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The Bastian Hotel
McDonald PA
July 3, 1897
From the McDonald PA Outlook newspaper, July 3, 1897, page unknown:
The Bastian Hotel
It is on the corner East Lincoln-Arabella, McDonald, and was opened to
the public last Saturday. It is four story, with Pompeiian brick front.
Its barroom is little surpassed anywhere in the magnificence of its
appointments. $2500 (maybe $3500) was spent in the fixtures in this
room. The reception room, parlor and dining room, on the second floor,
join each other with folding doors, and are each elegantly appointed.
The dining room floor is of polished oak. An office and a sample room
are on the second floor. On the third and fourth floors are eighteen
sleeping apartments and suites of rooms. All are heated by the hot air
and water system of the house, and besides most have small gas stoves.
No bedroom has less than two windows. The bedsteads are brass. Bath
rooms and other such conveniences are at hand on every floor. Stairways
are numerous and broad. Halls, rooms and stairways are richly carpeted
in different shades of carpet.
The elevator shaft and fire escapes on the rear end of the building are
not yet in place. The view from the upper stories is most enjoyable. In
the center of town, the hotel gives a good view of the whole town.
A 20-horsepower gas engine and 180 light electric dynamo in the cellar
furnish light for the house. An automatic water heater is so arranged
that turning the water on in any part of the building puts the heater in
operation at any time without further formality. Besides city water,
water is supplied by a __ foot well in the cellar, for the baths and the
23-barrel tank on the fourth floor.
The beer vault in the basement has walls of four-inch hollow tile with a
half-inch of pitch and a brick wall outside of that. The basement has
also a complete wine cellar and other apartments. A siphon helps drain
the basement.
Mr. BASTIAN has now spent more that $200,000 on his hotel, and he is not
through with it yet. Mr. BASTIAN is a most pleasing and efficient host,
and his hotel is a remarkable one, and McDonald is proud of it.
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