Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-22
TITLED WOMAN'S
UNIQUE CHARITY.
Tired of Running PhiIanthropic
Ventures at a Loss, Lady
Hope Builds Hotel.
TO HOUSE TWO NOVEL CLUBS
One Composed OF Men Servants and
The Other of Clerks--StalSes
S25O,O0o ON Her Idea.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
II ONION. Feb. 13.--rt Is an ac-
oepted axiom of modern day
philanthropy that charities
which pay their way accomp-
Dish the most good. London is over
stocked with charities that subsist on
what they can wheedie ont Of the
public. Their promoters expend a
prodigious amount of energy in beg
cling Keeping their money-collect-
Ing machinery going swallows up a
large percentage of their incomes
But of self-suppordng charities there
is woeful lack. That alone would
suffice to- assure warm welcome for
Lady Hopes latest enterprise, which
Is the result OF long personal and
costly experience of philanthropc
ventures that are kept alive by more
or less reluctant doles.
AT her own expense she has built
and Just opened for business" Con-
naught House, a great pile OF red
brick buildings In the English me-
tropolis. II affords a measure of the
extent to which she possesses the
courage of her convictions. To dip
into ones pocket for a cold quarter
of a million and 10 stake that com
Portable fortune on ones ideas OF n
paying charity is certainly going it
strong. Dealing in possible revenues
from a charity IL like trading in Cop
pers'' on the New York stock eS-
change-about as big a gamble as can
be imagined.
COVERS A. WIDE FIELD.
Connaught House covers wide
fleld. In one aspect. and probably
the most important from the financial
"a n ri mr. n tH l. n.
tho pay-for-what-you-g plan. Two
hundred bedrooms have been provid-
"a and dining room aeating more
than 200 people has beon Installed on
the ground floor. on tho face OF H.
the new hotel IN Hike any other--ouL
for the monsy-but even the most
cursory OF examinations will convince
anybody that there Is indeed n Wide
difference. The rooms are let az such
extraordinary low rentals and meals In
the restaurant are provided at such
astonishingly small prices that the
obvious question Is, Who IS goinu 10
pay for 1t all? Lady Hope says ~
Will pay for itself and something
over.
CLUB FOR SERVANTS,
Tho rooms OF the hotel are 10 10
occupied only by tho members OF thi
two clubs that have been formed by
this energetic woman of title, First
and perhaps closest to her heart, is
the Hope club, which In n develop
ment of a scheme that has long been
one of Lady Hopes pot ideas. II rs
a club for men servants which, unfel
the auspices OF her ladyship, started
number of years ago In house u
upper Berkeley street. and whloli
grew 30 rapidly In membership that
II was soon found necessary 10 take
three other houses. The membership
jumped from bakers dozen % up
wards OF 500 In less than a year
This club has been moved bodily
from its foar separate homes TO Con,
naught House, where II Is housed
under one roof-and a roof 40 LARGE
that there Ia danger of It's 500 menu
bers being lost sight Of The fee lor
membership which was about SEQ,
under the old order OF things mas
been continued ~ the Sumo amount
ana In Connaught House entitled ne
members 10 style OF club life Whleh
would be enWed by the majority OF
the members OF "swell' clubs IN l.on-
don. There Is big library, finnist-
cd and upholstered Ia red leather
gymnasium fitted with the very ia,-
est and newest OF appliances q pl
lard room where on two tables d
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