Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-02-26
HOTEL ALVARAD0.
The Handsome Railway Hotel Near
ing Completion,
THE ELECTRIC SYSTEM.

Hotel Alvarado is almost completed.
J. r. Seaman. of the Seaman Electric
company. of Chicago, is putting in the
last of the lights, and the finishing
touches on the introcontroversy tele-
phone system. This system is designed
and made especially for Hotel Alvar-
ado. 1t consists of ten phones, n in
each department of the hotel and sur
rounding building. Each phone has
communication with all of the others.
The hotel is also supplied with a mod
ern automatic electric combination
turn call and fire alarm system. In
each room is a call station and fire
alarm bell. The clerk, by pressing a
button on the side of the indicator, can
warn every guest in the house OF a
fire.
The lighting of the building is some
thing grand. No time or expense is
spared to make tAe Spanish architee-
tural effect complete. The dining nall,
which is the largest room in the build
ing, is located in the west wing n IS
strictly Spanish style. The ceiling is
very low with large black oak r%afters.
showing against the white background.
1t is lighted with seventy-two stalac-
/ tlte ODdlcSCGul llSulS, HNN ldl6N SiNN
e~rcliefs of eight lights each and six
teen brackets of two lights each. The
mounting in this room is antique brass.
The lobby, which is separated from
the dining room by a short corridor,
is in the northwest part of the build
ing, is lighted by eight bracket electro
liers of three lights each. Each light
is shaded by an opalescent globe. On
the north of the lobby are the parlors.
One is for ladies and n general par
lor. The ladies parlor is lighted by an
electrolier, containing eleven opalestic
incandescents, which are very beautl-
full. The general parlor is supplied
with a cluster of five lights similar to
those in the ladies parlor. Above the
office. in the lobby. is arranged a band
stand. where. when the hotel is occu-
pied. an orchestra will play during the
evening. In the east wing is located
the saloon and tonsorial parlors. The
barroom. without a doubt, is one OF the
most elaborate in the west. The bar is
located on the north side of the room.
and is without a mirror. The lower
part of the bar is of black oak and the
top is polished mahogany. Back of
it, above the glass shelf, are two oil
paintings. both of German style. On
] the SOllu sue Vi INC lOObls hlOhS thN
wall are arranged seats. in old fashion
ed inn style. The room is lighted by
four clusters of six opalestic globe
lights each.
The kitchen is on the extreme south
} end OF the building, and is lighted by
) fifteen incandescent lights with porce-
lain shades.
? East OF the kitchen and south of the
= plaza is the lunch room. This room is
| lighted by a single lemon brass electro
4 lier of ten incandescents.
y On the east of the plaza, facing the
west, is the kiask. This room is about
sixty feet long and twenty feet wide
and is lighted by sixty incandescents
placed on Bower Barb finished brack
cts.
The hotel veranda is also lighted by
| incandescents on brackets of the same
= finish.
With the exception of the lobby. al
the large rooms on the lower foo
front on the plaza. The plaza is sur
rounded by walks and in the center Is
a fountain.
, A very remarkable feature about the
q hotel is the refrigerator room. The
IS ice boxes in this room are lighted Wit
@ water proof incandescents that ligh
automatically with the opening of th'
door.
= There is also a laundry and a butch
er shop. private dining rooms in ever.
n part of the building.
a Up stairs on the second and thir'
j. floors are the bed rooms and bath.
On top of the hotel, between the fou
10 Spanish architectural spires, is an oil
Of. servatory, or roof garden. and fror
t. here a fine view of the mountains ca
ID be obtained.
Dr. Mr.. Seaman says that the entir
n lighting system of Hotel Alvarado COZ
at stitutes close on to 500 lights, and is
very expensive system for a buildin
of its size. the cost being about $500