The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-18
PROF POSED !! Ans
For NEW HOTEL
Those Now Being Prepared Call for
a Taller and More Hand
some Building,
some Building.


by Messrs. A. Fl. Elwood g. Sons FOR
the new Jefferson Hotel will have been
completed, and shortly after that time
work will probably begin, provided the
plans are accepted. The plans being
drawn will cost several thousand dol
lars. a corps Of experts are at work
on them, and are now concentrating their
efforts en- the steel and electrical work.
The hotel, in its new dress, Will, as
stated in The Times some weeks ago,
be more elegant and complete even than
the old structure. The. architectural de-
signs and ornaments OF the interior, as
well as the exterior, will compare most
favorably with anything of the kind IN
this country. Statuary and fountains
will play prominent part in the gem.
eral ensemble, the artistic effect taking
a. leading place. There will be $50 rooms,
each with long distance telephone con-.
nections. and nearly all with private,
BATH attachments.
At a casual glance the exterior of the
new hotel will resemble the old, but,
in fact, there will De a, number OF
changes, all for the betterment of the
general appearances. The Main-Street
side will be higher by two floors than
! the old, and there will be no roof gar
den. The front will also extend fifty
4, feet farther east than did the old hotel,
| the space occupied by the Pace flats
q
The ground floor at this end will be
! taken UP by two stores. and at the west
| end the drug store will reappear. The
! interior arrangement If the street floor
! on the Main-Street side Will be in most
| instances similar to the former scheme.
| The Offices will be about where they We're
/ in the burned hotel. The drug store. the
| barber-shop and the baths will be To-
| Gated along the Jefferson-Street side, as
| before. But there will be two sets OF
!! large elevators instead of one. The first
| Will be between the Mai-l-Street entrance
/ and the offices, the other in line with 1t,
| but beyond the middle of the building.
| A sample room will be located on the
| same size of the court as the offices. The
1 court will be much the same in arrange
ment as before. The billiard and bar
rooms will be in similar locations, but
| both will be much larger. The writing
| room is the first apartment after passing
| inside OF the doors on Main Street. The
| grand stairway which leads upward into
| the court of palms will far exceed the
| former stair, which was itself wide and
| beautiful. The court of palms will have
! four fountains. The general design OF
this court will be the same as before.
The assembly-room and the dining-room
! will be much larger.
The hotel under these plans AMI WI tn
! good weather can be erected in a year.
| and it is quite likely that the hotel Will
| be completed by the early summer of
! 1903. In the meantime, work on the
! Franlllin-Street side, which is being done
| SO as to conform with the plans now
being made for the reconstruction Of
the other side, IS going on. Greater
! delay than was at first expected is being
experienced. Within a month, however.
| the hotel will be ready to be turned over
to the owners.
| r. who hac
| for several days, expressed pleasure at
| the appearance of the plans now being
| prepared He will leave for New York
| to-day.
Mr.. A. II. Eliwood, he architect. said
| yesterday that the new hotel would be
as near fire-proof as any hotel or other
building could be.
| The many improvements to Holy Trin-
| ity Church are almost completed, and
the church will be ready for occupancy
| about the last OF this month. Besides
| the other improvements and additions,
| which include a Sunday-school room,
! class rooms and organ room, there VIII
be two memorial windows, one to the
memory of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. c. Shater,
| the other to the memory of the parents
| of Mrs. T.. w. Wise.
| Mr.. ]. NJ. Barr, vice-presdent and gem
| eral manager OF the Seaboard Air Line
| Railway, has written to the Richmond
| Locomotive Works notifying that con-
| Germ that the contract had been award
| ed it to build the sixteen new consolda-
! ton engines recently ordered by the
| Board of Directors of the road.
/ The contractors for the Mechanics. In
! stitute promise to turn the building over
! to the directors on November 1st.