Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1885-03-06

frontage or % feet on Main street and q
depth Of 81 feet. Ithas four full stories,
three being above ground and the base
ment being only feet below the grade
OF Main street. Tho basement walls
are Of hard brick and are "a inches
thick, and are sunk into the earth 8 feet
below the basement floor, thus insuring
a lasting foundation for the massive
walls towering over it. The walls OF
the first story proper, or the Office floor,
are 20 inches thick, the second story
walls are 10 inches thick and the third
story walls are IL inches. The brick
used throughout the building were
burned especially for it under the super
vision of competent brick makers, and
better material could not have been
procured anywhere in the country. The
walls were all completed before frost,
and were carefully put up, nothing in
the way of carelessness being permit
! ted.
The windows and doors are all sur
mounted with fancy metallic caps in i'm
itation of cut stone, in the latest archi-
tectural designs. A heavy cornice, of
the same material, of a beautiful de-
sign, extends around the two fronts,
giving it a rich and architectural ap-
pearance. The window panes are large
there being but one to each sash, and
this adds beauty to the outward ap-
pearance of the building.
The outside frames and cornice are
painted in imitation of stone.
The roof is metallic, and fiat, with a
sufficient incline to admit of the free
| flow of water from it.
Around two sides of the building is
an area, sufficiently wide and deep. to
admit light and ventilation into the
basement. This will be covered with
iron gratings. This is properly drained
and no water can collect in it.
THE INSIDE.
The basement extends under the en-
tire building. and as stated has high
ceiling with plenty of light and yentila-
ton. 1t is finished up in splendid style
with hard pine floor and castings, plas-
tered in hard finish and painted in var
ious shades and colors, all appropriate.
Leading to the basement are two out
side entrances and two from the inside.
the one from the main hall being wide
and easy stairway. The billiard room
is lSx5l feet; large wine room opens
into it.
Then there is wide hall leading to a
private club room, barber shop and
bath rooms. In the basement is also a
large, dry. store room, laundry, and
coal and vegetable cellars.
The first story proper-the Office floor
has an extra high ceiling, large plate
glass windows, and is beautifully fin
ished on the inside. The entire of this
floor is grained in imitation of walnut
with French walnut panels. with ebony,
light and red wood trimmings, having
a gloss and finish, a fac smile of hard
oil finish on the natural corresponding
hard woods. The stair rail, newell posts
etc. are of natural walnut, filed, pun
iced and polished, making a surface
equal to glass, and as durable as the
wood itself. The second and third floors
are of Arkansas pine, finished in hard
oil, the most durable and desirable fin.
ish to be had, especially adapted to pub.
lie buildings.
The painting of the entire building
cannot be mentioned as barely or ordi-
narily good, but an extraordinary iot
IN every particular. 1t was done by
Lee Il Viele, formerly from Chicago
but who located last year at yelling
ton, Kansas. These gentlemen are
practical workmen and give every jot
they undertake their personal attention
Their work on the Grand hotel is a last.
ing monument to their reputation as
artists, and as they VIII establish bus.
mess here they can point with pride tc
this their sample job.
HOW FURNISHED.
The billiard room is furnished with
excellent taste. A bar Is feet long OF
solid ash and cherry is furnished with all
the latest improvements in the way OF
cut-glass ware, large beveled glass
mirror, 50xT0, set in solid ash with
turned sides; an extensive solid ash re.
frigerator, improved billiard tables and
pool tables, of the Brunswick Bake
make.
The club room, the barber shop and
bath room are fitted up in nice style
The wine cellar is commodious and well
illed. A large store room, for canned
goods and groceries is protected from
heat and cold. The laundry is large
and we'll lighted, convenient to the
wells and cistern. A large vegetable
and coal cellar complete the rooms OIL
the basement floor.
On the first floor is the Office, 36xlS
fronting southwest, well lighted and
heated, supplied with comfortable
chairs, an elegant large desk and Office
counters. Opening into the Office is the
reading room l6xlS feet, comfortable to
perfection.
Then comes the main hallway 10x4s
feet, from which the grand stairway
leads to the secJnd floor. Opening into
the hall is the ladies entrance from the
South, and leading from it is broad
stairway to the billiard room and base
ment rooms. At one end of the hall
way is the wash room supplied with
marble basins, forced water supply
and other necessaries. Two sample
rooms, each 15x15, well lighted also oper
on the main hall, and from it the sub.
hall leads to the dining room.
The dining room is 25xS7 feet and
will conveniently seat IS people. II
has the high windows on each side
north and south and will always be cool
1t is tastefully decorated with appro