Arizona republican., 1910-12-29

Work will be begun on the new Hotel
 Adams next Monday. the first working
 day Of the year 1911 Not later than
 September l of the year there will be
 thrown open a hotel finer more mod
 ern in all its appointments and larger
 than any other in the United States.
 in any commercial city of the size of
 Phoenix. The hotel will be twenty five years ahead of the city. as the old one at the time of construction was four teen years ahead of the Phoenix of 1896
 The directors of the Hotel Adams company yesterday by unanimous vote endorsed the program of the building committee. consisting of J. C. Adams, chairman; A. w. Ballard, P A. Thar aldsOn and Dan H. McDermOtt, and di- rected them to proceed with the plans.
 The steel, cement and lumber to be used in the construction are now on the way to Phoenix. The superintend- ent of construction will be George H. Gallagher well and favorablv known in Phoenix and who for several years has been engaged on the coast, where he has had extensive experience in con- crete construction and has had the su- perintendency of several of the more important buildings of southern Cali fornia The hotel company will sublet many parts of the construction, but the whole will be under the general super vision of MT. Gallagher.
 The building committee has been taking a great deal of time for the perfection of its plans but this time has not been lost It has been em- ployed in a study Of the best features of the modern hotel and in the secur- ing of the most advantageous contracts. There was, in fact, no need of hurry Between the time of the destruction of the old hotel and the opening of the winter season, new hotel could not have been completed. But the hotel, the plans for which have now been brought to a state of perfection, will be ready for the demand upon it next season.
 The structure as it will stand on Sep tember 1 may be briefly described as follows: It will be built of concrete and will consist of five stories and a base ment It will be built on four sides of a court which will open on Center street above the first story with a width of sixty-five feet. There will be entrances from both Center and Adams. A concrete veranda will be carried along both the Center and Adams street sides to the first story, and upon the Adams street side there will be a concrete veranda for each story These verandas will have width of sixteen feet.
 The building will be absolutely fire proof. All the floors and interior walls will be of concrete. In fact. there will be no lumber or other combustible ma terial except in the doors and windows. i The woodwork will be of birch, mahog- 1 any and oak in natural finish
 The hotel will contain 170 rooms, | running hot and cold water in each | room. Of these l30 will be fitted with | baths. and all will be supplied with | steam heat. Every room will be an | outer room.
 Thus. the capacity of the new hotel 1 will be double that of the old one, but | the plan of construction will allow the ! addition Of three more stories, when needed. so that the capacity may be practically uOuDleu-
 The lobby will be richer and finer than anything in Los Angeles with the single exception of the Hotel AleXan- dria. It will be wainscotted with mar bIe and the roof will be supported by fourteen huge columns of Italian scar eioli. like those in the lobby of the Hotel Alexandria.
 There will be a reception room on the second floor and the parlors Will be on a meZzanine floor. overlooking the lobby from all sides. There will be , 900 square feet of floor space in the parlors. The building will be crowned with an elabofately appointed roof gar den.
 Other features of the construction are these: There will be 10000 square feet of cerematic tiled floors; there will be 200 electric lights in the building the plate glass alone will cost S1O. 900; SOO.O0O pounds of steel will be required in the construction; 400. 900 feet of lumber will be needed for the forms for the concrete and 5000 loads of sand and gravel will be used. Altogether the outlay for the structure and it's furnishings will be SSOO,OOO.
 When the building committee under took this work it entered upon IL with a determination to provide for Phoenix a hotel of which the city and the terri tory would be proud Its purpos' was to secure for the city a hotel embrac-