Morning journal and courier., 1880-03-20
Rockaway's Big Hotel.
One.Quarter of Q Mile Long, with More
 than 2,O0O Rooms and Forty Bartend-
.rrron the New York sun. l

than 2,0eO Rooms and Forty Bartend-
 
 ;IErom the New York Sum-
 Tho nsw hotel on Rockaway. Beach Is to be huge in all it's details. One thousand workmen and one hundred teams are engaged in it's con- struction, and, with the aid of electric lights, the work is continued night and day. The framework of the top story is being put in placs. The contractors who will provide the furniture and carpets must deliver the goods in May, and by the first of June tho hotel will be ready for business The building is to be four stories high, 400 feet deep in some places aRd 13O feet, or nearly quarter of mile, in length. This is five times as long as the Wind sor Hotel or either one of A. T. Stewards stores. It's front porch, extending all along the front of the house, is to be 70 feet wide. Another porch, on tho bay side of the house, will be 30 foet wide. Above the office floor there are to be between 1000 and l, 100 rooms. to accommodate l, 800 permanent guests The dining room for these guests is to be in the second story, and will be 200 feet long by 75 feet wide. The owners assert that they have ordered furniture that will make this as ele- gant aud comfortable as any dining room in New York. This dining room and the great parlors on the same floor are so arranged that they can all be thrown open to form ths gi- gantic saloon. The whole of the ground floor, porches and all, except the space occu- pied by the office and the cigar stands and bars, will be one immense dining or refresh ment hall, but it will be divided into several rooms. This is for the transient custom. The bars will be feature peculiar to the place. There are to be at least two of these, 100 feet long, one on each end of the build ing There will probably be another bar in the middle. It will require the services of 40 bartenders to do the expected business of these bars.
 Already pier 500 feet long by 175 feet wide has been buil5 into the bay, and leading to 1t and to the new railroad depot there is 8 cover ed promenade 100 feet in width. The propri- etorB are now building gas works, and there are to be water works which will supply 400 of the rooms with running water. In connection with the water works there will be 8 means of supplying steam to the building. There are freplaces in many of the rooms, for, like the Atlantic House at Cape May, this hotel Is to be opsn all the year. It is built so that two-thirds of 1t can be closed, leaving only an odinary large hotel for the accommodation cool weather guests.
 The investors in this scheme have purchas- ed tract of land 700 feet below the Neptune House, the first landing for Cornell Whites summer boats. The hotel is being built on the surf side of this tract. The same persons, under another organization, are also building the new railroad from Hunters Point, by msans of which the journey to the beach will be performed in twenty-five minutes. This will be completed within the next sixty days.
 The hotel Is shaped like the letter E, the central structure having the appearance of dividing the building into three parts. This will bs surmounted by tower, with a great balcony around it. It will take 35, ,O0O yards of carpet to cover the flooring of the upper rooms, and the pariors will require nearly 1000 yards. The general plan of the new company comprises extensive drives and grounds arranged by landscape gardeners. Western capital is invested in the plan.