Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1910-11-17
new !. GLADSTONE I J |
HOTEL ANNEX
NOW READY FOR GUESTS. ELE.
, CAN'T NEW ROOMS AND Ev-
ERY HOTEL CoNvEN-
HENCE

y
The new addition consists of a three
story and basement brick structure,
81 feet front by 70. With the COM
pletion of this annex the Gladstone
has now a frontage on Front street
of 200 feet and on Fifth avenue of
13O feet or total of $50 feet from
tage used on both streets for hotel
purposes. The new addition contains
IS large, handsomely furnished
rooms, each with private bath.
There are four large sample rooms,
each equal in size to about three
ordinary hotel guest rooms. These
sample rooms have been provided by
Manager Klaus for the special use OF
the travelling statesmen and every con-
venience for displaying sample goods,
has been provided.
There is large electric elevator
in the rear Of the annex for raising
and lowering sample cases, to the
various rooms.
The rooms have been all newly
furnished in quarter sawed oak and
mahogany furniture, of the latest
designs. The floors are covered with
heavy carpeting of different patterns
instead of rugs, and the entire hotel
is now provided with the vacuum
system by which all carpets in rooms
and halls are thoroughly cleaned by
a. vacuum cleaner. There are some
ten different taps in various parts OF
the hotel, to which. by attaching
hose, the floors of every room and
hall can be,reached with the vacuum
cleaner. This sanitary and modern
method of caring for the floors and
carpets is used by the best hotels OF
the country and is one of the most
desirable improvements that can be
placed in any hotel. The travelling
public appreciate rooms where car
pets, are cleaned with the vacuum
cleaner.
In the annex every convenience
is provided known to the modern ho-
tel world. A large clothes shute ex-
tends from each floor to the new
laundry in the basement. The dec
orations are in soft warm colors and
each room is tinted in different
shades, while the halls and ceilings
are ornamented artisticly in colors
that blend harmouiously.
The hall carpets are prevailing
green in shade and the walls and the
decorations are in corresponding
shades of green and brown. AT the
foot of the main stair way of both
floors is a large picture represent
ing Gagged lion and tiger.
Pictures also are found in various
nortions of the hall. Each bath
room is modern in every respect,
large and complete.
With the completion of the new
annex the Gladstone now has ~
guest rooms besides twenty for the
employees. Thirty-three OF the
euest rooms have bath rooms in con-
nection.
On the first floor leading from the
Office is the new writing room, the
furniture for which consists Of eight
individual writing desks, with an
electric light for each. Elegant tap
estry pictures have been placed in
this room which is a quiet and con-
venient place for the writing OF let
ters. From the writing room the
main stairway leads into the second
and third floors of the new building.
There is a large fire escape at the
east end Of the new building, indt-
Gated by red lights and usual signs
in each room. 35.58.5 81.
The basement barber shop is to be
one Of the finest in the state and
viii be in charge of John Tunstall,
Who vascates the corner basement
barber shop which has been used
for that purpose for many years.
The: entrance to the new Gladstone
barber shop will be both from the
hotel office and from the street OUT
side,
The large store rooms in the new
building will be occupied BY the
Haas Mercantile Co, for g general
store, by the Western Union Tele-.
- a - nna nv a hfr 4 ONCE
whose occupant has not yet been an an !