More Salvationist Enterprise

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 12, 9 October 1907, Page 2

More Salvationist Enterprise

PLANS FOR A MODERN HOTEL. ' NEW CITADEL FOR SOUTH ' WELLINGTON. \ The Salvation Army in Wellington j will soon be actively engaged in the hotel business —temperance hotel business, of course.' The model hotel to be erected forthwith on the site of \ the old Paulina Homo, in Cuba Street, will provide accommodation for about two hundred and fifty ■ lodgers, and three hundred people will be able to sit down to dinner at one timo in the main dining-room. From a shilling bod to a suito of rooms, every require- , mont of the travelling public will be ' supplied at the " People's Palace" .'. Hotel, strictly;'at curront rates. The idea is that, in hotel manage- j mont thero is profit, and this profit will be entirely devoted to the upkeep of tho. Workers' Hotel, whero one may have a meal for -cutting sticks, and others of tho, ArmyVchaHtable institutions, which' cannot bo self-support-" ing. Tlionian who'can afford to pay for his comfortable' bed and breakfast will help ■to buy the . bed and • breakfast of the indigent in other institutions, who arc, without the wherewithal. And it will servo another purpose. There are hundreds bf peoplo now who treat the Army as though it were a great accommodation bureau. It is always -being asked to find lodgings for strangers, who are desperately afraid of : falling among thieves if thrown on their own ignorant resources. It will be convenient for the Army to have quarters of its own for tho safe-keeping of such ,timid travellers, and also, for its own people when they arb. making journeys. There is already . a Salvationist hotel in Auckland, but no experiment on the present scale has been tried hitherto in New Zealand, though tho Army has very' largo ; hotels in Sydney and Melbourne. Outlay of £10,000. , Tho sura of £10,000 will bo spent ; ; on tho Wellington building, of which a Dominion representative saw tho j plans yesterday. Tho structure will , ; be of brick, in three stories, with sis < shops for letting on the ground floor, •> in front, and a big basement* underneath. The front of the building mil be relieved with stucco work, and tho projecting windows decorated with embossed work. . The hotel will havo ' a frontage of 100 ft. and a depth of about 130 ft. On the ground floor a hall, 10ft. wide, will lead into the main dining-room, 56ft. by 36ft., containing thirty tables'.- On one sido of tho largo corridor will be a sitting and ) reading-room, 21ft. by 19ft., and ladies' room, and on the other side ' j a smoking-room, private dining-room, , serving-room, and kitchen, 24ft. squaro, equipped with the most modem appliances. Tho two upper floors • i will be exactly the same, each con- ■ taining sixteen double and single rooms in front leading to the balconies, and twenty-eight smpla ' rooms with bathrooms at the' back. ; About threo quarters of a million bricks will bo required for the build- < iug. ' Tho most modern appliances for ; ventilation and sanitation purposes will be provided. . Already Mr. F. Fox, Foreman of x.: Works, has arrived with the plans, j and tho full number of workmen was , engaged vesterday dismantling the old , Paulina Homo to make room for the ; new. building. ■>. . i The Now Citadel. i The Army's new citadel for South Wellington will bo in. course of oreo- | tion at tho same time as the "People's < Palace." Colonel Saunders,. Army , Architect, is expected to iirrivo with the plans in about a week's time, and I work will bo commenced immediately thereafter. . ■