New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-04
THE MILLS HOTELS. :
"a Story Well Worth Telling"
The Brooklyn Eagle. Dec. 8.

From The Brooklyn Eagle Dec 8.
."The Eagle to-day. on the first and second pages
Mills Hotels in Manhattan There are two Of then them
now PaTucuLar az in Orocss put Of aractinn The
story as very modestly and cOmprehensively told,
Sein wbich is brought within the reach and use
of the selfrespecting poor or those not poor VINO
and that which is necessary to that which can be
we commend this story to readers without reser.
walton. II narrates one of the best examples or
many things which are great the simplicity of it
is SURPRISING and the surprise greater than the
From the time Columbus showed how he could
stand an egg on end to the present day this has
simplest when they are done, the wonder Is they
the estimate placed upon them is universally ia
vorabe, and they become the stimulus to many
There win be other hotels in other great centres
ably not be others on Manhattan Island, for the
three which Mr., Mills has projected are believed
Geological conditions Win make upon that style of
spared e to nff GRy o e limit of PUT ce
for 1t in the community in which he lives; This
and he leaves incomplete nothing for human wei
hotels fe he e9 e e 6 s9G OF be
ment The number Of such fields is large. Some
haps. more sentimental than practical.
The practical character Of the field discovered
not rush his work He did not start his first
hotel until h had carefully thought out its plan
he had given the first one the test of time and
of management. which could alone vindicate the
| experiment and demonstrate its success. He did
not project the second hotel until, to speak.
need for 1t had been created by the result Of the
first. And now the projection of the third is due
the fact that the first and the second only
Justify but really require the construction of the
one that should be finished for occupation year
from next January ].
While Mr., Mills has been very successful in Sc
curing aChitects, builders and other craft masters
to carry out his plans he has himself put himself
into and given himself unto the work in very
real and in very spiritual sense. The value of
The value of it in spiritual respects be seen
in the blessing which has TO his own mind
and heart and in the dedication, it were, OF the
buildings which carry his name to purposes which;
in the language of Abraham Lincoln, commend
themselves to the considerable Judgment OF man
kind and 10 the gracious favor of Almighty God.
eye is not dImmed nor his natural force abated ana
he takes on as II were, q new lease of active ana
benign life from the demonstration of the success
of his well matured and perfectly vindicated en-
deavors in the field which he has specially chosen
It is not philanthropy 1t is Justice 1t is not so
much aid opportunity which he supplies. de
enjoy the advantages which he has brought Wltnln
their reach. but he has also made them cocoon
tributors with him Of those advantages, peca use
they pay their way in structures which he has
erected, and they pay IL at rate which brings
to him a decent interest his investment
We're he SDeculator, he couid telIold SVEN MS
gains from the sum which these hotels express
But he is not speculator and he does not clam
10 be even a phiianthropist. STILL he is entitled
braRce for the beautiful way In which he has
utilized wealth and made IL the servant ana the
solvent of those for whom his hotels are built anu
by whom they made not charities at AL pht
forms of enterprises that increase the sum total
Of comfort in the world without at all offending
the susceptIbites of those who avail themselves
do so IN a manner which justihes the canons of
business and the dictates OF sensinilty as wei.