The herald., 1897-01-03

| fairs. They are made of steel, and fin
| ishea in oxidiZed copper
! These elevators nave speed Of three
hundred and fifty feet per minute. with
! load of 2500 pounds, and have uni
| form steady and easy motion that off
| fers greatly from the jerky, spasmodic
motion of the ordinary hgh-speed ele
, vator. a.
Each of the elevatoRds operated by
| dyramo. controlled by the man in the
| car, ara requiring hardly any other at
! tsntion.
The grand stairway was also con-
! structed by the Llewellyn Iron works.
| The fame work is of iron ard steel, the
| rises being cast iron and the trea6S of
! nc crble.
This iron stairway, by the way, is
the only siX-story iron stairway ever
| successfully manufactured ard erected
! in this city. The designs for the cast
iron work are graceful and original,
and We're executed by Llewellyn Iron
works.
THE WOODWORK
| The contractor for this important part
! of the building was w. o. Burr, who is
probably the oldest contractor, in point
of experience in Los Angeles.
He has built, or helped to build, a
large portion of the buildings erected
here in the past twenty years. He is
| known all over this section of the coun-
| try for the thoroughness and superior
quality of his work.
| Mr. Burr's latest work-The Van
Nuys-is one of the finest specimens of
! the joiner's art to be found on the Pacific
| coast Every piece of wood that enters
] into the building has to pass rigid in
| spection. AS stated elsewhere, the halls
| and rooms of the Van Nuys are finished
| in white cedar. This wood takes beau
tiful finish and helps in making the new
| hotel artistic and handsome in it's inter .
| ior appearance. Five hundred and
| forty-fve thousand feet of lumber
| was used in the building, and of this
! amount 100000 feet was white cedar and
F., the balance of construction lumber.
There was $4,000 feet used in flooring.
THE BRICK WORK
/ George Low was the contractor for the
| brick work, and has executed his portion
of the building in the first-class manner
for which he is well known.
There were used in the building 1,450,-
| 900 common brick and $4,000 pressed
brick, besides 5000 moulded brick. 1t re-
| quired HOO barrels of lime and 300 bar
rels of cement to put these brick to-
| gether. Mr.. Low commenced the work
| of building the walls on March 18th and
| completed the work on September 5th,
| thirty men being employed on the work.
| Mr.. Low has been a contractor for
| twenty years, and has built either in
whole or in part. the Pirtle and Hallet
block, Gear, Hammer & Co.'s building,
and the Marsh & Gage block. Also the
brick work on the Clark & Bryan block,
corner Washington and Main streets,
! and many others. In addition to the fore
going. Mr.. Low has just completed the
carpenter and paint shops of the Los
| Angeles Street Railway company, on
/ ixrtI rtr
he is now building the Howell block on
Los Angeles street. near Second.
PLUMBING AND STEAM FITTING
| One of the most important contracts
| connected with the Van Nuys, and one
that will have the effect of adding great
ly to the comfort and convenience of its
| future guests, is that including the
plumbing and steam fitting. This part
OF the work was executed by Newell
Brothers, whose work is also to be found
in many of the other large buildings of
| the city.
| The floor and walls of the bath rooms
are tiled and the tubs are of porcelain.
| The washstands are marble slabs, fit
| ted up with 15x19 inch oval bowls, and
the hot and cold water supplied with Bos-
ton self closing basin cocks. The waste or
trap is the latest Imperial trap, and the
! fittings throughout are nickel-plated.
The baths on the second floor are
| of white italian marble; on the
| third and sixth floors gray Tennessee
! marble; on the fourth and fifth floors,
champion pink Tennessee marble, and
| the lavatories throughout are of cham
! pion pink Tennessee marble They are
supported on nickel-plated brackets AMI
| ported on nickel plated brackets and
| controlled by nickel-plated valves, and
| bath closets and layatories have the
| latest improved syphon jet
1 The bath tubs are what are known as
! the "Perfecto roll-riinmed" tubs, sup