Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1919 — “Earthquake Proof" Hotels. [ARTICLE]

“Earthquake Proof" Hotels.

A chain of ‘‘earthquake proof" hotels, sufficiently magnificent to win the approval of fastidious Sduth Americans, is to be constructed immediately by the United Hotels company, wldch already operates many hostelries on this half of the continent. Sites in seven countries —Chili, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay! Paraguay. Bolivia and CoIdinbia—have been selected, and the first hotel—palatial, to judge from the architect’s drawing —will be built at Lima, at a cost of $2,000,000. Tills is one of the largest projects ever undertaken by a hotel syndicate, and both the United States government and the South American governments Interested will afford co-operation. The hotel at Lima will be one of re-enforced concrete, supported by enormous cement foundations, capable, the company believes, of offering good resistance to the disturbances of the earth's surface to be expected in those regions.—New Ydrk Evening Post.