Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-03-09
HOME FOR 40 CENTS A DAY.
The Problem for Honest werkins Girls
Solved by John Arbuck1e-His
deep Sea Hotel"

| How can a refined girl live in New
York on a salary of six dollars week?
The question has never received any
thing like Il serious answer until John
Arbuckle, coffee and sugar merchant
by vocation and phianthropist by avo-
cation, undertook to answer it, says A. b.
Reeve in Public Opinion. In order 10
get some idea of what number of ap-
plcants he would have to deaf with in
his new scheme. MIR. Arbuckle inserted
headed. $3.50 per week, or forty cents
per day. board and lodging for women;
$50 per week or fifty cents per day,
board and lodging for men,, and fol-
lowed II by this descriptive announce
mcnt "rwo short blocks from Twen-
ty-third street. New York city. Good.
substantial. healthy food; homelike
rocking comfortable, we'll ventilated
bedrooms. large. light airy dinng-room.
parIor, smok n room. :eading-room:
piano, daily pagers and monthly maya
zinc for free use of the guests Tho
poorer YOU arc the more cheerfully
you will be received. provided you are
respectable"
Some time ago Mr. Arbuckc cstab-
lishcd what he called a "deep-sea no.
tel by rettting vessel. the Jacob A.
Stamlcr, to give wage "arncrs short
sea voyage and brace them mp To con-
time their work during the summer.
But when he heard of the very low wages
which are being paid 10 young women.
he decided that the floating hotel might.
during the winter months, be ntilized to
accommodate them. and. If successful,
carried ON the year through. The re-
al. To, lao ,1,-oy tis.c,1 ,t war mn.
merous and urgent that Mr.. Arbuckle
has put the Jacob a. Stamler in COM
mission again, and when il is fully made
ready it will provide accommodations
for scventvtvc girls. Many Of the re-
plies came from men. and II accomno-
date them tho John Wise wa fitted up
with room for Twenty-Five. The "hotcl,'
latter its first week in operation. was
running to it's full capacity. with about
forty-hve guests. tho other rooms be-
ing fitted up and taken as fast as pos
!, sible. In order &c get complete idea
of what the fortY-ccnt Hotel was like, 7
journeyed down to the foot OF West
Twenty-.irst street where the ships are
moorcd
The forward cabin of the Stamler t.,
htt'd up as the paror. r~cepton-room.
: or livne-rooni. is YOU choose to call it.
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upho's''re" "'N'" VIII" many Soia pm
: lows. IN the centre If the room are
tables covered with magazines ard pa
prrs and tastefully decorated with
: plants. a piano in on" corner is open
for any one musically inclined while II
, tho inclination exists but the ability 10
lacking. pianoa is provided. In this
room both mon and women allowed.
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