The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-26
MODERN LIVING.

| Life in the great cities. to those who
of iiberality, has been made easier and
| smoother by the coming in Of the mod
| ern apartment house. This structure
should not be COMPOUNDED with the fiat
or the family hotel as it is a superior
| DEVELOPMENT of both, with some in
genious comforts added. Scores OF
these apartment houses, most of them
twelve to fifteen stories high and OF
| fre-proofed materials. are going up.
wherever. as in New York, Boston and
! Chicago the exigency of the servant
problem or the desire to live in per-
fectly modern quarters, drives families
from housekeeping.
| A new building of this kind adyertises
| in the New York papers and what 1t
offers and at what price makes an in
teresting story. The location has been
carefully chosen; it is a site on a quiet
street, two blocks from the car lines
| yet within easy call of Delmonicos and
Sherry's and of six of the leading clubs.
The best theatres are but five
minutes away. On the ground
floor is a large restaurant so ven
tilated that all the kitchen doors
escape to roof pipes; and connect
ed with it is palm-garden and loung-
ing room, mems smoking room where
refreshments are served, there being no
bar. All the public rooms are furnished
in English oak, with marble floors
throughout. Dwellers in the apartment
house may go to the restaurant or to
outside places to eat or may have meals
Served hot in their rooms. In the latter
case orders for the dishes wanted can
be telephofed from the living room to
the steward; or an arrangement can
be made at $12 per weeks per capita, for
serving table d'hote. The service at
rooms is al exact as that in the restau-
rant proper and comes at any hour you
designate.
The private apartments vary in size
from enc room with bath to suites con-
sisting of private hallway, a sitting
room, library or dining room,
three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
The trim throughout is antique
mahogany finish and the floors are of
waxed oak. Each parlor has a bay win
dow and a bookcase built in. Steam
heat may be had at any time of day or
night the whole year around.
The bathroom, which goes with every
bedroom, is of white enamel, contains
a shower and all the new comforts. A
full length French mirror is imbedded
in the door of each bedchamber. Hot
and cold water, supplied to the suites,
comes filtered. Chandeliers and side
brackets carry electric lights. While
there are servants enough, including
Wallets, for every purpose, there are
rooms and board for ones own ser
wants. Most of the rooms are left un-
furnished, SO that the tenant may sur
round himself with his own things;
though furnished rooms are kept for
the transient guests of tenants.
What the rent is, appears in the fol-
lowing published scale of prices:
One bedroom and bath ...$ 420 to 600
Sitting room, bedroom and
bath ."............ 40 to 1880
Sitting room, two bedrooms
and two baths private
hallway. ........... 1920 to 204O
Sitting room, three bed
rooms, three baths. pri
vate hallway. 1880 to 2220
Sitting room. library Cor
dining ROOM, three
bedrooms, three baths,
and private hallway :. 1900 to 1920
Rooms for maids or Wallets. $50
The conveniences for living, which
modern enterprise has wrought, puts
ordinary housekeeping, especially old
time housekeeping, very much in the
shade. The only drawback to a gen
eral acceptance of it is the cost, which
on the basis of the best apartments
and meals for small family, exceeds
$500 per annum. When clothing,
alnusements, carriage hire, laundry
and the usual extras are added one
really ought to have $4,000 per year to
spare to make the best of family exist
ence In an apartment house of the kind
described
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AS TO TRUSTS.