Identifier: streetrailwayrev14amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ociations arc thehotel accommodations, a hall that will be suitable for exhibit.!, andthe transportation facilities. In all these particulars it would bedifficult to find a place which surpasses thq West Baden SpringsHotel. The Springs arc situated in a beautiful vallo in Orange County,Ind., and are readily accessible from the principal railroad centersof the country, being reached by the Monon from Chicago andLouisville; by the Baltimore & Ohio Soutlnvcslern and the Momm brick and concrete on a foundation of .solid rock, and no wood,excepting the doors and window casings, enters into the con-struction. The hotel building proper covers nearly five acres, and is octagonalin shape, surrounding a circular court 200 ft. in diameter. Thebuilding is si.x stories high and contains 708 guest rooms, all ofwhich have telephone connections and basins with hot and coldwater. All of the rooms excepting 30 are provided with toilets,and 150 of them have batli tub* in addition. The central court.
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l.RAND .\TRILM, 200 FT. IX DIAMETER—THE EXHIBIT IIALI,. from Cincinnati and St. Louis, and by the C, H. & D., Big Fourand Pennsylvania, in connection with the Monon, from Indianapolis.The first mention of the Springs is made in the memoirs of Gen.George Rogers Clark concerning the Kaskaskia and Vincennes ex-pedition in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and since 1840they have been a celebrated health resort. While through theefforts of the present proprietor, Hon. Lee W. Sinclair, who hashad control of this property since 1888, West Baden Springs havebecome one of the best-known spas in the country, this feature ofthe Springs is of minor importance in connection with the railway which is known as the Grand Atrium, is covered by a domewhich is 135 ft. high at the center. Some idea of the magnitudeof this dome may be had when it is said that it is larger than thatof the Capitol at Washington. In addition to the guest rooms,which easily provide accommodations for fourteen

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