Show r mall O OI P 11 1 T T 11 7 p l oI l il ilc I c I 1 ri 11 ra u Darius Mills a Public Benefactor Through til the Abe Medium m of a 8 I Ii iI System of Cheap I Motels i I T Te i I Ir I i Ii h f e r f ff ff rte I II i l I r f I I 1 I i f II I Ids I I i iIi 12 i F tl 1 II 1 i ll i AAA I I a f t 1 Bg nl I i J II I III I I Ii IIII I q I I ht p rc ti a i iLo I o ii o 11 Lo Hg Il til i n it i I i 1 1 1 e rr O ry j II u n Ii Ill 11 pA I III I I rr t a a TC 11 i inn i Ill in i ll y 1 r i A M 19 I Irr I e I I tl Ir i I IIII I I I Ui t Ii L rr r I r S I li t S r rr I I IF r 1 1 a ih y y J G cr r rJ ati ww i hr l I I i ks J 1 i y r I lift Mille lint y OGDEN MILLS WILU de d dt deep e D nut t look or appear like a man r f but he ha h dos dON dONnot not deny that he has ha boa been fathe In fa Intile tile the since 1926 1825 He Ife Ignores lenore hi h ha hu a ee os oe decidedly as It teems seems m to toM M him He lie keep keeps right on In his hie hi hito II attn to business and end he shows the slightest relaxation In his hie hisie ie manner of benefiting his hi fel rl I Ilow 1 low inin Ilan n The recent opening of Mills Mill H i No xu 3 i makes that fact tact apparent Mr Dir Mil dill does docs not nOI like to b be classed clu ini lal D It If you Ou should hould Bpi iv term to him In la his hI p phe presence he 1111 11 ril dl sent Immediately and 1 positively I 1 have not earned tamed th the right t I M 1 be t I e called ailed that thaI he would say ta TIll The Mil 1 1 hotels h are not charitable II us ale s and nd were never ner Intended to I bo be b a I The Thc returns from the In ln lav v are arc ro curly sufficient to Py pay pa running and they the are con COD conducted conducted ducted daIM on ou rigid business e principles rise rh lath i leh were ro not to house howee the trump tramp but for Ins the benefit of th tM the self silt roe rep p man who cannot earn Ill IllIn In rough r to supply the e physical Imes r Tt rl i tl it tt he h ought to have hav It lint my Ill intention to encourage the th startles or 01 to hurt any mans a pride 40 Idea Ida Is la to io give Ii to every evel man who r n I t 1 I 1 l J j r T E r rt 1 I Restaurant of ar Mills Hotel No t l I willing to te accept t them thern the conven convenience of ot a wood good modern hotel at nomi nominal nal naI prices It be b fair to the tha th gulls guests CU at thea these hotels to call me m a philanthropist They pay for tor what they receive and there the U I a no sugg una than of charity charily about It H This U Ie I Mr Mills Ingenuous ln and modest way of ot putting It but the tb fact remains that his hie hi three th great fr at hotels hotel I are a practical working out of ot a very 81 I clever elever and aad far tar reaching r scheme to I benefit benat a class 0 of 01 needy need humanity which bleh ha has been neglected sadly In a areat great reat city there Ut are arc a many man men man who cannot earn rn more mar Ulan titan tt U 6 or M 6 a week It and It I Is for tor such ucb unfortunates unfortunate who through various circumstances circumstance ltd find unable to do helter better that the Mills hotels tao have been established It U Is Ie not especially to the tha point to seek aak why this la is a why It Is le that so ao many y men of correct are so ao In Incapable Incapable Incapable capable of getting on In the world Some Home So of ot them thorn lack force Some Bome of them than are an men mell who have bave obtained a college degree but are destitute of ot a R practical viewpoint They are quite as sensitive a at the rest ret of their tel fel fellows lows low and end Mr Mills Mill ha has b taken that fact Into consideration It U Is I that on ono OM thing thine that malt makes hi bl hie unique charity charity charlt In a nobler and aad mo more dignified sense sen than mere me giving o attractive and BO so successful tIlL The Proposition as It Stands Twenty cent cants for a room 6 cents cen Ie for lor breakfast II 1 I cant centa for far a dinner In lit courses course I cent ants for supper ou this hI la III the proposition that Mr Mills Mille has ha made for tor a man ID whoa who depleted depIcted puree makes make It necessary nee for or him to restrict hi hl dally y expenditure to the tho half dollar limit To the man ID who can CaD afford to pay SiO 10 a day for a room at aton aton on on of ot New Nw Yorks York palatial hotels hotel all this U M an absurdity To him the opening of a new Mill Mills hotel means mans no nomore nomore nomore more than the lb opening ot of a tree free f soup IOUp house bouM or the quarterly report of a stoat alum mission This Is Ie the tha own man woo w boo If It he be star ever speaks peake of It will wUI call tt U a areat reat philanthropy p and let Jet t It tt go ge at that No fro 1 and No Ho 2 represent a I It N fur m tJI Entrance of Mills Hotel No 2 capital of and pay S per ter cent centon centon nt on the Investment The great groat i new v hotel opened recently cost and It Is le expected that bat It will wUl yield a similar Income Their owner declares that In providing t them h he be has hae ha been actuated by b only two motives flirt to conduct them on OR a strictly business bails bula and second to put a root roof over the Ut heed bead of ot an aD unfortunate man with without without without out either pauperising or humiliating him Mr Mills Mill devoted years to the nab elaboration oration 01 of or hi his scheme before h he flied fixed on OD a definite time to launch It Some 80 of or bin friends blends said and business associates associate were we vastly vaU skeptical ar or II to 10 the tile sue suc outcome One of the t them doubt ara ero was waa John Job U L 1 the tb emi eminent real nent t lawyer wr woo who was wu sects secre secretary 1 tary tar of tats state under Hamilton Fish FI Sir air r Cadwalader saw raw no merit In the heap cheap hotel Id Idea Ida a and anel he made mad a pond good dm 4 of or sport of the matter malter On one occasion the tIo lawyer was wu contributing to the tho lIty of nf a m club dinner by b rallying to tile the banker on his hili tad fad What tugs class of men man d do yon expect will patronise your hotel he ho asked ask askwith with a suckle chuckle The smiled tb Jo I b he replied re with admirable acI good hamor and the of a schoolboy I 1 should like t tr p see ee a thousand thou thou sand d lawyers lawyer W hi In ta a thousand W th thy lawyers y woo who cant am sara more than IlIaD thana U II week aw a awA A visit to one of ot the Mill hotels No NG 1 l on Bleecker street No 2 I on OD lUv Ington street or No 1 B on avenue avell av aw and sad street N Cf the tIM most skeptical that UM the uK ngel i j made no mistake In hi his hll I I of or the Ih needs need of or a certain clasp of 1 mr humanity There will willbe willbe be fun found t In th this h large and comfortable reading and Ind rooms not the th unkempt end repulsive outcast of the slums alum but bul the comparatively com well dressed i IU cn n of the world orld with well preserved evidences evidence of at gentle breed breedIng Ing lr Ir Mill Mille baa has made mad It Il possible for tor these Ibe men mea between whom and the te there then was only th tM the barrier of or a few pennies to retain their thel self If re He H kept at al It II until he found a way to accomplish It Had h hi opened a hotel which iI U M M n clarity charity for tin its It maintenance he would world wOt d dhave have failed tailed of or hie hi object Mad It been balm balmon on the lines of a slum alum g hots It must mut have been equally unsatisfactory tory tort What h he wanted anted was w a hotel for tor me m mesa who were poor Indeed yet et not depraved men who were wre on the pov poverty poverty erty erly line Ue but for whom the ability to pay their way a had not lost Its lis charm ellann Ho 80 It Is le that th the Mills Mill hotels are an mot aut for lor the tb vagabond nor strictly messy peak apes lag lne are they for the That Is the tho reason that they th are e unique and aad that they thy are arc re lightening the but bur burdens r dens den of ot a class cia that ha has be been n receiving very VelT little attention from those Moe who are arc on Oft the th lookout to discover objects worthy of or commiseration hyeM I It I Is now about tn tea years since th tit the first dint Mille Mill hotel was wae opened open for tor bust busi bustness business ness D It did pot not take leke long to prove that th tile theory of Its It originator was sound and practical The Th tot lale late usage Francis Train was tea a guest of or No Nn 1 t for tor tormore more 1110 than titan seven years aill and died cUed there th Many litany others oth who have haver Ire Are r living U at the th these hotel hotels today t happy i the con clou that al although Ald hou ht their riches etches have taken take a unto thaw tham lA lAI selves salve I wings wing wi they are able lible still III to pay their own way the sweetest solace setae that a man of Independent spirit sear ever feel The eccentric Train Teich alway 1 4 dads that tb t the tile hapl test years silt C his JIM lUl were wen e pent apont In Its th the Uto stills hotel Thal Th meant tNt that wealth th t power and aAd society It were 11 less I that than t an aft wHIch rout root rOil him not mote mor mo than t G rent genie a day At this latest d of f his hii hi life lire e ehe i ih he h had an n In Im one oni c d f t t month diled 41 out nut t In i Mm hin hi l l Io by v 1 11 1 relative I Ihn Iwho Who hn was WB we nl 1 tat Ill Ii 1 iI With 1 1 n Out of ot I Ihl thin paltry mini I I II I p im r man managed aged d to In t rev tin Ito n in nth MM and 1 at lit the th t time lime of r hi hl lif hr IMI I t I it 1 hun hundred f drexl dred dollar In bank f Hi Hit His Ideals Ueal Iid Asked recently lu II lo to whether or not net hi hili bla Ideal II concerning the tho Ih lv ht tra h hhas he has bas e l have hll been Mr Mill Mills replied T ea t I can cad C II I ey that I they thoy hate nav M I find that the Ihl all uli ai of r H about Hies th hil ht hl h hup p though they are arh i re nl II i bon Men who go h erv that other patron of or the Ih hotel limel 11 have havea a Il respectable IlI nn n n I l mula muta mutation lion tion follows And beet t if r C U ii there IhN Is III that thai air of th n 1 t was wasso 11 so anxious to e lat Thi Th I h t It ha harr has ball i rr resulted In thrift la IR h hen n l I y y the Ih lr de 11 Ir that a i to retain I their good 00 1 standing with the Ih manage management management ment so eo o thin that they Ih may he h of ot kenning their th n for which hoh there therel I l Is Ie always a great grent demand fr m those thone Iho welting walling to tn get pt In la And Hlo desire 1 to tor i r their rooms hR ha led many nf of a I III I I thi th II Patrons patron to b be thrifty in financial t mailers The MIe mere m ftc fact I n a man Is le I J thrifty haws chows bow of or Improvement i from a viewpoint for theman the Ih I II 1 I man who sale e from hi hiI his 1 I earning no o Ilet how U it II may mayI m maybe y yi I i be It If only Jl at cents et n a Meek wBk k has hall laid I that first Important step toward a I competency com and perhaps toward Iward the Ih I II I building of ot a fortune I I II I Then Tho he smiled broadly as he added J i Remember too there then th Is Ie no n philan philanthropy philanthropy flY about It It Is I a buiners pr po I The Th Tho Man M Himself I Darius Ogden Oed Mills Mill Is III a product nf ni r Westchester county sad 1 th present r nl I city ctt of New York I Is toward to his hll birthplace North tn When WIlen hi be h wa was born bom th tile the population oi ot l t th tb the city was waa w only dilly ODI a tow rew hand hundred red thou thousand J sand d and nel th tb the Brie Rini casl opened op ned J that very year At Al aa an early ag IN he hent I went vent nt to th the fifty city and aM enter enten te a u mer r I cantile house hou In which h he d several years year Then JIb h be went to 10 Buffa Buno Buffalo lo 10 and remained remain 1 long ION enough in u n I hunk to acquits acquire tl a substantial Inte Interest t in to th ih h business buIe When e gold I Id ww was discovered In tai Can fornia Mr Mills Mill sold Hold out aril and u wn m t I Ithe to the new O embarking In in a Ifen n n enl eral ral tON stow and exchange buin bUnN bu n sM s at III nto U It was waa a gnat t from tha tho first and It soon Oon tu t iv him a arich arich arich rich man acceding to the of those times III Ia I Hi h N he w was 11 t one n of the wealthiest mn tale on do the Ibo coast couto He helped the Hank of California was Interested ld In the tho Comstock lode lod sad had bad a 11 hand liand in Inmost mot most of or th tile the e of th the tale state tar Although It tt Is M now MW a gen on oration since atnee Mr Mill Mills settled In 10 NewYork New York Tork city elty h he still retains many Im Important Interests In California His HIM honk bane on the Pacific Me Boast t MM neat San pan n Francisco In Is om one of nf the must moo beautiful In America His HI HIN New Nw N Tork York real nat estate late 1 are arc ar mid his bI California property n y makes him a power pewee In ID that n And Aid ad now after atler an en of mOlt moot than then Rr I ii n Is la mil 1111 a leaf leadar r la the gems gam ra of or ex pun ul ton Mee but it tt be suid sold of him that thai I h he be MM Nas a w to 0 cultivate the th deep deop deeper er of 0 tat hu Mesa li MM ed would e tab UeY w teat Ibel Bw M ogden Lagden dna Mills Mlle to M n g pot t it el walk T t ON N |