Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-06-22
OUR ssMONTEZUMA" HOTEL.
A Tenderfoot Describes What He Saw
at Our Springs.

A Tenderfo0t Describes What He Saw
at Our Springs.
Some time ago bright Bohemian
iwho was travelling through the terri
tory stopped for short season of rest
and recreation at our famous Hot
Springs. To say that he was sur
prised at the grandeur of the scenery
surrounding and the magniticence of
the improvements of man is but
mild expression of the literal truth.
The one feature of our mountain re-
treat, however, that filed him with the
greatest admiration and wonder was
the new "Montezuma Hotel" In
speaking of its attractive novelties he
goes into the ectasies of praise and
almost exceeds the bounds of absolute
truth.
"This hotel is so wonderful that it
merits description. 1t is built on
gigantic scale, and is capable of con-
tanning one fourth of the population
of the city. 1t takes up au area of
about 1000 acres, and is fitted up re-
gardless of expense with all the new
est invention. The blocks in the ves-
tibule are of solid gold, and the rail-
ings of the stairs are silver mounted.
There are l56 beautiful clerks behind
solid rosewood counters "a quarter of
mile in length, ,ornamented with silver.
Each clerk has his hair parted in the
middle, wears a diamond pin, and is
exquisitely polite. There are $4,000
hall boys, one for each room and
numbered. They are located in q
large basement room, communicating
with the Office by trap doors. The
bell is rung by some impatient lodger
in want of something, down goes the
clerks foot on the corresponding pc
dial, and up shoots the hall boy, some
times dozen at once. He is put in
box, shut up in pneumatic tube ,and
whisked right into the room designat-
ed by the bells dial. A door in the
wall opens to receive him, an auto
matte clamp seizes him by the coat
collar, and he is quietly dropped to
the floor. Going up stairs you would
be astonished at the magnificent suit
| of
PARLoRs, MILES IN EXTENT.
In the ladies grand parlor are sta
toned a fashionable dressmaker and
man milliner, who are in direct tcle-
graphic communication with Paris.
The gentlemen's reading-rooms,
lounging-rooms. smoking-rooms, bath
rooms, barber rooms, billiard and
private rooms for parties desiring
privacy while dining and wining, arc
both numerous and elegant, even the
spittoons are made of gold. Tile ele-
vators, 300 in number, conveying
guests from the bottom to the twen-
ty-fifth floor, half a mile up, are beau
tifully upholstered, and furnished
with every convenience to the travel
er. The ladies' elevators have toilet
tables and accessories, rcfrcshment
counters, full length mirrors, and
sofas to recline on. The gentlemen $
elevators have bar and restaurant
attached, and also barber shop run
by the motive power of the elevator.
Each single room or suite is supplied
with faucets connecting with pipe
running from huge tanks on the roof
which contain different wines, BRAN
dies, sherries, also lager, liquors and
bitters, also patent medicines. The
flow from these tanks is registered at
the office so that the clerks can tell at
any time what drinking is going on
all over the house. In the center of
the hotel block is hollow square, oc-
cupied by a menagaric, a circus, an
opera house, and two theaters. trage.
dy and comedy, which are kept open
exclusively for the benefit of the
guests, who are admitted free. In
the large dining hall, two acres square.
1000 walters dash about recklessly
Oh skates. They are of all natiauali.
ties, and are required to be accom-.
plished skaters.
There is n circular railway on every
, floor to enable ladies and people il
r delicate health to visit each othcl
, while stopping at the hotel. A banc
of 250 pieces performs on top of th,
, roof every evening, and at sunset :
I pork of 100 pieces of cannons arr
fred off. The effect is grand.
i, Every evening celebrated eronan
n goes up in a balloon from the squar,
e in the middle of the hotel, which il
n called the plaza. 1t is astonishin,
:, that in such vast caravansary so fey
n people get hurt; only about dozeI
It are killed. The hotel has its own un
It dertaker, doctor, and druggist. Tn
It arrangements for escape in case o
/ panic or fire are ample. Hose am
e buckets are on every floor; and i
e each room ingeniously arranged in Tn
is ceiling is a tank Of water; by pullin
- cord, the room is flooded in q INC
ment."
Grand Discoveries.