The morning call., 1895-02-16

Jessie street: twill be seven stories high
facing Market street, FIVE stories facing
Jessie and only four stories in the middle.
a story was left off the. center purposely,
so that plenty of light could. be obtained
for the store that will be on the main and
second floors. The basement, first and
second floors and those portions of the
third, fourth and fifth stories that face
Jessie street will be used as an immense
department store, and the remainder of the
building Will be used as offices.
The imposing main entrance to the
building is forty feet wide. A passage of
the same width leads TO rotunda which
is 100 feet in diameter. 1t is 100 feet from
the floor to the apex of the large glass
dome, which will be beautifully decorated.
The department store will be-the largest
of its kind in the world. The Bon Marche
in Paris now claims that honor, but the
one. to be opened in the Parrott building
next October. will occupy 5000. square
feet more in ground area than
the Partisan establishment. The build
ing has been erected especially for
this store, and in it everything from
needle to a combined harvester and
thresher will be for sale.
In the basement the following depart
ments Will be found: Groceries, wines and
liquors, cigars and tobacco, wood and will
low ware, trunks and yalises, stoves,
mantels, tiles and gas fixtures, wagons and
carriages, agricultural implements, har-
ness, restaurant, grillroom, butcher-shop,
fruit and vegetables, engine-room and
receiving and shipping room.
On the main floor there will be dry
goods department. optical and surgical
goods, iewelry and silverwaTe, stationery
and books, furniture, clothing, mems
furnishing goods, hats, merchant tailor,
drugs, boots and shoes, toys and baby
COR 1sisa .ro1o
hardware and cutlery.
In the rotunda there will be cafe sixty
feet in diameter. On the roof of the cafe
there will be a bandstand. Around the
stand for a space ten feet wide will be
fern garden. Surrounding the cafe will be
the candy, soda, flower and cigar depart
ments. From the west and east sides of
the rotunda marble stairways will lead up
to the second story. Midway there will be
ladies parlors and reception-rooms, a
parlor for gentlemen and barber-shop.
On the second floor there will be:
Cloaks and suits, furs, millinery, art
needlework, furniture, carpets, wall paper,
upholstery and drapery, crockery, glass
ware platedware, bronZes and statuary,
hair goods, manicuring establishment,
sewlng-machlnes patterns, japanese and
Chinese bazaar, musical instruments and
sheet music, pictures, picture-frames and
artists materials, information bureau,
emergency hospital and telegraph and
telephone room
All the departments can be closed by
means OF collapsable gates, and then there
will be sufficient room in the aisles for
10000 people to move about.
The pavement through the center of the
building and the flooring in the cafe and
restaurant will be of mosaic thing and
marble. All the fixtures will be of Califor-
mia redwood, with burl panels The struc-
ture throughout will be fitted with 375 arc
and 5000 incandescent lights. When ready
for occupancy the Parrot building will be
a credit to San Francisco