Arizona republican., 1901-01-26


 the cigar stand, temporary taggage and check parcel room, and the posld. telegraph company's office. Each nf ghese arches will be wired for a circle of electric lights. as Is the entire build
 ing, some of the guest chlmb,rs ais0
 bting wired to receive telephones.
 The office proper Is 10 be eqLipprd with a full set of ennunrta.prs, of the double bell system, commune ltlns
 with each apartment. and 1t is m this handsomely fitted up office that the kindly faces of the hosts will smile a
 genial welcome to all guests entering the house. In the hallway leading rom the ladies entrance to the rotunda ana dining room Is a fire proecting device conslt.ng of 50 feet of hose. with nozzle. fixed to a swinging rack, there being fire plugs, and this same equipment on each floor above, at the stair landings. and one has but to catch hold of fhe nozle. press the button and run. ard
 Prescotts ample water supply, which We hope to have before the hotel is
 r. ady for occupancy. will do the rest
 in case of fire.
 The rytunda will have a highly orna.
 mental cteel ceiling, three plate glass i, windows 7Ox95 inches. with arched top
 and two glass doors opening onto bal | cony of ornamental iron work. This
 pretty little Italian balcony is made
 possible at this place in the building 1 by he grade of Gurley street, which ! makes a descent of several feet from | the 'Montezuma street front, where en- | trance Is made directly from the str e | level to the ladies' entrance on the Gur- 1 ley street side, where short flight o,
 steps takls one up to the rotunda en.
 trance and dining room.
 ! Opening from the vestibule at the
 MoItezuma street entrance are prl.
 vate card rooms, anl the billiard room.
 which are in the center of the build. | ing and lighted by skylghts from aN open cour. above. the court being about
 twenty feet in width and extending
 l10 feet into the building from the al-
 ley, thus giving light and air to every
 room in thu house. Through the TO-
 tunda We enter the hallway leadln;
 to the dining room, which latter is
 40x60 feet. Like the rotunda, the cell
 Ing of the di,ing room Is divided into
 panels, the ceilings being of ornament
 al stiel and supported entirsly by
 trusting from the third floor, these
 t,usses being sheathed in the walls of
 the second story. The windows inside
 and back of the dining room are of
 seventy-inch glass, surmounted by
 double transoms opening both up and
 down to admit of more perfect venti'
 lation, and the low wida windows be.
 bow giving the room a very cozy ap.
 pearance. Just out of the dining room is the walters serving room leading
 into a kitchen 30x35 feet, the latter be.
 ing equippCd with a mammoth range
 with hood, boiler, etc, and large venti' , latiiig fiues. also three large sinks witf
 full equipment. of the kitchen are tn,
 servants quarters, furnished with batf , and toilet rooms and steam hrated nnt . electric lighted as in the rest of thi, , up-to-date hotel. From these quarter! are the servants stairways, leading t' the basement and up to the two uppc floors. In the basement are severa , large storerooms in the front of tn, , building, the corner one to be occupied
 by Hermann Vogu as wine celia < and wholesale liquor department. On I the Gurley street side of the buildin, f will be large and smaller show C. sample rooms for travelling salesms Il
 Back of these will tc located tn
 plumbing establ.shme mt of J. Fl. Mul s rein. Back of this comes the hv,e
 laundry. fitted up with full equipmen a of tubs. range and dryer. From the al
 ley large double doors open into th I gentral receiving room for the coa and stores of the hotel. Bins in on side of this room will have capacit s of two carloads of cal. Of this roor g is the boiler room, equipped with larS F sectioned boilers and hot water health a plant. this being tho mode selected c :, heating the hotel ' he floors in tn n basement are to b of cement. overlai n with wood. The walls supporting tn if rear por,lon of the building are ru q down eleven feet into the ground { ? strike the natural solid ground forma ton encountered at that depth. Tn , piers supporting the basement wal
 are thirtyLtwo inches square, cor
 structed of the best Phoenix bricl s flushed with cemtn while the rest ( d the walls are of common structure. h The rooms on both upper floors al l. flooded with light and sunshine, bot s from the outer walls and from tn Is spacious inner court, the rooms at tf d back having view of Thumb But a and of the imposing Granite mour at tains. bring especially attractive. TT .e southwest wing of the building. bot ,f on the second and third floors. i- reached by two bridges over the cou d above described, as well as throue ,e the main corridors. The parlors al s' on the second fi5or, just al the hea ll of the stair landing. and are arrange Y '---