The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1903-07-24
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Hotel In New York Thai
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reach as well as considerah..
ton of the adjacent atmosuh..
order to accommodate its ovs-~s
ing accessions in the way o, nasa 81
ton, New York has made 7.
ening advance on the interior =
earth. Having outcome itself /
construction of towering moo..I
ties, the notion has been con...
and carried out, of inverting
scraper and extending its aerpn.s
ing stories into the earth.
In the building of new ho..
posite the Forty-second street ~.
the designer found himself so -
scribed by the Rapid Transit ~.
that he was compelled to reso,
some ingenious methods in orb.
secure necessary service frou,s
The Rapid Transit subway =
through one corner of the lower
les so as to take about one.Sf,1 s
the area of four of them and
tically incloses the east and =.
sides, says the Engineering R.,,.
preventing access to the street :,
light there This leaves no opuo,1k
ty for service entrances excem
Forty-first street, where the right.
been purchased from the city IA
tend the underground stories n :.
from the curb line to the cent, :
the street, thereby securing excenrs
and abundant facilities to receive a.
plies. 1t was desired to provide ia, !, /
storage. machinery installation o,.
ating plant and the general seryjs,s
the house below the street level. =
as much of the space was lost thro,a
the encroachments of the sullivan /
was necessary to carry the excavat.
down to a great depth and build s
stories below the sidewalk level.
The lowest story. 60 feet below II
curb, has bunkers on the south II
for the storage of about 500 tom q
coal, received from chutes in For1
first street The remainder of In
story is occupied with the pom
plant, elevator, machinery, pipx
ducts, etc. The engine room is u
usually high, with a gallery on Il
west side at the level of and copnert
ing with a mezzanine floor in the norsk
side of the building, occupied by II
ventilating apparatus. The next fsR
above is at about the level of the suk
way tracks and is devoted principeEy
to the laundry and to storage. n
next story, which is two flights dom
from the street, has a large ssa
for the servants dining-rooms, htck-
ems, toilet rooms, etc, and from Il j
an entrance to the subway station, =
jacent to which there are barbo
shops, chiropodists and other oflre
of a public nature. The next story i
one fight below the street, and hasa
kitchen for the main 6ining-room, I
60x125-foot restaurant, cafe and har
room. and passage to a gallery allow
the subway. by which guests Of II,
hotel can reach the Grand Central d
pot under cover.
The rotunda floor. next above,
about at street level and contains t.
50x100-foot main dining-room and u
spacious entrance lobby. which has'
heights of about 20 and 80 feet in II
clear respectively. Adjacent to II
dining-room is a palm room with q
elaborate domed roof. 30 feet in d
ameter, supported on columns. Then
is a mezzanine floor communicatia(
with the dining-room galleries AM
serving as an overflow for guests IN
for the smoking and writing rooms
and there are also service rooms Wit
galleries, telegraph and telephone Of
fees, etc. The street floor is mad
with two levels conforming to the III
ferent grades of Forty-frst and Forfy
second streets. and correspondent
offset in the floor is made in the stoT.
below. The second story is devoted Z
state apartments. banquet rooms, pa
lors and few large suites. The thin
and succeeding stories are arranged 2
about $50 suites, each of which u
cludes a bathroom. The upper stor
is intended principally for servant
lodgings.