Arizona republican., 1911-06-25
ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, SUNDAY MORNING. JUNE 25 1911

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 been leased to the Southern Pacific | company at d rental of $350 month.
 the lease to run for ten years. Ad- | joining these rooms on the north 1 will be the Hotel Adams drug store. | and then will come the Center street
 enUance to the lobby. Beyond that will be a barber shop, and next and 1 last on that side the hotel bar i There will be communication be- 1 tween the lobby and all these rooms. store and offices.
 The dining room will be on the north side of the building, occupying all of the space north of the lobby ! and extending the full length of the | building to the east except a space i about the opening to the freight ele- | VatOr in the northeast corner of the | floor.
 South of the dining room and along l the eastern part of the floor will be the kitchen. South of the kitchen 1 and extending to Adams street will be a lunch room
 The winding stairway leading to the mezzanine floor and beyond Is on the south side of the lobby A short stairway takes one to the base of the lobby dome and around to the roof garden. a spacious affair, much larger than it looks, on account of magnificent proportions of the adja- cent structure. There will be palm garden there, and it is arranged so that awnings may be stretched over a part of the roof garden.
 
 to give a description in its unfinished shape, for no part of the building will be so changed when the finish ing touches have been applied. on either side of it there is a row of huge cylindrical concrete pillars. They will seem more massive as well as immensely more beautiful when they are covered with scaggiola, and the appearance will be still further changed when the art glass has been placed in the dome of the lobby.
 The dining room will be separated into two parts, which may be thrown into one, and at either end on the mezzaNne floor are platforms for the orchestra
 Much of the pipe work for steam. water and gas and the electric light wires have been concealed in the concrete. but necessarily all of it could not be concealed, for there is still a bewildering maze of it in view. but it will shortly be hidden by ceilings of metal lath and cement plaster The partitions are formed Of large bricks of gypsum plaster.
 The sleeping rooms will be on the third, fourth and fifth stories. There will be two rows on each the north and south sides, separated by q seven-foot hall. All the rooms will be outside" looking out either upon the lobby, the Adams street porches. ! the Center street side or large air shaft in the rear. The only adjoin- ing building is on the east, and if that should sometime be carried up to the height of the hotel, still it would not darken the rooms on that side, so generous is the air and light l shaft. Every guest room except two | at the ends of each row will have a private bath. There will be a bath | for the two end rooms. This is true of each of the three upper floors.
 There will be no place in the struc- 1 ture where a fire could get a start l The floors. stairwaYs and elevator | shafts are all of concrete. and experts | say that the concrete work is the | best they have ever seen. The con- sistency of the material is the best | possible, and the care taken in plac- ing and strengthening the forms has | obviated that irregularity of outline | so often seen in concrete construc- ton.
 There IS, of course, a necessary | rOughness about concrete work. but | this will be removed by the finishing | of cement plaster. The building will | be considered finished for the pres ent when five stories have been com | pleted, but all the time there has been held in mind the needs of the future and the addition some time of four more stories.
 Some idea of the rapidity with which the work is going on may be formed from the circumstance that it was only fourteen days ago that the forms began to be placed for the fourth story. The concrete has been poured already. The fifth story will take no longer.
 George Hageman. who has the con tract for the plumbing, keeps a small army of men at work following the workers up stairs. and as the plumbers ascend other wOrkmen follow covering the network of pipes with metal lath for the lowered cell ings