El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-12

Eddy the party inspected the Hotel
Alamo40rdo from cellar to garrett.
The building fronts the north; .
wide veranda extends the entire
length of the front from which the
guest gets . fine view of White Noun
although about 6fty miles distant ap-
pears to be not more than fourth OF
that distance. Entering the Office and
turning to the right you approach .
neat little parlor hastily furnished.
Back of the Office to the right
IL the private bed room of the host and
hostess, while west of their bedroom
and back of the parlor is the sitting
room of the hostess which upon extra
to the parlor. Back of the Office to.the
left is the lavatory and mems toilet
room. The plumbing is of the highest
order and the equipments are the fin
est and best to be had. The work re-
fleets credit upon the contractors. The
stairway is located at the center OF the
back part of the offir A few steps
bring you to q platf half way up
on the second floori the center of the
building. Opening off of this
platform and directly over the mems
toilet Is the wOmen's toilet, the plumb
ing of which is of the same high class
as that below. Upon the second floor are
sixteen guest rooms, some OF which
are quite roomy while others are only
suitable for sleeping rooms but are
not care to use them as sitting rooms.
Some of these rooms are furnished with
folding beds and when the beds are
closed up the rooms are
large enough for ordinary purposes.
They are all we'll ventilated and
furnished with the best of beds and
bedding. The linen shines with
warm while the mattresses are soft AID
the springs first class. The bedsteads
are iron and are hand
somely decorated while each floor is
covered with q handsome body Brus-
sells carpet. In the furnishing no point
for the comfort or satisfaction of the
guest has been overlooked. Up anoth-
err reverse stairway and we are In the
attic or what was to have been the at
tic in the original plan OF the building,
which We will come to later. Instead
Of an attic however, we find ten bright
little rooms which in their appoint
ments equal the rooms CD the second
floor. They are snug, bright, we'll venti-
lated and many . weary traveller will
bless these little rooms after Q nights
rest in them under the management OF
host and hostess Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey.
AS you enter the Office q turn to the
left brings you to the dining room
which is we'll lighted and spacious.
Back of this room on the left is the
china closet through which the kit
chen ia reached, 1t being back Of the
dining room on the right.
CONSTRUCTION AND FURNISHING.
The Hotel Alamogordo was con-
structed from plans formerly made for
q boarding house for the accommoda-
ton of the mill hands. The original
idea of the company was to delay the
building of q hotel until the little city
would warrant q much larger struc-
ture. However the pressing and i'm
mediate need of first class accOmmoda-
tions for visitors because so apparent
to j. A, Eddy that he laid the matter
before the COMPANY, aud his brother
after going over the matter with the
eastern directors wired him to change
the plans of the mill boarding house to
the best advantage and proceed with
construction. The original plan pro-
vided for an attic where hume rous beds
would have been placed in one large
room. AS stated before this was
changed in the later plans and the
attic cut up into ten neat little rooms.
THE CONTRACTORS.
When the architect had finished his
work of transformation the contract
for the carpenter work was let to S.
E. Pelphrey of Alamogordo, the CON-
pany furnishing the material. The
painting and inside decorations we're