The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-05
GREAT SUCCESS Of
 WOMAN'S HOTEL Conducted Under Auspices of
 the Y. W. C. A.
  IN ATTRACTIVE QUARTERS Something of the Management of Blr- ningham's First Woman's Hotel Which Was Opened Only
 Three Weeks Ago.
IN ATTRACTIVE QUARTERS
BY ANNIE kENDRIcK WALKER.

If any one doubts that a woman's hotel cannot be conducted successfully in Bir- rningham he should get a glimpse of the Womans hotel which was opened three weeks ago at 720 North Twenty Although the hotel has been opened only . short time and there are hundreds of people, no doubt, who are ignorant of its axistence, more than half the rooms are occupied and it is expected that by the end of November all the rooms will be saken. The experimental stage has proven that the Young womens Christian association, under the auspices of which the Woman's hotel Is conducted, knew it's business when it undertook to open the hotel and while 1t was big undertaking, with such limited funds. the success of the hotel shows what many be accom- plished through well-directed efforts.
 The woman's hotel Is the spacious res edance so long occupied by Major Frank R. Anderson and where for possibly twenty years the most generous hospital Aty was dispensed, so that 1t is in pertain sense one of the "old houses' of Birmingham, and notable for its so-
 
 hnca a large two-story structure. to which additions have been made from lime to time, until it occupies almost the whole of the rear premises, which over look Capitol park, while the handsome terraces on the sides of the house give fine frontage on Twenty first street.
 The interior is arranged with an idea No spaciousness of the old-fashioned kind, nd irai1 tO of residences, with what used to be called the front" and back parlors and a stairway going up at the side of a long hall. There are two or three bedrooms on the first floor. but the majority of them are up stairs. There are num- ber of closets every bed room having either a closet or a dressing room and there are several bath rooms. A furn- ace has been put In recently and the house is lighted by gas.
 The furnishing of the hotel was under taken by different members of Y. w. c. A. board. The selection of suitable house was difficult enough in a city where the problem of living Is so great, and because this task was in the hands of a few women who were interested in the economic condition of other women, did not make matters any easier. After the house was decided upon the work of furnishing 1t was even harder, requir- ing the wise expenditure of a limited fund. But even this problem has been mastered Perhaps a description of some of the rooms in the Woman's hotel will show how a few hundred dollars judlci- ously spent can make place home-like attractive, inviting, comfortable.
 In the first place if ones first impress sions are the most lasting, those gained on entering the Woman's hotel will all ways be pleasant. The double doors swing wide to admit you and you enter the long hall which has just had It's finish ing touches in the handsome new rugs and mirrowed rack with its seat in the mission wood Ut Is so homelike,' said a woman recently, and in that one word she struck the key note in the entire furnishings of the Woman's hotel
 The parlor opens on the right, and 1t Is entirely different from the upholstered look of hotels in general That stuify look produced by plush and heavy draper les is noticeable for its absence, and in stead is the atmosphere gained from sim plicity The chairs are in the mission oak and there is piano and library table pictures, a large, beautiful apartment where any woman would be able to throw off the cares of the day, meet her friends and spend a happy evening in congenial surroundings. The dining room is back