Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-18
THE PLANS OF THE BUILDERS.
The Total Outlay to Exceed the Sum Of sii5,.
000-Description of the Building.
Ready to Begin Work on Our Waterworks
System---eal Estate Transfers-Pros-
perous Texas as Mirrored in Her
Record of Progress and Enterprise.


and $115. 900, and will be the most elegant
hostelry in all of its appointments
in the state. No money will be spared to
furnish it throughout in an appropriate
manner, and when its generous doors are
thrown open TO the public Il IS ex-
in all of its details from
the ample culinary department on the
ground floor to the linen and sewing rooms
on the top floors. The building, designed
by our local architects, Messrs. Messer,
Sanguinet & Messer. for the Fort Worth and
Arlington Heights land and investment
company, is a modern adaptation OF that
pleasing style of architecture known as the
''old colonial" is to be built on the high and
commanding portion of Arlington Heights,
overlooking the beautiful Trinity valley TO
the north and commanding a view OF nearly
the entire heights to the east, west and
south,
1t will have a frontage to the south of
1S5 feet and six inches, by 4 depth Of lis
feet and six inches.
The first story will be twelve feet high,
built of selected Bennett pressed brick,
laid up in red mortar, aud with Pecos stone
trimming around all angles and window and
door openings. The second story is OF
| frame, is fourteen feet high and weather
| boarded. The third and fourth stories are
ten feet high each, aud are shinglsd. add
the whole is surmounted with a high
DlICleu OEndIlcuGdl IOOl. WllA hui1CLOGo
gables, towers, dormer windows, etc.
The main entrance is approached over q
| handsome light of Pecos stone steps, thirty
feet wide, to . porch twenty-five feet wide
by one hundred and twenty feet long. OPP
posite the steps there is a v~eStiouled en-
| trance through two pairs of handsome plate
glass doors, into the rotund3. or gen
| eral loungins room, which will have q
| polished hardwood floor, paneled ceiling,
high paneled waiuscoting and decorated
walls. This room is about 40xS0 feet, with
numerous bay windows, %alcoveS, hooks,
| etc.. and there will be q huge stone fire
place and mantel at opposite end TO en-
trance, arranged to burn large logs. This
fireplace will be set back in a recess and
surrounded by comfortable upholstered
seats.
The Office isat the side of the rotunda, and
in connection with a private office, check
room. etc. Across the corridor from the
Office are the ladies' reception rooms and
parlors, and 4 little further on are the ele-
| vator and main stair case, leading down to
the first story and up to the third and fourth
stories.
Just opposite the main stair and elevator
is the
GRAND PARLoR AND BAL ROOM,
| thirty-fve by s~eventy-five feet in size, with
large windows around three sides, and a
very large open fireplace and mantel at one
end. This room will be finished up with a
stucco ceiling, and will be especially rich
and elaborate in finish.
Descending the main stair, to the first
story, we find the grand dining hall, thirty
five by seventy feet, with high colonial
wainscoting, and paneled ceiling with heavy
beams.
Back of the dining hall is the kitchen,
| thirty-fve by forty feet, with large recess
for range, with an immense ventilating
hood over all to carry of the fumes of the
cooking.
Back of the kitchen is the pastry cooks
room, with a large bake oven extending
out under the ground. The smoke and
ventilating stack from kitchen and bake
oven is seventy feet high above the ground.
The other portion of the first story con-
tains the children's and servants dining
rooms, trunk room, pantries, pastry room,
cold storage room, etc. The lavatories,
fitted up with most improved sanitary
plumbing fixtures, such as white marble
basins with nickle-plated legs and trim
ming; also the barber shop, smoking room,
general and ladies' billiard rooms. AL on
the south side, and on the north
side we have the heating and fuel rooms.
steam laundry and servants quarters.
In the east end Of the second story there
are fifteen choice chambers, arranged en-
suite, with private bath rooms, fitted with
hot and cold artesian water.
The third floor has t~hirty-seven large
airy chambers, ana among Inem SIX suites,
with bath room connections.
The fourth floor has twenty-three extra
large bed rooms arranged similar to those
on the third floor.
All the bedrooms have access to balco-
MES, which are not continuous, but only
connected with each suite of rooms, which
arrangement secures them absolute, privacy.
The entire building will be heated by steam
and lighted by electricity. The porches
and grounds will also be illuminated by
electricity in 4 most tasteful manner. I'm
mediately over the main entrance will be a
clustero of electric lights, forming the words,
sYe Arlington Inn, . the name by which
this magnificent building will henceforth be
known.
The grounds are being beautifully laid
out for flower gardens, lawns and walks,
and lawn tennis courts are being con-
structed on the most approved modern
ideas, and win be only one OF the many
features that the company have arranged
for the entertainment of their guests.
The entire house, in the construction of
which over half a million brick, 45o, 600 feet
of lumber, and other materials in proper
ton are to be Used, is contracted to be COM
pleted on or before July l, 1857.
The preceding may be termed the techni-
cal description of this new hotel, which
will be no small factor in draw
ing to Fort Worth those persons
who desire while transacting bust
Iness to enjoy the comforts afforded
4Hby such an institution. Tn Arlington will
not be merely a tourists hotel; 1t viii be
open every day in tine year, and is designed
to meet the needs Of the general travelling
public. As far as its location IS concerned,
no hotel in the state, and so far as known
in the Southwest, has itsequal. Healthful,
high, surrounded by q country fair
to look upon, removed from the din, dust
and turmoil Of the city, yet IS accessible as
if located on one OF our principal
streets, with every convenience,
not TO say luxury, Afforded by
any hotel in the country, 1t offers attrac-
lions which viii weigh greatly with the
travelling public. A hotel located as this
will be, with every convenience and
beauty which this will have, with
eighty-seven airy sleeping apartments,
a-rtesian water throughout, lighted with
electricity and heated by steam, grand rsr-
lors and ballroom, Ye Arlington will be
come the social headquarters Of North
west Texas. Cur citizens can
order q dinner here and enjoy
it to the queens lasts, while the tired-out
family from the mountains or the sea can
here find rest and r~ecuperation on that
happy middle ground.
An order has been placed with the Pull
mans for additional cars so that the service
will be shortened to ten-minute intervals.
Another power house will be
erected on the Clear Fork with two
$50 horse power engines and 80 horse
power battery Of boilers, making service
certain and ample. In connection with
the hotel a frst-class livery stable