THE NATIONAL.
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Cripple Creek's New Four-Story Hotel To Be Completed by June
1 at a Cost of $80,000
- A Description.
The
much-talked-of mammoth hotel for Cripple Creek is now practically
underway. Last evening at Colorado Springs the contracts for
excavating the lots at the northwest corner of Fourth and Bennett
were let, and by the first of June next this handsome monument to
the faith of certain gentlemen in Cripple Creek's stability will
be thrown open to the public.
The building
will have a frontage of 120 feet on Bennett avenue and 125 feet on
Fourth street, and will be four stories high with a basement. The
exterior will be plain pressed brick from Pueblo and the interior
of materials to make it absolutely fireproof.
In the
basement will be a Turkish bath, occupying 50x50 feet, the
equipment of which will cost $3,500. A barber shop with six chairs
will adjoin and will be handsomely fitted up at a cost of $2,000.
The hotel company's own electric light plant, two forty-horsepower
boilers for steam heat and to run the elevators, will be in
another part of the basement and the balance of the space will be
leased as store rooms.
First floor.
On the corner will be the entrance to the hotel buffet, which will
be 30x60. Off from the hotel office will be a club room 40x80
feet, surmounted by a skylight. In the lobby the Western Union and
Postal Telegraph companies will each have accommodations for the
public and a public stenographer will always be on hand. On one
side of the main entrance will be the office of a brokerage firm
and on the other a railroad ticket office. The dining room 80x40
fronts on Bennett avenue and back this the kitchen. A string band
will always be in attendance during meal time and in the hotel
lobby during the evenings. A full corps of lady waiters will
attend to the wants of the guests. The second, third and fourth
floors will be divided up into guest chambers.
There will
be forty suites with baths, on each floor will be bathrooms for
men and women, and there will be 125 rooms in all, a feature of
the numbering being that No. 13 will be eliminated. There will not
be a dark room in the entire structure, as from the roof of the
club room an area extends to the roof of the building. The cost of
the building will be $80,000.
