JO Tailyho, 



quarters selecting tlie "\¥liite Lion, and tliose who 

 desire more style and elegance in their apartments 

 and cuisine taking up their abode at the Grand Pump 

 Room Hotel^ which is deserving of especial notice by 

 reason of its connection with the baths, erected at a 

 great expense by the Corporation, and which are the 

 most elaborate and best arranged that I have ever 

 seen. The hotel is built on the site of the old White 

 Hart — see the ' Pickwick Papers ' — the great 

 coaching-house of fifty years since, facing the beauti- 

 ful Abbey, and midway between the Great Western 

 and Midland stations, it makes up seventy beds, and 

 is replete with every comfort and convenience. Its 

 chief importance, however, arises from the fact of its 

 opening direct into the grand suite of baths ; visitors 

 are conveyed by a lift from the hotel, or, in the case 

 of invalids, by bath chairs, and facility is given for the 

 enjoyment of whatever style you may prefer — the 

 ordinary warm, the douche, sitzbath, etc., and those 

 specially provided for medical treatment. So com- 

 plete are the arrangements that, if necessary, invalids 

 are placed in comfortable wooden chairs, and lowered 

 or raised by strong cranes into the baths, an arrange- 

 ment I have never seen anywhere else. In addition, 

 there is a large swimming-bath, the water being in all 

 cases the natural mineral water for which Bath has so 

 long been celebrated, and which rises from the 

 springs at temperatures varying from 104 to 120 deg. 

 F., its principal constituents being calcium, mao-. 

 nesium, potassium, and sodium. The Grand Hotel is 

 now under the management of Mr. Kadway, who re- 

 signed his appointment of manager of the Midland 

 Station in Bath, in order to develope the business of 



