The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-16

trance from the orangerie and ladies'
 breakfast room. Around the lobby are
 grouped the main public rooms of the
 hotel The lobby Is 22 feet high to the ceiling and is approached from the Twen-
 tieth street side through a marble en-
 trance IA feet wide in the center of the Twentieth street facade, and also through the ladies entrance on Fifth avenue side.
 The architectural treatment of the lobby of Adam style, though elegant, is digni- fled and refined. It's height. extending up through two stories, with walls and vauted ceiling in Caen stone. marble floor and mezzanine balconies on three sides presents picture of rare grace and repose kt the right from Twentieth street is the levator lobby for passenger elevators, check rooms. telegraph and telephone booths office, with Italian mar
 ble counter. key rack and vault for the use of guests
 On the central axis of the main lobby is located the orangerie, 32 feet by 34 feet in which there is a rookwood stone fountain directly between service doors
 leading to service pantries and the kitchen entrance. This orangere has a leaded glass ceiling with the Rookwood foun- | tain and vaulted ceiling furnished in Elizabethan furniture.
 | Along the Fifth avenue side is a cafe
 adjoining the orangerie. writing rooms for, | Ulcn dilN WObltllt tlSdT diu PtilDtitdi counters, ladies reception rooms and re- tring rooms. Directly off the orangerie ! is dining room on the mezzanine floor. exclusively for children. One may place ones children in charge of a maid in 1 this dining room and one may go to any dining room in the house with the full
 realization that the children will receive l service and attention and will be re- turned to them at the conclusion of their meals. fHt5ft a l Along the Twentieth street front and | level with the sidewalk are arranged
 four stores clevery a~ranged in a prac-
 tical manner so as not to detract from
 the exterior appearance of the Tutwiler
 building ..
 At the alley corner on Twentieth street
 is the tap room. 32 by s2 feet, in ola
 English oak panel Welsh quarry tile floor and leaded glass windows. With the ex-
 ception of few this is easily the prettiest 1 bar that has ever been arranged in Bir-
 mingham.
 The kitchen is 4s by 30 feet and Is To- 1 eated on the southeast corner and with
 direct entrance to the alley for service. ! The kitchen equipment is very complete | with battery of ranges steam tables
 Bain mari. Adjoining the kitchen is a 1 dish pantry silver pantry many serving
 pantries, oyster pantry. scullery, vegeta- 1 ble room. fish meat and vegetable re- | lIT1ReTdIOTS, lut StiNitt ciilci cQ II Ofii doors on the alley over which are iron canopies contains a trunk elevator trunk l lift from basement. s~ry1ce elevator and a fl eight elevator.
 ! The ballroom is 45 by 80 feet and is | capable of accommodating banquet of 1 unusual size. It is finished in old ivory. That is to say, of Louis XVI period. It | is adorned with crystal chandelier and 1 chrystal brackets. In the execution of | these crystal fixtures well as in the | execution of the clustering effects fol- 1 lowing Louis XVI srrrod, President I Crawford says that the workmen. have entered into the spirit of the hotel own
 CTS and affected most wonderfully com piete advancement for which he Is very much eratified Around the ballroom is d | mezzanine gallery on four sides. whsre 1 service may be rendered with unusual l efficiency The entrance Of the ballroom | is on the third floor levef. with two serv- ling pantries, check rooms storage rooms and the like. The ceiling height is 20
 feet. Opening from the ballroom and l the Waldorf lobby effect is the Dutch roof court, 42 feet 80 feet. which will | prove to be delightful promenade for
 dance parties. and which will be decorat- | ed with palms and ferns. with built
 in seats and gravel walkways.
 l Unusual Laundry
 | On the fourth floor level is located per hops the most thorough innovation in 1 Southern hotels. This is a complete laun- dry, which the Troy Laundry company officials unhesitatingly say is the most modern that has ever been shipped in the south. It Is said that the officials
 of this company were of the opinion that
 mistake had been made when they l saw shipping instructions on this ma
 teriai for Birmingham. and then it was
 that the statement wac made that never
 before had there been shipped south such equipment for a laundry. It is
 6 by s6 feet. and is equipped with two I tumblers. four washing machines. three
 rollers and a Troy giant bangler, as well
 as starch machine. soap tank and
 clothes dryer. FMa
 Attached to this laundry is an ironing room 15xS1 feet for ironing bundle laun- dry. that Is for the guests of the hoteL
 The mezzanine is arranged in three