The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-07
AN IRONCLAD HOTEL.
A Floating Citadel Where Five Hun
dred Men Are Lodged and Fed.

lSter is not tull and all the sleeping rooms
occupied. Unlike other hotels. it has no
regular revenue from the boarders, but
more to be compared with Utopian
scheme for furtherins the interests Of
mankind, it furnishes free lodging ana
food for those who can join its colony
as a return Cor services rendered
There are no Ioiterers at this hotel
Those who occupy the rooms with bath
are no more exempt from the duties, the
performance of which entities the board
ers to the privilege of the house, than are
those of humber mien who sleep in apart
ments Of lesser attractions and fewer con-
veniences. Everybody does a fun days
work; everybody is fully repaid for that
work by living convenienoes, good food,
and a fair. though not eXtravagant, sal
AIRY. These salaries amount each month
10 trihe over $4,000, and no man, from
the humblest boarder at SIS per month,
but fully earns his pay.
Out of this they must purchase their
own clothes, soap, towels, shoes, and even
knives and forks, while about thirty-three
of them, who are interested in the active
management Of the great MOTEL, although
not in its financial output, furnish their
own food, drawing out a proportionately
larger salary as ration Communication.
The hotel itself is a substantial struc-
ture, even toward elaborateness of detail.
It's entire cost of construction was 49,
100000, and it has every modern improve
ment and convenience. II is electrlc-iight-
Ell, steam-heated, splendldly ventilated has
dozens of bathrooms, WIN porcelain tubs
ana shower bath, large promenades for eX-
exercises; large, airy sleeping rooms; COM
Portable dinng-rOoms; large library;
plenty of Iounging places; hospital, with
attendant physicians, and a country store
where any commodity may be obtained at
the lowest market whole sale value.
II is not generally sought by transients,
because they are not welcome, and its col
ony therefore, usually partakes of the ma
ture of huge, happy, and exceedingly
wel-disciplined family. In two essentials
no hotel in the world, unless built and
conducted as this than rawod wadoTAA
conducted on similar principles, is so hygi-
enically or so methodically conducted as
this. Cleanliness, alleged to be next to d.
vine recognition, is one of the most rigid
rules of the establishment, and healthy
hours by fixture, for sleeping, working
and recreation, is the second feature. II
keeps It's own plumbing shop, machine
shop, and printing office. You can get
your hair cut or your face shaved There
Is a tailor, a baker and assistants, laun-
dry and almost anything else you want;
and, "Eurekor' you don't have 10 tip your
waiter at meals.
Uncle Sam owns this hotel exclusively
and has no partnership agreement, but of
the 500 men who occupy the sleeping-quar-
ters-fair sex entirely prohibited-thirty-
three act as managing officials, and twenty
five are serVants-nOt including cooks and
kitchen attendants. 1t is with this immense
and unique hotels commissary that this
article is intended mainly to deal. The
commoner commodities of life are purchas-
ed or made in huge quantities, and are for
| the dWeIlers under. Uncle Sans roof, eX-
| elusive of the thrty-three managers and
| servants.
In one month Il, 900 loaves Of bread, one
| pound 10 a loaf, are made in the bake shop
! and thirty-dVe pounds of yeast are con-
! sumed in the making. To butter the bread
| i 600 pounds per month of the best butter
obtanable are used. For breakfasts 9OJ
pounds of coffee are used (all items now
being for the one-month period, and to
sweeten the coffee and other things in
which sweetening may be needed 5000
pounds of sugar are consumed, while 300
pint cans of condensed milk are used on
the tables Tea is not so much In favor as
| coffee evidently, for but 100 pounds a
month is its record.
In the meat line the record is quite APP
! palling for the monthly consumption.
| Fresh beef heads the list at 5000 pounds
while salt pork comes next with 1,S0O
pounds. Salt beef touches a consumption
record of / 200 pounds, and the other meats
follow with: Liver, 800 pounds; ham, 800
| pounds; bacon, 4S0 pounds; pork chops, 500
pounds; sausage, 800 pounds; pigs feet, 500
pounds; timed meats, 800 pounds; bolog-
ma, 240 pounds. This vast consumption of
/ Il to Il cfFsetf
TALLY for meat altogether prohibitive, for
| the fish bill runs up to goodly proper
| tions with 1000 pounds of fresh fish, 400
| pounds of salt mackerel and 120 quarts of
| clans.
Such an attack upon meat and fish might
| suggest an adherence by the colony of
| the principles of Vegetarianism, but that
theory Is combaied by the fact that the
! monthly consumption of vegetables in
| cludes 400 bushels of potatoes, twelve BUSH
! els of onions, twenty bushels of turnips,
| GOO heads of cabbage and 800 gallons of
| beans. And then, as little relishes on the
! side there are 240 pounds of cheese, 500
nounds of rice, 300 pounds macaroni, 100
! pounds of dry fruit, 800 pounds of pickles,
| and thirty gallons of syrup.
Table condiments and seasoning for the
food cooked are provided without stint,
! and The hotel manages to consume in that
| Uav each month. thirty gallons of vine
gar. 200 pounds of lard for shortening, 4SO
! quarts of catsup. twelve pints of havors,
| 300 pounds of salt, thirty pounds of pepper
| and twenty-four pounds of curry powder.
| The country store connected with the no
! tel is opened once month and does a
! very large business, not particularly luc-
! rative. because it is not intended to profit
| nv the sales. The average monthly sales
| AT the store include 1000 pounds of soap,
| 500 pounds of tobacco, 800 yards of blue
! flannel. $50 yards of cloth. 100 ribbons for