The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-10
A GRAND HOTEL.
Raymond d. Whifconb, the
Tourist AGENTS at the Worlds


Raymond d. Whftcomb, the
Tourist AGENTS at the Worlds
Fair.
With their customary foresight
and enterprise, Messrs. Raymond Il
Whitcomb, the excursion projectors
and managers, have completed ar
engagements for the erection of
large and elegant hotel near the Ex-
position grounds in Chicago, for the
express accommodation of their pa
irons this year While many hotels
are being built "on paper" this is the
only high class hotel actually pro-
jected that is to be situated near
Jackson Park, the others being of
a cheap order, or else tenement
houses which it is proposed to use
temporarily for the entertainment of
transient guests, and which, it is al
most needless to add, cannot contain
hotel appointments except in a meas
ured degree The down town hotels,
of course, are sure to be crowded.
The site selected for The Ray
mond & Whitcomb Grand Hotel as
the establishment is to be known,
is upon three of the pleasantest bou-
levards where heavy teams are not
allowed, viz: Washington avenue,
Madison avenue and Fifty ninth
street, the main front, three hundred
feet in length, facing the Midway
Plaisance. The entire street front
age 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 is less than thousand feet,
and yet the hotel is in a retired stu
alton, removed from the noise and
hustle of the main avenue in front of
the grounds, and in the midst Of a
fashionable residence section.
The Midway Plaisance is also
part Of the Exposition grounds, but
is to be devoted to special exhibits
and the foreign villages. A finer To-
cation 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 provided. The
architects and builders are Barry
Brothers, of Chicago, who have
erected many Of the most costly pri-
vate residences in the Exposition
city, and whose names are a guaran-
tee 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 we'll lighted and VEN
tilated. In fact, none of Chicago's
largest hotels contain nearly as many
bath rooms as The Raymond & Whit
comb Grand will possess. The dining
room will be ITO feet by rs feet, with
seating capacity of about 500 per-
sons, and the reception rooms, par
lors, Office and other apartments,
including a Raymond & Whitcomb
Office, will be of ample size. Both gas
and electricity will be used in light
ing the house, and there will be two
elevators, one for passengers and one
for baggage.
Messrs. Raymond & Whitcomb will
run daily special trains from the East
during the Exposition Sundays ex-
cepted), composed of new and elegant
Pullman palace vestibuled cars, both
sleeping cars and dining cars; and
for their sole accommodation the Hi.
nois Central Railroad Company will
erect special station on their Wash
ington 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, insur-
ing easy communication with the
city. Washington Park, the most
beautiful of all Chicago's public
grounds, is within easy walking dis
lance.