Wichita eagle., 1888-10-18
BOSTON STORE.
A TRAINING HOTEL.
A SCHOOL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT
or TRUsTY KITCHEN HELP"

How Clean Lodgings and Wholesome
Board at Reasonable Prices May Be
Furnished Guests Of Limited Means and
Good Moral Character-Outline Plan.
The cry for clean lodgings, wholesome
board, moderate and reasonable prices
goes up on every hand Thousands of
clerks, both male and female, in our stores
and Offices, thrown upon their own re-
sources. find themselves in large city
without home. Students, apprentices,
young men just starting either IN their
professions Or in business must live as
well as people better of. How infinitely
better for many young man and young
woman if they could marry when but
few years older relatively than their par
ents when they married-providing the
aforesaid young man can support himself
and family. Commercial dIummers, tour
! lists and others, commonly known as
''transients," an army ever on the in
crease, are continually seeking clean and
respectable places whereon to lay their
heads and whereat to be filed, with the
reasonable assurance of having enough
money left after paying their hotel bills
in the morning with which to get out Of
town
A practical solution of these much
m0oted questions-the condition OF the
city slave girl" and of the ''hired girl"
and the betterment thereof-So a limited
extent at least, would seem to lie in
proper recognition and skillful combi-
nation Of these two great public demands:
~ The demand, on the one hand, for ex-
perienced and trustworthy help; ~ the
demand, on the other hand, for clean
lodgings, wholesome food, moderate
prices.
Now as to the t'modus operandi." Sc
cure q suitable location, probably near one
Of the large railroad stations in the city.
Erect there plain freproof conmodious
hotel, with the modern improvements,
capable Of comfortably accommodating
1000 guests, both es ''transients" and as
regulars. Furnish an ordinary 80 cent
meal or bed for 25 cents, or board and
lodging at 81 per day or S. per week.
Such hotel would necessarily be fur
nished very plainly throughout. Per
haps no carpets would deck the
oiled hard pine floors. But, notwith
standing. everything could be kept scru-
pulously clean; the food could be whole
some. well cooked, and plenty of it, even
/ if the delicacies of the season were want
ing. And under proper management such
institution could be made to pay for itself
in time. Prices would be so reasonable.
the service SO excellent, that people would
naturally flock to such places of refuge
without the expense of advertising. In
other words, it would advertise itself.
The two chief conditions for admission
into such hotel home would be good moral
character and weekly payment in ad
vance.
To run such hotel properly would prob
ably require no more servants than are
today required to minister to the wants
Of an equal number of guests in any
ordinary hotel. Although the domestics
would be novices, still the hotel would
make little pretensfons at anything but
cleanliness. Everything would be con
structed to save work wherever possible.
Such hotal to accommodate 1000 guests
would require probably anywhere from
$50 to 800 domestics all tie time. These
servants would be under experienced in
strucoors, the best that money could COM
mand- For instance, dinner would be
prepared by class OF fifty, if necessary,
| each at her own range, arranged in semi
circles, with the chief cook IN the center,
other sciences in our colleges is now i'm.
parted. There would be regular courses
Of instruction in cuisine, IN laundering
etc The primary object would be to give
each graduate adequate knowledge Of bov
to 60 into any we'll regulated kitchen OF
laundry and take entire charge thereof.
The Immediate consideration for such
service would be none other than board.
lodging, necessary clothes, aforesaid in
struction, and the promise that SO soon as
coIa peteat the institution would do all IN
it's power TO find its graduates acceptable
situations in respectable families CT other
hotels st remunerative wages. The sur
plus In The receipts Of this hotei-for in
stance, 1000 regular bosrfers at IS per
wreck or $2B0; eco yearly-isfs after paying
an running expenses, salaries OF the va1i
Gus necessary Instructors aud assistants.
besides possibly percent. interest On the
original investment, would form fund
from wtich p-izes would be given E,ose
girls who hai Completed systematic
course Of training, possibly Averaging $50
TO s15 cash per year fSr each graduate
during reBaration. This would be better
than paying them weekly wages however
small, for the incentive 70 complete tho
course, not only for the knowledge but
for the pecUatary rewaN swaI.i-1g the
faithful, would be SO strong As to prac-
tieaily proven. THEN working few weeks.
getting respectable outfit OF elOAa-
ing. and then quitting. Than. again. %
ceivins upon completing the course On
stead Of weekly whatever pecuniary p
| ducenent such institution EisA. b ahie
TO extend them wonid prevent their fool-
Ing away upon tribes tDeir earnings. thus
quietly reducing % q minimum th>.r n
ordinate dasire to "r2n. whSoa Discipline
they would find when IN service IN pa
vste families not to Be- tAs,r least rscoo-
D.eadAtiDn Al ths.. recesssr7 rants
would be sEp1s,si sn3 taey voCtd ssTs
10 oceast1n fGc poke. nusr.
After rear's faisAh1 servce = s1ca
tast,.1tinn . sergeant could command
from oze-thira to txo-t1zSs mere wages
tlsa beso-a and after swo years s1cn
service sAs would recetre double. q, II
exceptional cases, triple her present
wage. besides icing fosevsr tasu-ed
soo3 hozs n some weu 70 do and re-
Specialize fsaly. ShoSid she stss-rz-d
c-51GlI6s 70 E-r--for with such 80
E1an It would 10 longer De qoestion
WHISTLER G. not nan eeuld Dc found 70
ask her-he- husband would find her to
be ve-1t2hle treasuze--E d SANFORD u