The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-07-17
/, FINE ACCOMMODATIONS. d
The Immense Throngs of People who
Will Visit The Jamestown Ex-
position to be Well Cared for.


have usually been held in or near
metropolitan cities. The knowledge
Of this fact has caused to question
whether Norfolk will be able to fur
nish adequate hotel accommodations
for the immense throngs which next
wear will visit the Jamestown Ex-
position. No anxiety need be felt,
however, on this score.
The Jamestown Exposition is pecul-
iarly fortunate in it's situation. AL
though it is but alscant six miles from
Norfolk, it is hardly a greater dis
tance from Portsmouth, Newport
News or Hampton. 1t is within a
few minutes ride of some of the most
famous seaside hotel resorts in Amer
lea: Ocean View, Virginia Beach,
Pine Beach and Fortress Monroe, or
Old Point, long famous as an all year
health and pleasure point The cities
enumerated above are we'll equipped
with modern hotels, and cottages for
the accommodation Of summer visit
ors line the shores of Chesapeake Bay,
the roadway to the sea, and the Vir-
ginia coast.
Several large hotels are now build
ing in the cities near the Exposition,
and a number of. temporary hotels are
going up in the vicinity ofthe grounds.
Further to assure comfortable and
attractive accommodation forts guests,
there is being constructed within the
Exposition grounds an Inside Inn,
which is unique among Exposition
hotels. This Inn will be real hotel,
not hastily constructed barn with
shallow partitions, built for day.
It will be a permanent affair, lasting
after the Exposition is over, and will
add one more to the well known re-
sorts of thet section.
Tt will have frontage of six hun
dred and fifty feet and a depth Of
four hundred and fifty feet, and will
be three stories high. 1t will contain
nearly one thousand rooms, accommo-
located near the main entrance of the
Exposition and faces Hampton Roads,
separated from this sheet of water
] only by a shady boulevard. To the
left of the hotel is Il splendid grove
of stately pines; to the right, separate
some hundred yards, is the Amuse-
mcnt section of the Exposition, NAM
ed by General Lee "The Warpath'.
At the rear Of the Inside Inn is the
8 Forestry and outdoor Horticultural
4 Exhibit. 1t will be seen from these
q items Of surroundings that the stu
4 alton of the inn could not be improv-
s ed
3 At other eXpositions the chief, if
q not the sole, advantage of the Inside
q Inn was that It's guests were saved
q the slight annoyance Of going to and
81 coming from exposition in crowded
8 street ears or in convcyances speed
81 inc over dusty roads, for, as a rule,
E exposition visitors, especially those
q whose stay was brief. did not leave
8 the grounds, once they entered. The
a minor advantage Of being able to
A change attire for social on other func-
a tion of course might be added, TO-
8 gcthcr with the economy resulting
ST from location on the grounds
whereby extra admission fees were
s. saved, but there were compensatinG
81 disadvantages; insufficient space fol
rooms, thin partitions that did not
skccp out sounds, inadequate attend
S ance and unsatisfactory cuisine.
# The Jamestown Inn will suffer
= from none of these disadvantages.
IS While the management Of the proper
S8ty is in the hands of a company, the
81 Exposition reserves the right to III
zgsist upon first-class service for al
ss8patrons. The structure will be built
ON the most modern plans, its furnish
So ings will be strictly first -class and its
arrangements comfortable in every
IS particular. The rooms will be single
and in suites, with and without baths
s The first story will contain a large
s lobby, public writing rooms, ladies
parlors, buffet, dining room eacl
American and European guests
8barber shop, postoffice, public
tcnographer's room, and in fac
Everything which usually accompanic:
the accommodation Of first class
hotel. There will also be large
INVENTION hall, occupying parts OF
the first and second floors. 1t vii