The sun., 1912-07-14
w IHAT will Mrs Oliver Hazard
\A/ Perry Belmont do next2 She

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\A/ Perry Belmont do next2 She
Wv has already been active In
farming. club work. q num-
Der Of unusual philanthropies. entertain
ing on argc scale and all sorts Of endeav-
ors In behalf OF woman suffrage. from
waiting on table to marching and public
speaking and the expenditure of q great
deal OF money for the good of the cause.
and now just In the last week it has been
announced that she il TO run miniature
hotel. The announcement has aroused
- much interest as Mrs. Belmont's earlier
experiments as farmer
Mrs Belmont a. hotel keeper would
be difficult to picture mentally had she
not already surprised her friends and
that big public which does not know her
personally by one unexpected enterprise
after another. Those who know her.
therefore. are mostly content to say that
II ahe has decided to keep hotel It will
undoubtedly DO . good one. And IL one
asks Why Mrs. Belmont has turned to
hotel keeping the answer ia the same as
that which accounts for most Of her un-
dertalsings In the last three years-her
interest In woman suffrage. She is just
- enthusiastic and energetic a eufyragist
- when she first announced her adher-
snoe to the cause about four years ago.
Tho hotel Ia a development Of the suf-
frage club which Mrs Belmont instituted
and for which shc bought and equipped
Q homo last November. The two houses
ct 10 and IS East Forty first street were
purchased by her and altered for suffrage
purposes at a cost Of $500. 600. as she her
self has said. This sum did not include
the furnishing. Now the house at l3 is
to be q small hotel for suffragists. 1t
will be opened in September If you go
past Il now you can see workmen Mt the
windows and a sound OF hamnering Is
audible most Of the day.
Number is. which ia also undergoing z
reconstruction. is to be the homo OF the
suffrage club that Mrs. Belmont founded
the Political Equality Association-and
its neighbor TO the west is TO he devoted
above the second floor to suites with baths
where visiting suiIragists can put up in
comfort for night or week without tho
usual dependence Oh man. II will not
be O Hotel Martha Washington though.
A man who believes in votes for women
will be able to get rooms there II any are
vacant. The place is TO be hotel and
buanesslike one primarily and there will
not even be any restriction Of guests to
suiYragists. but Of course bitter oppo-
nent Of the enfranchisement OF women
would not be likely to apply for suite
while other hotels were open.
There are four stories and basement
to IS East Forty-first street, but the whole
OF the first floor will be part OF the suf-
frage clubs lunch room. That's one OF
the things the carpenters are attending
TO lust now. The layout Of the two houses
will be as follows:
The basement Of - will be the hotel
entrance and the three upper floors will
be given over TO suites of rooms. each
with bath. bedroom and parlor. The
basement Of Is will be the shop OF The
Political Equality Association. OF which
more will be told soon. The three upper
floors OF IS will be the rooms Of the clnh.
The whole OF the first floor OF l3 and
Is will be one big room practically and
will be the club S lunch room.
When Mrs. Belmont started the lunch
room early last winter she had no idea