Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-02-13
1900 WOMEN
Will Sweetiy Repose Under One Roof
at Chicago Next Summer,
Ia nosstef Motel Devoted Entirely 10 the
GeAtier Ser.

maybe i.500 souls of the sentler sex,
maids and matrons. sweet. fascinating
young buds. and gray heads whose own
ers have given their lives to the ad-
vancement and amclioration of their
sex-faney 1900 women. the dear crea-
lures as the POSTMASTER grandiloqueat-
ly prociaims while asking the banquet
ers TO drink to the health of 1.-The ladies"
Il 500 women, all siumbering restfully
under one roof.
Fancy the cloakroom that will he re
quired to safely provide for 1890 dainty
hats, bonnets and wraps. Fancy the
styles. the colors and materials of 1900
dresses. Fancy the pile of choice linen.
and of embroidery. and of sundry lingerie
that forms a part of various articles dear
to the feminine heart that could be con-
tributed by such a houseful of feminini-
ty. Fancy hotel over the threshold of
which the foot Of man is not to pass as a
guest, hotel in which the cashiers and
the room clerks and the bell and hall
boys-perhaps that's an Irish bull--and
all the other Of the small army Of at
taches will be women. That is the kind
of hotel that is to be one of the striking
features of the Worlds fair
How unprotected feminine youth as
well AS old age might be enabled to visit
Chicago next summer with the assur-
ance of quarters and surroundings in
which safety would be combined with
comfort was one of the earliest questions
70 engross the consideration of Mrs.
Potter Palmer and her associates on the
board of lady managers. When the ma
tional commission, after the board had
been brought into existence by act of
congress. undertook to prescribe its spe-
citic duties, it laid down the general rule
that the ladies themselves should have
full charge and management of all inter
ests of women in connection with the
exposition. This is what might be re-
garded as Il scope at once broad and com
prehensive. for the general interest" of
the tens of thousands of women that
Chicago expects and hopes to welcome
and entertain between now and Christ
mas cannot by any possibility be con-
fined within the limits of jackson park
Ample provision for the education. en-
lightenment and entertainment Of the
sex has been made through the plans
adopted for the Women's and Chiliren's
buildings, to say nothing of the special
attractions of particular interest to wom-
ankind that will have place in the
other structures; but something. it was
held. should be officially done to insure
for the expected great army Of women
especially those that might be classed as
industrial workers." wage earners and
working girls, or students, teachers and
others engaged in various professions
the benefits and advantages of good.
clean. safe homes at reasonable rates.
How this aim might be accomplished
was question to which the ladies' gave
prolonged thought and consideration.
The views and advice of influential
friends of tho movements beneficial to
women We're sought and given, and as IA
result came the formation of the Wom-
ans Dormitory Association of the Colum-
bian Exposition. While the funds for
this enterprise have been contributed
from outside sources as a matter of pure
necessity, for the board proper has use
for every dollar appropriated TO its treas
ury, vet at the same time it regards and
designates the dormitory enterprise as an
auxiliary.
Among those who are prominently
working in its behalf and identified with
the active management are such women
as Miss Erances Willard and Mrs. Ma
tilda d. Carse, who have blessed human
ity by their work in connection with the
Women's Christian Temperance union;
Mrs. James A. Mulligan, widow of the
famous soldier who gave his life for his
country on the field of battle: Mrs james
r. Doofttle, widow of the only son of
Wisconsin's venerable ex-senator. Mrs
Charles Henrotin. the better half Of the
noted Chicago banker and consul for the
Belgian empire; Mrs. General A. l.. Chet-
Ben G. Truman, names all of which are
familiar to those interested in move
merits beneficial to women.
The rooms of the hotel will be fur
nished with comfortable beds and toilet
conveniences, and the structure will be
divided into sections, each presided over
by a refined and motherly woman. who
will exercise watchful care over un-
protected girls, whether they come alone
or are part of grogp. The rate for ac-
comnodations will b a remarkably low
one Large numbs, of working women
and girls have subscribed for shares of
stock. which are to be taken in payment
Of the bills incurred for accommodations.
and TO these the rate per day. so it is es-
timated, will not exceed 40 cents. The
site selected is within few stones throw
of the exposition entrance. and the struc-
ture will he in readiness for the enter
tainment of guests before the 1st of May.
Very much on the same principle and
practically under the same auspices is
the Family Dormitory association. Most
Of the ladies already mentioned are iden-
titled also with this enterprise. while to the
list may be added such names as those
of Mrs. General Logan, Mrs. George NJ
Pullman and Mrs. ]. II. McVicker. The
family donicile will be to women with
children what the other structure is to
the lone woman. save that male heads
Of families will be acceptable as guests.
provided only that they have their fam
lies with them.
In this way husbands and wives. broth
ers and sisters, widows and widowers.
with their little ones, may be housed eco
nomically and comfortably under the
same roof. Both of these enterprises will
go far toward dispelling any idea among
people of moderate or slender means
that their financial condition will not
permit of visit to the Worlds fair and
wrestle with the exorbitant prices that
are supposed in popular estimation TO be
the natural concomitants Of such an
event.