Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-07-14
TOR luxury LOVERS.
sp|enldorrss, Of a Dining Resort
! Planned by MiI|ionaires.
REAL PALACE OF THE SENSES

Famous Hotel In New York Being
Transformed Into Most Luxurious
Eating Place In the Worid-No Wait
ers in Upper Dining Room-superh
Appointments For Women.
Is there limit to extravaganza In
Manhattan? If there be such there is
no indication of it in the $2,5O0,OOO
dining room venture at Forty-second
street and Broadway, New York, which
is now engrossing the attention Of ev'
cry gourmet in the metropolis.
Millionaires dreaming of the syba
ritic luxury of Babylonian days and Of
the wonder workings of Haroun al
Raschid through the might Of a stag
gering outlay of money are rapidly
transforming the famous old Hotel
Rossmore into the most luxurious eat
ing place, in the entire world, to open
in September. The caravansary, which
at one, time harbored every class
and type Of Broadway life, from the
sportsman with the plethoric bank
roll to the latest goddess of the green
room, is now being changed into a
dining resort where those will be
served who can pay the price, where
price is the least consideration. Where
soups will cost probably $3.50 a por-
ton, game birds from $40 up and cafe
noir at prices prohibitive to those who
do not look like ready money, it would
surely seem that the limit of metro
politan extravaganza had again been
set at a high water mark with which
the price scales of the St. Regis, Del
monico's, Sherry's, Martins and other
show places Of the greater city pale
into insigni6cance. Times and GUS
toms change, and the new Murray's
marks the transition.
Will such place representing so
enormous an outlay pay? Yes, say the
capitalists backing the venture. And
it Is the consensus of opinion, more
over, of the shrewdest public enter
tainers in New York. city that there
will be a legitimate and growing inter-
est on this unique and remarkable in
vestment devised to meet the aesthetic
requirements of the most voluptuous
city on the globe. The hackers Of the
enterprise figure rightly, it is believed,
that every woman visiting New York
will insist upon her escorts taking heI
to this marvellous dining place at least
once on her sojourn.
And was there ever place of such
Neronic allurements designed to meet
the languorous requirements Of my
lady of fashion! Would she smoke
That will be provided for. A luxu'
rious smoking room for her Is now
building, let alone manicurist, French
hafrdFessers and maids imported from
Paris. She may be reperfumed, repow.
dered and redressed. Furthermore, she
may enjoy a Turkish bath, be gowned
by maids as expert as her own at home
and with her coiffeur rearranged may
take her jewels from the safe and
after a Lucullan. repast be ready for
the opera
Solomon III all his glory or Sardana-
palus the magnificent but feebly realized
the splendors which are now In the
last stages of a certain making in that
section Of uptown which is bounded
between Broadway and Seventh ave-
nue. in the eight story structure be-
tween Forty-frs and Forty-second
streets. Here in truth is veritable
palace of the senses. The tone through
out is Assyrian and modelled after
the palace of Sennacherib.
A splendid staircase sixty-fve feet
high Of yellow and black marbles i'm
ported direct from the site Of Babylon
and costing $4,000, marked on either
side by q series of small crouching
bronze Assyrian lions, is one Of the fea-
lures Of this splendid building. This
staircase forms the base of the enor-
nous painting 'The Fall Of Babylon y
occupying large part of the wall. The
illusion is such that the painting will
seem part Of the architecture. The CEN
trail dining hall will form great temple
of music built Of the purest Carrara mar
BILE fifty feet high. From this temple
will run pergolas to the balcony. Eight
floors Of 1900 feet each will be used
entirely for the preparation and con-
sumption of food. An adjoining build
ing on the south, facing Seventh ave-
nue., seven stories high, will be used
for the conveyance Of food alone. The
walters will never leave the floors on
which they serve, but will send their
orders through pneumatic tubes and
electric conveyances to the kitchens.
Perfect service is promised. for If
the guest desires hezmerely presses a
button at his table, andaspeaking to the
table, sounding boards carry his mes
sage to the steward. From the table
with no visible means Of communica-
ton will come the reply telling him
that proper attention will be immedi-
ately given. s.,
To add a twentieth century touch to
the ,reinearnated luxury Of ancient
days the upper dining room will have
no walters. The center Of the table
viii be, SO constructed as to form a
conveyor which will sink through the
floor, leaving the rim ON which the
plates are to rest. To avoid mistakes
on the part Of the servants the check
%6,. ., s1;,,y,nr will ha Incjnsad in q sealed