The Lodging House Problem in BostonHoughton, Mifflin, 1906 - 200 pages |
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Page 2 - lodging-house " shall be taken to mean and include any house or building, or portion thereof, in which persons are harbored or received, or lodged for hire for a single night, or for less than a week...
Page 34 - Boarders knew each other, they met at table two or three times a day, and lingered a few moments in conversation after dinner in the evening. In summer they gathered on the front steps and piazzas, and in winter they often played euchre and whist in the landlady's parlor. Congenial temperaments had a chance to find each other. There was a public parlor in which guests were received and, in a reputable boarding-house at least, a girl would not have thought of taking a gentleman caller to her own room....
Page 162 - ... by enabling him to help himself. In doing the work on so large a scale, and in securing the utmost economies in purchases and in administration, I hope to give him a larger equivalent for his money than has hitherto been possible. He can, without scruple, permit me to offer him this advantage; but he will think better of himself, and will be a more self-reliant, manly man and a better citizen, if he knows that he is honestly paying for what he gets.
Page 164 - ... inmates' in any sense of the word. Such guests should have perfect liberty to come and go when they please at any hour of the day or night; be permitted to see any person they choose to have come, without question or challenge, so long as the conventions of ordinary social life are complied with.
Page 161 - ... deny a strong desire to benefit my fellow-men. But I seek to do this in a strictly business way, without offending the pride or the praiseworthy independence of those whom I am trying to benefit. The Mills Hotel will differ from the ordinary hotel for men most of all in the effort to give the patron what he pays for — the very fullest possible equivalent for his money. But it is the intention, from the very beginning, to conduct the enterprise upon a business basis; and this implies that it...
Page 164 - A clean room and three wholesomely cooked meals a day can be furnished to working girls at a price such as would make it possible for them to live honestly on the small wages of the factory or store. We do not ask for luxuries or dainties. In the model lodging house there should be perfect liberty of conduct and action on the part of the guests, who will not be "inmates" in any sense of the word, so long as the conventions of ordinary social life are complied with.
Page 164 - What the working girl needs is a cheap hotel or a system of hotels — for she needs a great many of them — designed something after the Mills Hotels for working-men. She also needs a system of wellregulated lodging-houses, such as are scattered all over the city for the benefit of men. My experience of the working girls...
Page 98 - In the evening the place was absolutely silent. The silence sometimes helped me to work, sometimes it got on my nerves and became intolerable. I would then go out and wander about the streets for the sake of animation, the crowds and the lights, or I would go half-price — a shilling — to the pit of the theatre, or I would drop into a casino and sit in the corner and look on at the dancing.