The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-06-15
COLONEL ANTOR'S BIG HOTEL.
In Size and SpIendor 1t Will Be the
Finest in the World.
Flats and Bachelor Apartments-A
Wonderful Ballroom, Quarters for
Clubs, and q Hotel on Every Floor
Connections With the Waldorf

eclipsed in point of size and splendor by
the fifteen-story structure which Colonel
John Jacob Actor has begun to build adj
joining the Waldorf, at Fifth avenue and
Thirty-fourth street. 1t will also be one
of the most novel hotels in the world in
its arrangements.
1t will be partly composed Of flats and
partly of bachelor apartments. There
will still be enough hotel left to astonlsh
people. By an understanding between
Colonel Astor and William Waldorf
Astor, the new hotel and the Waldorf
will be harmonious in design, and they
are to be connected all the way up into
practically one hotel.
Men have been at work for a month,
night and day, tearing down the large
brown-stone mansion erected in 1854 for
William Astor, on the site of the new
hotel. There is hardly vestige left OF
the house in which Tramp Garvey took
his celebrated nap.
There is also being built an extension
to the Waldorf, which will increase its
size TO that OF Colonel Astor's hotel. The
Waldorf has front of 100 feet on Fifth
avenue, and extends $50 feet on Thirty
third street. Four houses in the rear OF
the Waldorf, facing on Thirty-third
street. are being demolished, and on their
site will go up an extension OF the w al
dorf, fronting 1O0 feet on Thirty-third
street.
Colonel Astor's residence, which has
been torn down to make way for the new
hotel, stood on lot fronting 100 feet on
Fifth avenue and extending l7o feet along
Thirty-fourth street. In addition, seven
houses are being demolished on Thirty
fourth street, so that the new hotel will
be 100 feet by $50 feet.
The new hotel, for which a name has
not been chosen, will be in the German
renaissance style. like the Waldorf. 1t
has been designed by the Waldorf archi-
tect. Henry j. Hardenbergh, and Builder
Downey, who erected the Waldorf, Will
also put up the new hotel. George e.
Boldt of the Waldorf will also manage
the new hotel, and his ideas have largely
been consulted in the plans.
The main entrance OF the new hotel Will
be on Thirty street, and there will
be driveway into courtyard fifty feet
square, with fountain in the center.
The entire Fifth-avenue front will be
taken up with another restaurant of the
same size and style of magnificence as
the restaurant of the Waldorf, adjoining
which. on the Thirty-fourths side,
will be foyer fifty feet square, which
tional dining-room, or general meeting
and resting place. The band will be sta
toned half way up the main stairs, on a
balcony facing the foyer and main corri-
dor and the winter gardens. AT this end
of the building will be the four main
elevators-two local and two express.
Those who drive into the courtyard will
see opposite them a number of splendid
marble pillars. fitted i'll with glass doors,
hung in bronze frames. Opposite the
courtyard, just across the corridor, will
be winter garden, adjoining and similar
TO the Waldorf's winter garden. There
will be colonnade around the court
yard. only moderately heated for prone
nading.
AT the other side of the driveway will
be large room for gentlemen, and also
the main office. Here will be the coat
rooms. the offices of the telephone, tele-
graph, stenographer, porter, head Super
lntendent, and bureau OF information.
Here, also, will be four elevators-two for
service and baggage, and two for guests.
On Thirty-fourth street, on the ground
floor, west of the main entrance, will be
the gentlemen's cafe, extending nearly
100 feet along the street. The bar and
lunchroom will be across the corridor
from the cafe.
The second floor will be entirely de-
voted to entertainment purposes. There
will be ballroom at the extreme west
ern end, 100 feet SO uare by IS feet high.
This magnificent room will be hung with
trusses from above, and will have two
tiers Of boxes on the western and eastern
sides. 1t will be used not only for balls
and dinners, but also for concerts.
soirees, conventions, and, if.need be, for
operate performances, or for whatever
use society may require. Adjoining this
room will be elegant foyers, reception
and dressing-rooms. In the middle OF
the building will be another magnificent
ballroom, 40xS0 feet, with separate foy-
ers and reception-rooms attached. On
the Fifth-avenue front there will be q
suite for private cotillions, holding 80 to
100 couples. Thus a number OF smaller
entertainments and three large balls can
be held during the same evening with
out conflicting with one another. This
floor will be reached by a private en-
trance on Thirty-fourth street, by sepa-
rate elevators, as well as by magniti-
cent broad flight of stairs.
Two flights up will be a number of pri-
vate dining-rooms and an apartment Of
state. The other twelve stories will be
devoted to apartments, the center OF the
house mainly consisting of fine large
rooms, with private baths. while the cor
ners and both OF the western ends south
western and northwestern) will be ar
ranged as suites for families.
The Fifth-avenue and Thirty.fourth-
street corner, all the way up, Will be en-
tirely devoted to flats, consisting of draw
ing-room. library, bedrooms, servants
rooms, and large private dinlng.room,
with buffers pantry, with steam dunn
mics near them. connecting directly with
the kitchen below, attached to every flat.