Arizona republican., 1912-05-10
OF
 ADAMS HOTEL
Ninety Rooms May Be Added to Present Equip ment; Unparalleled Sue cess of Daring Venture; Lunch Room a Winner

Crazy" said a lot of people when | the new Adams hotel was projected 1 and it's scope and cost were estimat- ed. Phoenix is not ready to sup port any such proposition. and will l not be for several years"
 J. c. Adams and his associates went ahead with their plans just the same, firm in the belief that PhOe- nix was ready for just that thing. | and instead of acquiring "cold feet" when the pessimists produced the hammers. they extended the idea. and provided for more magnificent equipment than originally planned adding many thousands of dollars to the original estimate
 As q result Phoenix is given the finest hotel in the southwest: the most costly and beautiful in the world for city of the size of Phoe- nix, the only absolutely fire proof hotel in the southwest with two ey captions in Los Angeles. and the largest hotel in the southwest with the same two exceptions.
 There are hotels in Los Angeles which rear their heads much farther
 into the empyrcan blue than does the Adams but they do not begin to cover the ground space. and do not contain as many Ipa'- ments.
 So much by way of introductior The hotel has been in operation for q little over six months and is now found altogether too small to meet the requirements of tho tra.le
 From the first day the doors yer" thrown open to an cXpectant ppblc
 the management mas been !oslrg sleep worrying over tEe placing of guests. In Worl the nostelry has been q success far beyond the drenms of those Wno backed the enterpr,so with their enthusiasm and their money, while the people who prediv,- ed failure arc silenccd or forced irto the admission that they were wrong and mighty glad of it.
 At a meeting of the stockholders recently held no change in the man. agement or directorate was made, and it was not decided. 2s stated in an evening paper. t. apply the pro- fits to the extension of the building. l. was determined. however, to ap- ply this fund to the payment of the additional original cost of construc- tiOn
 The need for more room was dis cussed and the directorate will again | take up this feature in a short time. 1 The Adams Hotel company is bond i ed at the present time for $75,0OO and it is proposed to retire these by 1 issuing $125, ,O00 worth of bonds. the additional $50 900 being used to build
 two additional stories, adding ninety | tho Y,racaI,t aoninDnaDt
 The building is constructed with i this contingency in view although it was not thought probable that with
 in six months such increase would | become necessary. The foundations ! and walls are heavy enough to carry ten stories. The proposed additional
 two stories will make structure seven stories high.
 The cement floor for the sixth floor i is already in place, and Mir. Adams 1 says that the work of building will 1 be carried on from the outside with out inconvenience to any of the guests. Elevator space was provided ! in the original plans sufficient to ac-
 commodate several extra stories A definite decision will be made relative to this matter in a short time, and it is probable that work will be commenced in time to have l the added rooms ready for next sea- sons business.
 With the added floors the Adams will contain about three hundred rooms. and become the largest hotel | in this part of the country, and one of the largest in the United States, unapproached by any house in city
 many times the size of Phoenix, and
 only equalled in the metropolises of 1 the world.
 There has recently been opened in
 one of the Adams street store rooms
 of the hotel a lunch room which is
 already attracting the attention of 1 the busy man who wants a good ser Twice. and wants it quickly.
 This luncheon room is equipped on
 the same luxurious scale as the bal ance of the hotel, and the same
 chefs and same food is served as to the guests in the main dining rooms but, and here is the feature which is most appealing and will make the
 Adams lunch a pass word for every thing that is excellent-the same
 prices prevail as are quoted at other lunch counters in the city.
 The counters are presided over by
 neat Waitresses; every thing is kept in apple pie order, ard the apple pie
 itself comes from the model kitchen and pastry rooms where every blt of the food served at the big cara vansary is prepared by stair or trained chefs
 "The new Adams is Phoenix, big gest asset" said a distinguished Icuest recently, and the newer and l liaeon Aanrnc will add new lmStre