Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-24

to supply clean, comfortable accommodate
lions for men OF small means. He charges
% cents q day for single room with
bed as comfortable as any one can get for
$40 day at the Waldorf-Astoria. and the
food served at corresponding prices Is Just
as good. clean and wholesome as can be OBJ
tanned at Delmonieos. For 10 cents or
dollar day, any sober. clean and respect
able man obtain as much comfort and
wholesome food as he needs. Tramps are
not admitted; nor drunken men, nor per-
sons of disreputabie appearance, and the
hotel is just quiet and orderely, and Its
patrons are just as weli-behaved as those
of the most aristocratic estahiisninen on
Fifth avenue. And both establishments
are practically filed every day of the
year.
Mills Hotel No ], accommodating 1.5OO
dodgers. haAbeen running eight years; Mills
Hotel No. 2 has been running seven years.
Both of them netted per cent to their
owner the first year they We're opened, ana
have since paid as much as per cent ana
never less than per cent net. They nave
been so successful as investment and so
satisfactory a benevolence that Mr..
Mills is now erecting a third hotel uptown,
al the corner of Seventh avenue ana 5oth
street, on the edge of the ''Tenderlein dis
trict and not far from the new Penhsyl-
vania railway station. 1t Will be ready LOT
occupancy January l, 1907 1t Will De nj
teen stories high, 225 feet on Seventh ave-
nue. and $50 feet on Beth street, and VIII
be a Duplicate so far interior arrange
ments are concerned, OF Mills Hotei ~. \,
except that 1t Will dcColHiiouatc A..,'O
dodgers. The ground cost s275,oO0. The
building will cost upwards of a million and
a half, and the furniture about slp,ooo,
making the otal investment OF about TWO
millions and Mr. Mills expects TO derive
from II a profit similar to that he Is re-
ceiving from the other hotels.
Pennsylvania Railroad Expenditures.
The Forthcoming annual report of Presi-
dent Cassatt of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, which will be ready for the an
nual meeting of stockholders in March,
promises to be an unusually Interesting
document, as it will contain a review of
what has been done during the last three
years in the improvement of thu physical
conditions of the road and the plans TOR
future improvements About $500 900, coo
has BEEN and will be, spent by the present
administration in rebuilding the tracks
and duplicating them. in removing and re-
ducing grades and curves. In replacing
bridges, in efevating the tracks In cues,
IN constructing the new tunnels in New
York Brooklyn, Long Island City, in build
ing stations in Washington, Wilmington,
New York. Pittsburg and at other points,
and in charging the terminals at Brook
Ign. Jersey City, Pittsburg, Philadelphia,
Wilmington Washington, Staten Island
and elsewhere. The engineers and archi-
tects of the company are now engaged In
making plans for new terminals at Chlca-
go, which intended to be the equals OF
those in any other city, but they are not
yet mature enough TO publish. Before the
end of the year the Pennsylvania road viii
have four tracks between Philadelphia and
Pittsburg and between Philadelphia and
New York. There will be double track
from Pittsburg to Chicago and from Phila-
delphIa to Washington.
The mileage of the Pennsylvania system,
not including the Baltimore and Ohio
Chesapeake and Ohio, Norfolk and West
ern and other lines, in which 1t holds large
interests. Is now TO- 999 Sc miles. The
gross earnings for last year were $23S, IT,
52S, an average of about S2i ,662 per mile.
The capital stock authorized is s400, 600 600,
of which $780,, 513. 300 has been issued.