New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-09
WORKING YoMEN,s HOME.

IT, ne Editor Of The Tribune
SIR: Some things about the Home will inter-
of your readers II not designed to be-
nor is II charity 1t intended to charge such price
for board would pay the entire expenses OF conducting
IT, All boarders are required TO pay their board weekly
In advance and 80 far as the management or the Home
concerned there TO be no exceptions 10 this rule so
that 1t IL no charity than any other boarding
house. The Home has now been open for three months
aud $50 different persons have been admitted as
boarders. There il constantly family Of about 100
who have left have done account Of changes
In their business; many have found employment from
the Home So far We informed not one has left
from dissatisfaction. The louise Is not yet paying the
running expenses When II has 200 boarders IL will do
400 boarders will pay all the running expenses and
proper interest the amount paid for the building and
the experiment would fail In the difficulty that would
arise In the management OF such household From tho
sented to the family There are hours for rising and re-
firing and for meals, and these are almost the only
in stating that family can hardly be found where all the
proprees of fo are more invariably observed and at
the whole. believe there is very general satisfaction
with the accommodations The best OF food furnished
washing is but s. 25 The limited number OF boarders
yet may be accounted for in part by the stagnaon IN
in the country partly from the prejudice arising from
the suppositon that those boarding there would be re;
doubts of us ultimate success II the refinement
aud its advantages aud comforts were understood,
it would not DO long before. the Home would
surprise many that the idea should be entertained at
all that the Home be sustained by the small sum
charged for board. one party publicly proclaimed lht
could be done. We know that IL be done by the
proper arrangement In the procurement OF supplies.
What adds terribly TO the cost OF everything IN New
York Is the great number Of hands through which almost
all supplies pass before reaching the consumer To Illus
trate by the hundred bushels selling here
October at 81 IS per bushel In Vermont they could
be obtained for fifty cents from whence they could be
transported ut twelve cents and We ordered 500
bushels which should have cost us no more than about
became So early and extremely cold that would not
do put potatoes IN the cars We then purchased In
Connecticut aud the river rOZe ana the holders OF pOa
toes here threw them up 10 81 bshe aud we sent fur
Their up the Sound than Connecticut and purchased at
We purchased fine mutton from 10 So cents, best
OF poultry cents roasting beef at Is cents butter
buy cents less than II Is reaied FOR ana only one
man stands between and the miller Our baker makes
whittier and bread from flour that costs less than S2
pcr barrel than Is made from that which have
costing SIS Ready TO pay cash for all we want, and
enabled buy In large quantities. avail ourselves of
these aud even ut the present high prices the
Working WoInen's Home, IL filed would be making
money for its inmates Tor IL Is managed in their interest
FIREPRooF SHIPS FOR PASSENGERS.
To N, Edtoror The Tribune
SIR: The recent burning of the steamer Ra
leigh OFF the coast OF Carolina naturally exerted in
my mind an inquiry after Of preventing such
disasters The danger fear of fire Is perhaps the great
est terror OF the at least when vessels are far from
land The steamer which crossed the Atlantic Few
wears ago took Tire within sight OF the coast OF ireland
II is not Improbable that the President and other steam
ships haye been lost at and never heard from
were destroyed IN this would beg TO suggest 10 the
public aud " those practically interested, lha passenger