The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-01-06
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[N. j Democrat.
This hotel is 40 wonderful that it
merits description. 1t is built on
gigantic scale, and is capable Of contain
ing one-fourth of the population OF the
city. II takes up an area Of about i,ooo
acres, and is fitted up regardless OF ex'
pense with all the newest inventions.
The blocks in the vestibule are OF solid
gold, and the ratings of the stairs are
silver mounted. There are loo beautiful
clerks behind solid rosewood counter,
q quarter of mile in length, ornamented
with silver. Each clerk has his hair
parted in the middle, wears diamond
pin, and is exquisitley polite. There are
$4,000 hall boys, one for each room and
numbered They are located in large
basement room, communicating with the
office by trap doors. The bell is rung by
some impatient lodger in want of some
thing, and down goes the clerks foot on
the corresponding pedal, and up shoots
the hall boy, sometimes dozen at once.
He is put in box, shut up in pneu-
matte tube, and whisked right into the
room designated by the bells dial A
door in the wall opens to receive him, an
automatic clamp seizes him by the coat
collar, and he is quietly dropped to the
floor. Going up stairs you would be as
tonished at the magnificent suits Of par.
lors, miles in extent. In the ladies
grand parlor are stationed fashionable
dressmaker and man milliner, who are in
direct telegraphic communication with
Paris. =.
The gentleman's reading-rooms, loung-
ing.rooms, smoking-rcom ms, bathrooms,
barber-rooms, billiard and private rooms
for privacy while dining and wining, are
both numerous and elegant; even the
spittoons are made Of gold. The eleva.
tors, 300 in number, conveying guests
from the bottom to the twenty. fifth floor,
half mile up, are beautifully upholster'
cd and furnished with every convenience
to the traveller. The ladies' elevators
have toilet tables and accessories, refresh
ment counters, full length mirrors, and
sofas to recline on. The gentlemen
have bar and restaurant attached, ant
also barber.shop run by the motiv'
power of the elevator. Each single room
or suit is supplied with faucets connect
ing with a pipe running from huge tank
on the roof which contain differen
wines, brandies, sherries, also lager
liquars and bitters, also patent midi
cines. The flow from these tanks is reg
istered at the office so that the clerk
can tell at any time what drinking
going on all over the house. In the ceI
Ter Of the hotel block is hollow square
occupied by a menageris, circus, a
opera house, and two theaters, TRACED
and comedy, which are kept open excl,
! sively for the benefit of the guests, VIII
are admitted free. In the large diniz
hall, two acres square, 1900 waite
dash about recklessly on skates. The
are Of all nationalities, and are require
to be accomplished skaters.
There is circular railway on evel
floor, to enable ladies and people in do
cate health to visit each other viii
stopping at the hotel. A band Of 2
pieces performs on top of the roof eve
evening, and at sunset a park Of Il
pieces of cannon are fred of. The eHe
is grand.
Every evening . celebrated asrona
goes up in balloon from the square
the middle Of the hotel, which is call
the plaza. It is astonishing that in sucl
vast caravansary 80 few people got hu
only about dozen day are killed. 7
hotel has its own undertaken, doctor, o
druggist. The arrangement for esca
in case of fire and panic are ample. II,
and buckets are on every floor; and
each room ingenuously arranged in
ceiling is tank Of water; by pulling
cord, the room is flooded in moment