The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-13

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sNow, 10 81 down 10 businsrs-to facs
squsssly ths question, 'caa . thFso dollsr .
week boafdine house BE- made % payr
Il say. 'yes.' n 10 70 run On Q STRICTLY BUSH
ness basis and b iocatsd In . dlstFtct whefo
10 h most sorely needed. Here ere some
data 70 prove this: About Eve years ego q
Mis- Robsrteou started IN Chicago just such
Q boarding houas. with accommodation for
eighty girA ut Q weekly charge q hsad OF
from ss.76 20 ss.se, the difference In price
indicating q differences In room accommo-
dalton, not In meals. There were two or
three giris TO q room. ! believe, and IN
spite OF tho fact that relatively II takes
more 10 feed q smaller han q larger number
Of persons, The Eleanor has prospered TO
the extent Of starting Eleanor No. 2. with
accommodation for eighty more girls.
Yes, I admit that rents may be cheaper
In Chicago than here, but che difference In
rent would be Offset by having houses In
New York 20 take are Of twice or three
times eighty under one roof.
sTo come back to New York. At the
Clara do Himch Home, which n also o train
ing school, and where young girls arc
boarded for O nominal sum for six months.
or until they learn q trade, the meals served.
which are plentiful and wholesome, cost
exactly Q ei0 cents each. I got the exact
figures from the manager, q practical bust
ness woman. and l sampled the meals,
which are good enough for anybody.
Again, In the Little others' Association,
Of which I am president, I have found that
tho cost Of feeding a. few a. fifty children
at che summer headquarters 10 exactly Sl.Ao
each per week. I say children, but there
are many large girls among the number,
and perhaps none who eats less than the
averags working girl.
And they have substantial meals-a
cereal md hash or egge, besides bread n
butter and milk for breakfast; meat, vegs-
tables and O pudding for dinner; cold meat
or baked beans, together with slowed fruit,
bread and butter and oake for supper.
NOW, II this can Be done with 90 few as
fifty, II ought to DO easy enouehto q ooom-
plish with four times that number.
I'm the same ratio running expenses
may DO kept down as the number Of the
boarding house family goes up. The cook
We employ for the Little Mothers could as
easily cook for four times fifty, With q little
extra help ippreparing vegetables, Of course,
and q good housekeeper can oversee o big
house % easily az a small n o
sTo sum up" Mrs. Burns continued.
sthose Of us who have given serious oon-
sideration to the imminent need Of cheap
boarding houses for working girls have
oome to this conclusion
.The most practical and economical
way to satisfy this need is to rent a large
house or houses In various sections where
they are most needed, make the rooms
fresh and clean with paint and paper. hut
refuse to spend n cent In renodelling.
In the larger rooms put single beds for
two, threo or four girls, and reduce the
working force, II necessary. by asking the
girls to make their own beds. Have the
various departments managed by thor
ouRhly practical business women accus-
toned to that sort OF work, and have the
same ~rules-no more-whioh are observed
In any respectable boarding house.
Fl am In favor Of ONE running board
tag houses and hot els OF this class, not men.
II several such boarding houses at which
the weekly rate charged was about s. were
started and proved to DO a success I am
certain there are wealthy wonen In this
city who would immediately put up the
money to build hotels Of the same class
with all modern ,oonvenienoes. These
women are only holding back for fear OF
sinking their money in = hopeless enter
prise
Bartender Superstition.
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