Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-23

Faithful Inn are Of unplaned, unmatched
planks, the cracks being covered by
ceats. There is no plastering anywhere
in the house. The floors are covered
with Norwegian rugs, the furniture Is of
Norwegian pattern. and the brass bed
Steads are of rustic designs, made to
order. All of the hardware. even the
numbers and the locks on the doors. is
Of wrought iron. designed by the archi-
tect, and hammered out on an anvil by
George Coepitts, who has a blacksmith
shop at Livingston, and is shOeing horses
there at this blessed moment. Colepitts
is an artist of remarkable skill and taste,
and has produced an effect that adds IA
mony of this wonderful hotel. The
front doors are studded with wrought
iron bolts; there is a grill and a peep
hole like those of the medieval castles
and mOnasteries; the bolts are two feet
long and an inch In diameter. and the
latch weighs as much as a man would
want to carry.
The kitchen is 35x90 feet in size: the
pantry is 25x3o feet, and the refrigera-
tor. which is lined with white enamel
tiles. is 25x25 feet. There are a stock
room. an icehouse. cooling room, for
meats, eggs and vegetables. a laundry,
an electric light plant. carpenter shop
and toolroom, all equipped in the most
paratus. Even the dishes washed
by electricity.
The Water Supply.
The water supply and fire protection
comes from reservoir one mile dis
tant and 80 feet above the hotel, which
gives stron gpressure. The reservoir
is fed from spring which has capacity
of $4,000 gallons a day, and stationary
fire hose runs through every corridor
and reaches every foot of the building,
both inside and out. There are bath
rooms connected with many of the suites,
which are especially furnished for the
comfort OF guests who come here to
stay for the summer.
The portico supports a wide balcony of
rough logs and covers a driveway where
the stages receive and discharge their
passengers. 1t is supported by cribbed
logs resting upon foundations of boul-
ders. The office counter Is made of rough
stone and a top of logs studded with
heavy iron bolts. A bell on the roof is
rung by a rope dropping to the office
to announce the meal hours.
The hotel has rooms for $50 guests, and
even a larger number have been accommo-
dated on several occasions since we have
been here. The dining room will seat DO
people without croWding, and a staff OF
servants is always kept sufficient to look
after the maximum number of guests.
The building cost $175.OO0. and all Of the
material. except the stock hardware, was
found within a radius of six miles. The
furniture and equipment cost S55, 900, and
was hauled on wagons and sleighs at a
cost of GIG cents per hundred pounds from
the nearest railway station, fifty-four
miles distant.
There are curio shops, news and photo
graph stands. and a dark room in which
kodak f1ends can develop their films. Moth
ing seems to have been forgotten.
The Architect.
The architect of Old Faithful Inn was
Robert C. Reamer, who was born in Ober-
lin. Ohio, and began his professional
career in the Office of Mortimer l.. Smith
& Sons Of Detroit when he was only
twelve years old A few years later he
went to Chattanooga with his parents and
worked as a craftsman for an architect
there. In 1890 he went to Chicago and de-
signed furniture for A. Fl. Andrews & Co
Then he drifted out to California, opened
an Office at San Diego and did all Of
Spreckels work there for four years
Some of his work at Coronado Beach at
tracted the attention Of Mr.. H. w. Child.
president of the Yellowstone Park Asso-
citation, and he brought Reamer here to
build this wonderful hotel. On the jour
ney from California Mr.. Child explained
that ne wanted something unique and ap-
propriate, and Mr.. Reamer made the pre-
liminary sketches in the sleeping car dur
ing the journey. He has erected several
other artistic buildings in the park, in
Guiding a rustic railway station for the
Northern Pacific at Gardiner, an exquisite
bungalow, which is used as q commissary
store, and another equally artistic building
in which Mr. Child resides at Mammoth
Hot Springs. The stables and storehouses
of the hotel and stage companies at Gardi-
ner and at Mammoth Hot Springs are
quite remarkable in their design and Mr.
Reamers genius is apparent in several
other places.
He has recently completed a design
for five-hundred-d dollar hotel at Nam
moth Hot Springs, which l described in a
letter from Washington last May at the
time the plans were submitted for the ap-
prevail of the Secretary of the Interior. 1t
will be quite unique as Old Faithful
Ian and twice as large. The specifications
are now being prepared, and if conditions
are favorable the work of construction
will be undertaken next spring.
This proposed hotel will cover as much
ground as the Capitol at Washington. be-
ing $50 feet long by $50 feet wide. with
500 bedrooms and 80 bathrooms, and will
be surrounded by a wide porch. The ma
teral will be logs and boulders found on
the ground and the principal feature will
be a rotunda 200 by 100 feet in size and
As feet high, the roof being supported by