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Show A HOTEL FOR BOYS I i HARLEM'S NEW INSTITUTION FOR THE MAKINQ OF MEN. Wealthy Woman Who Has Provided a One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Property for Benefit of Homeless City Youth, Tho Harlem Hoys' hotel tins taken Its plnco mining the many Institutions of Greater Now York for tho mnklng ot men out of tho boys of tho big metropolis. me-tropolis. Tho hotel Is the gift of a wealthy woman who has glvou $150,-000 $150,-000 for land, building nnd equipment dud who has turned ovor the property to tho Children's Aid socloly for control con-trol nnd management. That It has a promising future Is evident from tha fact that when tho hotel wns opened the otbo day It had 71) boy patrons registered, about half tho capacity of tho hotel, Tho building Is a hnnd-Somo hnnd-Somo live story fireproof structure at tho southwest corner of Lexington nvensa and Ono Hundred and Twenty-seventh Twenty-seventh strcot. Tho rates aro calculated calcu-lated to fit the financial resources of Its patrons, who uro all wage-earning boys between tho ages of ton and eighteen. Few aro under 12, though thoso youngoi- may bo received as transients, Tho Hoys' hotel Is run entirely on tho American plan, with sotr'' Improvements. Im-provements. Hoard, lodging, butn and laundry work may bo had for 1C cents a day, or $1.05 a wook. Patrons whoso requirements as lo privacy aro moro exacting, and who prcfor (and can pay for) a bedroom Instead of a bod In a dormitory may bo accommodated nt an expenditure ot $2,80 a weok. Nobody No-body gots nnylhlng for nothing long, at any rate. If a b'oy applies at tho desk thero Is a real hotel desk, with n clerk nnd a roglstor and says that ho Is without money to pay his bill ho Is not turned awny If he Is otherwise n doslrahlo patron, but Is told that ho will bo expected to pay when the it- 'LH mnnagomcnt hns found work for him. JH lleforo ho s admitted to tho prlvl- jLassfl leges of tho houso each patron signs Lbbbbb! a promise to oboy all tho rules and 'bbbbbbb! regulations as directed by tho man- "Hut thero Isn't much need of form-nl form-nl rules," said Abel C. Kcnyon, tho superintendent. "No ono Is sharper to notice and roprovo breaches of ett- ''Lassi qnotto among tho hoys than tbolr fol- bH lows, I huvo seen n boy who hnd a visitor who failed to removo his hat steal up behind him and quietly ro-move ro-move It, nnd n boy's bnd tablo man- JM nors are mado unpopulnr by tho 'Judg- bbbbbbI meut of his peers.1 " In tho spacious dining room on tho ground floor, with Its whlto tablo lln- .H en und Us big rubber plants, tho din-urs din-urs nro scnted on ono sldo of tho ta-bios ta-bios only. This Is In accordance with Mr. Kenyan's bollof, strengthened by lifelong experience thut when you put, H a largo number of boys where thoy can easily mako faces at onp another thoy will make them and will Indulge In other table ploasantrlos which nro. frowned on by good manners, lly his oxpcdlont ho hns been nblo lo cultl-vato cultl-vato among the boys a policy of non-Interference non-Interference nt mcnl times which has had gratifying results, "Where aro all tha boys who aro -H registered?" n visitor asked Mr. Ken-yon Ken-yon u fow evenings ago, after having been through tho houso and having 'H seen only a minority ot tho 70. "Oh, "JH somo of them aro calling on frlonds; 'liH some of thorn nre In tho strcot; they are nil spending their evening about ns tho averngo boy would do. "I bollovo," continued Mr. Konyon, H expounding his favorlto theory ot boy H development, "In Inspiring boys to ro- H spect themselves by treating them as It thoy wero worthy ot respect. H |