Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-16
ROCKAWAY's BIG HOTEL.
One-Quarter Of Vile Long, with
Wore than 5000 Rooms and Forty
Bar-Tendera.

The new hotel on Rockaway Beach is tC
be huge in all its details. One thousand
workmen and one hundred teams are en-.
gagged 10 its construction, and, with the aid
Of electric lights, the work is continued
day and night. The framework Of the top
story is being put in place. The contract
ors who will provide the furniture and car.
pets must deliver the gouds in May, and
by the first Of June the hotel will be ready
for business. The building is to be -four
stories high, 400 feet deep in some places,
and !, 100 feet, or nearly quarter OF a
mile in length. This is five times as long
rs the Windsor Hotel or either Of A. T.
Stewards stores. Its front porch, extend.
ing all along the front Of the house, is to be
20 feet wide. Another porch, on the bay
side of the house, will be 30 feet wide.
above the office floor there are to be between
1000 and 1flQ0 rooms to accommodate /, 500
permanent guests. The dining room for
these guests is to be in the second story,
and will be 200 feet long by 70 feet wide.
The owners assert that they have ordered
furniture that will make this as elegant
and comfortable as any dining room in N.
Y This dining room Rand the great par
lOrs on the same floor are so arranged that
they can all be thrown open to form the
gigantic saloon. The whole Of the ground
floor, porohes and all except the space oc-
cupied by The office and the cigar stands
and bars, will be one immense dining or
refreshment hall but it will be divided in
several rooms. This is for the transient
custom. The bars will be feature peeuli-
ar to the place. There are TO be at least
two of these, l0G tlong, one on each end
of the building. There will probably be
another bar in the middle. Ii will require
the services of 40 har-tenders to do the ex-
pected business of these bars.
Already pier 500 feet long by 1856 feet
wide has been built into the bay, and lead
ing to it and to the new railroad depot
there is a covered promenade 100 feet in
width. The proprietors are now building
gas works and there are to be water works
which will supply 400 rooms with running
water. In connection with the water
works, there will be means of supplying
steam to the building. There are fire places
in many of the rooms, for like the Allan
tic House at Cape May, this hptal is to be
thirds OF it can he closed, leaving an ordi-
nary large.hotel for the accommodation OF
the cool weather guests.
chased tract Of land 700 feet below the
Neptune House, the first landing for Cor
mel Whites summer boats. The hotel is
being built on the surf side OF this tract.
The same persons under another organza-
tion, are also building new railroad from
Hunters Point, by means of which the
journey to the beach will be performed in
twenty-five minutes, This will be complet-
ed In SIXTY days.
The hotel is shaped like the letter b, the
central structure having the appearance Of
dividing the building into three parts.
This will be surmounted by tower, with
great balcony around it. 1t will take 35-
900 yards of carpet to cover the flooring Of
the upper rooms, and the parlors will re-
quire nearly 1000 yards. The general
plan of the new company comprises extern
sive drives and grounds arranged by land
soape gardeners, Western capital is in
vested in the plan.-N 7, .SHa,