HOTEL FOR WORKMEN

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 375, 16 July 1903, Page 6

HOTEL FOR WORKMEN

Chicago Laboring Men to Be Giren a Modern and Cheap Hostelry. J. W. Gossard and A. Montgomery W«rd Considering Plana to Build sm Institution Similar to Mills' Hotel, at New York. J. W. Gossard and A. Montgomery Ward, both well-known students of practical sociological problems, may back a movement to give to Chicago a hotel for workingmen similar to tLM Mills hotel in .New York. The two men hare not discussed the matter personally, but the subject was broached to Mr. Gossard by John H. Bogue, representing Mr. Ward. | "I have had such a hotel in mind • for some time," said Mr. Gossard, "and I would like to go in with some capitalist and erect one. or I would hf"..'! a stock company for the pnr-p,-j.-:-. }.'..-. Ward has found me in the right mocd for joining him if a hotel can he erected according to my ideas, gained fr-im personal experience Bcnift;: :;■;- people whom such an inEt:t :i: :• := would benefit. ":?: {;:*» first place, it should be sit-: ' ••! in the downtown district, wi;iiis» the limp if possible. It should be ;:t lea&t I- stunts high and of the insist modern fireproof construction, art:! livir? ? «-:idr! he had on both the A:i:« r"cj:i> and F?---nenn plans. On Ihe Am r ; > an plan the highest price woi.iu ut one dollar per oar and on the 3 :.-<>•'.•::•! [!r:i ihe would be :t t: rate of about 20 cents per m."ht. Every modern srnitary convenVf "i" would emer into the const •' •*> •:•; *':<-re would be a bath in rv.-n >fi;:-. tub-- si: the higher-priced rocms :. : .-hcr.vt-r laths in the rest. I*lst» ::•■•• 's v.-o?:!d he mod-trate in pric : •• . lb-re would be two restn>-- : •-:. one serving a vegetable d:-" i/ilv. the other a mixed diet. ":%■-:-• sVstild he a free employyppr.. ......-_ a f ree dispensary for th-- ■■ -- r \ ha'h treatn:ent rooms fr-r *' -'■ who are obliged to get the • r ."» ;i \er' out of their systems b. ■'■ r. - u '>v can hrnce up. The vegetr.r r .: litt will be a part of the t: •"*•'» ■•■'. There will be prorisions fir '■- ;-:«:iry work, which will be done n* a ••:•.•:• !v nominal rate. There s!.n I. '■ ■•■ '■ ; v.-:iiig ;ilieys and billiard tr . ... v- ■ ~ bar. "" ' • - vrcri • i ;ss'n.' iv-room. or auftll"r~":-;. " re should be carried on t" ■" • '" —;.-: : c.il Kd'sration sor- - '- rind ;'»e \v«-.rk tha' the sc.-"' - " • .*n » ! --si»ir n! the .T ■.<•-» *:•', - 'f!=.-r. "he ht.tel sh'=';l- : 1■• ■■• . . '.) vi- ---. : .'c 5 o* •;.,- *o,-;----j at'-- be --i' .■' «•: rv ;>>:;. : . .- ; : •.: . f w<: .«-"" -".. it • -vho m-ea its help. 1 -»-,.>■' ••,-. my • -r'.-.r.-.! :■■•.•-•-,--:> r 1 - ■ r!< of the Higher V ■<•'. • •••-:!"•«.•! society." £ ; Tin D FOR CO-EDS. l'i-i I '. • • \. ni •*.<■: iHTcnlern Unlrer»>t>. 11.-. >ciif»ij to Kntp Sta-rt.-.:i.-i <n BvttMtitn, r-i;:-. : s. a! distractions at Northw. • u ::\. si.y. ;:t Kvar. ion, '•]*. if.. t. re has been much " . j>i: it ' jaiiiitj of .lie .-"tii.. :.. •i. i \ov.. n.."»y bv stuppi the i.i i •■ '»t. Aigie ii. i roo ) cou>rr. ' .-kiilnifr rink materialL e. j*-f»f <. -■.■k hf«b Rmiounctd his in--Ici; r M::- ■>: iii.ii/.ing for ihe purpose the ii>-.iiii h.ilf-hlock north of \"iKai«! !.;>• i!»e noma of the co-eds. ltt v.-m 1(; have Lhe university authorit. - i!« ; lU' llie iols iy tliai they nir. '■ '-i- ;««•«! before cold weather. 1"_ .. . .-t - sidewalks would serve rsF ;..-,-iks - the pools on three sides, j'ri.'f: •• .. »-n. who have heard of )•-„. i,"i, Vs scheme, have ofTVred to bu-.i -•:; - r««r the ukaters, and sug- « est ii-; i-a-h secret society bund one .ii.r. ■ . - e it after the fraternily. Or, »«•!•< • i of the proximity of the lot.- i :"'■•• dormitories the young y...:, • ..r kindly to the propc>. ■i- They laugh at the sugges;'',i !h;#t it is a scheme to keep them r- n. from the Chicago parks, where many of them go skating in the wiater.