The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-10-18
PLAZA HOTEL
FOR THE RICH
FACTS ABOUT THE cosTLIEsT
AND FINEST HosTELRV IN
THE COUNTRY.
ls Eighteen Stories High And csst
more Than Thirteen
Million.
New York Special to the Philadel-
phia Enquirer.)

New York Special to the Philadel-
phia EnQuirer.)
The Plaza cost 81, 200. 900.
1t has 500 rooms. It Is eighteea
stories high. with a basement. sub
basement below.
1t has 1000 employees.
II has the most costly furniture In
any hotel In the world.
II has the most elaborate ventilat-
ing system eyer installed 1t took
$4,000 pounds OF sheet galvanized
metal TO make the plant. 1t has four
! teen colossal fans. driven by electric
motors to run an air current through
the house.
1t owns FIVE marble grand stair
cases to the street instead Of one. It
has a ballroom where 500 people can
dance without crowding. in which
there is a splendid stage with full
scenery which-and this is the novelty
can be lifted for fifteen feet in the
air to form a balcony when the whole
floor space is needed,
An electric installation effects this
The stage is several tons in weight
and yet 1t swings upward without a
hitch or noise at the turn Of lever.
The kitchen has twenty-four ovens.
There are eighty-two cooks. The en-
tire kitchen space, including all eat
ing rooms for servants and ofices, is
made of white marble and thing so
that it can be flooded with water and
kept clean. -
The suites of rooms for the million
aires range between s25, 900 to $4,000
year; il man is very far below the
average millionaire in means he can
get a suite for $4,000 q year.
There is not only a long and short
distance telephone in every room, but
series Of buttons by which one can
call a maid or a waiter or page On
that floor. Every few sets of rooms
has complete equipment of servants
at close call.
Every floor has its separate restau-
rant service The orders written on
paper are rolled around, put into a
pneumatic tube by the waiter on any
floor and shot down by the pressure
of lever to a corps of men waiting
to receive them in the center of the
kitchen.
The llnen-rooms are the most CON-
plete in existence. OF each piece OF
bed linen there is from i've to ten
thousands stored away on the shelves.
Everything is ticketed and the corps
Of women can put their hands on a
hundred pieces in a moments time.
The whole half of the ground floor
is divided by glass partitions which
can be taken out throwing the space
into the most splendid ceremonial
room in existence.
Every piece of the wonderful pea
cock marbles was brought from italg.
The carpets were especially woven in
France and the furniture for the
eighteen floors was made in Philadel-
phia
There are fifty mtor cabs in the
garage for the use of the patrons.
The orchestra is seated in a closed
room half way above the dining-room
where 1t is entirely concealed and the
music drifts downward through huge
gold inlet in the walls.
A large part of the seventeenth floor
is given over to one room which is
cooled by brine in which furs and
other moth-alluring fabrics are placed.
There are ten passenger elevators,
three sidewalk lifts, and thirteen cleo.
trio dumb walters. The latter go at
speed OF three hundred feet minute
so that food is rushed through the
air in order not to get cold
There are seventeen Thousand in
candescent lamps. The entire house
is swept and busted by vacuum pro.
cess, the dirt conveyed through pipes
to the subbasement to be carted out.
All garbage and waists goes into
great incinerating plant.
The filtered water capacity is 1900
600 gallons day For an alarm OF
IRE the pump turns out four thousands
gallons minute. The refrigerating
plant produces fifteen tons OF ice
day
There is clock in every room
which has an attachment that allows
II to be regulated every day from the
once so that they all keep exactly the
same time and the right time.
Every room in the building is in the
French periods, except one. the cafe,
which is a German Renaissance.