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��what it should be, — the social piv^ot for the Quests, rather than the gathering- l)lace of a country tavern. On the opposite side of the corridor is that room of doubtful use, always dubbed ' gentlemen's reading-room.' The office, a wide, airy room, is made conspicuous by its open brick fireplace and and- irons, and its tall clock, which doesn't stand half-way up stairs, but right at their foot. A few desirable rooms for transients, a private dining-room, and the large dining-hall, occupy the bal- ance of the ground-floor. The dining- room, which extends across the entire

��to which the small tables with liandsome table-linen and perfect appointments add. The serving-room opens directly from one corner of this room, and a stairway leads thence into the kitchen. All the modern appliances for quick and good service are employed.

"The basement is occupied by the nurses' dining-room, billiard-room, bar- ber-shop, kitchen, dish-washing room, help's dining-room, closets, storerooms, ice-house, larder, and, in fact, all the machinery of a first-class city hotel, including that for generating gas. All the best appliances for keeping provis-

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��breadth of the building, and is entered ions, cooking and serving them, are

by double doors at the end of the hall, there.

has large windows on three sides, each " One of the most delightful things

of which commands a view as truly in the hotel is its hallways : they are

rural as if spread before the dairy-win- broad as rooms, well lighted, and car-

dow of a farmhouse. Two open fire- peted tastefully, with open fireplaces

places give the room an air of elegance, and chandeliers. The chambers are all

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