New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-02
ERECTION OF NEW HOTELS.

In the Lotel district the demands grow so
rapidly that no sooner does a new house open
its doors to the stranger within its gates than
the rush is great that new accommodations
must perforce be provided. Shortly after the
great Waldorf Hotel was erected the Astoria
had to be built adjacent, and the hyphenat ted
ute came into use. The new Hotel Astor was
erected last year, and already 1t is proposed to
oouble It's size, making structure costing ST.
O0opoO The new Hotel Belmont, whose con-
structlon opposite the Grand Central Station
was carried on concident with that Of the sub
way, over which the greater portion of It stands
VIII propabIy not long answer the demands
made on 1t, and it will have to have an annex
AT the Fifth avenue entrance to Central Park
the new Plaza Hotel is rapidly rising replacing
the one torn down after a few years occupancy
because inadequate to meet all demands and
the new one will contain twelve hundred
rooms ard cost more than So 100000 A number
or great new apartment hotels are in process of
erection overlooking Central Park At Broad
way and 42d street the new Hotel Knicker-
pochef, winch represents an investment in the
neighborhood Of 100000 for site structure
and objects Of art used in it's ornaments ton
viii shortly be ready for use.
In costly and expensive homes the METROPOLIS
is not behind. The great palace for Charles M
Schwab in Riverside Drive, finally in occupancy,
resembles huge French chateau in design and
beauty, and represents investment estimated
at $e,oOoVn The art gallery alone is like
palace, and the rest of the structure is in keep
Ing. occupying the block between 73d and 74th
streets, and extending back to West End ave-
nue.. On the other side of Central Park the
great nome or Andrew Carnegie has stood and
been used for several years. A few blocks away
the spacious and ornate house of Senator Clark
or Montana, has been in course of erection for
SIX years, and the maximum estimate OF the
expenditure upon it is $4,000 600 and the work
has been pushed without regard TO expense I'm
order 10 secure what is desired. Another home
OF wealth which has received a noteworthy a6-
dltion is that of j. Perpont Morgan at Madison
avenue ana Both street, in the rear of which q
spacious library OF Italian Renaissance archi-
lecture has been erected of gray marble
While IN the number OF playhouses added To
the list the last year has not seen SO MANY as
the two previous ones. there have been nota Bile
additions The opening OF the new Hammer
stein Manhattan Opera House. in West 34th
street, has given the city an additional home for
opera, and rival to the METROPOLITAN Opere
House has entered the field The new Aston
Theatre has been opened. and boasts of possess
Ing the finest Greek interior in America The
work or erecting the Academy of Music in
Brooklyn TO replace the one DESTROYED by FIRE
TWO years ago. although a different site is
under way. The structure, designed to cost 81 :
$4,000, Will embody many excellent ideas in the
field of providing for music and the drama for
lectures and public meetings in the great bor-
ough with its million and half of people who
are now without suitable assembling place for
great gatherings.
The new theatre which is projected for uptown
Manhattan is planned to be the most beautiful
structure FOR histrionic art In the city and ira
cost viii represent the expenditure Of a prset
sum for the adornment OF the entrance portion
Of the structure