The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-10-19
POOR MEMS LODGINGS.
A BeNEFIceNT BUSINESS SCHEME TO
BE DEVELOPED IN CHICAGO.
The Largest Cheap Lodging House in the
World--A Place for Those Who Are
Out ut dc Eibows-Ciean Beds at
small Cost


Out at DC Eibows--Ciean Beds at
small Cost
"The Albci iarlei7 How high toned and
aristocratic L sounds, indeed Visions OF
that most exc usve and expensive hosiery
of the game name in New York, and Of
other "AIbem 4rles' in London, Paris, Berlin
and Vienna fish through ones mind But
this Chicago "Albemarle" viii be If diff
ferent kind.
IL will be nothing more nor less than a
cheap lodging house or more gigantic
scale than exists anywhere else IN the world
IL will accommodate 10 dodgers. But
though distinctly cheap lodging house, the
Albemarle will differ in most respects and
most radically from other cheap lodging
houses. Here Is 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 60 10 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 chessboords. You may make use
of any or ali of them without extra charge.
There is good stationery and writing ma
tcrial. free. You have read, PLACED a few
games, smoked your pipe or cigar, written
| letter or two. You wish to go 70 bed. You
register your name in the book kept Tor the
purpose You are assigned tosa bed up
stairs. There are six floors. You are given
a 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
kew will unlock this clothes press, and no
other key out of 200 will DO IT, You put
YOUR hat, your necktie and collar, and what
ever other trihes 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 TIE compartment below tins
Then YOU lock your wardrobe and put the
key under your pillow or hang 1t around
your neck as you choose. Your clothes are
safe from everybOdy's interference during
your sleep.
II 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
inc a number and the engraved name Of the
Albemarle on it, surface. This VIII secure
your baggage Ifyou have other yauables-
money. Jewels, watch or important papers -
about you, YOU may deposit them with the
clerk. who puts them into the safe aud gives
YOU another check for them. You are as
safe this way from robbery or thieylng as
Won would be at the Palmer house. All this
without extra charge.
PLENTY OF PURE AIR
Next You climb into your bel. y forms
the lower or the upper hall Of double bed
stead Of iron 1t affords plenty OF room 10
move in and plenty If air to breathe You
will lie on a woven wire mattress, on which
renoses another mattress. filed with wool
and cotton. soft enough for tired limbs %
stretch on. There are two clean sheets
There is a soft pillow, encased IN a white
slip, and there is a comforter Of good quality.
The sheets are changed twice q week, and
ofteuer. il necessary. You viii have no dif-
fculty in sleeping If you're tired. The zen
tilatioa OF the room Is good Ia winter the
biz stove in the center will be heated. There
is Waterman by day and another one by
night IN care Of the six large dormitorles
This Waterman possesses two eminent quail
ties. honesty aud bravery. lie must be an
Al bounccr. II you begin 70 fight WI your
neighbOr: if YOU curse and swear and won't
desist: II YOU use indecent or foul language
or persist in talking at all if you must
smoke or chew and disohcy the rules which
are displayed on the walls in type big enough
for the blind 10 self you do ali or any ot
these things out sou CO. Within one more
twinkiing Of your evening star you VIII iind
Yourself in the street. shot down the ssairs
and into the cool night AZ 10y the catapnlt Of
those two brawny arms hanging just now
peaceably by the sides Of the medtat.ye
night Waterman. Therefore. bewarel
However. a. you're sensible man, You
won't DO anything Of the kind. You viii,
instead take q good, sound snooze and wake
up refreshed Lext morning and willing and
able TO begin the battle OF lie anew. You
wash Yourself thoroughly There are good
facilities for the purpose in each d0rmltOry-
six marble basins, with running water, an
unlimited supply of soap, and clean, whole
some towels Next you have the free use OF
the backing brushes, Of the combs, hair
brushes and clothes brushcs, and you hook
respectable Then you can 20 forth 10 your
work. or to seek WORK, AZ the case may DC
The whole thing has cost you 4 cents You
will think that you've had the worth q your
money. But you may stay another half hour
and read the popers, 80 out ana ca, your
breakfast and come back and nave smoke,
still on tne strength OF that - cents. You
may pay for your lodging by tnc week IN
advance. in which cas- II viii cost YOU 81 for
the seven days. You will save G cents, and
may leave all your baggage and things IN
safe hands, just a: you would IN more ex-
pensiye Boarcslg mouse or MOTEL.
4. l. true all THIS concerns only the lowly,
the men OF humble means, the men who may
even he on, OF work and out at elbows. But
it IS nevertheless thing which works for
their good. chicago Herald.
Cheap RcireslIment in Paris.