The sun., 1901-12-12
A WOMANS SUGGESTION.
The Model Boarding House Urged as
Field for the Investment OF Capital.

To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-Sir: While
your correspondents are commercially agi-
tsting the question OF supply OF needed
two-dollar r-a-day hotels for this city. may !,
as woman not interested personally In
that class OF hostelry, but In another that Is
especially woman's work. suggest the atten-
ton OF capital to the erection OF boarding
houses, built for the purposep Hotel keeping
is not woman's work, but she Is par excellence
the boardin g-house keeper. and / would
like to ask what accommodations are made
for herr is there a boarding house in New
York city built expressly for the purpose2
We. the women who make our livings by keep
ing other people alive are compelled TO take
over such houses as are no longer 1T Tor
human beings to dwell In. and in them we
must wear our lives out trying to make our
patrons comfortable The old ramshackle
things have no modern conveniences OF heat.
light or water. and no elevators, no offices
no arrangements for the accommodations
of many times more people than they were
originally built 10 house. and If we do not
make our people as comfortable as they
would be ia good family hotel Of modern
construction. they cay all the mean and
horrid things they can about us. We do
not assume to be able to run hotels accom-
modating two or three hundred guests. but
we certainly know how to run houses accom-
modating from twenty to fifty or sixty, or
even more, people: and we we ought to have I've
our sakes, but for the comfort OF those we
look after
house once for his money? Say. house OF
about forty rooms. each one small. but not
too small. with doors connecting 10 other
rooms. so that they might be made into suites
for families. Then have nice little ONCE.
reception room. smoking room. and a nice
light dining room, With modern kitchen.
good bath rooms. plenty of hot water and down
the ball an elevator big enough TO llit NIFTY
people day up about four floors.
the men who keep hotels as are real hotels
would turn up their noses at II, but Il would
be a Rodsend to us poor women, ana would
make the lot Of the boqrder little less
unhappy. At the same time, ! feel pretty
sure II would not be a bad Investment Tor
capital, because. it would not be an elaborate
and costly %9gd S ybsFe hsn
such houses could be conveniently placed
bet tween Eighth street and Forty-second.
where now ill-smellins, badly pium6ed un.
clutter IN the earth. Possibly there may not
be capital enough OF the vcnturesome sort
dollar "a day hotel. but why should IL not go
into the boarding house field? Not great
amount is required. and many people
,hoSssnd Ua sPVS such board bcardins houses ps. up iS
get into chem would have such a revuIsion
Of feeling from the old things that great
revival Of religion would result People
with Christian charity living in the kind Of
boarding houses there are In New York, and
as for US poor women who must keep Them.
why, n we are not perfect fends It is only
because nothing short of born angel can
keep boarding house IN this town. Who
will come TO our relief? What ar greater
houses would be than a stack Of Libraries as
high as all the church steep!es piled on top
WOMAN VINO KEEPS Bo.npEns
NEW YORK. Dec 10