The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-13
THE new HALE HOUSE
Work on the Structure Has Al
ready Been Begun.
ENTIRELY MODERN LINES
The Building. When Completed. VIII BE
as Nearly Fir Proof as P~ossible-It
Will Be Ready for Occu-
pancy in the Fall.

The Hale house Is to be rebuilt m
mediately. and in fact work on the new
boarding house IL already in progress.
entirely modern lines snd will be as
nearly proof against a repetition Of the
disaster of the 21st Of last March as 1t
can be made. The building will be
four stories high, or a basement and
three stories, on the Broadway front
and -four stories in the rear. 1t will be
built principally of brick and on much
the same general plan as the Hale
house, with such changes as will Sc
cure the greatest safety for the guests
and afford the greatest convenience.
The house will have 234 sleeping
rooms, which will accommodate 46s
guests. One important departure from
the former plan of running the house
will be the fact that there will be no
saloon and no liquors sold on the
premises. The new house will be IN
der the management of j. j. Hagger-
ty. What II will be called has not yet
been decided upon. but 1t is thought a
new name will be given the house.
The plans as prepared by Architect
Stone and accepted by the builders,
contemplate a splendid structure. 1t
will be of the mill construction. or slow
burning, which means that the build
ing will be divided into three fire.
proof compartments. with the floors
supported by 12xl2 Oregon fir posts.
with 10xl2 binders and 6x12 joists. and
the floors will be of 3-inch plank. so
that a fire could start n burn out a
whole room or more n still not
weaken the structure for a great length
of time. n thus give ample time to
fight and subdue any fire that might
start. The building will have heavy
brick walls running all around, with
two brick fire walls running through
the entire length of the building from
front to rear. The area way will be
two in number. extending the two in
terror fire walls. and will be surround
ed themselves by fire walls.
The basement will contain the
washroom. dryroom. ~lavatories and
baths, laundry, bakery. boiler-rooms.
butcher-shop cold storage and 32
sleeping rooms. A most important fea-
ture will be the construction of the
bakery and boiler rooms. which will be
absolutely fire-proof, with fre-proof
doors, steel beams overhead and fire.
proof arches, so that were a fire to
start in the bakery as before, or in
the boiler-room ii could not possibly
communicate 10 any otneT part VI the
building. The first floor will be sup
ported as stated. by 12x12 posts. with
10x12 Orders and 6xl2 joists. ON top
will be laid a 3-inch plank floor, dressed
and matched. A layer of fre-proof pa
per will then be laid, and on top the
finished floor of 1-inch boards. This
plan will be followed up through all
the floors.
The ground floor will contain the
mail, a<V{,a Innatal q, the ,antar ~, The
Broadway front. To the east will be a
large reading-room with toilet N
cardrooms. In the rear of the reading
and cardrooms will be the dining
room, 27x6s feet. n behind that the
kitchen, bucket. refrigerator and pas
try rooms. On the right of the main
office will be the managers office. n
to the right or west OF that will be a
hall, running the whole length of the
building. along which will be located
sleeping-rooms. Immediately in the
rear of the main office will be the other
areaways with sleeping-rooms along
them. On this floor there will be As
sle~eping-rooms. A broad stairway, Z
feet, will lead from the center of the
main Office at the upper floors. n
another will lead from the hallway at
the rear to the floors above. This floor
will also have four toilet-rooms
The second floor will be devoted en-
tirely to sleeping-rooms. as will the
third or top floor. and the rooms will
be from 10i2x11k to 11hx16k feet in
dimensions. There will be "a slesping-
/, rooms on the second and so OF the third
floor. The walls of the building will
all be piastered and the ceiling In nat
ural wool oil finished. Each of the
| sleeping-rooms will be comfortably
furnished and will contain two single
beds each. The roof will be of tar and
gravel. Railways will run the whole
length of the building from front to
rear on each floor. and from one side
TO the other. giving free access to the
| windows at the ends, and at the end of
| each hall on the sides and in the rear
will be fire-escapes. placed at the sides
of the windows, instead of In front
of them. as in the old Hale house.
| Thus every ~precaution for the safety
of the occupants Is taken. The build
ing will be heated throughout by
steam.
The building will be 10Sx140 feet I'm
dimension and will be. as stated. OF
brick with granite trimmings. 1t will
! cost SIS, 900. James Leck, superintend-
| ent of construction Of the new Hennes-
sy building. will have charge of the
construction.
Work on the building Ii already un-
| der way. The excavation 10 completed
and the stone foundations are about
up Brick work will probably start
| next Monday. 1t Is expected the build
\ ing will be completed and ready for &C.
cupancy early In the fall.
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