New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
Many Novel Features To
Be Embodied in the
Commodore
GUESTS ROOMS TO
OPEN ON OUTER AIR
A Room and a Bath for
Two and a Half To Be
Slogan of Hosiery
By X. ]. KENNEDY

RAPID progress 10 DSihB hAuo W.
erection of the colossal Commodore
Hotel, at AID 81. and Lexington ave.
The excavation work is already Wen
under way. The hosiery will be TWEEN
tv-six stories. 1t will contain many
striking novelties. Its Hobbies, parlors,
reception rooms, restaurants and cafes
will be unusually spacious. 1t will have
the largest ballroom of any hotel in the
world. with two tiers Of private boxes
available for both entertainments ana
banquets, seating three thousand tor
the first named purpose and two thou-
sand for the second.
Every guest room will be an OUTSIDE
room. with bath. Filtered ice water TOT
drinking will be piped to every apart,
, ment. "A room and bath for two ana
a half" will be the slogan OF the mousse
/ One thousand rooms will be at the Ira'-
cling public's disposal at that PRICE
and there will be other rooms At sz'
and some at SO and 81, all with batn'
Each Floor a Miniature Hotel 80
Each Of the twenty-six floors Of the
Commodore will be a miniature hoteI
in itself. On each floor VIII DC moor
clerk. who as personal representative
of the management will supply the
varied needs of the guests WIN &c,
curecy and expedition. For these, ana
for such emergencies as ire or Illness
the floor clerk in hotel OF TINS enor-
Gus size will, it is believed, be aoso-
lutefy indispensable. -, r
The presence of floor clerk VIII al
ford the same protection to the guess
as an insurance policy. In gigahI,c
hotel like the Commodore the dethah .iI
made upon the obliging floor CLERK VIII
be legion. For instance, promptly az
T o'clock in the morning she VIII ne ~,
at her post. and her usefulness win
begin with the day. orders lot preaA-
fast will be received, and, thanks 10 r reI
supervision, promptly executed. lug
morning paper, mail, buttons, heeule
and thread, pens, ink and stationery,
warming paper and twine-anything
and everything from the emergency
department"-will be provided through
her willing hands. In fact, the Commo-
dare floor clerks will be veritable walk
inc cyclopadias Of information con-
cepning the worlds biggest hotel. .,
Through the floor clerk railway ana
s.eamship timetables, books from the
Commodore library, magazines ana the
afro tickets will be secured; the CLERK
will summon the maid, valet, peiloo!,
Tho norter and waiter, will also receive
the doorkey when the guest goes OUT
and will hand it back when the guest
Toturns Alert to learn of any tendeh-
cv 10 illness. the floor clerks VIII DC
prepared TO have prescriptions prompt
To guests away from home, IN me-
tropolis like New York, 1t VIII De a
relief and a fortiicstion to ieel that
IN case of accident or in case OF any
disease or need of surgical or noh-sur,
oical attention every comfort anu
every care will be obtained IN scleh-
tifc vay i'm the Commodore.
Advantages of a hospital IN ths
con,modore Hotel will be many. a
oveet suddenly becoming i'll, or meet
inc with injury on the street IN Tue
obhorhood OF the hotel, viii not De
oVnoeed 10 the usual excitement ana
deiav attendant upon summonlng an
onhylance. but may be at once con-
veved 10 the hotel hospital, "neIe
cvervthing pertaining to any posSiple
emergency will be in readiness ana inc
service perfect to the last detail.
A Children's Playroom
An important feature in the hotel
iii be The children's plsyroom-a place
Of 'unalloyed JOY, where the kld1Ies
NOV, fnd innumerable fascinating play
thing The importance OF having q
oiau1oom in the Commodore is mani
tested in the fact that great many
,rar,olIers come TO New York IN the
summer and autumn TO do their sh0p-
ning II is not pleasant to take the IT.
lilo ones along the crowded tnorougu
fares of New York, so the playroonI
will afford the parents an opportuh,ey
a. Leave their children there under
proper guardianship.
The Commodore Will be so arranged
that there will be absolutely no con
oestion or crowding in any OF the nali-
ways. elevators, or. in fact, IN any part
of the hotel In this is revealed 10 a
slight degree the genius OF the arehl-
tects. Warren & Wetmore, who nave
designed many of the structural Won
ders of New York.
The Commodore will be an electrical
wander of the age. being not only
wired for electric lights, but Wlred
completely for service. In sooth; thee
building will be the last word In hotei
creation. the last white milestone on
the road of progress. IL VIII be the
r,os. comnlete, convenient and luAuri-
Gus institution ever designed. In Us
furnishings and decorations 1t VIII be
nleasing TO the most highly sensitive
I'D cultured taste.