New-York tribune., 1905-11-21
THE THIRD MILLS HOTEL.
IN THEATRE DISTRICT.
U1M BE Modern Hosiery sCith I 300
Rooms Fifteen Stories. +

D. O. Mills flied plans yesterday for fifteen
story hotel to be built at the northeast corner
of S6th-st and 7th-ave. and TO be known as
Mills Hotel No. g. The hotel which Will
be Tor men only, of course win have a stone
and terra Gotta brick and viii be construct
ed of iron and steel throughout The cost OF
the ground was S5OOOOO and the structure wifi
cost 100000. making total cost of $780,
600 for the enterprise.
Work will be started at once. and it is the in
tention OF Mr.. Mills to have the hotel in
operation by January l. 1907, if not before
The same scale of prices which at present pre-
walls at Mills Hotel No. 1. located on BleecSer-
st. and at Mills Hotel No. 2. at Chrystie and
Rivington SITS, will rule at the new hotel
Mr.. Mills. who has now had eight years OF
experience in operating the low priced hotels
which have been such boon TO this city. is
giving Mills Hotel No. his personal attention.
and in construction and equipment there viii
be no hotel In the city modern scien-
tiic. In fact. some of the innovations which will
be introduced, according to those in charge.
Will open the eyes of hotel managers all over
the world
The location of the hotel is near the heart
of the theatre district. and it will be surrounded
by some of New-Yorks best hostIeries. Right
across 7th-ave.. at the northwest corner Of 36th-
St, is the comparatively Hotel York while
at SSth-st.. the west side of 7th-ave. is the
Hotel Navarro. There are now standing on the
plot where the hotel will be built a seven
story apartment house. only two years old. and
some old wooden houses. These. of course win
be razed at once
The fifteen stories of the new hotel will pro-
vide nearly nineteen hundred rooms. all of which
will be larger and lighter than the rooms in
Mills hotels Nos 1 and 2. The first main
floor plan provides for spacious vestibule with
offices on both sides. Straight ahead through
this vestibue leads the guest into the main hall.
while on each side OF the vestibule doors open
into large libraries. which will be literally
filed with books. On both sides OF the main
hall are smoking rooms. while TO the OF
these is separate reading and writing room
Between these the hotel offices. key room,
etc. and here the four elevators and the stair
ways placed.
1t is to the basement and its fittings, however,
that Mr.. Mills has devoted especial attention.
and here many of the latest devices of modern
hotel science will be found installed The base
ment is a high Its floor IS only five,
feet below the street level, thus insuring plenty
Of light and air. Here are situated the res
taurant and kitchens. the bakeshop the refrig-
Grating plant the baggage room, the servants
dining room, barber shop, washroom, toilets,
etc. In addition there are thirty shower baths
and thirty-five water closets.
The restaurant extends the whole depth Of
the hotel. 100 by IT'S feet, and win seat
over four hundred people at a time Here
regular dinner viii be served for 80 cents, whiis
meals la carte can be obtained at cost price.
Two rolls and cup of coffee, for example,
Will cost the guest cents, with other dishes in
proportion. The restaurants in the various Mills
hotels are always run with the idea OF giving
the guests food which is wholesome and PAL
roHf
plan will be in vogue here.
One feature of the refrigeration plant win be
that it will not only provide ice boxes and cold
storage. but will furnish Ice water throughout
the hotel. The private laundry, where the guest
can strip and wash his own clothes and dry and
don them will also be in the basement Tt is
the desire OF Mr.. Mills in fact that Mills Hotel
No Will have everything that has been found
lacking in the two former enterprises
Below the basement will be the cellar which
will contain the electric lighting plant cold
storage room, large enough to hold twenty car
loads OF vegetables. engine room. additional bag
gage rooms. etc.
The ARRANGEMENT of the fourteen upper floors
will be identical There will be two large out
side and two large inside courts, which win gfVs
light and air to every room. There will not
be a dark room in the hotel On each floor.
there will be 156 Each viii be feet
v inches with the corner rOOTnS fr1no
larger Each room viii be lighted by electric
light and furnished with iron bedstead, chair
and chifonier The beds VIII be provided with
spring and a hair mattress and the bedding
will be Of the best
In the rear outside court is a separate build
ing connected with the rest Of the 5tel by pas
sageways between the elevator shsfSs- Here, on
each floor, are the washrooms and toilets
which are thus shut of from the hotel proper.
The plumbing will be modern and sanitary in
every respect The floors will all be Of cement
Thus there can be no leakage or chance to food
the hotel proper. The prices for the rooms have
not been exactly settled upon yet. but VIII
be either 25 or 80 cents night with the corner
rooms a trffie higher. The roof viii be finished
flat with a penthouse for disinfecttng and ster-
ilizing purposes.
The new hotel will require upward Of one
hundred employees. The architects are Copeland
& Dole. Royal Building, Fulton and william
SITS. The consulting engineer, who has kuH
charge of the new hotel is j. VI. Robinson, who
has erected all Mr.. Millss enterprises here and
In San Francisco. The contracts will be let at
once. Mr.. Robinson's Office IN fact. be-
sieged yesterday with applicants ths
plans fled with the Buildings Department.
PINS FAITH TO ANDREW CARNEGIE.