The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-11
Denartment Of PubIie Instruetion.
Unique Institution That is Pat
ronizsd by Women Students
and Others of the Hub.

Perhaps i'm all of Boston there is no
institution SO unique as the Franklin
Square house. "a sort of bachelor maids
hotel. TT one happens TO be in the vi
cinity of Washington and Newton
streets i'm the morning. he viii be well
repaid for his ten minutes ride from
the down town hotel, by the sight of
perhaps 400 happy-faced young women
emerging from this hotel on their way
10 the various schools of OUatOTy, art.
music or TO offices. school rooms or
other places OF business.
The spacious building is ideally To-
Gated for the accommodation Of either
the regular resident or the transient
guest. combining as IL does the easy ae-
feasibility TO the city's business center
with the cool restfUlness of the beauti-
ful Franklin Square directly i'm front,
and the large shaded yard i'm the rear.
The building was occupied by the
New England Conservatory of Music
until about a year ago, when it was
purchased for S25O.000 by a philanth
r0pic corporation and organized under
the laws of Massachusetts. DR.. George
i. PeVin. pastor of the Every Day
church. is the father Of this ideal en-
terprise, which will ever be mOnu-
ment to his clear insight into the needs
OF young business women. Through MS
GNU u Du~lllfHe llltA anu bAAANAs N1AN
interested to the extent that money for
the payment of the building was con-
tributed The philanthropy of the or
igiuatuTS of the scheme ended there,
however. as the house was intended To
be in its practical operations entirely
seif-SupDortiuE-iu other words. q
philanthropy based ON business prin-
CiUles. but not Il charity Each resi-
dent pays for an that she gets. but it
Would seem to an outsider that she gets
full value received" and more.
A GNr3 prices weeks charged
Tor meals. but tho schedule of room
RATES is such that a girl can regulate
h"T weekly expense as she wishes pay
ing am tLl way from SIS "a WeeE-the
price OF s-o3 back Toom-to 50 or So
Tor corner suite, comprising sitting
room. bedroom and bath. Ranging be-
tween these extreme rates are prices
taat are satisfactory Co alI.
THE privileges. which belong alike 10
all residents are che most surprising
Rart &C the whole undertaking. From
tGa large main lobby with its marble
floor opens the superintendent office.
whore MIS- - -. Rangs. a most CUl-
tured and thoroughly efficient woman,
may De found, the library, containing
several hundred choice books. the late
Iaea zines aui tlp daily papers. the
W-ftInc room and NOT least important.
1he Iarge. airy dining room. ringing
three times t day with ,ue merry greet
mss and laughter of tine 300 girls ami
proving jhe cou;-Utmeut chat is found
there iu E00d service ana good meals.
Besides une large double parlOrs. i'm
one of which there is a piano. there are
eleven smaller ores. where guests may
entertain visitors privately. Each OF
these has been artisticaiiy furnished by
some lady patron. and no two are alike.
Ia. .H.ea D.
man, which contains a three-mauual
$4,000 organ. and which is used for or
sam TCcltdls. concerts. lectures and
other entertainments. TO which each
guest iS invited. a smaller hall with
stage ana scenery IS used for private
tAeauicels, dancing OF society meet
in-s.
There Is "a oostoHice in the building
with mail four times daily. telephones
on each I0or. elevator sood bath
rooms. electric curling irons Cand what
Glrl could live WITHOUT curling irOnsD.
frsJ-elass laundry service at reason
able rates and. what seems best of
All 90 girls away from home a hos
pitoL where permanent guests are
cared for when they are ill By ply
Stefan and nurse free Of charge
The house Is operated on principles
OF mutual trust Dr. Perkins believes
that there should be the smallest pos
sible abridgment of personal liberty
consistent with good reputation ard
the comfort OF an. I'm this respect. the
relation 81 a resident I'm the Franklin
Square house is not greatly different
-rom that of a student 70 his college.
Gentlemen are seen dining at the
mouse every evening-an innovation,
indeed. In "a girls hotel. and one which
seems to be peculiarly agreeable to the
guests Refreshments may be had in
the pariors I'm the evening mt slight
expense. The house is entirely nom
sectarian. no tests of creed being made
and no attempts go proselyte. Girls
arc here from nearly every state IN
The Union. including California and
Utah The transient department is wei
patronized by women travelling alone
on sojourning in the city for "A short
time. A special price is charged this
class OF guests, varying with the size