Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-02-28

Ehs SnAusuration supper Refrigerated By
= Nov system in Murray Hin Hotel

mere, 62lQ mr.. hammond, OF the uru
Of Hunting 4 Hammond, proprietors Of the
Murray Hill Hotel, Park avenue and For
tieth street. yesterday, as he unrollsd ssheeI
Of paper large enough for q theatrical pos
ter, is the menu for the Inauguration sup
per at Washington next Wednesday. To
day We send on two freight ears loaded to
their utmost capacity with crockery. On
Tuesday of next week we load up three
freight cars, two with eatables and one
with champagne" a glance at the large
bin OF fare enabled the representative ofthe
Mail and Express to see that it was designed
to tempt people Of al tastes and civilized
nationahtieA 1t contains for instance,
Russian salad for the Russian Minister and
his suite Pate Of Game q Ia Rossini for the
musically inclined, Bastion q "a Democrat
for the BourbonS and fruit for al. The
champagne car viii be loaded in about
equal amounts with Mumm's Gordon Rouge,
Yeuve Clicquot yellow label) and Jules
Mumm Grand Seel
IF you want to see the bill Of fare sub.
stantiaized," said Mr.. Hammond, come
down stairs and make q tour Of our Ponti-
fex relrigerators. We've got enough eat
ables for about 5000 people refrigerated in
them" Mr.. Hammond led the way to the
basement and stopped in front of what
looked like the entrance to q room. By
opening the door and turning on an cleo
irie light he was enabled to show q large
room furnished with shelving, the shelves
being covered with boned turkey, boned
pheasant, meat and game patties, delicious
looking pastries and numerous other deli
cacies. A coil of pipes covered with q soft
white substance like snow ran around the
room. Mr.. Hammond, when asked con-
corning these pipes, explained they were
part Of the Pootitex system.
We are rsthor proud of this system, he
said, because we were the first to put 1t IN
use in q hotel, We wanted to have every
modern appliance in our house, and this is
one Of them. Do you hear that pumping
sound? That's the pump which sends the
freezing substance through the pipes. The
machine is based on the ammonia absorb
ton system, and as the same material is
used over and over again and the machine
only has to be replenished for loss by leak
age, the process is most economical. 1t
helps to carry out our plans on a large
scale. Our FIVE meat rooms, the fish, poul-
try, dairy and wine rooms are not halt filled
with ice, as is the case with ice refrigera,
tors, so that we can store q much larger
quantity Of material in them. Then
we have boxes in which we
freeze two thousand csrsffes of filtered
Croton daily, and finally tanks for produc-
ing solid blocks of ice from which We pro-
dnce chopped ice, etc. We were ready to
take the contract for the Inauguration sup
per because we knew We could prepare it at
our leisure and refrigerste it by means of
this system. The articles on the bill of fare
will be Just as fresh as if they were gotten
ready on the day on which they are to be
served, for you will notice that the air in
the reirigerating rooms while cold is perfect
" dry. Our dairy refrigerstors and those
Tor the yiGnds to be used during the day are
upstairs in the kitchen, for the temperature
furnished by the Pontifex system Is o af-
!ecttd by the proximity of heat-indeed,
we have 10 refrigerator in the small kitchen
right between W ranges"
"But how do you provide against too low
q degree of temperstureY' Mr. Hammond
was asked. How do you know but that
in the refrigersting room where you have
the Bastion a Ia Democrat the cold may be
so great hat the Democrat will be frozen
out of the Bastion?'
Because" was the reply, our Office is
connected with the r~efrigerators by Hew-
tits teletheremometers. We heard they
were in use in the Washington building and
were quite willing to rely on Mr.. Fields
Judgment as to their pracicabiGty."
On entering the main corridor Mr.. Ham
mOnd pointed out another novelty in the ar
of the twenty-four Edison incan.
descent lights. These are so placed that
they turn upwards ike gss-burners. The
chandeliers are of brilliantly.polished brass,
studded with imitation gems which fash in
the bright light. The electric plant is in
the house. Almost the first object to strike
one on entering this corridor is a large
hearth at the further end, whereon great
logs are burning merily. Near this hearth
are chairs and settees. 1t is difficult to
imagine a more cozy place in which to
smoke ones after dinner cigar. Yet this
coy nook is part of a magnificent corridor,
brilliantly decorated and rendered more
imposing by a massive staircase
of gray notified marble. Two dining halls,
respectively ITO by so and 100 by 60
feet, can be entered from the corridor.
Messrs. Hunting & Hammond have two
dining halls in order to carry ont another
rovel idea, viz: that Of having service a Ia
table dhote and a Ia carte. The walls of
these dining rooms are hung with embossed
velvet tapestry, and the chairs are in oak
and stamped leather. On the same floor
are a number of tastefully furnished private
dining-rooms. On the floor above is a suite
Of parlors, so divided up that the guests
can entertain their visitors without inter
teriDg with each other. The walls of these
p6rloIs are hung with rich crimson velvet,
while some of the chairs are upholstered in
tints so delicate that they would be regarded
by an artist with uncessing admiration. In
fact, the decorations throughout the house
are rich without being in the least gaudy.
Nest beautiful, perhaps, is the lilac scroll
work, en- a silver background with which
tire ceiling Of the hall on the Fortieth street
side OF the corridor floor is decorated.
The 54S rooms on the upper floors, some
en- suite, others single, all have windows
opening on the street and are most com
fortably furnished. In building the hotel
special attention was paid to ventilation.
As there is a bellboy's station on each
floor, a guests call receives immediate at
t%ention. Though the building is ~freproof
there are numerous hydrsnts and rolls of
hose in the halls. A pleasant feature in
summer will be the large platforms in the
turret which rises over the centre of the
front line Of the building, where the air al.
ways c~irculates freely. In this turret are
the trausparencies with Murray Hall in
large letters. They have already proved
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