Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-11
TBB CONTRACT
FOR TIE SPLENDID HOTEL At LOCH LYNNE
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Let in This City YsstsrdaY-Ths Hoisl Conpan!
Organized Hrs-Whai Is Being Dons
at This Resort

The stockholders OF the Loeb Lynn
Heights Hotel Company met in this
city. at the Office OF Hon. j. b. Som
merville, yesterday morning, and or
ganizsd by electing J. b. Sommerville
President, Louis Walters Secretary, and
Major ]. c. Anderson Treasurer and
General Manager. The capital stock
OF the Company is $4,000, and its out
look is most promising. Immediately
after the election of officers the bids
for the erection Of the new hotel were
opened, and the contract was let to
Messrs. w. S. Body and w.
F. Williams, OF the firm OF
Eros r. Williams & Co., architects and
contractors, OF Cape May, n. j., and
the work will be commenced at once,
ground being broken for the founda-
tions on Monday next. The new build
ings will be renaissance type OF archi-
lecture, with a combination Dutch and
French high roof, embellished with
towers, and will present an extreme
frontage of two hundred and twelve
feet. The entire frontage will be
equipped with a porch sixteen feet In
width. The hotel will have one
hundred bed rooms, and the
plans have been drawn upon a
most liberal and extensive scale. The
central lobby will be 39X49 feet, and
from it will open oht corridors, offices,
a magnificent ball room, billiard room,
etc. The dining room will be 4Ox77
feet. and there will be a complete sys-
tenn OF electric lighting, hot and cold
water throughout the building, bath
rooms, an extensive laundry and in
short, everything desired or desirable
IN o modern hotel OF the first class.
The contractors, Messrs. Body
and Williams, have erected five
large hotels so far this year, and have
contracts for four more, and promise 10
use all their very extensive facilities TO
have the building complete and ready
for occupancy by April 1st next. Al
ready number OF rooms In the new
building have been rented for the COM
ing summer by Wheeling parties, and
there will be a great rush for quarters
a little later on. The Hotel Company
has secured Mrs. l.. b. G. List, formerly
of this city, as general manager OF
the entire building, and Mrs. List
is now in the East, making contracts
for furnishings and fittings. She will
have entire charge OF the practical con-
a
plans were finally adopted they were
submitted to her, and number OF
changes suggested by her were made
by the architects. All the hardware,
glazing, corrugated work, painting,
sash and doors, etc, for the hotel
will be furnished by Wheeling firms,
and contracts to that effect will be ar
ranged Immediately.
Matters at Loeb Lynne Heights gener-
ally are progressing in a most satisfac-
tory manner, despite the fact that the
past year has not been good one for
business ventures OF that nature. Major
Anderson reports having sold over two
hundred and fifty lots during the past
season, TO the very best class OF people,
many Of them residents OF this city, and
so active does the demand promise TO De
the coming summer that a tract
OF four hundred acres in the
rear of the hotel has been pur-
chased, and two hundred and fifty acres
of this land is now being plated. A
large green house, surrounded with Eve
acres Of land, is now being erected, and
ARRANGEMENTS are fully completed for
setting out shade trees, etc, for lot own
ers. A number Of cottages are now GO
ing up, and the erection Of the hotel
will make the time an auspicious one
for the building Of houses by those own
lug lots, as the work can be done cheaper
and more expeditIously this winter than
usual.