The Lakeland evening telegram., 1913-06-09
HOW LAKELANO'S
NEW HOTEL WILL
Be EQUIPPED.
BUILDING WILL BE PRACTICAL.
LY FIREPROOF AND HAVE
EVERY CONVENIENCE.
Supervising Architect L. A. Fort
Gives Interesting Account Of
Its Equipment.

! bNGl - UOuy 10 lulcIcSICO III Iut
new hotel, and Saturday Mr.. l.. A
Fort, the supervising architect, wal
explaining some of the details of the
building to a party Of ladies and a:
the Telegram readers will not doubt
be interested in reading about how
The hostelry will be equipped, We
5ive below the interesting account
OF the equipment as told by Mr.
Fort:
mo, my dear ladies, We have
eliminated al the farm house fea-
cures from the hotel that still might
u found in some OF the so-called
residences and hotels in the heart
| cf Lakeland. The hotel will have
! 10 luxuries at all, but will be equip
ped In the manner of any residence
suitable for tenants of moderate
means and refinement. The blue or
gray enameled washbasins with the
pitcher of stale water and the tow
el for general use, all standing on
tie back porch on a bench near the
dining room door is not going to be
there. The guest will also not be
required to go with bucket to an
Oil stove to get hot water when they
want to take bath or wash their
lace. Such equipments are antede-
luvian and during my extensive
travels | have not found them any,
where except ---. but never mimi,
since you know, as you told me you
Travelled, too, didn't you? While not
every room will have private bath,
it will not be necessary for any tray
cler to bring his rubber tub" along
rs they do it in England. We have
provided a large public bathroom
with a big bath tub and one of those
tricky showers as you might have
seen In some of the better class of
Turkish baths, where a traveller can
take part for a nominal fee in de-
luge Of hot or cold water as his heart
desires.
Nov you laugh for using the
word deluge, but | am not Joking,
! mean what | say. Just listen. We
provided a 25-horse-power high
pressure steam boiler in the base
inent-No, madam, we will have no
engines running. This boiler is ex-
c'usively for the purpose of supply
ing live steam to the vegetable cook
ef, soup kettle, steam table, coffee
urn, roll warmer. and bakery oven
and dishwater, etc, in the kitchen
end to make 1900 gallons of boil
ing hot water per hour. In hotel 1t
would of course be impossible to de-
@end on an inexhaustible supply of |
not water. You must know that |
with our present number of rooms
"e might have to accommodate 12O
- $50 people and they all might
"ant a bath during the hours of 6
TO in the morning or want hot
' ater for other purposes. Conse-
luently with this high pressure
oiler We provided a hot water stor-
ice tank with net capacity of $50
salons. This storage tank has
Iarge and long copper coil in which
the high pressure stem circulates
and keeps the water of the tank at
he boiling point. From this stor-
-ge tank big pipes rise straight to
he roof and drop down through
branches to every bathtub, shower
,ath and washbasin throughout the
No, madam, there will be
10 waiting at the faucets for hot
water to run. Our system In the
o-called circulating system, The
lot water naturally rises and on
eaching its greatest height is dis
ributed ,on the roof it will cool off I
nd start back to the tank in thet
REGULATION. You see, the hot water I
irculates just behind every faucet |
nd consequently runs out hot from {
ny faucet the moment the same is {
pened and don't waste any water {
y waiting until the hot water pipe
mpties its cold water contents. {
ley used to make such hot water {
rstems, but since careless inven- S
,r invented the water meter. /
nd we have to pay for every gal
IN of water registered by the meter. a
} we must be economical and would {
ather invest now in a little more t