The age-herald., 1898-08-07
THE MILLS HOTEL
 OPEN TO TRAFFIC
No. 2 Possesses Many Improve
 ments Over No. 1.
BEST ROOM FOR 30 CENTS
Earnings, and Has Already Prov en Great Success Meals
 at Fifteen Cents.

New York, Aug 5.-Mills Hotel No. 2, on the corner of Rivington and Chrystie strets, in the center of the Bowery district opened for inspection this afternoon. It is a massive structure, of white brick and Indiana sandstone, ten stories high and adorned with a heavy copper cornice of unique design. It presents a striking appearance.
 Mills Hotel No. was started in Novem- Der, 1897. on Bleecker, Thompson and Sul- livan streets, on the site of old De Pau row, with 1.554 bedrooms, designed for respectable men of small earnings, and has proved to be a genuine success.
 Hotel No. 2 possesses many improve ments It will accommodate 600 men at 20 and 30 cents a night, and meals at a marvelously low price.
 large reading room occupies the whole Rivington street front and extends around on the Chrystie street side in the shape of an l.. On the small side Is large and well selected library, from which the guests of the hotel may draw books, and there also will be kept all the leading newspapers and periodicals. Large libra- ry tables and comfortable chairs ar ranged on the polished floor, and wains- COllDS Ol IellDSSSee BTdHlte dll dTOullu lHS apartment gives it high artistic finish. Even in it's new and incomplete condition there is an air of comfort ard elegance about the place which one would not look for in a hotel in which the best room may be had for 30 cents day and the best meal for 15 20 cents. But further sur prises await the visitor to the place.
 A few steps from the reading room take one to the court around which the nine stories are reared. This is about forty by sixty feet, covered with glass, and the four white sides are pierced by hundreds of windows, each of which lights one of the little rooms. In this court there are tables and chairs, and one may readily see that a Mills House boarder would find no difficulty in making himself com fortable in the place no matter what the state of the weather might be. The two courts of Mills House No. have been the most popular points in the house from the opening day and the court in Mills House No. 2, when the guests occupy the chairs and games of cards. chess, etc., are going on, will probably be favorte resort. stairway opposite the main trance leads to the elevator, which is a few steps above the court, and another stairway leads down on either side to the restaurant, kitchen, laundry and the per feet heating and refrigerati1g plants The kitchen is Fight and lofty apartment, forty feet long and thirty-five feet wide, furnished with everything modern and nov el III tHe way OI kltcHeI IuTHllure, ana immediately next to the cold-storage rooms, where all material for the kitchen is kept. The chef is Josef Franciscan who was the chef of the Clifton House. at Niagara Falls He said that he had seen many well-appointed kitchens, but none as good as the one over which he will now preside. A large carving and serving room is next to the kitchen, where the walters receive the dishes which they car ry to the dining-room, which is light, 34I 1tx~1,k dows and square glass tiles. China and glass closets, storerooms. refrigerato;s, waterfilters and closets for the wardrobe of the employees are all on this floor, and they are all so well arranged and so con- veniently placed that they will be i'm portant features in the eyes of the house. keepers who Will visit the place
 The meZzanine floor is devoted to the | managers apartments and sleeping rooms and the other floors are divided into rooms | for guests. These are about nine feet | long and six feet wide and are the real | features of the place. Each room has l a good metal bed, the furnishings of ! which-mattresses sheets blankets ard | pillows-are the best that can be procured | in the market There Is also a chair, a | strip of carpet and wardrobe. which may be locked. Those rooms which front on | the street have the window glazed with | heavy glass, and those facing the court | have unglazed windows, over which there |
  neat null curtain on the inside. The l rooms are trifle larger than those in Mills House No. 1, and have the advant- age of the individual wardrobes, while | in the other houses all lockers are in the basement
 In the first house, which was built in some respects like the houses erected by i Lord Rowton in London, the baths ard lavatories were all on the ground floor. In Mills House No there are bathrooms on each floor. At the end of each corridor there are two rain baths, and, next to these are rows of wash basins set in white marble slabs and arranged in the most improved style.
 -he new hotel will be under the direct management of H. B. Day, but John L.. Thomas, who has successfully man ged the first house, will have a general super vision of both institutions
 It is expected that many people who live fin the neighborhood of the new hotel will take advantage of the reasonable prices and patronize the Mills House restaurant, as hundreds do who live or do business near the Bleecker street hotel Cigars and tobacco will be sold in the restau- rant but liquors will be excluded, and the place will be strictly Temperance" house.
 ''It is our object" said Mir. Thomas. "to attract only good people. We want no others. Tramps, men of bad habits and those who make their homes in the Bow cry lodging houses will not be entertained