Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1907-11-01
NEW MILLS HOTEL,
Third Structure Opened by the
PhiIanthropist In New York.
LARGER THAN THE OTHERS.
Nearly Two Thousand Bedrooms In
No. 3, and It Is Fifteen Stories High.
What Il Offers Men Of Small Means.
Simple In Style, but Handsome.

The new Mills hotel just opened In
New York city rises fifteen stories In
height and like the others erected by
II. o. Mills, the great tinancier and
phllanthropist 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. l, with 1864 bedrooms, and Mills
hotel No 9. with 600 bedrooms, have
been filled 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 q 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. II
proved such an immediate success that
It was followed shortly after by Mills
hotel o, and now 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 amell-
crate certain unfortunate conditions III
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 were run, and then the I'M
| fortunate patron of the average cheap
lodging house found himself handl'
| canned in his struggle for existence by
a set Of depressing conditions that in
evitably kept him down. The problem
! was a difficult one and needed prac'
tica as well as benevolent mind to
meet It, In London the Rowton
houses had been started-hotels where
lodgings for men were provided at SIX
! pence a highland it occurred to Mr
| Mills that modification of the Row
| ton idea was worth trying in New
York. Now that a ten years trial has
been given to his experiment Mt
Mills finds that his hopes nave beel
abundantIy fulfilled.
Mills hotel No. 3 occupies space
nearly 200 feet on West ThlrtV'SlN'l
street and 100 feet on Seventh ave
nue. New York city. Upon this site :
building has been erected. simple il
STYLE. but handsome i'll appearance
and exceIlently adapted to the purpos'
i for which 1t is intended. The eXterio
Of the building presents an impressive
vet simple appearance. 1t is or stee
construction, faced with limestone
fight brick and terra Gotta. Above tn
main story the floors are granolithi'
unon concrete arches, with marble ter
razzo in the corridors. The hotel Il
absolutely freproof throughout.
Above the main floor are fourteel