The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-10-23
FINE HOTEL THIS.
THE NEW HOSTELRY WILL SOON
BE READY FOR OCCUPANCY.
Will Cost About One Hundred Thou
sand Dollars When Completed and
Ready for Furniture.

This article from the Orangeburg
Times and Democrat gives an idea of
what Orangeburg is doing in the ho-
tel line:
The new hotel being erected in this
city by c. w. Wolfe. ESQ.,, which will
be one of the most beautiful and cost
ly buildings In the State, is nearing
completion and will soon be ready for
occupancy. 1t will give Orangeburg
one Of the handsomest hotels In the
State. and we hope it will stand for
many years to come as a monument
to the pluck and enterprise of w. c..
Wolfe, ESQ.,, who not only conducts
a large practice In copartnership with
Capt. j. A. Berry, but found time 70
erect two of the handsomest buildings
in the city.
The hotel is built of brick and is
trimmed In granite and Is five stories
high without the basement. It Is one
hundred and fifty feet long by sixty
feet wide. 1t would hardly be possi-
BILE for such structure as this to be
put up with any more windows than
II has and arranged as suitably to
give beauty to the edifice. A quite
M ri nf ha h,ri L. Al
Spanish style tower The tower makes
an extension room on each floor and
there Is window on each side of the
bay window effect. giving each room
three windows on the front view.
There are two verandas in the front
Of the hotel and one on the side and
together with the other outside work
these make II an imposing structure
and one Of which the city of Orange
burg can Justly feel proud.
Money has not been spared to make
the inside of the building beautiful,
convenient and comfortable. There
will be one. hundred rooms. each an
outside room with plenty of light, air
and ventilation. There are forty pri-
vate baths. The immense corridors
extend the length of the building and
the dining room and parlors and 9TH
er apartment are spacious and beau
tiful. Each room will be provided
with electric lights and telephone and
electric fans will be plentiful. The
building will be steam heated, sup
piled with waterworks and sewerage,
provided with an electric elevator, al
though there are flights of stairs by
which one can easily make his way
from one story to the other. The lob
by OF the hotel will be tiled and all
the necessary conveniences will be
added.
The situation of the structure Is
most suitable for a hotel. It fronts
on the town square and on one side
Is the Barton brick building. where
the Elks reside and on the other is
the Scoville brick structure In which
Is the Orangeburg bank. 1t Is built
on o corner and on the southeast cor
ner Of the same block will be erected
the government building. for which
$4,000 was appropriated some time
ago.
The lot on which this structure will
be raised sold for $4,000 and is 1876
feet by ia. This will be only a one
story structure and only $4,000 will
be spent in the building, as one-fifth
of the appropriated money had to go
for the purchase of the lot. The
check for the $4,000 has been drawn
and preparations are being made by
the owners of the buildings on the
property to remove them.
The price paid will give an idea of
what the bare lot on which stands the
hotel building is worth.
The outlay Of money on the Wolfe
edifce will not doubt reach the $780,
600 mark. 1t will be only a short
time now before the building will be
In the proper condition for rent, as
there only remains little work to be
done for the completion of the first,
second and third stories and it will he
rented as soon as a suitable tenant
can be obtained. There are two ho-
tells in the city now. besides boarding
houses, but a good hotel keeper in the
new building should do we'll.