The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-03
ERECT STAG HOTEL
ON BROAD Street.
Company Of Prominent
Men Decided on Design
For Structure.
WILL CONFlNE
NEW FEATURES
Besides Usual Accommodations
Of Modern Hosiery, Nata-
forum and Finest Turkish
Baths Will Be Pro-
vided-Will Soon
Begin Work.

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The much-talked-of new Broad Street
hotel and natatorium Is now no longer a
mere matter OF talk, but the company
has been formed, money raised, the plans
agreed upon. and II the contract for the
erection OF the modern up-to-oate Duiiu-
INK was not let last night, it will be in
few days.
The hotel. which, by the way, has not
yet been named, Will stand on the lot
on Broad street just west OF tne new
Bijou Theatre. The lot is forty feet and
two inches wide and Ito feet deep. The
building will cover every inch OF the
ground. Since the plans which were
made BY Dimmock and Lee, associate
architects Of this cry, were completed,
and since the accompanying picture was
made for The T!mes-Dlspatcn, the In.
corporators have decided to Increase the
capital stock Of the company and make
the hotel ten stories high. However, the
general appearance Of the structure Will
not be changed and correct picture
OF 1t is here given, except that 1t will
be three stories higher than the cut In
dicates.
The plans cali for wall-bearing. job,
reinforced concrete constructions floors.
steel Orders, etc. The building will be
OF brick and finished with terra Gotta
trimmings. Everything possible Will be
done to make the hotel areproof. 81
Roonny Establishment.
There will be 80 rooms, including par
Tors and waiting rooms, and IN the front
OF the building on the first floor will be
the lobby and writing room. Immedi-
atelys behind these and in the center OF
the structure there is to be one of the
finest bathing pools in the United States
The pool will be fifty feet: long and tv-en-t
5ty-iive feet wide. II will be lined with
marble and Will hold 5000 gallons OF
water. the same to be supplied from
an artes!an well, which will proba bly, be
so feet deep.
This pool will be surrounded by palm
court, in which will be placed tables,
chairs, benches, etc. Twelve electric foun-
tains will play into the pool from the
sides, and at the rear end OF the pool
there Will be a perpendicular waterfall.
Owe. this fall on mezzanine balcony
will be ladies' cafe thirty feet deep
All Kinds of Baths.
In the rear OF the building will be the
bathrooms, thoroughly equipped for,
Turkish, Roman and Russian baths.
These baths VIII be among the largest,
anu IIIlebl Iii lIlc OHllcQ OLA am
will be able to accommodate seventy-flve
people at time. IN connection with the
baths there will be a complete gymna-
SUM fully equipped with dumb-bells. In
dian clubs, flying rings, travelling rings,
parallel and horizontal bars, horses etc.
Opening into this room will be rooms
for boxing, fencing, wrestling and for
private classes in physical instruction.
On the third floor-the pool, music gal
lery and ladies' cafe extending through
the second hoor-will be the barbershop,
the manlcuring room and reception and
rooms for the bathers.
The fourths, ffth, sixth and seventh
floors will be given entirely to chambers
for those having taken Turkish or Rus
sian baths, and for the general patron
age.
One OF the features OF the building will
be on the tenth floor. Here will be sun
bathroom IS feet wide and IS feet In
length, the floor OF which will be COW
sea sand, The walls and roof will be
OF glass, and 1t is here that the ba theirs
can enjoy the advantages OF the beach
without leaving the city.
In the summer this room will be con-
vrted into a roof garden cafe, which
It is intended shall be one OF the finest
In the South.
In front OF this sun chamber Will be
several large sample rooms for. travel
Ing statesmen. Behind the room. in the
rear of the building. there will be two
storage roms, and large steel reservoir
into which the water will be pumped
from the arteslan we'll,
The baths will be open all the time,
night and day, and It is the Intention
Of the management to hold from time to
time water carniyals" In the big pool !
room, and altogether this entire estab-
l!shment will be a novelty In this part OF
the country.
Professor I. "A. Walaerston. now running |
The Jefferson Hotel baths, will have en-
tire charge OF the bathing departments,
and the hotel department will be In
charge OF an experienced hotel man.