The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-05
SWELL APARTMENTS.
AN IMMENSE HOTEL FOR MAIDEN
LADIES IN NEW YORR.

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NEW YORK, March New York is 60
ing to have an apartment house for women,
and, considering the 5000 women artists,
musicians, Journalists, bookkeepers, stenog-
raphers and students scattered around in
dingy boarding houses and dark fats, there
is certainly great need of at least one COM
medious structure that shall DO well lighted,
we'll ventilated and well appointed, where
women can have freedom and comfort at q
moderate cost. and where climbing stairs
that bane of womAns health and consumer
OF woman's strength-shau give way TO the
restfulness Of an elevator.
1t is a peculiar fact that, while all ave.
nues OF work and study have been opened
up to woman and she has demonstrated her
ability to earn her own living and take care
OF herself, there has never been any cog
nizance taken OF her individuality, no place
provided for her TO live.
Bachelor apartments with elegant ems
| frances suggesting the luxuries within dis
play their aggravatlng signs in every quar-
ter; old-time mansions, in convenient loca-
lions, have been thoroughly renovated and
rearranged In suites aud single rooms. for
gentlemen only" and even toe high-toned
boarding houses imagine 1t adds to their
dignity TO advertise gentlemen preferred"
What, then, is the business woman 10 dos
A single woman looking Cor desirable
| quarters In New Y ork at present will have
some very amusing as we'll as annoying OK
perences. She will find it hard TO get into
| a tlrsU-class house unless il is so late iu the
season that the landlady has no hope of Pc
curing another man, and she will not seldom
! find that she Is paying dollar or two more
| by the week than did the man occupying
the room before her-to cover gas used in
crimpinR her hair, extra service required
| OF servants, etc. A woman asking accom-
mediation for two will be met with the ut
most graciousness until the landlady dis
covers that the second party is not hus-
band. but another woman; then there is
crawfishlng, and finally fiat statement
that she makes IL q rule to take in "only
! families and gentlemen.n
This sort OF thing leaves the woman little
choice and usually drives her into an ordi-
nary house, where she must pay IS. 80 or
| SO a week for board and "A hall bed room
she can't turn around in. These hall bed
rooms have no means of heat except from
| the halls, or by a gas stove at 81 a week
| extra. The Coolest Of them have q mantel
bed and two chairs but 1t is obvious that TO
see callers in such quarters is out of the
| question. 1t is not home In any sense OF
| the word.
Perhaps the woman rents u square room,
furnished; here. at least, she can do as she
pleases. But she is compelled to 20 out for
her meals in all states of health aud weather;
only bachelor apartments have restaurants
attached.
A DISMAL ALTERNATIVE.
| The only alternative is a fat at from $50
| to $50 O month, with steam heat and per-
hAps gas In this fiat there will be one
| light room, the front one. 1t will glory in
| the possession Of two windows. while the
| iffba In ha Kuill hnf
| the rooms between none at all unless there
| happens to be an air shaft or a skylight.
! And, by the way these makeshifts are ad-
vertised as Eight" rooms. New York beng
built up SO solidly that every inch of light
space is valuable in proportion to tho ground
! space.
| The halls Of these fiat houses are dark and
dank; there Is a sepuchral closeness about
! them, and IA resurrected odor of departed
| dinners; nine times out of ten the plumbing
| is cleaply done, the Janitor half-paid and
the house overrun with children of all
nstionalities and degrees Of civilization.
Men have e o such unconRenial surround
| ings a bachelor apartment house is free
| from all n distances, except such as the men
! bring in Themselves aud is conducted with
all the air and style of a modern hotel
| without the meals. A bachelor apartment
costs from $500 TO 81 500 year. according
| to location and conveniences. A Appointment
apartment house right IN the heart of the
city has several suites of parIor, sleeping
room, reception hall and bath, with steam
heat electric light, gas. elevator aid jaui-
tor service, for $500 year, while many a
woman pays the same price for only one
| good sized room at a climb OF three or four
! flights Of stairs.
1t is a woman bachelor apartment house
! that business women are clamorlng for. All
| the world knows that IA modification of
I hae falk al pf 81
again by people with different axes to
| grind, and that one expensive structure
actually was erected in the name of the
| working women Of New YorK. Everybody
| KIN Jws, too. that the A. T. Stewart "homen
was a blind and constructed fer just what
it has been used for since-a hotel Hence
| the no canary bird, no piano, no sewing
machine, no callers. no latch key rule. OF
course no self-respecting, self-sypporting
woman would submit to such regulations,
and the man who pretended TO carry out
! the Stewart scheme knew 1t, and acted ac-
coTdingly for private gain.
wOMEN's "HOMEs"
There are two or three women's "homes"
! They are conducted on the principle OF
charity and Christian protection. and are
mainly for students. Two girls are re-
! CURED to share "a small room and pay IS
each g week for the privilege, and though
! the table is meager 1t is considered a great
| favor 10 he takea in at ALL A young lady
! living in one OF these institutions must walk
as straight a chalk line as though she we're
| out on uarole. Lights are out at 10 o'clock,
and she cannot even 20 TO the theater with.
out asking the housekeeper 20 sit up for her,
| because latch keys are impossible enormi-
| ties, and the women under that roof are not
supposed to have arrived at years OF discre-
ton.
The Margaret Louisa home, or 1.-THE
| WomanS hotel 4" as it advertises itself, is
on slightly different order. IL is an ele-
gently appointed gift from one Of the Van
derbilts and is designed for transients only.
| The rates are very reasonable, indeed, but
If you desire TO take advantage Of them for
the month allotted each guest be sure to
bring with you letter from your minister
certifying 70 your Christian character, and
be also ready TO give two New York refer
ences as to your social standing. These are
absolutely imperative, and even these will
not save you from answering all manner Of
questions as 10 your age, business and other
details the woman phianthropist delights
in. And please remember that no Roman
Catholic need apply at the Margaret
Louisa" under any circumstances. 1t Is run
for Professionals only.
The young woman who has revived and
focused the interests OF business women in
a particular abiding place, knows all about
the foregoing experiences. and being an
energetic young woman with influential