Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-04
new MILLS HOTEL
Third Structure of the Kind
Opened by New York Phil
anthropists.
LARGER THAN THE OTHERS
Nearly 5000 Bedrooms in No. and 1t
Is IS Stories High-SimpIe
But Handsome.

The new Mills hotel just opened in
height and, like the others erected by
d. 0. Mills, the great fnancier and
philanthropist, is for men of small
means-men who desire cleanliness,
comfort and convenience, but want
also to lay up something toward at
tanning an independence. Mills hotel
No. /. with 1.554 bedrooms. and Mills
hotel No. .. with GOO bedrooms, have
been filed almost from the time of
their opening During the winter
months hundreds have been nightly
turned away for want of sufficient
rooms. And in all these ten years no
patron has suffered loss of self respect
or felt other than the pride of the self
dependent man. for he paid Il fair
equivalent for the accommodations
furnished. The enterprise has been
watched with keen interest by stu
dents of sociology all over the world
The hotels have been an object of in
terest to travellers who have visited
them and carefully inspected the
equipment and studied their admins
! tration.
Ten years ago this novel experiment
| in public lodging houses was formally
opened by its founder. d. o. Mills. 1t
, proved such an Immediate success that
| ii was followed shortly after by Mills
hotel >. and now n third one has been
erected That these Mills hotels In
augurated an experiment and novel
one. in the field of practical philan-
! thropy has been demonstrated by the
| amount of interest that their success
| or failure has excited from the first
| among those who are seeking to ameli-
1 crate certain unfortunate conditions in
our crowded cities. Health, privacy
| cleanliness. were virtually impossible
in the very cheap lodging houses, ow'
ing to the methods or policy upon
which they We're run. and then the un-
Fortunate patron of the average CHEAP
lodging house found himself handi
capped in his struggle for existence by
a set of depressing conditions that in
evitably kept him down. The probleGl
| was Il difficult one and needed a prac
teal as well as Il benevolent mind tC
meet it. In London the Rowtor
houses had been started-hotels wher,
lodgings for men We're provided at six
pence highland it occurred TO Mr.
Mills that modification of the Row
ton idea was worth trying in New
York. Now that ten years trial ha!
been given to his experiment Mr.
Mills finds that his hopes have beer
abuIdantly fulfilled.
Well Adapted to Purpose.
Mills hotel No. occupies Il spac
nearly 200 feet on West Thirty -sixt
street and 100 feet on Seventh ave
nue., New York city. Upon this site
building has been erected, simple l
STYLE. but handsome in appearance
and eXcallent!y adapted to the purpos
for which it is intended. The eXteric
J of the building presents an impressiv
yet simple appearance. 1t is of ste'
construction, faced with limeston'
N light brick and terra Gotta. Above tn
q main story the floors are granolith
upon concrete arches, with marble tie
razzo in the corridors. The hotel
n absolutely fireproof throughout.
s. Above the main floor are fourtee
stories, consisting of the 1875 be-
rooms. About 100 of them are s by
y feet ana rent for 40 cents per nigh
81 The remainder are about 8 by @ fe