Wichita eagle., 1888-11-22
POOR MEMS LODGINGS.
A BENEFlcENT BUSINESS SCHEME TO
BE DEVELOPED IN CHICAGO.

Tho Largest Cheap Lodging House in the
World-A Place for Those Who Are
Out at the EIbows-C1ean Beds at
Small Cost.
'The Albemarle!" How high toned and
aristocratic it sounds, indeed Visions OF
that most exclusive and expensive hostelry
of the same name in New York, and OF
other "Albemarles" in London, Paris, Berlin
and Vienna fash through ones mind But
this Chicago "Albemarlen will be Of diff
ferent kind
1t viii be nothing more nor less than a
cheap lodging house on more gigantic
scale than exists anywhere else in the world
It will accommodate 700 dodgers. But
though distinctly cheap lodging house, the
Albemarle will differ in most respects and
most radically from other cheap lodging
houses Here is a list of things which 10
cents will buy for you in the Albemarle any
time and in any part of the house:
The use Of the general parlor, reading
room and Office during the day or evening,
until you are ready to go to bed. This may
be for as many hours out of the twenty-four
there are comfortable benches with backs;
there are handsome tables; there are the
newspapers Of the day; there are don-fnoes:
there are chessboards. You may make nze
of any or all Of them without extra charge.
There is good stationery and writing ma
terial, free. You have read played few
games, smoked your pipe or cigar, written
letter or two. You wish to go to bed. You
lANN fOv>f l1a
purpose. You are assigned TO a bed UP
stairs. There are six floors. You are given
a Yale lock key, the number on which corre-
spends with the number on small clothes
press standing at the foot of your bed. Your
key will unlock this clothes press, and no
other key out of 700 will do it. You put
your hat, your necktie and collar, and what
ever other TRIES you may have about you in
a compartment at the top OF the small
wardrobe. You hang your clothes neatly
and compactly on hooks underneath, SO that
they will neither crease nor soil. You put
your shoes in the compartment below this
Then you lock your wardrobe and put the
key under your pillow or hang it around
your neck, as you choose. Your clothes are
safe from everybody's interference during
your sleep.
If you have other baggage with you
sachels or trunks or packages or parcels
you leave them in the baggage room down
stairs, which forms part OF the office, and
which is constantly kept under lock and key.
You will get a duplicate brass check, bear
ing number and the engraved name OF the
Albenarle on its surface. This will secure
your baggage. If you have other valuables-
money, jewels, watch, or important papers
about you, you may deposit them with the
clerk, who puts them into the safe and gives
you another check for them. You are as
safe this way from robbery or thieving as
you would be at the Palmer house. All this
without extra charge.
PLENTY OF PURE AIR.
Next you climb into your bed. 1t forms
the lower or the upper half Of double bed
stead Of iron. 1t affords plenty of room to
move in and plenty Of air to breathe You
will lie on a woven wire mattress, on which
reposes another mattress, filed with wool
and cotton, soft enough for tired limbs to
stretch on. There are two clean sheets
There is a soft pillow, encased in white
slip, and there is q comforter of good quality
The sheets are changed twice a week, and
oftener, if necessary. You will have no diff
ficulty in sleeping if you're tired. The ven
tilation of the room is good. In winter the
big stove in the center will be heated. TherS
is a Waterman by day and another one by
night IN care Of the six large dormitories.
This Waterman possesses two eminent quail
ties, honesty and bravery. He must be an
Al bouncer If you begin to fight wish your
neighbor; if you curse and swear and won't
desist; if you use indecent or foul language,
or persist in talking at all; if you must
smoke or chew and disobey the rules which
are displayed on the walls in type big enough
for the blind to see-if you do all or any Of
these things out you go! Within one more
twinkiing of your evening star you will find
yourself in the street. shot down the stairs
and into the cool night air by the catapult of
those two brawny arms hanging just now
peaceably by the sides of the meditative
night watchman. Therefore. beware!
However, as you're a sensible man, you
won't do anything of the kind. You will,
instead, take q good, sound snooze and wake
up refreshed next morning and willing and
able to begin the battle of life anew. You
wash yourself thoroughly. There are good
facilities for the purpose in each dormitory-
SIX marble basins, with running water, an
unlimited supply of soap, and clean, whole
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the backing brushes, of the combs, hair
brushes and clothes brushes, and you hook
respectable. Then you can so forth to your
work or to seek work, as the case may be-
The whole thing has cost you Is cents. You
will think that you've had the worth OF your
money. But you may stay another half hour
and read the papers, go out and cat your
breakfast and come back and have a smoke,
still on the strength Of that Is cents. You
may pay for your lodging by the week III
advance, in which case it will cost you 81 for
the seven days. You will save s cents, and
may leave all your baggage ard things in
safe hands, Just as you would in more ex-
pensive Boarding house or hotel
Il Is true ali this concerns only the lowly,
the men of humble means, the men who may
even be out of work and out ct elbows. But
il is nevertheless thing which works for
their good.-Chicaso Herald
Cheap Refreshment in Paris.
Paris is trying an experiment which has
lone 400 been found to answer IN Italy On