Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-10-19
POOR MEMS LODGINGS.
A 6ENEFlCENT BUSINESS SCHEME TO
 BE DEVELOPED IN CHICAGO.

BE DEVELOPED IN. CHICAGO. The Largest Cheap Lodging House in the
 World-A Place for Those Who Are
 Out at the EIbows--CIean 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 flash through ones mind. But this Chicago "Albemarlen will be of diff ferent kind.
 It will be nothing more nor less than @ cheap lodging house on more gigantic scale than exists anywhere else in the world. It will accommodate TOO lodgers. But though distinctly cheap lodging house, the Albemarle will differ i'll most respects and most radically from other cheap lodging houses. Here is a list of things which 15 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 as you choose. There is bright gas light; there are comfortable benches with backs; there are handsome tables; there are the newspapers of the day; there are dominoes; there are cheSsboards. You may make use 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 register your name in the book kept for the purpose. You are assigned to a bed up stairs. There are six floors. You are given 6 Yale lock key, the number on which core i spends with the number on a 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 trides 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
 
 You will get duplicate brass check, bear ing a number and the engraved name of the Albemarle on it's 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. It forms the lower or the upper half of a double bed stead of iron. It affords plenty of room to move in and plenty of air to breathe. You will lie on woven wire mattress, on which reposes another mattress, filled with wool and cotton, soft enough for tired limbs to stsetch on. There are two clean sheets
 There is soft pillow, encased in a white slip, and there is 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. There , is 0 watchman by day and another one by
 night III care of the six large dormitories.
 This watchman possesses two eminent quail
 ties, honesty and bravery. He must be an { Al bouncer. If you begin to fight wi&h your neighbor; if you curse and swear and won't l 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 3 for the blind to see-if you do all any of these things out you go! Within one more Il twinkling of your evening star you will find
 yourself in the street. shot down the SSa1Ts
 and into the cool night air by the catapult oi . those two brawny arms hanging just now ; peaceably by the sides of the metftative ' night watchman. Therefore, beware! ' However, as you're a sensible man, you
 won't do anything of the kind. You will
 instead, take a good, sound snooze and wake
 up refreshed next morning and willing and
 able to begin the battle of life anew. Xou
 wash yourself thoroughly. There are good facilities for the purpose ill each dormitory- six marble basins, with running water, an u unlimited supply of soap, and clean, whole < some towels Next you have the free use oi < the backing brushes, of the combs, hail 0 brushes and clothes brushes, and you look s respectable. Then you can go forth to youl ,, work, or to seek work, as the case may be
 The whole thing has cost you 15 cents. You . will think that you've had the worth of youl ;;' money. But you may stay another half houl F. and read the papers, go out and eat youl 8 breakfast and come back and have a smoke t still on the strength of that 15 cents. You II may pay for your lodging by the week ir 4 advance, in which case it will cost you $1 fo,
 the seven days. You will save cents, and
 may leave oil your baggage and things ir h safe hands, just as you would fin more ex 3 pensive Boarding house or hotel.
 F. It is true ali this concerns only the lowly II the men of humble means, the men who may even be out of work and out at elbows. But Ii it is nevertheless a thing which works foi @ their good.-Chicago Herald
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