Show East Side Hotel I There is en ughof the East Side hotel above ground for the t isitor to judge of the I substantial character of the work and the I magnitude of the building The massive cutstone piers heavy iron columns and powerful steel beams all betoken strength and durability There are four small rooms on the State road well adapted for shops and tines Third South that much more on are m larger A convenient arrangement is the placing of the ladies entrance alongside the main entrance and providing a small waiting room for the ladies at the foot of the elevator ele-vator The feature of the hotel will be the rotunda surrounded by balcony where the guests can lounge or promenade with full view of the movements move-ments Join on on the first floor of the rotunda The private office will be a very cozy little apartment and the reading room will be a cheerful as it can be made being supplied with DrOPla and skylights J The billiard room is quite large and the room intended for the barber shop on the first floor facing on Third South will make Jino tonsorial palace The dining room is on the second floor and will be 15x92 with commodious ordinary and committee room besides Tho huge steel beams that span the dining room are the largest ever rolled in one continuous piece In this country being the first made by the Carnegie works of that dimension The boxgirders to carry the floor weigh five and onehalf tons each The building will be six stories high and contain 250 rooms Wendell Benson who is superintending the work is very well satisfied with the way the work is progressing and invited THE HERALD to attend the opening on the 1st day of May |