Evening journal., 1913-01-04
nrICEn EArnnEY
hUSH WUKk
FOR OPENING
OF new HOTEL
Manager Tate Busy Prepar-
ing for Opening Beginning
January Is
FINISHING DECORATIVE
WORK ON MAIN FLOORS

With the opening nights of the new
million dollar Hotel DUPONT an
nounced for January IS, 16 and II,
work is being rushed both day and
night on the interior of the building
so that even the smallest detail of the
magnificent hostelry will be COM
pleted when it's doors are thrown
open to the anxious public. The
decorating Of the handsome lobby and
mezzanine floor. the dinning rooms,
and salon and putting a few finishing
touches on the grill and billiard rooms,
which are located in the basement,
remains to be done
WOrkmen were busy today polish
ing the beautiful marble slabs which
have been placed or are being placed
about the walls of the lobby, and also
in laying the fancy floors and arrang-
ing the permanent decorative work
about walls, columns and ceilings.
The hotel is under the management
of Ernest S. Taite, formerly of the
Hotel Astor, in New York city. He
has received many reservations for
tables and rooms for the opening
HiEHlc anu diilOuIItn lOl AlN Dtn'nA
of those who expect to engage a table
for any of the evenings. that they
should make their reservations imme-
diately The dinner on the three
opening nights will be $500 a plate
great many people from Wash
ington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and
New York city are expected to be
present, and the affairs will probably
be the most elaborate ever held in
Delaware.
The management will have as
guests at the opening some city,
county and State officials, including
Governor Pennewill and his staif and
members of the Legislature.
The hotel will have about one hun
dred and eighty bed rooms most of
which will be equipped with baths and
}showers All rooms will contain cir
culating refrigerated water, electric
lights. telephone, automatic fire
alarms and mail indicating device.
Every room will have hot and cold
water and a layatory.
The halls and bed rooms will be
finished in mahogny and will be un~
usually large and will contain special
facilities for light and air Many Of
the rooms on the Eleventh and Market
street corner will be i'm suites.
The ball rooms is one of the finest
in the United States, south of Phila-
delphia, with a seating capacity Of five
hundred people and an elevated stage
with curtain, footlights, top lights
and dressing rooms it Will be unex-
celled for dances. receptions, theatric-
ais and musicales. II is equipped with
cloak rooms smoking rooms and a
roof promenade II has been used foI
about a year. The roof garden will be
a model Of its kind and its equal car
not be found in any city in the United
States II will have a seating capa.
city of FIVE hundred and affords
magnificent view of four states
The cuisine will be the best in ever.
particular and viii be European plal
exclusively. Besides the main ain
ing room, with a seating capacity o
200. and the grill room with capacit
of 140. there will be six private din
ing rooms. seating from five to fift
people and four banquet rooms witt
a capacity from seventy to five nun
dred
II is stated that the Hotel DuPon
will be spelled with a large ID in
stead of the small ID which Is tn
family name.
Under the head "A Million Dolla
Hotel in Wilmington a booklet is
sued by the management says:
"A strictly modern. luXuriousl
furnished and splendidly equippe
metropolitan hotel in a city of O.il
100000 population that is withi
twenty-eight miles of Philadelphia.
This unique situation has bee
made possible because of the rapi
progress of Wilmington since it be
came the headquarters of the duPor
Powder Company. the century-old cor
cern that leads the world in its lin
of manufacture.
"To provide suitable accommCds
tion for important commercial an
scientific men from everywhere WI
have business in the city of Wilmnl
ton, the DUPONT Building COrpOratio
have established a hotel OF unsurpasI
ed excellence that will prove a revcli
ton to all who visit Wilmington fC
business or social reasons.
Those who patronize it once II
0certainly arrange future trips to KY
Wilmington preference over oths
cities for nights stop-over or a pr
tracted visit"
There has been much speculatio
as to.the rates Of the new hotel The
are made public by the booklet:
Room without bath for one perso
S150.
Room with shower for one pc
son, $500.
Room with bath for one perso
$500, $3.50, $500, S4.00.
Room with shower for two pc
sons, $500
Room with bath for two person
$500 $3.50, S4.O0, $500
Room with bath for two person
suites of twin beds, $3.50.
Parlor. Bedroom and bath for OF
Or two persons. $500 and $1,000.