Rock Island daily Argus., 1888-10-22
POOR MEMS LODGINGS.
A sENEFlCENT BUSINESS SCHEME TO
BE DEVELOPED IN CHICAGO.

Worid-A Place for Those Who Are
Out at the EIbous--Ciean Beds at
Small Cost.
''The Albemarleln 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 "Albemarle" will be Of a diff
ferent kind.
1t will be nothing more nor less than a
cheap lodging house on more gigantic
scale than exists anywhere else in the world.
1t will accommodate 100 dodgers. But
though distinctly a 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 Is
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 20 to bed This NAV
be for as many hours out of the twenty-four
as you choose. There is bright gas light:
there are handsome tables; there are the
newspapers of the day; there are dominoes;
there are chesSboards You may make use
of any or ali 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 60 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
Yale lock key, the number on which CORE
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 1O0 will do it, You put
your hat, your necktie and collar, and what
ever other trifles you may have about you in
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 duplicate brass check, bear
ing number and the engraved name OF the
Albemarle 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. It 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 soft pillow, encased in white
slip, and there is comforter of good quality.
| The sheets are changed twice a week, and
| oftener, il necessary. You will have no diff
| ticulty 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 watchman by day and another one by
| night IN 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
neighbo-; if You curse and swear and won't
| t1ca ipIannr,t foul lon
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 self you do all or any OF
| these things out you go! Within one more
twinkiing of your evening star you will finG
yourself in the street, shot down the Stair
and into the cool night an by the catapult o
those two brawny arms hanging just now
peaceably by the sides of the meditatiy.
night watchman. Therefore, bewarel
However, as you're a sensible man, you
won't do anything OF the kind. You will
instead take i good, sound snooze and walk
up refreshed next morning and willing anC
able TO begin the battle OF Ete anew. Yol
wash yourself thoroughly There are goot
facilities for the purpose in each dormitory-
SIX marble basins, with running water, al
unlimited supply of soap, and clean, whole
some towels Next you have the free use o
the blacking brushes, OF the combs, hail
brushes and clothes brushes, and you looi
respectable Then you can so forth to you
work. or to seek WORK, as the case may be
The whole thing mas cost you 10 cents. Yol
will think that you've had the worth Of you
money, But you may stay another half hou
and read the papers, 60 out and eat you
breakfast and come back and have smoke
still on the strength of that Is cents Yol
may pay for your lodging by the week il
advance, in which case it will cost you 81 TO
the seven days. You will save cents, an,
may leave all your baggage and things il
safe hands, Just as you would in more e1
pensive Boarding house or hotel
It is true all this concerns only the lowly
the men OF humble means, the men who ma
even be out of work and out at elbows Bu
it is nevertheless thing which works 70
their good.-Chicago Herald.