Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-07-29
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WORKING GIRLS HOTEL
TO OPEN IN GOTHAM
TPoWmaPt Inn Will Mean Much
for The Poor But Honest
Young Woman Who Tolls
NO UNNECESSARY RESTRICTIONS
Promoter of tho Enterprise Says
That It Is Not Run to Make Money
But as neutrality-suspicious.
More Than IS Years Old Are
Barred from Entering.
~ s,G:eEs

Trowmart Inn, the new hotel for
working women, In Abingdon Square.
VIII be opened to the public on Aug
ust 1.
That 1t will not start with It's full
complement of three hundred guests
Is due to the desire Of w. r. II. Mar.
tin, the originator and owner of tho
Inn, to 80 slow at the beginning un-
I'll Il number of little details about
the management have adjusted them
selves.
There will be no formal exer.
cises Of any kind" said MIR. Martin to
New York Tribune reporter. '.We
shall just open the doors anu put up
the flag with tho hotels name ON 1t.
The latchstring will he out and the
hotel will be running"
Exclusively for Women.
Trownarl Inn us was stated
some time ago in The New York
Tribune, was built exclusively for
women, and particularly for those
earning not more than $40 or s12 a
week.
Named after Trowbridge, Mr.. Mar
tins son, who died, in combination
with the first syllable of the family
name. 1t was planned for the benc-
fit OF the self-snpportlng girl who Is
tired of the tawdry lodging room
ana sick of the miserable rookery To
which her little salary has forced
her TO CO."
a sewing room. with sewing ma.
chimes, cutting tables and pressing
irons, all free; pressing rooms,
where a shirtwaist OF turnover can
be renovated; n resident woman
physician, and Il laundry, with iron
Ing facilities ana steam.heated
drying room, also all free. and am.
pie facilities for receiving men
friends, are among the attractions
of Trowmart Inn.
Board at Low Figure.
Board has been placed at $3.50
for two in u room; IS where one
rooms alone.
1--we got an interesting PROPOSE.
tion here, and I'm going to make "a
success of It," said Mr.. Martin. Then
going OIL to speak of womon's hotels
In general, he said:
"This way of doing good has been
attempted before. by Stewart ana
Tilden, for instance, but they left
their plans to be carried out by trus-
tees or legatees, who did not have
the vital interest In their schemes
which have In this, but who work
ed to defeat their plans. Hilton lie.
feated Stewards plans, and as smart
as Tilden was his heirs found a
flaw in his will and ripped 1t open.
II Must Succeed.
Now; will do this in my life.
time. My trustees can't say to me,
We can't take this and run 1t on
the lines you say, because at can't
be done without an endowment be.
cause can say 1t has been done,
and here are the books, and ] have
little sinking fund, and you take
1t on these terms or bettcrments to
carry 1t out on the lines have pro-
posed
Mr.. Martin characterizes his new
enterprise as philanthropy, not a
charity. a want 1t understood, !" The
said, {" that no return Is looked for
on this investment--not an iota of
a return-and that the cost OF the
building and equipment has not been
considered, except so far as would
make 1t economical to run.
Money No Consideration.
But while the hotel Is not run.
to make money. it must pay Its own
way. If at the end Of the fiscal
year | find 1t possible to accommo-
date girls for less than $3.50 and S.
4 propose to cut down the price Of