The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-29
GOOD FOOD FOR POOR FOLK
The First of Sir Thomas Lipton's Alex
andra Trust Restaurants Opened in

The First of Sir Thomas Lipton's Alex
andra Trust Restaurants Opened in
London.
London has long been far behind
Paris, Vienna and Christiana in it's pro-
vision of cheap and we'll equipped res
taurants for the working classes, but
thanks to the initiative of the Princess
of Wales to-day will see our metropolis
possessed of an institution which will
compare favorably with the model es-
Establishments of the kind on the Con-
tinent. Though the first restaurants
conducted by the Alexandra Trust
which is to be opened in the City Road
this morning Is to De inaugurated with
no more ceremony than that Of unlock
ing the doore, it must surely be regard
ed as suspicious that the event should
occur during the Queens stay in our
midst, and it is ont revealing confidence
to say that the Princess of Wales pre-
fers to come and see the place in work
ing order, as she intends to do on an
early date, to any formal proceedings
with speeches and vote of thanks. The
great building in which well cooked
meals are to be served at a cost below
anything previously attempted COM
mercially in London is close to the i'm
portant tram and omnibus junction at
Old street, and stands in the heart of
a crowded population of workers.
Sir Thomas Upton with the keen in
sight of the practical man of business,
saw that there was every reason to
anticipate that restaurants for the
working classes could be maintained
upon the sound lines of honest trade,
as much as tenement dwellings or the
Rowton Houses, and expressed himself
as ready to contribute a sum that was
originally fixed at G100,000, but which
has since been materially Increased.
AS laid down in it's own words, the
object of the Trust Is for the supplying
of wholesome food at moderate prices
to the working classes. The governors
anticipate return something like per
cent on the outlay of the capital, but
whatever profit is made will be used en-
tirely for the benefit of the classes for
which the Trust was founded"
There is a handsome lobby, with
palms, flooring Of mosaic, and the
Princess of Waless cipher and coronet
in colored inlay. On the one side, the
swinging pitchpine doors are marked
ae the mems and the women's entrances
but beyond an indication that this is
the case there is not any hard and fast
division of the sexes inside. Smoking is
not permitted near the tables immedi-
ately round the women's doors, and this
end will therefore naturally become
theirs. In the centre of each hall is the
bar and counter, fitted with bright cleo
r,x,I rv,1
milk bowls, while pure water, drawn
from an artesian well 300 feet deep, is
supplied gratutously.
Women have been particularly well
catered for throughout, and in the base
ment the toilet rooms provided Will be
of the utmost convenience to those who
come in from the suburbs for their day 8
work. Here are the numerous marble
basins, with incessant water supply;
round towels and soap for the free use
of all customers, while further boon is
that boots can be cleaned here for
halfpenny. That is g convenience which
only those who know the true inward
ness" of the lives of countless girls in
cheap lodgings could have suggested.
In general scope and plan the famous
Volkskuche, started by DR.. Kuhn, in Vi
emma, have been followed and Lady
Faudel Phillips paid long visit of in
quiry to these, and to see how far their
methods might be adaptable to Eng
lsh needs. Fraulein Priebek, their
chief manageress, YVES induced to come
to this country and supervise final de-
tails. and the experienced Austrian lady
who pronounces all to be "Schon, |
schon," will remain here for come weeks |
to set everything in working order.
The hungry customer in want of a |
meal viii find in the vestibule numerous !
bills of fare, and the state of his or her /
picket is consulted in items that start