after me lease expires
IN MAY next Il viii then DE converted into hoei r"oAN
In TIE meantime ID IS proposed To- convert We lanirs
iuucn counter. sometninE on The pan OF the ASt"r
House r0tuudJ. The hotel proper VIII ne clulhura on
tanned by t Iug tar present large court between mo
office and NuiDS. Ii Is intended ~ change ihe bi"at.'
rooms and the remainder OF shs first toor fronting on
Prince-,t.. int stores.
Judge ton has begun by rcfurnishng ire piror' IN
me second floor and The great Gnlugonin ihe lri-
terias have been st ectcd by himself 0nd the Work MS
been done under his personal direction me ptiloi iI
ni,buy. are remarkable FOR subIucd fhrct ana quiet
TASTE The hdueiugs and rugs are cithrr P't,iin ~
Turkish aud of Oriental richness. Tile largest I'sl
,r, eyer brought this country covers tlo moo. Ok
the smoking rradng-rOom.
Opeup.- ont Of the ptror corridor. long low Ichl.
,urnis ned apartment paiior heslDe 10 te
diuug room which is exceedingly hIiEtht IN appear
aucc While ID i not rs deep as the dliNs room on t,
Grand Union al Saratoga II i very hucA iii,r'
of velvet carpet cover the polished lhi "u HV'l'
ceiling il very high. and frcscotd. lEhtlI'' /, ''
non arch mirrors make the walls ,adtil' i,l' N
h,co,v tor music ana IL sad that Judge linton N
tends 10 have music regularly lAe 1J'I'"-.. ~, ,,I
pripcest side of the dnu groom. Is n0% ueuT lf'e.'
i,h he view OF making il cosey and homelNe d' Ioa
shlc ,,.., ,,.. t..t,,,en
TlIirty-secoud ANA Thrty-tnIdstS., VII lioo'he
on.nsd .lry i'm February large part oi tc o.cc a..
yorklncn ENGAGED the new Motel was tsI3poI@Ig
transferred "a the metropolitan. inns LtS 'tel -,
finishing and furnishing OF the women, iiorl' tW ~
weeks the painters have been busy on the NtcIl' ~
well worn white lead coat Of the Motel hie ueeu ~.
changed Tor "A business sult OF hgut dtap, VIA l n
rsf trcp OF green. the prominent posts oi iA' a.,
,1e. beiu. colOrrd shade or Two deeper ih. -
story mn around is dark brown, the non columns ps
nainted 10 initiate red granite sky Blue ta.ihs HnJ
10 me roof u peculiar appearance. Tie cnudn'' -"
yestibue are OF immense proportions