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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ness of this hotel is given by the statementthat, located on the ground floor and opening into the Grand.\triuni. arc the West Baden National Bank, a dnig store, a fur-nishing goods store, a barber shop and a <lepot for oriental goods. of.the associations, and these, as well as the Atrium, are offered tothe Association free of cost. TRANSPORTATION. West Baden is reached by tlic Monon Route, which has, bymeans of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, Cincinnati, Hamilton& Dayton, Big Four, and Pennjiylvania lines, direct connectionswith Chicago, Louisville, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Indianapolis. Aspur from the Monon runs direct to the entrance of the hotel on oneside, and on the other is the track of the French Lick & WestBaden R. R., the electric railway connecting West Baden withFrench Lick, one mile distant. These railroads offer the best offacilities for reaching the exhibit hall with a minimum amount oftrucking, and also afford desirable space for the display of cars,
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1;.\T1I K^.lo.^I^ .\.\l) N.\T.\ToklL .\I. The rates vary from $3 to $5 per day, American plan. The $5rate is for the inost desirable rooms, those having bath tubs. When$5 rooms are occupied by two persons the rate is I4 each per day. It should be mentioned that every room in the house fronts uponthe exterior of the building or upon the interior court. The latterrooms are in every respect as desirable as the others, perfect venti-lation making choice a matter of indifference. Besides the West Baden Springs Hotel there are a number ofother hotels in West Baden, which in the aggregate can accommo-date 1.000 persons. HALL FOR EXHIBITS. .•\t no former convention of the .\ssocia(ions has there been avail-able a hall for exhibits that can be favorably compared, in point ofavailable area of floor space or in architectural appearance, withthe Grand Atrium. The base of the glass dome covering this is80 ft. above the floor, resting upon 24 columns spaced at equal inter-vals about the circular

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