The Daily Telegram

BIGGEST HOTEL IN ALL WORLD WILL BE BUILT
By the Pennsylvania Railroad Company Opposite Its New York Passenger Station.

(SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAM)

NEW YORK, Dec. 19--Directly opposite its monumental passenger station in New York City, the Pennsylvania railroad system will begin laying the foundation for what is going to be the most gigantic hotel in the world.

The hotel will be surrounded by a net work of transportation lines which will make it the most accessible location in the city of New York, as well as the most convenient to the theaters, stores and the business district.

Hotel Pennsylvania--the name the hotel will bear--will be linked with Pennsylvania station by means of an underground passageway for the use of the patrons of the hotel and the Pennsylvania, Long Island, Southern, Seaboard Air Line, Atlantic Coast Line and Chesapeake and Ohio railroads, whose trains enter and leave the terminal daily.

The hotel will also be connected with the important express station on the Seventh Avenue subway, between Thirty-second and Thirty-fourth streets, now nearing completion, and will be in a stone's throw of the McAdoo tubes, the Sixth avenue elevated and the new Broadway subway.

With further reference to the ideal location of the Hotel Pennsylvania from the travelers' point of view, attention is called to the fact that there will be direct passenger service between Pennsylvania station and New England, via the New York Connecting Railroad Company's new East river bridge, in addition to the present service via the Pennsylvania railroad to all Long Island points, so that guests can then travel in all directions, inside or outside the city, without going from under shelter, or by taxicabs or other vehicles.

The site on which this titanic hotel is to be erected has a frontage of 200 feet on Seventh avenue and 400 feet on Thirty-second and Thirty-third streets. The structure will be set back fifteen feet with the building line of Seventh avenue to widen the street between the hotel and station. As the depot is now set back twenty-one feet along the building line of Seventh avenue, this will give a street width in front of the hotel of 136 feet, or thirty-six feet wider than Fifth avenue.

Messrs. McKim, Meade and White, the architects who designed the Pennsylvania station in New York, have prepared the plans for the hotel. The building will be constructed by the George A. Fuller Company, which firm built the Pennsylvania station. Thus harmony of design and construction with that beautiful terminal is insured.

Ample courts, exceeding forty feet in width, the longer ones facing the South, will provide sunshine and the benefits of the prevailing southerly winds to most of the rooms.

As the Pennsylvania Station does not rise above the first bedroom floor, the Hotel Pennsylvania will be exceptionally favored for sunshine and air. Provision is being made for open-air dining rooms in the summer on the roof, facing Seventh avenue and the Hudson river. Large rooms will be provided for meetings, conventions and other public gatherings.

The hotel will have twelve large passenger elevators, in one bank, all opening from one corridor; convenient and rapid room-service to all the rooms will be insured by a separate bank of nine service elevators.