The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-06
It WILL BECOME A HOTEL.
Occidental Block Will Soon Be
known as Hotel Seattle.
A BIG DEAL JUST CLOSED.
Hotel stevens Company Incorporates
and at Once Enters Into a Lease
With the Owners of the Well
Known Biork-M orkmea VIII ut
Once Begin TO Place IL i'm Condi-
uon-aatter Has Been Secret.

The Occidental block AT Second avenue.
James street Ind Yesler way Will become
a hotel about the middle Of next month.
Ii is the logical solution of a question as
10 the greatest value OF its conspicuous
location, and the hundreds OF people who
nave said. since the present building arose
ABOVE the ashes of the old. that there
ought 10 be a hotel where the old occi-
dental hotel once stood Will be satisfied.
In this connection ii will be a surprise
10 many OF the present tenants. some of
whom moved safes into their offices yes
terday, 10 read in this mornings Post
Inteligencer that they Will be told to find
other places 10 do business, although it
is not the intention Of the new incorpora-
ton to work any hardship on those who
are already in the building by demand
ing immediate possession. Yesterday af-
ternoon the lease was signed by the own
ers OF the building and W. f. Stevens, F.
{. Harper, j. I'll. Grant. Charles Roy and
H. B Stevens. incorporators of the Hotel
stevens company. Articles Of incorpora-
ton were nled by the company during the
afternoon. With the present incorpora-
ton the Stevens hotel at First avenue
and Marion street becomes a part Of the
property.
Work VIII Commence Today.
This morning the advance guard OF
painters, kalsominers. paper-hangers and
electricians. who VIII later De followed by
an army OF plumbers, decorators and fur
nishers, will start work on the emptv
rooms in the big triangular building.
There will be many changers made on the
inside before the new enterprise the "Ho-
lei Seattle is fairly launched and those
VINO are familiar only with the present
rather dtngy appearance Of the Occidental
block Will not recognize it after IL has
undergone the changes that are IN con-
temptation. The office OF the hotel is to
be where the Peoples Savings Bank is
now located and as the bank has twenty
days in which 10 seek other quarters IL is
fair to presume that within that time the
fFescoers Will have commenced their work
feature of the rotunda of the Hotel
Seattle will be its elegant furnishings and
its reading and writing room in a balcony
above the clerks desk and counter
Where the bank vault now is wide doors
will pierce the wall leading TO the main
hallway, with tiled floors and wainscosing
the elevators and grand stairway. There
are a9 rooms in the Occidental block and
there will be more In the Hotel Seattle.
because the old public library rooms, the
old justice court rooms. the land offices
will be cut up into fair-sized chambers
and suites. There are very few inside
rooms and none that are dark. Those in
the most undesirable locations are on open
light courts and the others all have fine
street frontages.
American and European Plan.
The building Is admirably suited to its
new purposes. Between the place now
occupied by r. Sartori and the main hall
way Of the hotel opening from the James
street side. there will be a grill room cd
the hotel people will conduct a dining
room on the first floor, the idea being both
the American and European plan of no.
tel. The building. while not fire proof
is literally supplied with fire walls and
cutoff doors and a number of stairyays
and system of fire escapes will furnish
extra protection.
The main entrance TO rne hotel will be
at the junction Of Yesler way and James
street and the ladies' entrance will be on
the James street side. where access is now
gained 10 the upper office floors. The
present Yesler way entrance TO the build
ing will be closed.