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Show I room. It will be 200 by 100 feet iu size and fifty feet high, the roof being supported by natural trees, with trunks four feet in diameter, and their branches and foliage untouched. Between Be-tween these trees, on all four sides, the walls of the rotunda wITJ be made of plate glass extending from the Hoor to the ceilings, and it will be set between be-tween the tree's trunk and the branches so that the effect will be tho same as looking into a forest. "A unique feature of the exterior will be Immense columns of rock, Irregular Ir-regular in shape and height, rising at the corners of the rotunda and tho wings of tho hotel. This will make the front look as if the building had been erected between massive ledges and the idea will be carried out along I the entire facade " A concession has been given for a new $500,000 hotel in the Valley of the Yoscmlte. NEW HOTELS FOR ' YELLOWSTONE PARK ONE STRUCTURE IS TO BE 700 BY 160 FEET.. 'Vlll Be Three Time Larger. Than Largest Hotel Now In the 1 Park 500 Rooms. Chicago, Feb. 23 Many Improvements Improve-ments are, planned for the national fcarks, Including hotels in the, Yellowstone Yellow-stone and In the Yosemlte, says W, Curtis in a special dispatch In the Record-Herald today from Washington. Washing-ton. - "In Yellowstone park the new hotel 111 be 700 feet long and ICO feet wide, ith an Irregular height of tlnoe and .four and five stories. The contract calls for 500 rooms with - 20n. balhn, electric llRht, steam heat and all nitnl-fn nitnl-fn luxuries. Tlie hotel will be throo 'brieR larger than the largest now, in that section of the c-onnlry. Tho chief featuio wlll he a mitral n.tun.la, with r balconlca fur an office aud a luunslni |