The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-21
DIRECTORS LOOK
OVER WORK ON
TUTW|LER HOTEL
Are Well Pleased-HOtel,
When Completed and Fur
nished Will Represent
$2,000,000 Investment

| The members of the board of directors
of the Tutwiler Hotel company yesterday
! formally inspected for the first time the
new hotel which is rapidly nearing COM
pleton at the corner of First avenue and
Twentieth street.
From that inspection II is gathered that
when the Tutwiler is completed and furn-
ished II will represent an Investment of
| about 50, ,000 eco. which is considerably more
than was at first announced. The pro-
portion of expense follows: The lot, $500.
900; the hotel building. s1,3500o0. the furn-
| ishng. 100000, and incidentals about, $l00,
600 This said yesterday by one of
the board of directors to be a conservative
figure for the cost of the hotel
With this amount of money to be ex-
pended for the hotel there will be no
hostery in this section of the country
that can compare with the Tutwiler.
1t was announced yesterday that the
Tutwler hotel is a combinat ton of the
Vanderbilt hotel in New York and the
Blackstone in Chicago. Some of the
points of one have been taken and others
dropped. The plans, however, embody the
good points of both hotels and there has
been added ideas outside of the two places
mentioned
| The hotel is surmounted by a walkway
which could be utilized for a roof garden.
but it is said that this is unlikely. The
servants rooms are located on the roof
rising above the roof garden walkway.
The roof will be tiled and will be avail
able If desired for roof garden
The floor plans are practically the same
on each of the floors devoted to bed
rooms. There Is a spacious lobby in front
of the two elevators. on each floor chairs
and Chesterheds will be provided for
the lobby facing the elevators The state
suite on the second floor has five connect
ing rooms, including a dining room, par
lor, with long fireplace, sleeping rooms
and bath rooms. This suite is served by
a private corridor and may be utilized
either as a state suite or single rooms
All the floors will be concrete, as will
the Railways, thus rendering the building
fireproof. The rooms even the court
rooms, are exceedingly well ventilated
and lighted. In order to provide additional
fresh air for each room via the transoms
openings We're arranged on the end of
each corridor. which provides a circuit of
air all the time
The directors of this hotel were well
pleased yesterday with the prosress ar
work. 1t is costing more than first con-
templated, but they said ii was worth
every cent of it.
One of the most important features Of
the Tutwiler Is the fresh air 1t has
been arranged so that fresh air Is pumped
int.
by an air shaft, SO that the gueats do
not have to depend upon OPENINGS for
fresh air. The air shafts are designed
like the Blackstone in Chicago. "A punp
fan pushes the air into the rooms and a
suction fan brings 1t out again.
The party that inspected f1a hotel
yesterday included George Gordon ,-raw-
ford, president. John l.. Kaul, vice presl-
dent; A. b. Tanner, secretary: William
Leslie Welton, associate architect: Her
man Saks, Ersl<ine Ramsay, Frank Nell
son, Jr., T. II. Motion. r. II. Baugh.
Louis Gelders. The party was shown
over the building by John w. HaIris or
Wells Brothers, the contractors who
erected the Blackstone in Chicago. and
many other buildings of note. He said
that far as he knew this would lie
one of the finest hotels in the country.
The Tutwler hotel has been leased 10
the United Hotels company, which yes
terday announced the organization cf the
Hotel Tutwiler Operating company, 4
local corporation The president of the
parent company Is Frederick w. Rock
well, VINO is also president of the local
company. The holding company operates
a string of hotels in New York state ard
elsewhere but this is the first time IT
has entered the south 1t is stated thai
the operating officials are well pleased
with the outlook here.
The company to operate here has a
local capital of Sl5000o. Frank a. Dud-
ley Is vice president, and Delos NJ. John.
son secretary and treasurer. The COM
pany starts with a paid up capital OF
s37 200.
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