The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-30
CHEAP BEDS AND BOARD.
Chances nj the Lowcr-Priccd Restaurants
md Lodging Houses OF II City.

Look into the biggest lodging-house
in the Bowcry, says New York letter.
It is on corner below Grand street. The |
rooms are let for twenty-five cents n
night. You enter at the end of the build
ing on the side street and at the head OF
the stairs como to little window Mt
which the quarter dollars of the GUS
toners are exchanged for the keys OF
the rooms. The keys which have num-
bercd bits of brass attached to them,
serve Ms tickets of admission at the door
further along. The clearinghouse con-
sists of two floors, each rs big rs the in
terror Of an extra large Broadway store.
1t presents to the eye of the visitor
number of narrow passage ways leading
between partitions only seven feet high.
The ceilings are seven or eight feet above
these partitions. Seven feet apart along
these passage ways are doors opening into
the little box-likc rooms. The walls and
doors are white and clean. There is a
faint smell of carbolic acid in the air.
Each tiny bedroom is furnished with one
chair, n cot, three clothes hooks, n bowl,
pitcher and three-legged iron wash
stand. The pillow and sheet on each
bed are white. the blue counterpart
looks neat, and the walls are white and
clean. The floor is bare. Here and
there are TO be seen rooms wherein cheap
chromos are pinned upon the board
walls. Their presence show that the
room is hired by the week, but If you
look for trunk or satchel belonging to
the tenant you are apt to be disappointed
nine times in ten.
On the first floor of this and all the
other big lodging-houses large space in
front of the rows of bedrooms is fitted
M as q lounging and reading room.
| These are the rooms passengers on the
elevated railroads notice all along the
main avenues down town, where are al
WAYS to be seen many young men with
their feet ND and their chairs tilted back,
smoking, reading or looking out upon
the street. Each room has a big table,
and the newspapers, pens, ink and
checke,boards on these tables show how
the dodgers may spend that spare time
which most of them possess In abuDd-
ance.
In some of the ten-cent houses the
beds are not separated by partitions.
They are arranged in rows in big rooms,
Just rs hospital cots are. Each lodger
hangs his clothes on the chair by his
bedside. A Waterman stands guard ovei
the pockets and property of the sleepers'
The biggest five-cent clearinghouse II
New York is the old colored grammar
school building in Thompson street. II
is an exaggerated ships steerage, Of
rather three steerages one above another
The walls of the former class rooms have
been removed, and each spacious floor il
now nm immense room filled with double
! hunks built close together. The bunk
, ore heavy wooden frames, and look ik
one kitchen table set on top of another
They are two feet apart. There ar
eighty on ninety Of these frames on tn
j first floor, the only one the reporte
: visited. N o women are admitted to thes
o places. The floor had been scrubbed an
!, the walls were clean. Each lodger get
1t n he'd TO himself under cover in heatee
r. room The place suggested catacomt
j. Int the price was only I've cents.
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