New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-05

seventy men. There are engravings and
chrome Autographs the walls. and as many
as 300 books in the cases. There are breakfast
and dining rooms. with seats az small oak tables
for 40 men. and the walls are built with a high
dadO Of cream tinted glaI,l lrl, IN0rk with
pasterne tinted In a terra Gotta shade. Al
each end there are boilers. gIills ovens and
cooking ranges and there ls "A bar for the sale
OF milk, provisions. matches aal tobacco. Tho
dodgers wait upon themselves and II they cook
their own meals have fun facilities in cOn-
yenient scullcry between the dining rooms All
these rooms ara bright and cheerful. and tho
lavatories. bathrooms and dressing rooms ara
as well appointed as amy thar can Boz found In
West End hotels. There are locker rooms and 4
dodgers washhouse and there are also bar
bers'. tailors and shocinakers shops FOR tho
convenience ~ Lord ItoWfuu's siNuonuy guests.
These hotels arr filled 4s soon they ara
opened, and from ~ 90 80 per cent are perma~
nent dodgers. who sleep rt.ly night Ia Tho
cubicles. The gates age opened az - o'clock
IN tho evening i0r the earliest applicants, VINO
are generally markrfmcn ard news f"ndera
with earl. hours for rising ANA bi'AAiastnB.
Every quarter hour brings fresh relay ~ odg.
ers. until at . o'clock every room is occupied
and applicants have tD ue turned away. II IS II
motley assom1lage Of working people, win not
few broken down professional mon i'lue.u -
the plttauce Of shilling or eighteen pence IL
day Son.e Of the dodgers Who EiL NOR own
chops in tho scul.cry have had a university edu-
cafion and can quote Hoiace's DlDs or carly
English poetry when they are chatting together
over their pipes IN the smoking room mere ara
no trampa. for the slxpenc" iNl k'ris mem out'
and there Few lNfrNff hi' i'lif III III
lin,lor IL sold al the bar and haNltua' toperS are
not attracted Tho dodgers soon ma their
mates. and entertain one another I'D their own
y,av In 4 real sense tho poor mon hotel Is a
clubhouse. where the dodgers can rad. write
talk or smoke and have th' companonship OF
mon of their own sort They enjoy All these
privileges at a ret cost ~ f0u fourteen to
nineteen pence dag. and tAe shareholders re-
celve > per cent On their Investment
Che London County Council having schemes
OF It's own for improving th- housing Of tho
poor has been Jealous Of the success OF tho
Rowton Houses The management has met
with resistance from the local authorities at
every turn. The building laws have been rigor-
ously enforced and The sanitary plumbing has
been critically examined Additional safeguards
against fire have been required. and the COM
pany has been harassed 10 many ways. Not
long ago a determined hlt unsuccessful EFFORT
was made by the County Council % bring tho
RoWton Houses under official control and SUPER
vision a. common lodging houses and thereby
pal reformers has served to emphasize the TACT
that a private company working on commercial
lines and without affecting amy lfriensions ~
philanthropy or public obligation bad succeeded
in proving that poor mems hotel. could De- BUNK
and operated az profit of . f'r cent on tho
carital invested Neither charity nor munich
pal enterprise has done MS wri n London az
this company IN mirist0ring % the comfort and
welfare or workrgnru 10 has NOT Yet taken
NO the experiment - building similar hotels FOR
women but IL has pointed ouf practical methods
bv which the social condition ~ working people
can be elevated without expense % taxpayers
or philanthropists and with good return Tor
the investors money. > ~ e