Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-08-29

nrst class hotel is the most SUBLIME anu
the people are finding it out. There are
thousands, of nice, neat, cOmfortaoie NO.
tells in the city at which man may i've
nicely on $3.50 or $500 per day-b'ti tier'
IN fact, than he does at the fashionaOle
ones at To $40. And then ii is such d
comfort 10 have landlord who really Is
pleased al your Patronage, to be in thF
hands ofclerks and walters who recognize
the FACTS that guests have sOme rights
and when, you have paid for your
accommodations, you are not expec'eu ~
pay over again for having them brought
to you. Avoid'ye the big hotels II y
not disrepulable now to pay only SS.'O
per day for board, as it was during 'ne
war. The wealthiest and best men may
be found at these cheap but good cara
vansaries.
The WEATHER
is. once more frightful. The thermometer
goes up TO 100 deg. without any speclal
effort, and there is a dull heaviness In the
air that is terrible. 100 deg. in the shade
means more here than il does anywhere
else. The high buildings, the stone paw
ed streets, the filth that makes some quar-
tiers unendurable-all conspire to make
hot weather a terror. Heavens / as
write, with hot blasts coming in my Win
dow, how 1 sigh for green fields and
babling brooks. Anything but great
city in summer. No wonder that every
body gets away who can.
FREE TRAINING SCHOOL FOR WOMEN.
The vexed servant gar' question. is in a
fair way of being settled in our large cit
les in the only way possible, by the natu-
raj working of selfintertest on the part
of employers and employed. Several
women of education and experience in
affairs, finding themselves in want of an
assured position in the world, and the
world very much in want of clean col
lars and decent dinners, determined 10
exert their skill in this direction for the
good of the public, and to reap the bene-
fit Instead of haunting the Congressman
of their district for clerkshIp at WASH
ington, or piling vile manuscripts on the
hands of a patient editor, without a
thought even of giving readings in pub
lie, which the world very well knows any
graduate ofa grammar school is compe-
tent TO do at $50 night for five nights
ina week, these ladies in question:
whose abilities in other and more eligible
directions were well proved, in the quiet
es. way opened training school, for girls
who wanted work in good families.
When it started a year and half ago
it was only to teach sewing in the incest
way, and occupied rooms over Wheeler
s. Wilson's Sewing Machine depot. In
accordance with the original idea, the
scheme was extended, and last spring the
high school was removed TO large house
in Tenth street, where various de-
departments are now in full operation
There is nothing about the place but the
brightly lettered Esigns to distinguish 1t
| from the old residence in Brevoort Place,
as the dwellers like to call the long block
from University Place 10 Broadway. The
hall door stands open into suit of large
parlors scrupulously kept, where smil-
ing lady at a light desk receives lady
visitors looking for help and applicants
for training, as well as orders for work
in various branches filled by the house
Instead OF wearing the air of an intelli.
gence Office, it is place acceptable for
ladies to enter. A large piano, pictures
and a well-filled bookcase are its re-
sources for evening when 1t is open as 9
free reading room for women, so thai
working girls of any class may feel that
they have place to spend their evenings
with as good right as men have in the
club-rooms or saloons.
The basement has the large guilt sign
"Women's Tea Room" and the well-kep
entrance, the cool, spotless, shady interi
or, the polished plate windows carefully
screened with muslin shades, the excel.
lent order OF the bronze burners and
globes in the windows, give it precisely
the inviting air of the best private res
taurants. Here the visitor finds snow y
table, with clear glasses, an accurately
cooked chop, and cups of faultless coffee
or charming tea. Here, every mo rning
from half past six to half past seven
working girls find a generous cup of coi.
fee and bread enough for their breakfast
at charge of five cents. This food, for
nice quality, is a very grateful provision
for a class of shop girls who find lodg-
ings in tenement houses at the rate of 10
cents per night, and haYe no other way
of finding meals, unless they poison them
selves with the nauseous compounds of
low eating saloons, where the influences
are of the worst description. With the
building is connected a laundry. where
nice work is done at the lowest prices in
the city This is made a success by the
very reasonable step of charging accord
ing to the work done, at the rate of fifty
cents per dozen for small pieces and
dollar for large ones. The establishment
is well patronized, and both, laundry and
restaurant are designed from the start to
be sslf-supportiug. There is no reason
why a business plan so much needed
should not be successful, and I have men,
toned this somewhat in detail, as similar
establishments are sure 10 be open in all
towns of any size. The free reading
rooms receives the support of dozen OF
more wealthy and benevolent women,
among whom Mrs. Sheridan Shocks
name is prominent, as it is sure to be in
uch kindly enterprises. A concert is to
be given at Long Branch tomorrow, un-
der the patronage of distinguished ladies,
in aid of this institution. The intention
is, by fall, TO add department for train
ing cooks, under the charge of a French
Chef, where not only servants can be fitted
for the entire range of a cooks duty, but
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