Bisbee daily review., 1907-11-22
new HOTEL fine
MONUMENT TO
GADSDEN
Douglas money and Enterprise
Erect Finest Structure OF
Kind Between Los Angeles
and New Orleans.

DOUGLAS. Nov. 2I.-(Special.D-
Douglas money and Douglas energy
have builded a commercial monument
to James Gadsden, executor OF the
treaty between the United States and
Mexico that in 1854 gave to America
a strip of barren, arid and seemingly
worthless land, in the confines of
wnICn the CITY Oh DOugIas Is now 40
Gated AS the treaty bore, and bears,
the name of Gadsden, so does this
monument--a giant four-storied struc-
ture of buff colored brick which has
been reared at a cost that will closely
approximate 100000. And Douglas
money and Douglas energy have
builded well, for between New Orleans
and Los Angeles, perhaps, will no
hotel be found which approaches this
product of the sage brush in lavish
ness of decorations, completeness of
appointments or general attractive
ness. This hotel is not only a monu-
ment to the name that is known in
history; rather, more conspicuously is
it a monument TO the spirit of the
southwest In reality, from a purely
utilitarian standpoint, Douglas does
not at the present need the Gadsden.
The indictment that scoffers, as they
watched the sky line Of the splendid
structure gradually mounting-that
the builders were building in advance
of Douglas-was in the main true
and no one knew this better than the
builders. Yet they built-not on the
needs of the present but to take care
of the needs of the future-and the
not distant future, they believe. And
that spirit is typical of the southwest,
an Astounding and abiding confidence
in the future.
So the Gadsden went up. Started
over a year ago, progress was at
times slow. First one sort Of mater
fal was delayed getting here, then an
other, and still another. But always
the work went on. AS material ar
rived it was used and if necessary
work would stop on certain portions
of the building until what was needed
should come. Thus it continued until
now the new Gadsden is a beautiful
reality. Next Wednesday evening
will witness its informal opening
when the Douglas public will be guests
of the management And on Thurs
day NOTWITHSTANDING day
some one will write the first name
upon the register the writing of which
will mean the beginning of the com
mercial career of the hotel.
A real graceful structure is the new
Gadsden with the bright breezy treat
ment its architects have given it. In
line with the most approved ideas on
hotel construction the building as
sumes the shape of the letter e, -
the design of it being especially no
ticeable on the Eleventh street eleva-
ton where it has a frontage of 134
feet to 100 feet on G avenue, the prin-
cipal thoroughfaFe Of the city. The
four stories, with basement, rest on a
I foundation of solid Portland cement
concrete. The frontages on the G
avenue and Eleventh street courts
ana returns are faced with buff
| pressed brick with Bedford stone and
terra Gotta trimmings. The plan ad
mits Of two light courts, making
possible an outside light for every
room as we'll as two large skylights
in the ceiling of the lobby.
The chief architectural features of
the building are the lobby, dining
room, rathskellar and palm garden.
While each one of these features rep
/ reselts an architectural triumph ii is
in the treatment given the lobby that
frost and frost have OutdOne them
solves. This truly gorgeous apart
ment occupies a space fOTty-siX feet
wide and siXty-siX feet long with a
ceiling twenty-fOUr feet above the tile
floor. It is located directly beneath
the middle wing and the two light
cGurts- Columns and minister's OF
classic proportions, symmetTically ar
ranged, support the deliberately deco
rated ceiling and are surrounded at
the mezzanine floor by a balcony
| reached by the grand stairway. The
| columns, pilasters and curtain walls
| are covered with scagiOla made to
represent the African Numidian and
Italian Sienna marbles respectively
| resting on bases of verde antique mar
! bic, and are suTmOunted by stucco
capitals Of original design. supporting
| the beams also decorated with stuCCC
| ornament, which carry the ceiling
| These, together with the capitals and
| wall panels, are richly decorated with
| sort ivory effects blended in VITA
! French Crays, puppies, Indian yellow
| and bronze greens, the whole tipped
/ with pure gold leaf. The grand stair
| way and the stairway to the dining
room are Of English vein white mar
/ BILE. The chair rail, window sills
cOutner. handrail and aprons are OF
| brown Tennessee marble. The two
large skylights, the small skyligni
| over the landing of the grand stair.
way and the palm garden screen are
| art glass. All other glass in the
building is one-quarter plate
The dining room occupies a space
| sixty by thirty one feet. The ceiling
is twenty feet and six inches high
The floor is of maple. The room is
of paneled wainscot all around with
| the plate rail. The beam ceiling is
/ supported by three graceful columns
| surmounted by stucco capitals The
| ceiling is decorated in water coIors
the walls and columns in oil, grape
clusters being the design. The win
| dOws are of plate glass and openings
on the mezzanine floor afford ventila-
ton as well as access 10 music on
the neighboring balcony. The CAPT
tails on the columns are Of old ivory
covered with foliage decorations
characteristic of the southwest. All
the wood work is Of early English oak.
The rathskellar with its tiled floor
| is located in the basement The walls
are covered with panel oak and frieze
and the ceiling is decorated in oil.
The chandeliers bearing coat Of arms
is an artistic touch, as are the art
glass windows, each of which shows
a scene typical Of Holland. The frieze
contains paintings OF "HeinZelmann-