Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1907-10-11
ADVANCE IN HOTELS,
Home Life Features Of a New
metropolitan Palace.
SOME PLEASING NOVELTIES.
Peculiar Method OF Creating Family
Suits and Of Serving Meals In Them.
One Tenant to Pay About $4,000 a
Year Rent.

II was the opinion OF hotel men, ar
thitects, builders and capitalists who
met Informally al the Plaza hotel In
New York the other afternoon for an
inspection OF the building that with IT
the climax had been reached in the
size and cost Of hotels, says the New
York Sun. 1t was unlikely. they
thought, that more than Sl2.5o0oOO
would ever be Invested in the ground
structure and plant cost of single
hotel. All agreed the hotel shows d
striking forward movement in the
tendency Of many wealthy people to
esta ablish their only New York homes
In hotels.
The Plaza is as large as any hotel
In operation In the city, Like the Bel
mont, It has 500 living rooms, and al
ready one-half OF its accommodation
for guests has been taken for perma-
nent homes under yearly contracts.
One Of these home tenants" has taken
so many rooms that he will pay about
$4,000 Il year rent. Some have taken
50 few rooms that they will pay less
than $4,000 a year rent. Ii was the
testimony OF old hotel men that no
hotel ever opened ia the city with one
quarter OF such proportion OF its ac-
commodation rented for homes, and it
was said that until the building of
two OF the recently opened hotels in
Fifth avenue this matter OF renting
space by the year to families was
hardly known.
There are no extensive suits Of rooms
In the Plaza. excepting the inevitable
state suits" which cannot we'll be di-
vided Otherwise the suits are ar
ranged to order from parlor, dining
room and one bedroom to a parlor.
dining room. library and dozen or
more bedrooms, as desired, all opening
from private hall. This involves the
most radical novelty in construction 10
be found In the building
Let ii be supposed that a family of
guests want parlor. dining room and
four bedrooms centering ON the north
east corner of the building. overlook
ing the avenue and Central park
From the main corridor you enter q
small hall, and opposite that door Is
another leading TO the parlor of the
suit, the corner room. But If instead
Of entering the parlor you turn to your
right you look down private hall,
running parallel with the main corrl
dor and as far as the space of the four
bedrooms, each OF which has its own
door opening into this private hall. II
more bedrooms are wanted, what
seems to be the solid end of the prI
vate hall swings back. and you con
tinue on to as many bedrooms as de-
sired.
So when you walk along the main
corridor, running north and south on
the avenue side Of the building, there
runs by the side Of you private hall
way. part Of the ''home" of some fam
fly. This private hallway. on its side
next to the corridor, Is lined with per-
manent wardrobes with drawers,
shelves and receptacles which can be
used for storing not only the family
clothing not hung up in the bedroom
closets. but the thousand and one
things pertaining to home rather than
hotel life. from dads smoking outfit
to brothers golf clubs.
A return to the private dining room.
around the corner. fronting on the
park. shows other features which at
tract families with the price who are
real cross over the servant question.
This Is dining room in fact, not a
bedroom with dining table in It. A
door from II leads to buffers pantry
which is supplied with refrigerating
and warming plant. A door from that
pantry opens to the corridor to the
service room tone Of these on each
noor) where the floor butler presides
over a larger heating and refrigerating
plant and which Is connected with the
main kitchen by service elevators.
The situation near mealtime there Is
this: Servants enter the dining room
Of the suit by the door leading to the
buffers pantry. Wines, ices, salads,