Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-04-08
A GREAT BENlEFACTE0N.
Hotels for working Men and
Women.

A. r. Stewart, of New York, is about
! to expend ak millions OF dollars In build
ing two immense hotels for working
young women and young men. Con
tracts for the same have been entered
into. The Herald gives q lengthy de-
seription of this great enterprise, fro a
which We make the following extracts
FUTURE HOTEL LIFE OF THE INMATES.
It is the intention and expectation OF
Mr.. Stewart TO have the building finished
and ready for occupancy within year.
The ground has already been broken, all
ths material has been bought, all the
contracts for building have been made,
and the work will be pushed forward to
completion with all possible speed. A
pleasing prospective picture is this future
| life of its inmates. All the comforts and
elegant luxuries of q first class hotel are
enjoyed, and hotel not only one Of the
| finest but most cOmmO0iOus on the Con-
| tinent. Except the double rooms to be
occupied by two sisters, as stated above,
each will have room 70 herself, and, as
shown in the description of the building,
Of good SIZE, finely furnished and we'll
ventilated and heated when required.
! There are servants to walt on every one
and to take care of the rooms. There is
the lsuadry for washing, to which all
clothes to be washed are sent, with the
lists and names, and as quickly returned
as al our largest hotels. There is the
dining hall, spacious and beautifully or
namented, where dishes are served q Ia
carte, enabling the inmates to graduate
their meals in respect to cost to their in
clinatiOns or means. There is the draw
ing room, in which to meet for social
converse, or to receive the calls of lady
friends, or to hear music, for there will
always be q piano here, and doubtless al
ways accomplished end willing players.
There is the reading room, which will be
| furnished with the daily papers and lead
ing periodicals, and the library richly
stored with judicious selection of stand
ard works. There is the lecture room,
for further intellectual enjoyment, and
there ars the bathrooms, those important
suxiIisries to health, and the spacious in
! terror hollow square paved with marble
aud having q fountain in the center,
whose falling waters will be murmCring
music Of delicious sweetness. There
will be an squsris, revealing in miBia-
ture the mysteries Of the wonjrous world
Of waters, and singing birds djffusing an
inspiration of joy by their native wood
notes Wild" and flowers filing the air
Will l4trEl DhiAAAg OAC6bhs W Aa0 q OOL-
trRst, this, to that cad human lie OF our
working young women in cheap board
ing houses and amid the crowded and
erased communities OF our tenement
abodes. And yet these young women
pay no more for all these comforts and
enjOyments than they paid bsfore, and
probably not half as much. No more
worthy charity, none productive OF bet
ter fruits and carrying with it such inn
mortality OF glorious reward could be
devised.
SIMILAR HOTEL FOR YOUNG MEN.
Mr.. Stewards generosity is not to stop
with the hotel for working young women.
He proposes to build a similar hotel for
young men, upon like large and liberal
scale. This further field for giving ex
preston 10 his benevolent impulses is al
most as i'm lportant and the benefits to be
conferred upon EeritOri0us young men
employed as CLERKS in our stores, bank
ing houses and the like will be as salu-
tary, as permanent and as widely appre:
ciated. Here is the practical philan.
thr0py of living, practical, earnest
man. He Sc, zss hold Of the present. He
erects his own monument while living.
He can say, as says his own fav0fite
Latin poet: Eregi momentum DeTeRr1ias
Sre-sDd what q monument il is; how
grand in its concsp ion &,how colossal in
its execution how beneffcent in its re-
suits This monument will be imper-
ishRble. Tdess two great charities will
through coming ages be the theme of the
worlds wonder aud admiration. These
buildings, ttHautspoksn embOdim snt of
his large aud purs and Christian benev-
olence, will ba-
Spared and blest by time,
Looking TRANQUILITY while fails OF mods
Arch, empire, each thing round them.
What triumphant rsfutattou these
mag1ifice 1t and unparalleled charities to
the Widespread belief and frequsTft ssser-
ton that Mr.. Stewart only knew how to
make money and to keep it! He is now
proving to the world how little it has
known OF hiH, and that his life, though
devoted to mOney-making, in which he
has been more successful than any man
living, has hsd for him further and
higher and nobleT purpose that be is
endowed with aspirations reaching be-
yond himself, that through the long
years of his succ 5ssf1l mercantile career
he has been meditating some great be-
aev0lent scheme, and that his life ener-
gies, OF which we are now just beginning
to see the fruit, nave been 'brsvely devo.
ted to grand and benefcent aims.