The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1926-09-17
TO BREAK GROUND FOR
NEW HOTEL OCTOBER IS
And in the Meantime Many Stockholders Have
Not Come Across With the
Promised Cash

Bids will be opened for Eliz-
abeth City's new half million
dollar community hotel at 5
o'clock Friday afternoon, Oct.
s, 1926. 1t is expected that
contract will be let at once and
ground broken for the new ho-
tel by Oct. Is. 1926.
Plans and specifications for the
hotel are in the hands of ten or
more large contractors in North
Carolina. Virginia, Maryland and
Ohio. The opening Of bids will
bring to Elizabeth City scores Of
contractors and SuhcOntractors.
The hotel corporation has been
slow in coming to the business Of
calling for bids. But this hotel COR
p0ratiOn is composed of number
Of Elizabeth City's most cOnServa
tive business men. They have stu
died the community hotel business
in many cities, have seen the mis-
takes many community hotels have |
made and they continued to tinker
with and revise the hotel plans I'M !
til they kcre sure that they had /
obtained set of plans that will |
not only satisfy the city's immedi-
ate hotel needs. but anticipate fu- |
ture growth and contingencies.
Ground Floor to Produce Much
Revenue
Much thought has been given to
The ground uoor plans and the
ground floor plans of the hotel have
been worked out to provide the
greatest possible amount of revenue
for the hotel corporation. The ga
ra-c ana filing station on POindeN-
ter 81. and the shops and offices i'll
the two-StOry arcade annex on Main
st. will bring in enough revenue to
pay for themselves and take care
of Il considerable deficit in the o.
eratiOu uf the hotel itself, should
there he a deficit in the first years
operation Of the hotel.
The Virginia Dare Hotel, rs The
new hotel is to be Known. will he
Il pretentiouS structure. 1t will be
of thoroly HI6dcrn fireproof CON
structiun thrHeut, built of steel,
cement. rough texture brick and
ornamental stone. 1t will rise nine
stories. or 40 to 120 feet above the
street and its electric lighted sign
on the roof will he welcome sign
to visitors for miles down the Pas
0uutank River and on every road
leading into the city.
There will he 100 rooms i'll the
new hotel. every room with Il bath:
some with tubs. some with showers.
SOME with both and some rooms
eqlSuitc. Provision has been made
for the addition of other rooms
when the growth Of the hotel ana
The city demand an expansion OF
the hotel.
The SumptuouS lobby ct the no.
trl will he Is feet wide and 6o feet
long. 1t will have main entrance
from McMorrine St, an arcade en-
trance from Main st. and addition
nj entrances thru the garage on
poindcxtcr st. and the hotel BAR
her shop on Fcarin. st. one may
enter the Virginia Dare Hotel from
any street on the block.
\ feature of the hotel Will be
q ball room or assembly hall ~
fort wide and 90 feet long above
rho stores en- the McMOrrine ~.
side of the hotel. 1t will be tue
scene of many a notable convention
and brilliant social event Ill the
years to GENE.
The hotel lobby will be five feet
,bove the street level. One Will
walk ND five feet into the lobby ana
walk up another five feet to the
main dining room. The dining room
will no located OH the Fearing 81
side of the hotel, 10 feet above the
street level. \ coffee shop on the
orouud floor on the McMorrlne ~.
,;da will serve those guests who
nrefer quick meal service and pop
ular priced dishes.
Backward Stockholders
The hotel corporation is expert
encing much annoyance right Ut
this time with delinquent stock
holders. Some who paid their HIST
installmcnts have failed to come up
with their second payments. SOME
haven't even made their first pay
mpnt. On account Of the dela! III
getting out the plans and speclhca-
tionS the directors of the hotel cor
nOratiOn have not pressed these de-
linguent stockholders, but now that
actual construction Is tn be start |
ed pressure will he brought to bear
and something is going to happen
Ii is mofficially stated that the d.
rpctorS will profit by the mistakes
made by other community hotels i'll
waiting on delinquent stockholders.
Give them enough time and some :
of them die. some move away ana !
others go bankrupt. Those hotels |
that have collected all stock sub
ScriptinnS have brought suits
against delinquent stockholders as !
,.,,u IL, tboy- 1nfuultn1 in their !