The herald., 1896-04-26

as an automatic pump would draw wa
ter from we'll.
A grand suite of rooms. 200 feet in
length, will include the parlors. reading
and smoking rooms. Mr. Flagg says they
Will form the most spacious suite of
rooms in New York the Waldorf not
excepted.
Every room in the hotel will be of
equal size and uniform in appearance.
Each will be just large enough to ac
commodate a single bedstead, a chair
and a washstand, with foot room be-
tween. In large room there Will be
locker FOR each guest. such as is found at
an athletic club or adjoining a big work
room. Here extra clothing can be kept.
In different parts of the building will
be free baths, thirty in all. AS arranged
they Will be a positive luxury. A little
compartment will hold a shower bath.
ana adjoining it will be a dressing room
as large as those found at a Turkish
bath
A free circulating library is another
attra ..tive feature. 1t is the desire of
Mr., Mills that the hotel should benefit
2ss many people as possible, and he pro-
I poses giving table board for 50. so or 50 a
week and single meals to all worthy
comers for about Is or 20 cents. He has
provided for a cafe on an upper floor
where poor devils who can't take regu-
Tar board can so and get cakes or sand
wiches and coffee for few cents each.
These hotels are to be for no class.
The only passport required will be clean
| linen and respectabiity. They will be
too expensive for tramps and too order
ly for toughs.-New York Recorder
1t is hoped by the protector that the
plan will fill the want of thousands of
men whose earnings are small and
whose tastes are decent.
The two hotels described are to be
planned to make them self supporting.
Mr.. Mills is going to try a chance price
for a year or so and after that he will
fix the rate a precisely the cost a head.
as near as can be figured. Unless he is
mistaken in the requirements of the
class of men he wants to reach he has
no doubt of the success of the venture.
When success is assured it is his
intention to build other institutions of
the same kind in other parts of the city
and he may extend the system to San
Francisco. 1t is thought also, that
other cities will recognize the need of
such hotels and that public spirited men
everywhere will build them.
The usual objections to places of
this kind. one of which has been that
they are charitable institutions is
thought TO be overcome by the stipula-
tion that they must be self sustaining.
Since no man is to get anything for less
y
guest will feel himself independent
Another objection to such an establish
lnent is the customary rules. Here there
are to be no rules that do not apply in
any Well-conducted hotel. Every guest
Will be free to go and come as he pleases
and demand anything as his own that
the hotel affords its guests.
One of the most experienced managers
of a good hotel is to have charge of
Mills house No. /,
II am going to have one of those lit
tie roolnS ana live there myself part o.
the time. said Mr.. Mills. 1T will be
l:andy for me when | am kept la tie down
town or want to be off early in the
morning. / believe there are hundreds
of men in this city who do not earn more
than enough to pay the price of board
and lodging in squalid houses, but who
have a heart for better things. | think
those men will have business sense
enough to take accommodations in
keeping with their natural tastes when
they can be got for what they are pay
ing now
ID. O. Mills has all sorts of financial
nterests-banks. buildings. corpora
tions and what not. He made his first
million in California, though he is 4
New Yorker by birth. He went to the
Pacific coast in its early days. and
started several banks a. different times.
He had always been successful finan-
cier. Some persons think he is making
a mistake now in the Mills hotels, from
financial point of view, and when
they charge him with being a philan-
thropist, he Icl,iles:
I'VE don't intend to make any money.
but as we don't intend to lose any,
where's the philanthropy?
Nevertheless. Mr.. Mills will have a
stake of s3,0000O0 tied up in them, and if
they are not successful it is his money
that must meet deficiencies.-New York
Recorder