. City of Houston . aged by James Lawlor, who runs theGrand Central Depot Dining Hallhere, and the lunch room at RosenbergJunction, on the Santa Fe and SouthernPacific roads. He is a hotel man of many years expe-rience. He was formerly connected withthe Driskell, at Austin, Tex., the Lindelland Southern, of St. Louis, and theTremont, in Chicago, and he was proprie-tor of the Grand Central Depot DiningHall here, for three years before this hotelwas built. The Grand Central is 75 by 100 feet,and three stories high. It has twenty-eight rooms and accommodations for forty. GRAND CENTRAL
. City of Houston . aged by James Lawlor, who runs theGrand Central Depot Dining Hallhere, and the lunch room at RosenbergJunction, on the Santa Fe and SouthernPacific roads. He is a hotel man of many years expe-rience. He was formerly connected withthe Driskell, at Austin, Tex., the Lindelland Southern, of St. Louis, and theTremont, in Chicago, and he was proprie-tor of the Grand Central Depot DiningHall here, for three years before this hotelwas built. The Grand Central is 75 by 100 feet,and three stories high. It has twenty-eight rooms and accommodations for forty. GRAND CENTRAL Lawlor, Propr. SHEARN M. E. CHURCH. guests. Its rates are $ a day. Aspecial feature is made of the cuisi7ie. Mr. Lawlor is a member of the HoustonBoard of Health. The Capitol Hotel, so called becauseit occupies the site of the old Texas StateCapitol, which was once at Houston, isone of the best houses, in its appoint-ments and management, of the State. Itwas built in 1883, and neither pains normoney were spared to make it as com-plete as possible. It is situated in theheart of the city, corner of Main andTexas avenue, with street cars running byit to and from all the depots, and conven- THE CITY OF HOUSTON. 29 ent to the business center and all placesof resort. It is 125 by 185 feet ground plan, andfive stories high, has 150 sleeping rooms,and 20 commodious sample rooms for thedrummers frequenting the house. It hasbaths and toilet rooms on every floor,steam heat, electric and gas lights, andelevators—all the modern appointmentsand conveniences, in fact.
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