The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-13
THE HOME HOTEL
Room House To Be
Opened AT Tenady
Next Month.
TO DO HOUSEWORK
Work Better and Cheaper
Than Women, Says
Mrs. Fisher.

T- $500
the Home Hotel Association worked. and
so rapidly has that work progressed that
not only has a site for the object of
their efforts been ferreted out, but a site
with a house already erected thereon, and
two acres of ground in the bargain.
This fact was made public yesterday
afternoon at a meeting of the association
in the Carteret Club house. which was
obtained for the occasion through the
courtesy of Mrs. E. F. c.. Young, when
there was an excellent representation
from various parts of the State, even as
distant as Camden.
The meeting opened with the usual
reading of the minutes n preliminary
business, and Miss Fisher, president of
the association reported for the Executive
Committee, describing the house above
mentioned, which is a fifteen room struc-
ture, situated at Tenahy and belonging to
the estate of Stephen Clark. 1t is the
intention of the association for the pres
ent to rent the house at the rate of FIVE
hundred dollars a year, with the idea of
ultimately purchasing the property.
For a years rent and running expenses
the association feels II has sufficient
QliQ guaranteed, d. tACiC ~ tSh oPPii-
cants for board, one of whom is an APP
plicant for the Old Ladies' Home in this
city, but cannot be admitted sas there
is no vacancy, and from this lady the
association gets five hundred dollars,
while from the others an average board
of $3.50 per week will be charged, with he
exception OF one case where the appli-
cant is not prepared to pay anything.
These ten consist of ~clergymen, artists,
teachers and writer's.
The Home Hotel, the President said,
ave to be run upon the most
economical basis, and proceeded to ex-
plain how the New York Association, of
which she is always head, was run. She
said that in New York they employed
men to do the housework because they
the New Jersey Branch to do the same.
These male s%ervant she called useful
men, and told how they were taught to
even do the washing. 1t was most comb
to hear her description of the method
used by one of these men in washing
socks. HE put the socks,'' said she,
ION his hands, like gloves, and rubbed
them up and down the board%
Mrs. Bowman afterwards compliment
ed the President upon doing what she
had never heard of being accomplished
before-getting men to do women's work
for less money.
Not only are the hired men made to
work. The Home Hotel admits needy
professional persons without regard to
age, sex or creed" and the men boarders
are expected to care for their own rooms.
Surely does woman's club life begin to
assert itself.
Miss Cecilia Gaines, who was to have
made the address of the afternoon, did
arrive until late. She said she felt
very much like the guilty u~nprepared pu-
pill when called upon by the teacher, as
she really knew nothing of h work ex-
cept from personal contact with an in
of the New York Home Hotel,
whose experience she gave.
Miss Mary McKeen of Camden, Mrs.
G.. B. Crater of Newark, Miss D. E. DEM
Arrest of Passaic, Miss Allan and Miss
Cornelia Bradford of this city were also
among the speakers. Miss Bradford said
she was familiar with the house chosen
the Home Hotel, though she had new
er been inside, and commended the la
dies in their choice. She also spoke of
the name Home Hotel,'' saying she was
glad the Home came first, as it at
once took away all idea of a charity
Institution, which would force itself Upon
the public mind were the words arranged
t.Hotel Home Miss Fisher further ex-
planned that the name had been chosen
because to those paying the five hundred
dollars for life membership it was a
home, while to transients it was a hotel.
The house at Tenafly will be opened
probably by the middle of June. For the
present it will be run by a housekeeper
and one useful man. as the associa-
tion must begin on an economical basis.
After the meeting, which was held in
the club hall, the ladies adjourned to the
club parlors, where refreshments were
served. Here they spent a pleasant, So
cial half hour, after which Miss Fisher,
accompanied by a few of the other ladies,
took the train to Tenafiy to examine
their prospective possessions.
Among those present were Miss Mary
A. Fisher of New York, president; Mrs.
A. J.. Newbury, treasurer; Miss Belle
Durkee of Passaic, secretary; Miss S. E.
Demarest of Passaic, Miss Mary McKeen
of Camden, Mrs. S. O.. Nichols of New
ark, Mrs. G. B. Crater of Newark, Miss
Elizabeth Vermilye of Englewood, Mrs.
Henry Bell of Rutherford, Miss Belle
Snyder of Caldwell. Mrs. w. Irving Adj
ans of Montclair, Mrs. Shrader of Ruth
erford, Mrs. Hudspeth-Benson, Mrs. E..
F. c. Young, Miss Cecilia Gaines, Miss
Cornelia Bradford, Mrs. James H. Noe,
Mrs. Campbell, Miss Allan and Miss Ada
d. Fuller of Jersey City.
Among those elected to membership,
yesterday. were Miss Cecilia Gaines and
Mrs. James H. Noe. Miss Cornelia was
also made an honorary member, together
with Mrs. John w. Griggs. Mrs. Carrot
Hobart, Mrs. Grover Cleveland, Dir. Louis
Osborn and Professor Henry Morton OF
Stevens Institute.