Durango semi-weekly herald. (Durango, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1905-06-26


ing OF eggs, coffee, rolls or cereal
foods is served for 10 cents; lunch
con for the same price, and din
ner of soup, meat. two vegetables and
dessert, with tea, coffee or milk, costs
10 cents. The following is a recent
bill of fare:
Soup
Consomme, with Noodles.
| PURGE OF Tomatoes,
Hot Meats.
Roast Turkey. Cranberry Sauce.
| Roast Beef. Dish Gravy.
Fricasseed Lamb, with Mushrooms.
Cold Meats.
| Boiled Fresh Beef Tongue.
| Fish
| Fried Smells. Tartar Sauce.
Boiled Cod Egg Sauce.
Vegetables.
Boiled Sweet Potatoes.
| Mashed Potatoes.
Caulifower Hollandaise Sauce.
Fried Egg Plant. Celery Salad.
Plum Pudding.
Pumpkin Pie Baked Apples.
| Tea. Coffee. Milk.
The guest had his choice from this
list and is served on attractive china
dishes, white linen tableclotbs and
has paper napkins.
Thus man can live at the Mills
Hotel for 50 cents a day or $3.50 a
| week. There are between 500 and
900 regular boarders at Mills Hotel
No. /. and between 300 and 400 at
homes at that cost They are chief
ly mechanics, bookkeepers, clerks,
porters. engineers and other wage
earners having employment in the
neighborhood.
During the fall. winter and spring
transients, and often as many as 200
have been turned away for lack of
room. The receipts have been great
Ell that the expenses from the day
that the doors were first opened, and
Mr.. Mills has the qualification of
accomplished. He has not only fur
nished respectable men of small
means with a comfortable and at
tractive place TO live, but mas demon
strated to investors that such enter
prises will pay good dividends.
For time it was quite tne thing
for visitors to the city to pass a night
or take meal at the Mills hotels.
Some of the wealthiest and most cele-
brated men of this country and Eu-
rope have slept under its roofs and
nave paid Is cents for a wholesome
dinner The late George Francis
Train was one of the first comers,
He took room few days after
Hotel No. | was opened and occupied
1t continuously for seven years until
mis- death. T. II. Thomas, the mana
ger, says that Mr.. Train is very much
missed
The hotels are becoming known all
over the world" he said: and in a
way that Is very gratifying. Only a
few days ago a man presented a bed
ticket which was some months out
of date and asked if he was in the
his ticket had expired he told us that
it had been given MIN by a friend in
| johannesburg, South Africa, who rec
| commended nim to come here. We
have had guests from New South
Wales, India and all otner parts OF
the world"
The municipal authorities are build.
! ing a new model free lodging-ho house on
| Twenty-ffth street, near First ayen-
| ne, al cost of s175. 900 It will have
room enough TO accommodate between
600 and 700 men and women.
There are several other free lodg-
ing houses in New York, but this is
to be of an advanced tyIe and will
serve as sort of quarantine as well
as a hotel and clubhouse for hoboes.
| There is a similar institution on the
| West Side in Chicago. When man
applies for lodgings he leaves his val
uables with the clerk and is sent
down to the bathroom, where ne Is
compelled to take a thorough scrub
bling. and in the meantime his cloth
ing is being fumigated. He then
passes on, germless and clean, o.
walting-room. where a doctor looks
aim over If ne shows signs of dis
ease he is sent to the isolation-room
II not he goes TO another waiting
room. where he is given wholesome
dish of soup and a chunk of bread
and is assigned to a bunk in an oper
l a.,
the same manner.
A novelty in such establishments Is
a separate department for families
who have been burned out. evicted o.
are homeless for any other reason
Such unfortunates will be taken carr
of for forty-eight hours in order t.
give them a chance TO find new homes
WILLIAM f. CURTIS.