The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-17

I OtFuS0 Is t8peCIeU 10 De UUt OI
| strongest arguments with the General AS
| Sembly for the holding of future sessions
| Eefe And the Auditorium IS, indeed, a
complete success. 1t is the same ola
| building of last year. rejuvenated and civ
| illzed and partaking somewhat of metropol-
! itanism. Instead of the earth floor one of
| hardwood has been put down, sloping one,
| ike those of opera houses and modern
! churches: The pillars which supported the
| the roof last year, and which obstructed the
( vision quite as much as they held up the
| roof, have been removed and the dome Is
| supported by iron grders running from the
sidewalks. A commodious stage has been
| erected with convenient committee rooms
| on either side, and a balcony has been built
! in the rear, giving a seating capacity OF
! 2400. The seats comfortable opera
| chairs. with hat racks underneath and a
! place for hymnbook and Bible. From every
| chair the view of the stage is perfect and
and the acoustic properties of the room are
| said TO be admirable. This building is
| lighted by electricity and the sides are ar
| ranged so that the room can be thrown
| entirely open in warm weather and closed
! on cold or rainy days. 1t is better arranged
| for meeting Of this kind than any church
SWer well.
| Next in Importance and chief in cost
among the improvements comes the newly
| constructed Womans building. This hotel
! is an ideal one for a resort of this kind and
| is bound to become popular If well man
aged. as it is sure 10 be, with Major WOODS
| in charge and a chef who got his training
! at the Bates House, TO preside over the
! culinary department. The main body OF the
! building is 250 feet in length, two stories
! in height with two broad verandas running
! the entire length Behind five wings,
! extending out one hundred feet The lower
! floor of the center wing is used for a dining
| room and seats 275 people. There are three
| towers rising a story above the main build
| ing. The central tower consists of but one
| room which is TO be used for various
women's meetings and receptions. 1t IS tur-
nished with four hundred comIortapie
chairs, platform and piano The other
towers are cut UP into sleeping rooms
There are 230 bedrooms in the hotel, not in
Pln1ing
ing was erected at cost of $3OVW and the
furnishing has cost about SlOV0' notWltn-
standing that many articles have been pur-
chased at cost and some donated outright
The crockery for instance, is donated by
pool, o. the proprietors of which are MEM
bers of the church of the Rev. J. Lloyd
-1''' FURNISHED BY WOMEN.
Although called the Womans building,
the title is somewhat misleading and has
caused a number of applicants for rooms
to rebel when assigned to quarters there,
as they did not care to stay at hotel
filled with women. The official title of the
new hotel is the Minnewawan Inn, and 1t
is called the Womans building merely be-
cause each room is furnished by woman
or a women's society. Many OF the rooms
are furnished by persons in memory OF
some loved one either mother sister, or
Wife now dead; and many of them by
churches. In each case the name OF the
person or society who furnishes the room
and the name of her in whose memory IL
is done is placed on the outside OF the door
Each room is furnished with folding BED,
dresser and two chairs Curtains, carpetS
and bedding are all new ana fFesh ana IHe sl
prices charged are astonishingly small NO
outsiders are to be quartered there during
the General Assembly, none but comInls-
sioners having been assigned TO the Dig,
white building with the euphonious name.
Another new building Is q moderh ,1 9e-
partment store on llmlted Scuggi Scagi L ne i
stores are separate, but the pullulns 10
one 1t is a frame building of two stories,
costing about $3, 600. On the first floor are
drug store, grocery ana meat HdIkel
and the Headquarters of the Presbyterian
Board of Publishing. The second HooF VIII VIII
be occupied by the business once ol i tide
cream saloon, thus cheerfully ana lhconSru-
ously combining business with pleasure.
Besides all this new poaPolis % adn1 70 the
cafe doubling it's capacity tor entertalI-
ment; one of the old buildings mas peen pedit r.
modelled for the assemblytS use as c~onlnile- ~
tee rooms and complete telegrapnlc ar
rangements placed therein. IheTe WIN pe
ten wires, which is thought 10 pt +nI @HtpcS of
several new roads, the buldlng ot poqIu ta
walks over muddy places, the cohs[ucoIoh co',,n
DIete system of sewerage, ana the pullulHe
of numerous new cottages, ana II may pe
seen how much has been ana IS a peaIig hee1n
The sewerage system has just been peguh
hut il is the beginning of system WHICH,
in time. will approach, in cost, $l00,OVO.
MANY NEW COTTAGES.
Some twenty-five or thirty new cottages
are being built this season, some py people
who live far from Winona and Indiana. ~
T. Marshall, of Philadelphia, is puliulhs'
as is also the Rev. j. Wilbur Chapman Oh
tha same city. The latter is having his
cottage built after a unique style OF archh-
lecture. as it is constructed entirely OF
logs Alexander Mcdonald, of Cincinnati
the Standard Oil magnate, is putting up
nrettv summer home and his felloW-towns-
man the Rev. e. Trumbull Lee, is pulld-
ing also in the Cincinnati quarlSf. C
Thomas Kane, of Chicago, anu u; Gay,
editor OF the Interior, have entereu lllIo f q
unidue scheme to increase the nuinper nuinp,i u
Chicago people here. They nave purcndtsseu
lots on fron fhe regular price
They are selling them at the req ual tbo
ton with the understandlhg tnaI th j ttIe
omount received over and above the OIL
mai cost of the entire plat snail pc useu III
the construction of building IN the center e
for the common use ,,fu aS he eili' q tank and a
bvdraulic pump will keep 1T nlled WIN
water SO that the new settlement Will nave DAY
US Its y" and "lr W p Kane, of Bloomington, ILL.,
haze already purchased lots in this plat
and will build at once, 4,,,. ,,aar orc.
Others who are building TINS year are:
the Rev. ]. Lloyd Lee, East Liverpool VI
+be le Rev c. S. West, Lima, Ind; the Key
T. F'lemming, alpdrdlSO' A1elc xTT NT,io.
O. TAYLOR, Winamac lno.; ". w J1T - Go1l, p"51
Columbia City, Ind. Professor III, ". i3tIa RtH
ton. indianapolis; Mrs EllzapeIn d.i5t1g Cdg,
for,, Pryan O.: Professor Garrett, Hanover Col
49, - Mr. FIcher Warsaw, IND; MeSSfS'
Widaman and Frazier, Warsaw, lnd; fr0-
fessor Kircher Alexandra, ma; Mdssle
Ly5e minona IS especially favored this year in
+bn number and excellence or the attraG77
tiny. tlS offared and the conventions to be held
t@ra tio.d The Observation-Disclosures ninth Genera
hasorohlv of the Presbyterian Church OF
H. IIn{ted states is of course, easily IlrSt
a. t1i0 innortance as it is first on the pro-
1 otra 1nre 1t is the hope and ambiuon OF
Those interested in Winona TO MAKE Inns Inns
General Assembly a fixture mere, or; lalilils
IN that to at least secure IL again he@C
aor ia To This end improvements have been
made so extensively. General Manager
Diclxev is confident the assembly VIII re-
tIIrn here next year. Said he: we nave
h@autiful grounds. excellent and ample ac-
comrodations an ideal auditorium. anu
6ava heen able to save the commissioners
about SS 600 in the matter or rallroSu idre
comnared with what Saratoga and FItts-
burg cost them. l know many or those
who will come here are prejudiced against
Tndiana They call it flat apd unhealthy,
hut when they see Winona, with its splen-
Jid high ground and pretty views, ana con-
sider an the other advantages we oHer
them. / am confident they Will be slad TO
come again. ,7 H., o- - ,,ho+b
ar everything will be in readiness for the
oneniug of the assembly, DIR. Dickey is as
unfaitering in his answer as he IS IN his
zeal 10 make his words good, and If activity
and genuine hard work can accomplish II,
+be gentlemen who meet here next IhurS-
day will have little of which 10 complain