GIRLS' HOTEL NEEDS GUESTS.
Has Only 20 Boarders and There Is
Room for Forty.
Few people in Kansas City know of the existence of the Girls' hotel at 900 West Thirteenth street. While it bears that name the institution is open to both working women and working girls. It is maintained at present by private contributions. Only girls and women who earn $6 a week and less are admitted.
The hotel was opened last winter by the council of women's clubs. The building will accommodate forty borders, but at present only twenty are availing themselves of its accommodations. The object of the hotel is to furnish a clean and comfortable home surrounded by all the refined influences of a real home. The rates are within the reach of every guest, no matter if she earns only $2 a week. The guests pay according to the amount of their weekly income.
The management of this worthy institution is endeavoring to get the fact of its existence before employers in the big stores in the city and also of the factories, where women and girls are employed. The rooms are comfortably furnished and, being strictly under a woman's management, everything is scrupulously clean. It is believed that if the little hotel can be kept full it may some day become self-sustaining. At the present time it is not, but the girls get full rations just the same and it is good, wholesome food, too.
