The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-21

eialized industry. Under it's roof are to
be found 1900 guests and as many ser
wants to provide for their comfort.
1t contains its own telegraph and tel
ephone offices, electric light plant, ice
making plant, machine shop, blacksmith
shop, tinsmith shop, silversmith shop, up
holstering shop, plumbing shop barber
shops both for guests and employees
printing office, messenger service, fire de,
partment, private detective bureau and
police force. grocery warehouse, steam
laundry and hot-house.
By Its system Of Office signals 140 diff
ferent wants can be made known. A
guest may touch a button for a towel OF
detective, a maid or chiropodlst, q
cocktail or physician.
1t maintains It's own cigar factory In
Cuba and preserves the aroma of all ci-
gars by keeping them In the proper tenn
perature. The cobwsbbed bottles in its
wine cellar are valued at 100000. And
for the service of its lady patrons there
is In every suite sterling silver curling
iron with electric heating attachment.
Some idea Of the magnitude of the Wal
dorf-Astoria may be obtained from the
fact that the entire population of New
Mexico or North Dakota could stand I'M
der its roof at one time.
No European hotel has so many bed
rooms as the number of bathrooms in
the Waldorf, which are no fewer than
$50. In its vast dining-hall 10000 people
can be served daily.
In one evening several months ago, $500
people were entertaining themselves in the
great ball room. a club of 800 was giving
banquet In one of the dining-rooms,
two concerts and q dozen small dinners
were being given, yet there was plenty
of room for all. and the 1900 guests were
not aware of anything unusual.
The state suite, Occupied by Ii Hung
Chang, Prince Henry and other otables,
rents for $500 day, price unknown for
hotel accommodations In Europe. 1t is
quite common for guests to pay 800 day
for their rooms alone.
Like the Budget Of a City.
The cost of maintaining this travellers
The initial cost fer silverware and fur
niture alone amounted to over 81, $50, 900.
Linen costs annually $4,000, meat SOC. 900,
poultry $4,000, vegetables $4,000, fruit
81. goo. eggs $4,000 butter $4,000, flowers
Is equal to that Of bank president. and
he has special suite and valet set
apart for his own accommodation.
Not even the famous palace Of Yer
sailles could equal flrst-ciass New York
hotel for varied elegance and fantastic
luxury. One Of the hotels for instance,
has different decoration scheme in ev-
cry room, Offering its guests Roman
esque banquet hall, a Louis XIV. break
fast room, a Turkish room, a Moorish
room, Chinese room, Persian room,
Japanese tea-room, an Elizabethan la
dies writing-room and a Dutch smoking
room.
Among the pieces of statuary on the
main floor of the same hotel are sehlss-
singers Pan and Bachchante" in bronze,
Balls Eye" in marble, Nast's 'Nautch
Girl" in old bronze, Tonachis Diver"
Romanelll's Drumming Lesson" and
Turini's "Bather."
public palaces cost no less than $ees
apiece, and they are scattered about plen-
ufully enough. In the Savoy the ordi-
nary dining-room chairs were bought for
$50 apiece.
And what of the new hotels? What
shall we say Of the St. Regis, Hotel As
tor, Ansonia and the other dozen or more
that are as yet nameless, but which are
being constructed at practically unlim-
tied expense?
which Is to loom seventeen stories above
Fifth Avenue, near the Roman Catholic
Cathedral, Is to be in many respects the
most magnificent structure in the world.
TO furnish 1t Europe, Asia and Africa
are being despoiled Of rare treasures. The
been purchased 1T a cost of $4,000 by
the lessee, Mr.. Rudolph HAN.
In this great building science has been
permitted to DO her best. The extremes
abolished by the use Of registers giving
out both cold and hot air, regulated by a
new device called the automatic Their
mostat." which maintains any tempera-
ture that Is desired.
In every suite there will be a long-dist-
ance telephone, fire-alarm call, n pneu-
matte mailing tube and large open fire.
place in which great logs may be burned
Even the kitchen utensils In this hotel
de luxe are being made in Paris, and will
be of copper with silver lining.
What the st. Regis will Be.
~ tba b,,ildtn- aIona will ia
g, 10000, and a few Of the items in the
cost of equipplng this modern Aladdin 8
palace are as follows:
Bric-a-brac, $7So000; bedroom furniture,
$Ioo 600; mantels, Slo0, zoo; marble, s2e0, 600;
statYary 100000; linen. $4,000; plumbing
The St. Regis has been designed by its
proprietor, Col. John Jacob Aston. to be
the most exclusive family hotel in the
world, 1T win contain neither lobby nor
welcome at its stately entrance.
If any occupant desires entire seelusion
even servants may be excluded, as ev-
cry suite has pneumatic tube and an
ing 1t with the Kitchen. The services of
any servant may be ordered for five min
utes or week, as desired,
Another of these palatial hotels, the
Hotel Aston, win occupy an entire block
at Long Acre Square 1t also will be-
long to that class of structures found only
in New York CITY,
Limestone and red brick are being used
In its construction and the total cost will
be over $1,000, 900.
Among the improvements peculiar to
this building will be a method OF rsnd-
ering all stairways fireproof, an electric
automatic dish remover running from
dining room TO kitchen. and a magnificent
bronze and marble staircase winding spir-
ally around trelHsed palm garden.
There will also be grand promenade of
tinted marble 1870 feet in length by 70
feet in width.
Thirty fortunate families will occupy a
new hotel now being built at Fifth Ave
nue. and Sixth Street. 1t will be fifteen
stories in height and will contain only
two suites to floor. Every family will
have its own private dining room, and
one commodious Kitchen will supply food
ers.
The most recently planned of these pal
aces OF democracy, as they might not in
appropriately be termed. is the new Hotel
brunswick to be twenty-story struc-
ure at the corner of Fifth Avenue and
.wenty-siXth Street.
The cost of this stately house of enter
ainment will be $7,5O0,00O, including 81
10000 for the land. Together with the
fifth Avenue Hotel, the new Hotel
brunswick will mark the southern limit
# the hotel zone, which extends from
Madison Square along Fifth Avenue to
1entral Park and a short distance be-
'ond
1t is now plain TO be seen that the |
amily hotel is to be a permanent New
York institution.
Every family hotel in the city reports |
long waiting list of applicants who are |
Iesirous of escaping from the cares and |
nnoyances of private hGsdse- keeping.
In these hotels the aggravating servant |
'roblem" is at last solved. In their rest
vi apartments the cook Is never trouble
ONE, the maids are never slovenly, the