The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-24
The Projected Hotel.

The barracks lot has been released by the
government AID the way is now open for
building tho hotel about which there has
been so much talk during the last few years.
! Those who have the hotel enterprise n
charge should not let the grass grow under
their feet. They should as once secure tho
title to the site, and begin clearing
away the buildings. The excavation
for the foundation should be began at once,
in order chat it may be completed before
the beginning Of warm weather. a delay
Of month or two may necessitate delay
of six months, because the sanitary board
may prohibit any disturbance of the SOL
during the summer
The managers Of the enterprise want to
raise S300,000 They have now $3.50, 900,
which sum justifes the beginning of work
Immediately. There ought not to be, and,
doubtless, win not be, much trouble in
raising the balance of the amount needed.
The evidence is accommodating that fine
hotel here will have all the business it can
attend to. The travel from the North to
the South has been larger this year than il
any previous year. The hotels in this city
have been full, as have the hotels in all this
section of the South il is now quite GER
tain that there will be steady increase of
Northern visitors to the South during the
winter months, and Savannah has atttrac-
lions such as are enjoyed by no other South
ern city. 1t is reasonable to suppose, there
fore, that if she had ample hotel sccommo-
dations the nu Der of her winter visitors
would be largely increased
Since the site for a ltel in this city was
purchased scores OF good hotels have beer
built III different parts Of the South, and it
IS quite safe to say that all Of them are
paying handsomely. A splendid hotel was
completed at Brunswick only few months
ago, and it is now announced that it has
been SO literally patronized that contract
has been made to add 100 rooms TO it.
Everybody knows how successful the
hotels at Townsville are Two of them
are very large structures, and during the
season they have all the guests they can
accommodate. 1t Is now proposed to build
another big hotel at Thomasville, and it is
needed. 1t will do fully as we'll as those
which are now in operation there.
There is no use in talking about hotels in
Florida. The State is full of them, and
they are, as rule, very good ones. At St.
Augustine four splendid ores have been
built within the last three or four wears.
and one of them, the Ponce de Leon, is
about as fine hotel as there is in the world.
Although it opened very late in the season,
and does not accommodate a very large
number Of guests, it is VI derstood that it
will Pay about 3l8 per cent upon its entire
cost, which is reported to have besn some
where near So 900, 600
There is no doubt that fine hotel in this
city will pay good interest on the money
invested in it. 1t win not only do that. but
it will give the city big boost. 1t will
stimulate building and encourage the es-
tablishment of enterprises of one kind and
another. Savannahians who want to see
the city advance, and at the same time de-
sire an investment that will bring them a
good return for their money should sub
scribe to the stock of the hotel.