Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-20
THE WORLDS FAIR.

Nessrs. Raymond & Whitcomb to
Erect an Elegant Hotel in Chicago.
With their customary foresight and en-
terpriss, Messrs. Raymond & Whitoomb,
the excursion projectors and managers,
have completed arrangements for the erec-
ton of large aud elegant hotel near the
exposition grounds in Chicago for the ex-
press accommodation of their patrons next
year. While many hotels are being built
"on paper this Is the only high class hotel
actually projected that Is to be situated
near jackson park, the others being of q
cheap order, or else tenement houses
which it is proposed to use temporarily
for the entertainment of transient guests,
and which, it is almost needless to add,
cannot contain hotel appointments except
in a measured degree. The down town
hotels, of course, are sure to be crowded.
The site selected for "The Raymond &
Whitcomb Grand Hotel" as the establish
ment is to be known, is upon three of the
are not allowed, viz, Washington avenue,
Madison avenue and Fisty-ninth street, the
main front, 300 feet in length, facing the
Midway Plaisanee. The entire street
frontage is $50 feet, and the aggregate of
outside exposure is 800 feet, while the
courts have width OF no less than forty
FIVE feet. The distance to one of the main
entrances of Jackson park .ia less than
. thousand feet, and yet the hotel is in
retired situation, removed from tho noise
and hustle Of the main avenue in front of
the grounds, and in the midst of fash
ionable residence section.
The Midway Pfaisance is also part of
the exposition grounds, but it is to be de-
voted to special exhibits and the foreign
villages. A finer location could not have
been made in all Chicago. The building is
to be of the most substantial character,
Notwithstanding the fact that it is designed
for temporary use, and every luxury
known to the best city hotels will be pro-
vided. The architects and builders are
Barry Brothers of Chicago, who have
erected many of the most costly private
residences in tho exposition city, and
whose names are guarantee that the work
will be of the best character. The structure
will be of pressed brick and only
four stories in height. A piazza will
extend the whole length of the Fifty-ninth
street front. There will be about $50
large and airy rooms for guests, and be-
tween every two rooms will be private
bath rooms and toilet rooms, all Of which
will be well lighted and ventilated. In
"A6Sos
tain nearly as many bath rooms as the
Raymond & Whitcomb Grand will possess
Tho dining room will be ITO feet by 76
feet, with seating capacity of about 500
persons, and the reception rooms, parlors,
Office and other public apartments, includ-
ing Raymond & Whitcomb Office, will
be of ample size. Both gas and electricity
will be used in lighting the house, and
there will be two elevators, one for passen-
gers and one for baggage.
Messrs. Raymond & Whitcomb will run
daily special trains from the east during
the exposition Sundays excepted COM
posed of new and elegant Pullman palace
yestibuled cars Goth sleeping-cars and
dining-cars); and for their sole accom-
mediation the Illinois Central Railroad
company will erect special station on
their Washington park branch at Sixty
first street and Madison avenue, only two
blocks from the hotel. Two stations on
the main line of the same road, two cable
car lines and an elevated railway are also
near at hand, insuring easy communi-
cation with the city. Washington park,
the most beautiful of all Chicago's public
grounds, is within easy walking distance.