Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-05
ELECTRIC HOTEL WILL BE \
MARVEL.
Needs of Any Guest Will Be Supplied
by Pressing Buttons.

NJ. Georgia Knap, the inventor %
the electric house. proposes to erect
in Paris hotel which will be mar
vel of electro o-mechanics.
In this hotel, for which the name
Electro Feria" has been chosen, all
of the services are centralized in tho
basement. Here all of the apparatus
required for the service of the res.
taurant and the bedrooms Is arranged
SO conveniently that the operator can
promptly supply the needs OF any
guest by pressing a few electric but
tons. Three or four minutes are oc-
cupied by a maid in carrying up
breakfast or the morning mail to Z
guest lodged on the third floor. With
the electric system the same service
can be performed in ten seconds by
an almost motionless operator.
When a guest awakes in the morn
ing his first desire is to know what
time it is. Without rising, he touches
a button at his bedside and immedi-
ately the time appears on a large
luminous dial projected on the CELL
ing. If it is time to begin the new
day, another button Is pressed and
a voice, issuing from the electric
chandelier, asks what Is wanted. The
guest, still lying in bed, calls out to
the ambient air, without using a tele.
phone: open the curtains and shut.
ters. Let in the air; 1t is too warm.
Send me a cup of coffee and my let
ters," etc. These orders are prompt
ly obeyed. The curtains and shutters
open and flood the room with light.
The top of a chiffonier, placed beside
the bed, turns and extends itself over
the bed to form a convenient table.
The breakfast and letters appear on
the chiffonier, and, in less than q
minute, all of your desires are satia-
fed, for your room is connected d.
rectIy with the basement, where the
operator has at hand the means Of
furnishing everything that you re.
quire with a minimum of delay and
exertion.
The restaurant of the hotel is serv-
ed in the same manner. Each small
table. fer two or four persons. Is pro-
vided with a dictagraph, which 10
placed in the lamp shade. You touch
a button and a voice from the lamp
shade asks what you wish. You give
your order in loud voice, without
putting your mouth to a telephone.
A silvered platter in the center of the
table sinks aud presently reappears,
laden with the food you have order
ed. AS soon as you have heipec
yourself, the platter again sinks ana
in 90 seconds returns with the dishes
ordered by your neighbor. The plates
ETC., are changed, in a very conVen-
lent and practical manner, by means
of a little dumb waiter with shelves.
Each guest receives, with his or
der check which is numbered to
correspond with his individual push
button. Payment may be made to q
cashier at the door, or by means or
the service elevator, according to the
system adopted.
Tables with II seats, for dinner par
ties, will be operated in the same
manner, except that each dish VIII
move along the table to the person
who has ordered it, guided by the un-
seen maitre d'hotel with the aid ol
a wide-angle periscope.
The visitor to the basement will see
dishes of food coming automatically
from the adjacent Kitchens to ths
hundreds of little elevators that COM
municate with the restaurant and tho
apartments. and soiled dishes goin8
automatically from the elevators to
the electric washing machines.
The plan adoped for the electric
hotel is the result of long study and
research on the part of its protector.
NJ. Georgia Knap. In collaboration
with NJ Danger, the well-knewn ia
risian architect. The bedrooms are
constructed and arranged on an IN
cenious system which allows the Mt
tie elevators to reach the rooms With
out wasting space or making them
selves conspicuous. The rooms are
separated by corridors two feet wide'
In which the electric wires and the
hot and cold water pipes are placed.
There are no radiators in the roos1s'
which are heated by novel system
involving no COMPLICATED apparatus.
Danger of fire is eliminated by piao-
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