"Guardian" Office.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8831, 6 May 1914, Page 6

"Guardian" Office.

May 6, 1914

Liverpool is a-city of big thingsbig ships, big industries, and big buildings—and it has run up in record time what it modestly describes as "the most palatial hotel in the world." The Midland Railway Convpany has discovered a new public at Liverpool, partly British, partly American, and a few weeks ago it opened the new Midland Adelphi Hotel, a towering white ...building -in the heart of the city. The hotel is sound-proof. The rumbling, of great lorries over cobblestones, and the eternal jar of the trams, cannot penetrate past the folding-doors at the entrance hall. Thore is a business cafe for the commercial ■ man, and without stirring outside the hotel anyone can have a swim, play lawn tennis, racquets, practise marksmanship in the "shooting gallery, take a quiet stroll round the fountain court, or have a' Turkish bath. It is possible to lie In bed and ring up Pans or Berlin. The most conspicuous modern building in the heart of Liverpool, the hotel combines the .ingenuity of an American skyscraper with, solid British comfort and .quiet. From the upper windows you get. aai airman's view of the world; the eye wanders wohderihgly over two estuaries of the sea, and ;is arrested by the purple outline,of the Welsh mountains: The cleverest designers and engineers, the most resourceful electricians, and nearly all the West End furnishing geniuses, have helped to build this wonder hotel: The' rooms'are gorgeous and furnished in every conceivable style— early English,"'- eighteenth century, - Xouis' XV:, ; modern French, etc. Them? are Chinese carpets, and one of the biggest hand-made carpets in existencerests on the floor of. the glittering'entrance .hqiL Every'bedroom is a sort of-suite by itself, with a bathToom attached, as it were. One room is modelled, in shape and colour, after 'Napoleon's study at Fountainebleau.