The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-08

dent elected after the war, Grover Cleveland. stood upon its massive col tia of the i State Af of Alabama: At the assembling of every Legislature. or the gathering of every Democratic State Convention. the familiar lobby of the old hotel was seething mass of movinRl humanity, for 1t was mec. ca to all politicians of Alabama great
 In one respect at least. the New Ex- change Hotel resembles the Old Ex. change. It is built strongly ana or the very best material There is noth- ing cheap about the entire structure nmer And in this 1t has an advantage over some of the modern hotels of the pres ent day, which after a few years. LOOK tarnished worn. There is nothing in 1t i is me new % and which will look shoddy when 1t is old. It is like that old ho- tel. which two years ago, when 1t was time ssa tC tear 1t a9Wn a TSey the foundation walls deep m the groundAsome fourteen feet thick
 :. When 1t was definitely determinsd asd Oid Exchange. when it was definitely determined that the old hotel would have to come down, the New Excnange HGtel He tSs Sa and with it's capital and under its auspices, the oln building was torn down and the pres ent splendid structure was erected III its place.
 Omcers of the Company.
 The officers of the company are Si- mon Gassenheimer, President; B. J. Baldwin, Vice-President; c. A. Lanier, Secretary. and M. P. LeGrand, Ireas- urer.. The Board of Directors IS mace up of w. F. Vandiver, B. L. Holt, Leo pold Strauss, c. A. Lanier. Jr., Isidor Well and s. Zadek.
 The Building Committee of the Hotel Company Is composed of B. J. Baldwin cy nhair, .A- nier. B. l.. Holt and Leopold Strauss. |,
 The work of tearing down the old building was begun on the nrst day oI October. 1904. It was then hoped the first of the next October. But for one cause or another delays prevented the fulfillment of this expectation:
 From it's very inception this enter prise has been one in which the clty has taken peculiar and vital interest. At the time the doors were opened yes terday the officers of the Montgomery Commercial Club visited the building in body They were escorted over it from top to bottom by c. A. Lanier, Jr. .,. oe
 The greatest proof of the interest or Montgomery's people in the citys new continual throng of visitors in the ho- tel throughout the day, as well as py the hundreds. and hundreds or them who accepted the invitation or Mana ger H1ckey to WTllt tHcii ho'hSS NFo- the register. ,eE guest rooms. Every room in the house is an outside room. Every room m the house has rooms opening in full on a side wall. There is not dark room in the entire structure, There is not a dark hall in the building saS, Evl snd ends with a window. And each win dow is as wide as the hall. There IS not al better lighted hotel, 1t is said, in the entire country.
 In addition to the guest rooms there are forty-five other rooms in the build ing, including the spacious dining room, the private dining rooms, the pariors of various sorts, and the reading ana writing rooms, the kitchen and ser wants rooms
 Arrangements Symmetrical.
 Above the second story, which IS called the "parlor floor" the rooms and floors of the hotel are identical, !, that is, each floor, in the room: in the halls and in the arrangement or rooms is identical with that of the hoor oea low 1t or above it. On each of these floors there are thirty guest rooms