Arizona republican., 1910-02-18
NORTH WING WILL BE : BUILT ON HOTEL ADAMS
AN $so,ooo EXTENSION WILL BE
 STARTED IN MAY.
It Will Add Eighty Rooms, Each With
 Private Bath, to the Hotel.

J. C. Adams announced yesterday that about May he will begin the con- struction of north wing on the Hotel Adams to cost sSO.0OO It will add eighty rooms to the hotel. John Brooks has been engaged to superin- tend the work of construction.
 A number of changes will also be made in the main part of the present building. The dining room is to be moved from the Adams street side and will be on the Central avenue side. This will give rental space for five stores on Adams. The offices will be changed from the north side of the lobby to the east side X steam heat ing plant will be put in to furnish heat for all the stores, the offices and rooms. 4 laundry plant will be in stalled which will take care or all of the laundry Of the hotel. It Is prob- able that Turkish bath room will also be added and all kinds of Turkish and electric baths provided. There will be private telephones in every room. the old ones as well as the new ones. A NdiiPi anu q uidiu StiNdHt lOl guests will always be at hand.
 At present the north wing is but forty feet long. The original plan of the hotel provides for the extension of this wing and the east face of 1t was eft simply plastered till the addition should be built. It will now be extend ed for 110 feet and be forty feet wide The addition will be four stores and basement.
 It will be joy to the winter visitors in Phoenix to know that every room on the north side will have a private bath. Experience has shown that the proportion of baths to rooms in a Phoenix hotel should be greater than in many other places on account of the warm climate and the occasional dust that follows long drouth.
 While the plans have not yet been drawn for the addition, the general architecture will follow the lines and character of the present building.
 When Mir. Adams was asked about his proposed extension he said:
 Fourteen years ago I came here and built the Adams. People told me then that I was doing a very risky thing in building a hotel of this dimension and class in the desert. But I had faith in the Salt river valley. in the re- resources Of tho country and in the climate. For .'ears it was an uphill proposition. I soon learned that there ars but three months in the year in which a hotel in Phoenix can be made to pay.
 '-I built the hotel with the idea that sCme day it might require enlargement. When I was east this winter I dis posed of some of my holdings I had. and this summer will follow out the original plan of the hotel, which calls for north wing 150 feet long.
 The hotel next year will probably be conducted on the European plan. as it more satisfactory than the American.
 Although the hotel business in the past fourteen years has been disap- pointing from revenue point of view. I believe that the future of Phoenix is such that it will demand and pay dividends on the very best hotel ac- commodations. think in short time our population will be doubled. I believe that we will have the trans- line which will give the citizens and property owners the trade and business they should have on &C., count of our incomparsble winter climate"