The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-07-25
FINE ACCOMMODATIONS.
People Who VIII Visit Jamestown Elk.
position to be Well Cared For.

The great eXpositions of the worlC
have usually been held in or near me.
tropolitan cities. The knowledge OF
this fact has caused some to question
whether Norfolk will be able to furnish
adequate hotel accommodations for the
immense throngs which next year will
visit the jamestown Exposition. NJ
anxiety need be felt, however, on this
score.
The jamestown Exposition is pc.
culiarly fortunate in it's situation. AL.
though it is but a scant six miles from
Norfolk, it is hardly a greater dis
lance from Portsmouth, Newport News
or Hampton. 1t is within a few min,
utes ride of some of the most famous sea
side hotel resorts in America: Ocean
View, Virginia Beach, Pine Beach and
Fortress Monroe, or Old Point, long
famous as an all year health and pleas
ure point. The cities enumerated above
arc well equipped with modern hotels
and cottages for the accommodation of
summer visitors line the shores of
Chesapeake Bay, the roadway to the
sea, and the Virginia coast.
Several large hotels are now building
in the cities near the Exposition, and a
number of temporary hotels are going
up in the vicinity of the grounds. Fur
Their to assure comfortable and attrac-
tive accommodation for it's guests, there
is being constructed within the Exposi-
ton grounds an Inside Inn, which is
unique among Exposition hotels. This
Inn will be a real hotel-not a hastily
constructed barn with shallow parti-
tions, built for a day. 1t will be a per-
manent affair, last after the Exposition
is over, and will add one more to the
well known resorts of the section.
1t will have Il frontage of six hundred
and fifty feet and a depth of four hun
dred and fifty feet, and will be three
stories high. 1t will contain nearly one
thousand rooms, accommodating two
thousand. 1t is located near the main
entrance of the Exposition and faces
Hampton Roads, separated from this
sheet of water only by a shady boule-
ward. To the left of the hotel is a
splendid grove of stately pines; to the
right, separate some hundred yards, is
the Amusement section of the Exposi-
ton, named by General Lee "The
Warpath." At the c Of the Inside
Inn is the Forestry and outdoor Horti-
cultural Exhibit. 1t will be seen from
these items of surroundings that the
situation of the Inn could not be i'm
proved.
AT other expeditions the chief, if not
the sole, advantage of the Inside Inn
was that its guests were saved the
slight annoyance of going to and com
ing from the exposition in crowded
street cars or in conveyances speeding
ver dusty roads, for, as a rule, cxposi-
ton visitors, especially those who stay
was brief, did not leave the grounds,
once they entered. The minor advan-
tage of being able to change attire for
social or other functions might be
added, together with the economy re-
sulting from a location on the grounds,
whereby extra admission fees were
saved, but there were compensating
disadvantages; insufficient space for
rooms, thin partitions that did not keep
out sounds, inadequate attendance and
unsatisfactory cuisine.
The jamestown Inn Will suffer from
none of these disadvantages. While
the management of the property is in
the hands of a company, the Exposition
reserves the right to insist upon first
class service for all patrons. The struct-
urc will be built on the most modern
plans; its furnishings will be strictly
frst-class and its arrangements com
Portable in every particular. The
rooms will be single and in suites, with
and without baths.
The first story will contain a large
lobby, public writing rooms, ladies par
lors, a buffet, a dining room each for
American and European guests, barber
shop, postoffice, public stenographcr's
room, and in fact everything which us
ually accompanies the accommodation
of a first class hotel. There will also be
a large convention hall, occupying parts
of the first and second floors. 1t will
have a seating capacity of one thou
sand. There will also be n fine banquet
hall, where a thousand or more guests
may be served. The two upper floors,
containing about five hundred rooms
each, will be used entirely for sleeping
quarters.
Broad piazzas will encirclc the build
ing, enabling the guests to secure fine
views of the pageantry on the roads
and ashore. Taken all in all, this In
side Inn will have whatever advantage
a frst-class seaside resort may offer,
together with those incident to prox-
unity to an exposition.
Services Postponed.
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