Milford chronicle., 1924-07-04
UNCLE TED'S
BEDTIME STORIES
CHARLES G. DAWES AND HIS
PRACTICAL SYSTEM OF
CHARITY

JACK talking to his sister, Ruth.
Let's ask him now for anOtb
story. What's the use Of waiting II
til late?" said Ruth.
So away they went after Unc
Ted, teasing until he gave in al
started another story on the Repu
lican Vice President nominee. GeI
eral Charles G.. Dawes.
The last time 1 talked to Won Xii
dies about General Dawes. 1 ga,
you more Of a general idea of his il
teresting career" began Uncle Te
Tonight l want to show YOU IL
tender side of his nature. Gener;
Dawes has done more for charity /
a truly practical way than MANY te
men of his position in life put tC
gether. But it has always been har
to learn a great deal about his gen
erous gifts and philanthropies, a
they are called, because he won
talk about them. He would rathe
discuss new pipe. In other word
he is a modest man and, therefore
sincere.
General and Mrs. Dawes had E
great sorrow about twelve years acc
when their only son, Rufus Fearine
Dawes, was drowned in Lake Gen
eva. This boy was 81 years old and
in the junior class at Princeton ITni-
Yerslty and had been working hard
to train himself so that some day he
could go ahead with the work his
father had started. This meant that
every vacation he had worked in
stead of loafing. One time he worked
in an engineering camp in South
Dakota Where the party took typhoid
fever. He helped as a nurse until he
too was taken ill. Like his father he
was generous to the last degree. He
saved $50 from his work that sum-
mer and the following Christmas he
spent 500 of it in buying baskets of
food for poor families.
"At another vacation time he work.
ed in a gas house in Seattle. One
summer he worked for a plumbing
firm, earning $50 a month. The last
vacation job he had was in the lab
oratory Of the Chicago Heights Gas
Company. He was drowned during |
the last two weeks of his vacation. |
which he had taken off for recrea-
tion.
"His death was undoubtedly the
greatest blow that his father ever
received or ever will receive. Gener-
al Dawes hopes were all wrapped up
in his boy and the future.
ut was not long after the death
of his son that Gen. Dawes started
his three hotels that have been op-
Grated so well for doWn-and-out men
and women. The first was built and
dedicated as memorial to his son.
Ihls hotel is known as the "Rufus F.
Dawes Hotel for Destitute Men," and {
is located on the West Side of Chi |
cago. So many hotels and places of I
this kind constantly remind those {
who are forced to use them that they t
are up against it and really accept s
charity. But in the Rufus F. Dawes
Hotel there is nothing to remind I
hose who stay there that they are r
laYing a hard time in this world. s
The hotel was opened January 1, il
914, and it has been popular ever "
ince, its reputation spreading from a.
'Oast to Coast. A man can get a bed fl
or nickel or dime and the meals h
Ost less than cents each. During al
he first four months this hotel was IL
pen, 74,161 men were accommodate g;
Il. m
while General Dawes will not in
ak about his hotels as a general n;
hing, he will say at all times that e.
e wants it understood that they are de
OF charity institutions and that no tn
le can interfere with the private
fairs of the guests in his hotels. or
fter this first hotel was running go
ong in good shape he started an pr
her in Boston giving it the same OF
lme and running it along the same de
les exactly as the one in Chicago. pc
February 1917 he started the tn,
ary Dawes Hotel for Women as at
butte to his mother. Together with lea
5 brother, Henry M. Dawes, who the
sists him in the managing of these to
tells, he wrote the following in lor
'uctions to the employees in all of
I'm: vel
"'We are simply hOtelkeeperS, "gt
md the Mary Dawes Hotel is are
nothing but hotel run as a first AM
lass, respectable place, differ VIII
ng from other tirSt class hotels lea
,nIy in its cheaper prices. Since in
,ur guests pay for our service, wa
We assume no right as hotel shy
.eepers to inquire into their pri- : too
ate affairs. There is nothing in -
he fact that one becomes our
aging guest, either in our hO- Lit
els for men or for women, ser
7hich should subject him or her ten
D any other restrictions than if Pri
larger rate per day were being TIL
aid. Gle
awe wish to assure our pa ent
rOns that so long as they are the
rderly and depOrt themselves
rODerIy while in our hotels To-
heir independence will not be Y
lterfered with, nor will they be
ffrOnted with unasked advice or p
lterference with their private Dei
fairs. At the Rufus Dawes effa
TOtels at Boston and Chicago in is a
ne last three years we have reg in +
tered and cared for over 5OO,- and
DO guests, and we claim at no ford
Otel charging so times their "Ne
ties is better order observed or stat
reater appreciation Of others mat
lOWn by guests ly d
This gives you a real idea of Stan
t General Dawes has accom- tbe
he'd for the destitute. It shows field
gentler, human side of a big One
/. His idea of helping the down I'm ,
out people is not just to sign meet
TVa Al no
SEND a check' III MS system ne vine
eIplng the unfortunate anu az we'll
caDOn time making IL DAY SO LIldL ,1s-ol