Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-11-11
A six-MiIIion Dollar Hotel.

LIE new hStOTld IlOlel III New Olk
City, in which $6,000,O0o of the Astor
money is invested, was thrown open
to the public last week. 1t is the most
magnificent hotel in the United States.
It's proprietor is George c. Boldt, who
has also the management of the Wal
dorf Hotel, adjoining, and now consol-
idated with the Astoria. The Wal
dorf is owned by William Waldorf
Astor and the Astoria by John Jacob
Astor.
In the combined houses, which will
be known hereafter as. the Waldorf
Astoria, are 200 bedrooms for guests
and 700 bathrooms for their use. The
hotel will employ constantly 100 me-
chanics and engineers, 400 walters,
100 chambermaids and 100 kitchen
workers and cooks and several hum
dred clerks, bellboYs, porters, door
keepers, grooms and other employees,
the total aggregating 1900 persons.
Only the women employees will sleep
in the hotel, the others seeking lodg-
ing elsewhere.
In the linen for the new house $780,
600 has been expended, and it is esti-
mated that to replace the loss from
wear $4,000 annually must be ex-
pended. The silver, which was de-
signed and made for the house, cost as
much as the linen, ard the china and
glassware represents an outlay Of $780,
900. For the refrigerators 10000
pounds of ice will be required daily.
Outside of its general artistic fea-
lures and the high class of service rem
dered nothing about the house appeals
more strongly to the fashionable world
than its principal ballroom. The size
of this apartment, which is situated on
the main floor, will be understood
when it is stated that 1000 couples
can be accommodated IN a dance on
It's surface, and in the ~ boxes and in
the galleries 1000 spectators may sit,
while in the balcony is room for an
orchestra of 100 pieces. Adjoining
are the Conservatives, with long prom
enades through the leafy bowers, illu-
minated by the soft glow of incandes-
cent lights. This ballroom is decora-
ted in the style of Louis Quatorye, in
old ivory, yellow, rose and gold. There
are numerous mural panels, represent
ing "Music and the Dance, by Ed
ward H. Blashfeld, and twenty lu-
nettes and panels by VIII H. Low,
portraying the music of all nations.
Another feature in this magnificent
hosiery worthy of mention is the main
dining-room, so by 90 feet, on the cor
ner of Fifth avenue and Thirty-fourth
street on the main floor. It's style is
Italian renaissance, its marble pilas-
ters and columns, named from their
color the midnight sun, are from
Northern Russia. The roof garden is
another feature that will appeal prin-
cipally to men of wealth and fashion
detained in the city during the warm
season by business cares. An innova-
ton for the entertainment Of fair
guests is the ladies billiard-goom on
the fourteenth floor. There is small
club-room in these upper regions for
bachelors.
The architect who designed the
building is Henry J. Hardenbergh'
The total cost of the structure and Its
furnishings is estimated at $6,000,00o,
or 100000 more than the Waldorf.
To pay interest on this investment the
hotel must make a net profit of 81, 900
per day.
At this magnificent hotel the cheap
est room costs $3.50 day, and prices
range from that sum up to $50. The
meals are served upon the most dainty
and expensive china, and the food will
be the best which the market affords,
cooked by the best cooks which money
can secure and served by the most ex-
perenced walters. The prices will be
those usually charged for such expen-
sive viands.