Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-19
seturn of the Lamp Committee.
Dining at the Union League Club Rooms
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Dining at the Union League Club Rooms
 --The Grand Rockaway Hotel-VOtes of
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 The members of the Lamp Committee, with Town Agent Reynolds and the COURIER representative, returned to this city on Satur- day morning from their excursion to Coney Island and Rockaway. The entertainment on Friday was a continuation of the previous days elegant entertainment. The party zen dezvoused at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in the morning at II o'clock, where they were met by Secretary Connor, of the Globe Gas Light Company and by him escorted to the Union League Club rooms where the party broke fast. The breakfast was everything that could be desired, and the visitors were pro- fuse in their praises of the excellent cuisine of the Union League Club. Breakfast was concluded about o'clock, when the party started for Rockaway. The steamer Colum- bia was taken at Brooklyn, and after de- lightful sail on the steamer Columbia through New York harbor and out on t'old ocean, the place of destination was reached. The company landed at the pier connected with the new Rockaway Beach Hotel and proceeded first to view this immense structure, brief description of which will be read with interest. The hotel when completed will not only be the largest in the world, but in finish and substantial construc- ton will excel any edifce for similar pur- pose ever built The visitor is astonished at the immense size of the hotel when walking through the long halls, which are three-ffths of mile in length, but when he stands on the beach some ninety or hundred yards away and obtains fine prospective view of the whole structure he begins, for the first time, to realize the grandeur and unequalled beauty of the grand hotel. The visitor, how ever, notices at once the substantial nature of every portion of the building and naturally comprehends that the company are not build ing for season or two, but for generations, are erecting a lasting monument to their en- terprise and true grit D Col. John More, chief of construction, says the company gave him unlimited power as to method of con- struction with the understanding that only the best material that could be procured was to be used in it's construction.
 The work on the hotel was begun on the 18th of February last, with quite a large force of workingmen, and the number was increased as occasion required, until now an army of upwards of 2, GOO men are busily en- gagged every day in the week in completing the handsome structure. The hotel has 916 sleeping rooms, and will have accommoda- tions for l, 800 permanent guests and more
 
 HOO feet, and it's average width 300 feet it's height being from four to six stories above the basement. There are to be, for the use of the guests, two elevators and ten grand staircase, $ five of them enclosed with ire-proof walls. The porch fronting the sea, and running the whole length of the hotel, is seventy feet wide at the main entrance and ffty-four feet in width at the wings. The lawn which is being constructed between the hotel and the surf bulkhead, will be 1,5OO feet in length, 25O feet in width, and will be terraced and ornamented with shrubbery and flowers. The porch on the Jamaica Bay front, to which guests will step from the cars direct will be about fifty feet in width. Passengers by steamboat will reach the hotel by crossing broad pier that runs out about 800 feet in the bay. The great bar-room will be separate from the hotel proper, but be connected with it by a wing in the western end $50 feet in length, to contain billiard rooms and ten-pin alleys The hotel will have 5000 gas jets, the gas being manufac- tured at the Company's gas works on Jamaica Bay, and the distribution of water is admir- ably arranged, by employing the Holly sys- tenn of water works, and pumping engines in the building it will enable it to become its own fire department. The water works are built short distance from the hotel and from the wells containing 250, GOO gallons of water daily, twelve streams of water can be instant ly turned upon and into the building, and capable or uOOQ1nS the WnOl6 SGTuC6ur0 1n- side of five minutes, and if necessary, old ocean can be called upon for afew gallons, should the water in the wells be insufficient to extinguish a fire. The two features which strike the observer at once as being particularly grand are the grand parlor and the mazzina floor above, with it's large and handsome balconies, where the guests can have full view of all that is transpiring in the grand parlor. The observatory is one of the principal features of the hotel, and from it one has uninterrupted view of the sur rounding country and for miles at sea.
 After viewing the great hotel and it's sur roundings the party walked along the beach for half mile to the told'' part of the beach, where some of the party took advan- tage of bath in the surf. At 6:3O o'clock the company took the steamer for NewI York, where they arrived at 8:3O p. m. The party then proceeded to the United States Hotel on Fulton street, where meeting of the guests of the Globe Gas Light Company was held, Town Agent Reynolds of this city being called to the chair. Resolutions of thanks were unanimously adopted to Secretary Con- nor and the company he represents for their kind attention and entertainment after which the excursionists went on board the Conti- mental, and at an early hour on Saturday morning reached this city The visitors re- member with pleasure the kind attentions of Mir. A. R. Brasher and Mir. Ira Taft, who, with Secretary Connor, did all in their power for the comfort and pleasure of the excur- sionists.