Arizona republican., 1896-12-02
ADAMS WILL OPEN SATURDAY
Big Hotel Will Soon Be Ready
 for Business.
It's Handsome Structure of Com piete EquipmentS anc Lavish Ap- pointn ent Swell kneWn feopie Have Engaged Rooms.


 to-date in all it's appointments and arrangements, will be formally opened to the public at the dinner hour Sat urday next.
 tects, told a Republican reporter, that 1 there have been one and three-quarter million bricks used in the structure. There is a basement area of 5000 feet, and 3,20O feet of the basement and 2,30O feet on the main floor will be occupied by the Commercial club of this city. The main building covers a depth of forty-two feet, with a front age on Center street of 1371a feet, and a 150-foot frontage on Adams street The building is four stories high; and behind the structure proper there are 5000 square feet of floor space in one story buildings, part of which can be carried up to the fourth story when ever it will be found necessary to en- large to meet the requirements of the | patronage.
 The street fronts on the lower story | present fine display of plate glass. l The stories are faced with pressed brick and trimmed with cut stone. The two street fronts are covered by porches ranging eleven and thirteen feet wide These lines of porches are broken with five pavilions, each sur mounted with conical roofs and bal cony railings. The balconies can be approached from the rooms facing them and the upper one is accessible from the roof garden, which is to cov- CT the entire main building, through archways or portals of monumental de- sign. Upon the parapet walls and roof, at the southwest angle, is built an octagOnal belvidere, surmounted by balustrade and flagstaff In the main building, on the Adams street wing, is located 3Sx60 feet dining room. A ladies entrance twelve feet wide leads rto anott{s4 dining room. A suite of offices for physicians and sur geonS, and a store are on the corner
 the store extending back to the main entrance on Center street. Beyond that is the room taken by the cham : Der of commerce, and large bar. The two vestibules, or main hall entrances, are foored with incaustic tile. These lead directly to the hotel office, which
 is 40X60 feet and is lighted through a thirty-foot dome and rising thirty feet from the 1oor with a glass roof in part } and a glass lantern. The main and
 ladies' entrances are alike in design,
 and one executed in the famous Flag staff red sandstone. They consist of
 an archway with carved jams and
 spandrils, fanked by coupled columns
 upon pedestals and supporting orna- mental cornices, all in Ionic style. !, At the end of the ladies' entrance l there is a brick elevator shaft extend
 furnished with an Eaton & Prince
 electric elevator that serves all floors to the roof
 = The three upper floors embrace
 ninety or more guest rooms, one-third
 of which are supplied with mantles
 and grates. Two-thirds of them have
 private baths and toilet rooms.
 :, Another feature is the number oi clothes presses and wardrobes. There
 is an elegant and commodious stair o way to the roof and all rooms are . thoroughly lighted and ventilated The : wood furnishings of the building are !. of natural pine. The walls and cell a ings of the corridors are tinted anC l. stenciled. The plumbing is high grade # and hot and cold water service ex.
 tends to all parts of the house, an(
 there is a separate fire service The l. electric service is very complete, em it bracing a return call system of bel If work, several telephones and ample G electric lights throughout the struc
 ture, both in and outside.
 w. A. Guthrie is the superintendent r. of construction; O'Connor & Cottrell Il brick work contractors; James Bur ,f son, contract plasterer; George H. Gal l. lagher and I. N. Bell, foremen of tn = carpenters. The Phoenix Plumbin, 'o company erected the conductors an. Il smokestack, and Youngstown, Welcl J. & Wheeler did the plumbing, timing y gasftting and fancy work on the porcl
 roofs w. B. Welton put in the cleo
 tric wiring. The stone foundation i
 the work of Anderson & Lock, and tn
 cut stone entrance Qonic work), is b
 L. R. Legier. These mechanics an u designers are all residents of Phoeni2
 The following named distinguishe :, people have engaged rooms: Colone IL Thomas Fitch and wife, Dr. L. F a. Goodrich and family, Judge c. F. Aims h. worth and family, the wife and famil ,g of the late F. s. Beiioiiierr, who are | ,o remain during the winter season
 Major J. w. Evans and wife, Unite UT States District Attorney E. E. Ellir ch wood and family, Mrs. Half of Ker be lucky, MT. Bergman, who recent he opened new wholesale grocery hous nd Ill tnls c1ey oa1iy ooiu"aIef' oI Go!e uo President Frank M. Murphy and fan iK fly, of Prescott; Superintendent E. l he Gage of the Congress mine and fan