The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-17

fitted with solid porcelain tubs and stands.
1t will require a force of 200 people to
run the Claypool. Mr.. Lawrence will be
the manager and he has announced his
staff as follows:
Maurice Cahill chief clerk; S. z. Bonni-
Vile. room clerk; L. E. Bailey. room clerk:
George Reeves, night clerk; Daniel Sullivan,
mail clerk; Thomas A. Bogue. package
clerk; George A. Davis. front clerk; Robert
B. Keith. secretary and bookkeeper; Mrs.
Margaret Ashley, cashier; Mrs. d. B. Ho-
liwell. cashier: Mrs. w. X. Wilson. house
keeper; c. w. Barker. steward: w. Sher-
wood Doyle. assistant steward: Henry Bar
on, chef; B. j. Mutschler. head waiter
(cafe) John Mckinney Stewart, head wait
er (American plan); D. r. Williams. chief
engineer.
The superintendent has not yet been en-
ployed, but Mr.. Lawrence expects to an
nounce his selection within few days.
He is at present negotiating with several
prominent hotel men who. have applied for
the position.
OF the 200 employees, forty will be walters
in the American-plan dining room and thir-
ty-fve in the cafes. The latter will all
be white men. The Office force will num-
Der twelve, and there will be twenty bell
boys, six elevator boys. two doormen, six
attendants in the toilet rooms and two
checkroom men. The housekeeper will
have a force of thirty-five maids. house
men, painters, uphosterers, etc. The chief
engineer will have eleven men under him.
The kitchen force will number twenty
fve
The Claypool includes within its walls
| every appliance and every convenience that
makes for the comfort of man. 1t has its
| own waterworks plant, drawing its water
supply from two drilled wells in the base
ment, filtration system, electric light plant,
| ice-making plant, refrigerating and cold
| storage system and laundry. The building
| is heated in winter by a fan system that
| forces hot air into all the apartments. and
1t is cooled in summer by the same system
| forcing cold air the entire establish
ment The hotel has every luxury from a
swimming pool, in connection with the
| Turkish bathroom and barber shop in the
| basement, to a commodious palm garden
and roof garden including a sun parlor on
the second floor, Moorish smoking and
lounging room, reading and writing rooms,
a, parlor on every floor, American plan din
/ ing room that will seat four hundred,
breakfast room, two cafes, billiard room.
| bar, private dining rooms, banquet room
| that will seat five hundred, theater and
assembly room with a capacity of one
| thousand, ballroom and whatnot Without
unusual crowdng 1000 or 1900 guests can
be entertained in the hotel on special occa-
sions.
WORDS INADEQUATE.
In going into details, description falls far
short of doing justice to this magnificent
hostelry. 1t must be inspected from base
ment to roof garden to be appreciated.
Even the camera can but give a meager
| idea of the size and beauty of a few of the
apartments. There are two entrances-the
main entrance on Illinois street, and the
ladies' entrance from Washington. Enter
ing from Illinois, to the left are found the
| telegraph and transfer offices and the ele-
vators; to the right the cigar and news
stand. Then comes the grand lobby, said
to be the largest hotel lobby in this coun-
try, 72x9S feet in dimension, with a 33-foot
| ceiling. supported by sixteen great pillars.
The architecture is Grecan, done entirely
in marble, imitation marble, structural
iron, FURNISHED brass and mahogany. The
| massive columns rest on bases of gray
Livido marble, and are topped with pilas-
| ters and capitals of the same. The columns
themselves are three feet in diameter, and
are fine imitation Of Sienna marble. The
lobby Is lighted with one thousand incan-
| descent globes.
The desk extends across the north end of
the lobby. and Is a beautiful creation of
Sienna and Livido marbles, mahogany and
FURNISHED brass. In one corner Is the tele-
phone exchange. with four hundred tele-
phones. On the west side the grand STAIR
case rises to the second floor. The stair
case has two approaches and then divides
again, giving two entrances to the balcony.
The design. which is beautiful because of
its simplicity, is carried out in white Yer
mont marble, with trimmings of the gray
| Livido
From the lobby entrance is made to the