A Big Hotel.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 269, 24 November 1874, Page 7

A Big Hotel.

The latest American progress in building will be the Mammoth Hotel, soon to be erected in Chicago. This enormous hotel is to have a frontage of three English miles, and a depth of six miles. The height of seventy-seven stories will measure 3,480 feet from the ground floor to the roof. The hotel will have no stairs, but five hundred balloons will always be ready to take visitors up to their rooms. No room-waiters are to be employed, but visitors will be* served by a newly-invented automatic, put up in every bed-room, which will do all the shaving, shampooing, <ka, for the guests—a very simple and ingenious mechanism. Supposing the guest requires hot water, the automatic will be able to call down stairs, “ A bucket of hot water up to room number one million three thousand one-hun-dred and seven !" and the water will be up in seven seconds by the patent elevator. One half hour before the table d’hote, instead of the ringing of bells, a gun (24pounder) will be fired on each floor to call the guests to get ready for their meals. The tables in the dining-room will measure four miles each, attendance to be performed by twelve waiters on horseback on either side of the table. Music during table d’hote will be played gratis by eight bands of seventy-seven men each. For the convenience of visitors a railway will be built on each floor, as well as telegraphic otnces. The price of one bed-room will be from one to ten dollars. The cost of this building is estimated to be 680,000,000 dollars. The billiard-room will contain nine hundred American, ninety-nine French, and one English table ; and most of the visitors are expected to be American. The billiardroom will be fitted out with a spittoon of one hundred feet in circumference.