Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-08
NEW YORK'S LARGEST HOTEL

Leslie's Weekly: The Mills ~hotel-there
are two CT them in New York, one located
on the lower west sid inc the other.oc-
cupying a position corresponding, in a
degree, geographically, on the east side,
We're not intended to be charitable insti-
buttons. Nor were.they expected or de-
sired to be money makers. They are
planned with ripe business sagacity to
fill = void in the great city and to.obtain
sufficient revenue to make them self sup
porting. Mr.. D.. O.. Mills having, after a
wonderfully successful business career
on the Pacific coast, become a resident
of the city of New York and one of it's
most noted ~financiers. was impressed
WITH the difficulty which respectable sim
gle men of limited means encountered
in procuring suitable living accommoda-
tions. True, there were plenty OF cheap
lodging houses of the Bowery type, with
beds offered at from ten to twenty-five
cents per night, but ~thread-bare respect
ability looked upon these as places to be
avoided.
Twenty cents each per night is the
charge for all the rooms except seventy,
for each of which the night rate is thir-
ty cents. The twenty-cent rooms are
small, it Isl being but about five feet
wide. The size is ample. because they
are used merely for sleeping apartments.
Reading, smoking and writing rooms. as
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parts of the building. On the floor Of
each sleeping room is a rug. Each room
has a chair and a smal closet. The
bedstead is iron. and 1T is provided with
a hair mattress. hair n feather pillows,
and clean sheets, blankets. and n spread
or covering. The thirty cent rooms are
in the corners of the building, and they
are somewhat larger THAI. t-e others.
These latter rooms each AVE two win
dows. supplied with outside air, while the
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each, as a rule. All the rooms have cleo
trio lights. The dodgers are not permit
ted to have heavy baggage in the rooms.
Trunks and similar effects are cared for,
in the basement, where there are indi-
vidual locked storage compa rtments.
doris on each floor. The plaster parti-
tions dividing the sleeping chambers stop
eighteen inches below the ceilings. There
are wire gratings between their tops and
ceilings. This arrangement permits a
free and constant circulation of air. even
when the windows are closed, because
the ventIlating machinery is always in
operation.
The restaurant is cheerful, handsome,
and spacious. and it can accommodate
dinner, consisting of soup, meat, vege-
tables, dessert, and tea, coffee or milk,
costs fifteen cents. Twenty-one meal
tickets can be purchased for three dollars.
The cost, therefore. to a mar for meals.
lodging. baths, and the other privileges
Of the hotel need not be in excess of $4.4O
per week. He obtains in return for his
money. value that he could not get else
where for twice the expense, and he. gets
that value because the business is car
ried on upon so large a scale. If $4.4
per week @e assumed to be the charge ia
the average guest. it is worth while ia
add that there are some who get along
with less expense. While the average
meal costs fifteen cents, a five-cent dish
or a ten-cent dish may be ordered, or fol-
ten cents may be obtained a special
breakfast consisting of two eggs. boiled
fried or scrambled. two rolls and a cup
of coffee. By such economics the ex-
pense of living at a Mills hotel may be
brought within four dollars a week. y TIKI
furnishings throughout are plain. but moi
cheap, substantial and comfortable.