The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-13
PLANS FOR WOMAN'S HOTEL
THEY TAKE FORM THAT SEEMS TO
INSURE SUCCESS.

Subscriptions Coming In Fast and Many OF
the City's hest People Interested In
the Project-Thc House to lie Run on
Liberal, Common-senso Principles
Strong efforts are being made these days to
raise the money needed for the building OF the
Woman's Hotel which has been under discuss
sIon for some time. and the outlook is said to
be hopeful. Subscriptions to the amount OF
100000 have already been received.
Another $1,000 IL needed before the COM
many can INCORPORATE. IL must all under tho
terms OF the compact with the older subscrib-
ers be raised before Jan. l. or tho project
fails. The friends Of the enterprise say that IL
shall not fail. Their names are fairly good
warrant for their faith for they include Her
bert Is Turner. senior counsel OF the Farmers
Loan and Trust Company. Charles y. Fair
child. who II tho president OF the New York
Security and Trust Company. Charles F. Cox
treasurer OF the Big Four" Nickel Plate and
Michigan Central Railroads and j. Kennedy
Tod, the banker. These. with the secretary
Charles ID. Kellogg, comprise the preliminary
committee in charge which stands as authority
for the estimates and as commencing the
investment. On the Committee OF Women
are: Mrs. Richard Irwin Miss Virginia Pot
ter, Mrs. ". W. Newal Miss Grace Dodge and
Mrs. Lucicn G.. Warner.
IL is two years since the project was preached
OF doing for the self-supporting women Of New
York what ID. o. Mills had done for the mon.
with tho difference. however that the later
project proposed to appeal to rather different
grade Of customers, for tho present at least.
The woman's hotel is intended for board
ers who can afford to pay at least 81 u
week. IL is expected that when 1t has been
shown that they can be probably catered to.
capital In abundance will be forthcoming to
provide for their poorer sisters who stand 10 as
great need The profit end Of IL kept fairly
in view. as IL was in Mr.. Mlls'e enterprises. in
justice to tho guests who are to be made to
feel that thay are supporting business enter
prise. not an asylum. with their money In
deed, IL has been figured out that the pioneer
upon the investment. The, mos, experienced
hotel managers in the city have found no flaw
always the sore, point in u hotel enterprise.
The Spanish War s.Getfacked tins project for
the time. and it came to the front slowly when
II was over. In the last month subscriptions
have bo9med again \ Eron92s..tlon that y, lSO
substantial results. More than thirty had
cent in their names Yesterday As SION ;H as thc
Hotel Comrany' will be INCORPORATED. site se-
lectel and building OPERATIONS begpp. Two
sTSfR sH3@ iBaqa5aS aSi EGc Go a.S
The plans show a handsome house. WITH
room for 900 boarders. Including some small
suites lilT InOSt WIN tNIttsiNt lNSleS anu u
certain number set apart for transient guests.
The hotel IL to +" , 10 every s"nse iirst cins.:
Hill. without their decorations" say the pro-
pretors There are To DO tra rooms. turkish
s sns asd Spon T& NO
mems hotel. have not. This was tho rock
v w.oS RrcsEed psySsTs { x %G%G mt
have been wrecked had he lived, but
to them; lie had probably never heard OF tho
SPARE Il thS, at allure The bs Hal was large
tenement down on Mott street which mi Ian
make into q kind Of working girls hotel. They
filed It right up, and the first thing the girls
nat ay w"n broos no rules
that had not first beer, submitted to and en-
ne D nb s9 TN bic 3 tSeE into FG Se
rank OF tenement. and became the worst OF
Tho ionrdcrs at the now woman's hotel are
10 b. their own mlStresSes, and the manasers
S trgstei fuy as Well and az lar as the ey mem
They are planning hotel. not a boarding
school, They propose to Ind the best available
charge. certain that upon his management
alone will DEPEND I'll" success Of their scheme.
AZ might be expected from their confidence.
they have card up their sleeve. IL IL the fact
that within q fcw days % tho bnrc ann unce-
more than six hundred prospective patrons had
Teestcrri their nImes. asking for rooms.
u
thousand guests was planned. hut was after
ward scaled down TO make the first expert
inent easier.
II Is statei hy those who have gone into the
matter very Thoroughly that there are At lens'
from 10000 to $1,000 wage-earning women IN
New York, artists, teachers. -trnORraphers and
the Ike. abb" 10 nay for such accomo iatons ~
the hotel viii Furnish. who arc now living In
cherries boarding houses and hall rooms.
paying more money for their liscomforts than
they will have 10 lny for all the comforts and
convenience Of IN" hotel. Their choice now Ia
between the boarding house and the charit-
able home that does not al the need Of the r
ambitions. in spite OF III" good Intention.
Nothing but perfect freedom will do IT, and
this they may have, with entire self-respcct
only in such IN establishment us planned by
the Woman Hotel Company.
The Capital needed to build and com Dlete II
will he SSuO,O.O. Among the heavy subscrib-
ers TO the 'und. who have thereby registered
their faith in New York : wage earning women
Gre John J., Ro"tef,ll"r who is down Tor 20t
Mr and Mrs. V. Everit Macy and William e.
Schermerhnrn, who have taken n hundred
shares each: David Vs. Ivi-on. Misses Gather
ine ". and Matilda " Bruce Mrs. II. Il. Kur,
hardt. Mrs William II Osborn aud Mrs. JOSEPH
White have snbscrthci $1,000 each. anC
forty other men and women with we'll knowr
names from 81 900 to $1,000 each