and sound-proof, forms the external filling walls and internal partitions.
One enters Hamilton House through the centre of the segment facing the "Circus," coming into a pleasing and dijenified hall. Its walls are lined with travutine marble and the floor is of Italian marble terramo, Three modern automatic "Otin" Aifte have been installed, we of them eapble of lifting a net load of 2,000 pounds and serving seven floors travelling int a speed of 260 feet per minute, and the third verving 18 flora with a net load of 3,000 pounds at a "peed of 400 feet per minute. A freight ift serves all floors. ux well, The Enquiry Office, with individual letter boxes for the apartment tenants 1s situated off the main Entrance Hall. The ground floor ix ideal for banks, shipping companies and showroom generally and the first, second and third floors are all light and nity offices, The floors above, excepting the sixth, are high class, unfurnished heuwe= keeping apartments, from one to four rooms in size. Every apartment ix self-contained, has well appointed bathrooms and kitchens and in most cases, pantries, with an electric refrigerator and cooking range in all. Box rooms and built-in closets gladden the own-ora of these apartments, and in the more expensive fuits tenants may select their own odours for the interior decorations, The sixth floor ix devoted to the Metropole Hotel and ix made up of one and two roomed furnished multes, with buff walls of plastic paint, Jacobean furniture with art nen curtains and Light breakfasts and afternoon teas are served by the Metropole.
All precautions have been taken againat fre, Rmergency exits abound and the upper floors and the Tower are provided with sprinklers for protection. The build ing in centrally heated. the basement boller-room assuring plenty of hot water st any moment of the day or nlxht, The firms in Shanghai who had had part in. the boilding of this modern edifice which hes added so much to the general efficiency and beauty of the Settlement are:;—Palmer and Turner,—Architects; €. J.
Doughty and Company,—Heating wud Plumbing installation: Crittall Manufacturing Company,—Steel windows: Pilkington Bros. (China) Utda—Shop fronts and Window glass; R. I. Pelgute and Company, Painting and Decorating: Chinn Aero. crete Ca, Ltd.—Aerocrote blocks and Terrazz0 flooring; Otis Elevator Company, Lift installation; Scott, Harding & Com pany—Eleetric wiring installation and lighting fixtures; Arnholl & Ca. Ltd Locks and hantware for doors, bathroom eceessories: China Woodworking & Dry Kiln Company—Flooring and interior—wood work; American Engineering Corporation-—
Frigidaire" refrigerators; Shanghai Power Companye—"Maffat" Ejectrie Cooke Well Drilling Lid Artest Malcolm & Ca.. Langdon & Ca., and Scott, Harding—Bollers and Boiler Room equipment: Paul 1 ~Insutite flooring; Ps niture and Furnishings; B. Bertueel & Co.—Marbl work and Bronze work; Soy Chang & Cole Metal work; Duncan & Co.e-Roofing: Sin Jin Kee & CoAeneral Building content.
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