A SAN FRANCISCO HOTEL.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 696, 11 August 1870, Page 3

A SAN FRANCISCO HOTEL.

The Grand Hotel of San Francisco is 335 feet in length, by 206 feet in depth. Ifc contains 400 rooms, and will accommodate GOO guests. The hotel is a complete frame building, surrounded by brick walls. The frame is of heavy timber, bolted, braced, and strapped together with massive iron bolts, bars, and anchors, attaining a strength almost rivalling that of a ship. To this frame the brick walls are appropriately fastened. But, should the city ever be visited by an earthquake so destructive as to throw down these brick walls, they must needs fall outward, and will leave standing the skeleton of the Grand Hotel, with its roof and floors unmoved. A description of the hotel is given in the " Californian Advertiser," which is unique as a specimen of barefaced busine.-s-puffing. Referring to the furniture of the rooms on the lower storey, the writer in the " Advertiser " says :—" Some of them are furnished with a luxury and costliness which subdue the soul of the beholder to an atdtude of apologetic respectfulness. Carpets (Axminster), to which one instinctively removes his hat and treads daintily as upon eggs ; silk-covered furniture, to whom one is impelled to make a deprecatory obeisance before sitting 'upon him (sic) ; mirrors, mounted on rich frames, into which one gazes with an expression of humility not usual when he looks into mirrors, and as who should say—- ' Pardon ! I hope I don't intrude ;' in brief, entire suites of furniture of a quality which it is not our customary privilege to look upon."