A MONSTER HOTEL.

Evening Star, Issue 3849, 25 June 1875, Page 3

A MONSTER HOTEL.

The following particulars of the monster hotel now in course- of erection at San Francisco are given by a contemporary. It is to be seven stories The rooms on the first floor are 25ft.in height, audit contains a barbers shop, a ball-room, three inner courts to afford light and ventillation, the centre one being 144 ft by 84ft • it has a carriage drive of 18ft in width encompassed by a marble tiled promenade, a magnificent garden, a baud100m and a special band, innumerable verandahs, a smoking and reading-room a breakfast-room 110 ft by 55ft, and dining-room 150 by 55ft, ladies’ draw-ing-rooms and suites, so arranged that patrons may have any number of connected apartments they like. Al’i outer rooms have bay window/* of which there are 348, every room a place and a clothes closet, and to Y ery

two rooms there will be a bath and toilet-room. The chances of fire are guarded against by all walls and partitions being built of stone and brick laid in cement, and banded with iron ; the staircases are of iron; and there are four wells in addition to the little waterhole in the garden, the holding capacity of which is 675,000 gallons. There are also steam engines and rotary pumps to force the water to every floor, nnd a supply of 21,000 ft of hose, under the protection of which the most nervous of old maids should sleep soundly. In this little “ guests crib ” there are exactly 755 rooms, the smallest of which is 16fb by 16ft, and to cleanse the outer man, woman, and child there are 377 bath-rooms. “The Palace” is 350 ft in length by 275 ft in breadth, covering 96,250 square feet of land, and it is confidently expected that as soon as it is completed, in July next, and they have had a good look at it, the San Franciscans will set about designing and erecting a really large hotel. Of course all the latest improvements, gas-stoves, elevators, and steam pipes throughout, will be found in it. Mr Warren Leland will be the first leasee, and Messrs C. Palson and the Hon. William Sharon have the privilege of finding the cash. It seems a pity that it cannot be transferred bodily to the Exhibition at Philadelphia, and there exhibited as a specimen of architectural bijouterie.