Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1878-06-06

The Women'a Hotel, IN NsW hotA'
projected by the late A. I. Stewart has
provsn q failure. and 10 10 be closed 10
the class Of people for whom II was
designed. and thrown open to the gen.
srai public. Tho plan Of Mr.. Stewart
10 furnish . home for the working
women Of The great city was . good me.
and had he lived 10 personally carry out
his scheme, would NO doubt have proved
sminsntly s~uccsssful. But he died BE-
fore the building was completed. and
the duty Of psrfecting and executing his
plans devolvsd upon Judge Hilton and
Mn. Stewart. To say that from the
first they plotted together TO destroy the
work which the merchant prince con-
tsmpi...d may seem unkind. but the
facts certainly justify the snsPicion.
The object Of Mr.. Stewart was. not to
provide . palace. but a home. for that
great army Of women who are forced to
earn their living in New York. He
designed 10 surround them with the
comforts Of life st . price within their
limited means. not 10 smother them
with luzuriss which would make them
feel like . peasant in an smPeror's
palace. This could have been done.
and board si the home placed 90 low
that NO vorkingvoman need have been
deprived OF it, benefits. This would
have been done had A. T. Stewart lived
TO complete the work which he had
begun.
judge Hilton and Mrs. Stewart have
made Q complete failure OF this grand
work Of bsnshcencs. They transform
Il the home" Of Stswart's concsp-
ton into . hotel rivaling in style the
Fifth Avenue and Brevoort. telephones
Of princes and millionairss. Nothing
that luxury suggested " art could fur
nish was wanting TO render elegant this
home Of the working women. When
all vas completed. the doors were thrown
open at 81 per week. and the women
who earn from 81 to - per week In
vi,sd 70 enter and be happy. Not one
in Q thousand Of the class for whom the
Home was intsnisd make enough To
pay such aprics for board. and what Is
still more significant. had every room
been taken at the proposed price. the
receipts would not have squalled the e.
psnditurss. 20 grand was the scale upon
which the house was run.
The result might have been foresssn.
and probably vas intended by Judge
Hilton and Mrs. Stewart. The working
women we're fairly frozen out Of their
homo. and only atty boardsn were
found who were able to pay the price
demanded. The experiment va . fail
urs. and now the hotel Ia to be thrown
open TO the travelling public. II 10 sit
uatsd near the Grand Central depot. Ii
the finest building Of ito kind In New
York. and will fairly coin money for its
propristors. But the grand scheme Of iis
projsotor has been killed. and the wo-
mems Hotel Of New York stands to-day
Q solemn warning 10 the benevolent
among our millionaires Of tho danger
Of delaying the execution Of their pro-
jects for the good Of humanity. Had
Mr.. Stewart begun this work earlier.
and himself opened the hotel. he would
have made ID ~succsssful. Philanthropic
men OF wealth will do We n to followths
example Of Pstor Cooper. supsrintsnd
their own charitable work. aud see that
thar aims are fulfilled. In that way
only can they b sur Of succeeding in
their dssigns.