The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-24
4 NEW PALArTAn HOUSE

Two Hundred Rooms With Private Bath
 En Suite is Opened-"Hotel Majestic
 Opens This Morning at 10 O'Clock fol
 Guests.
 This magnificent new family and transient hotel is situated in the f1nes1 and highest location on Chapel street (the principal street of New Haven) near the College campus, Cooking south) midway between the finest (west end) residence section of the city, and the business center; near the Yale Uni versity club, the Vanderbilt Memorial Osborne hall, and the other university buildings, Republican league and Quin' nipiack clubs, Hyperion theater, and "The Green; electric cars to all sec tiohs of the city.
 This hotel has been especially planned to meet the needs of the travelling pub lie, Every convenience and appliance required that modern art and science can command will be found in this es- tablishment making it the finest hotel in the state. People will soon learn that life Is worth living in such an ele- gant home, simply on account of it's most spacious and reasonable apartments, Us ShpGAD lOldlAOils lt9 AllOpTLPtC PAASN for both rooms and board, which will be below anything ever before attempted in this city for what is offered. Suites can be secured by the year or for any period with complete hotel service, The house is lit by electricity and gas, Each suite has telephone service with the office. The building is finished in quartered oak, cabinet trim and con- tains handsome wood rnantels and hard wood doors. The walls and floor of the vestibule main hall and dining room are of rich marble. The roof garden is designed for the use of guests and their friends exclusively; it Is very attractive, contains electric lights, sum- mer houses and plants, and afford mag nificent views of the city and adjacent mountain scenery. The roof is a pleas ant place for guests who desire to read or lounge and view the scenery, The spacious dining room with elegant col- umns, pink marble walls and floors, cabinet finished quartered oak lofty panelled ceilings and electric lights is very substantial and attractive, and is open to the public where meals are served on the American and European plan. Adjoining the dining room Is an orchestra balcony, also a dining hall for nurses and children. The passen- ger elevator is divided from the stairs by a brick shaft built from the cellar to a point above the roof, allowing guests and their friends to step from the elevator upon the roof garden. The entire basement is finished in marble mosaic and devoted to a barber shop, toilet rooms, and business purposes usu- ally found in such houses The house Is beautifully decorated and furnished. Every detail of the undertaking has been carefully and beautifully elabor- ated Nothing has been left undone to produce q hotel up to the twentieth century requirements and citizens of modern ideas will no doubt appreciate its comforts.
 The bath rooms contain a porcelain lined tub of the best quality, wash bowl and embossed closets of the very best make The pipes and fixtures are of nickel plate and the entire work Is open, and of the very best quality and In accordance with the latest sani- tary requirements of the board of health. The building is heated by steam. Water Is supplied by system of driven wells, in addition to city water. There are forty-six bath rooms In all
 The hotel is seventy-five feet high five stories, seventy-five feet wide, and L34 feet deep. It is very sunny and having no less than fifty bay and is So situated that the sun can shine on every window some portion of the day. It contains sub- stantial brick walls, the front andt wings being in Pompeian rock and smooth faced brick, alternating, with brown stone trim, and basement of solid brown stone. There are two brick walls dividing the main halls and run hing parallel and a cross brick wall the back from the front of the The entire building is plas- cred in adamant and all partitions not )f brick are deafened, and the floors louble and deafened with air space be- ween. The interior wood work finish s treated with fire profng material by the Electric Fire company, New York, which B now being used in all large modern theaters, etc. This material vas introduced to us by W. H. Hub ,ard, our city fire marshal, who strong y endorses it.
 There Is a straight hall on each floor, he suites being on either side, At the nd of each hall there is a door and ron balcony with iron ladder connects ng each balcony to the one story ,itchen roof. Outside of this door there 5 also standing hose pipe to which he fire department hose can be at- ached at each floor so that there is cry little danger, as every precaution as been taken, including a standing ipe in the center of each hall with ! ne hundred feet of hose attached and 1 eady for use. The formal opening will 1 e announced later. Furnished suites by the year or horter period-special rates. Transient | ate $3 per day and up including table. immet w. Root, manager; A. J. Sin ! lair formerly of the New Haven [ ouse, chief clerk.