Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-07-27
FINE ACCOMMODATIONS.
The Immense Tbronus of People WhG
will Visit the jamestown EXPOSE
tj0n to be Well Cared For.

tion to be Well cared For.
The great expositiOns of the WOrit
have usually neen held in or near met
lr politan cities. The knowledge of thl
fact has caused some to question wheth
er Norfolk will be able to furnish ade
lunate hotel accomin odations tor tn
immense throngs which next year VII
v sit the Jamestown Exposition. M
anxiety need be felt however, on tLli
score.
| The Jane estown Exposition is pecu
| iiarly fortunate in its situation. Al
| t .ough it is but six miles ffCm Noif0lk
it is hardly greater distance from
| Portsmouth, Newport News or Hamp
| con. 1t is within IA few minutes ride
of some of the most famous seaside
hotel resorts in America: Ocean View,
Virginia Beach, Pine Beach and For
tress Monroe, or Old Point, long ia
nous as al all year health and pleasure
point. The cities enumerated above
are we'll 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 hosels are now building
in the cities near the Exposition, and
a number of temporary hotels are go.
ing up in the vicinity of the grounds.
Further to assure comfortable and at
tractive accommodation for its guests,
there is being constructed within the
Exposition groun Is an Inside Inn, which
i. UNIQUE among Exposition hotels.
This Inn will be real hotel-not
hastily constructed barn with shallow
partitions, built for q day. 1t will be
a permanent affair, lasting after the
Exposition is over, and will add one
more to the well known resorts OF the
section.
1t will have frontage of six hundred
and fifty feet and depth OF four hun
dred and fifty feet. and will be three
stories high. 1t will contain nearly one
thousand rooms, accommodating two
thousand guests. 1t is 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 a splendid grove of stately pines;
to the right, separate some hundred
wards, is the Amusement section OF the
Exposition, named by General Lee
The Warpath." At the rear OF the
Inside Inn is the forestry and outdoor
horticultural Exhibit. 1t will be seen
from these items of surroundings that
the situation of the inn could not be
improved.
At other expOsitiOns 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
over dusty roads, for, as rule, exposl-
ton visitors, especially those whose
stay was brief, did not leave the grouL ds,
once they entered. The minor advan
tage of being able to change attire for
social or other functions of course
] might be added, together with the
economy resulting from a location on
the grounds, whereby extra admission
fees we're saved, but there were com
peusatipg disadvantages; insufficient
lsoace for rooms, thin partitions that
did not keep out sounds, inadequate
attendance and unsatisfactory cuisine
The Jamestown Inn will suffer from
lnone of these disadvantages. While
Itne management of the property Is IL
the hands of q company, the Exposl
tion reserves the right to insist upol
|first-class service for all patrons. Th
structure will be built on the mos
modern plans: its furnishings Will b
strictly first-class and its arrangement
comfortable in very particular Th
rOoms will be single and III suites, wit
anG without baths.
The first story will contain larg
lobby, public writing rooms, ladies pal
Iors, buffet, ii dining room each Il
American and European guests, bal
lb-r shop, postOllice, public stenogrt
uher's room, and i'll fact overy thii
which usually accompanies the AT
commodation of II first class hotel
There will also be a large cOnventl'
ball, occup, ing parts of the first III
lsscond floors. Ii will have seatll
CAPACITY of one thousand. There "
also be q fine banquet ball, where
= thousand or more guests may be ser
ed. The two upper floors, contalnil
about five hundred rooms each, Will
used entirely for sleeping quarters.
Broad piazzas will encircle the bul
ing, enabling the guests to secure Il
views of the pageantry on the roa