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Show BREADLINE TO I BE ABANDONED "Down and Outers" Hotel With Real Beds and Cheap Meals to be Opened. Chicago Dec 10 Chicago's bread line of unemployed will be no more after the first of the fetit A "down and outers" hotel, where real beds can bo bad for 6 cents a night and where meals will be furnished at from 1 to 5 cents each will supplant the breadline on January I. Charles G Dawes, former comptroller comptrol-ler of the currency, who has been the host to the unfortunates in the bread line. Is the founder of the hotel which will bear the name "The Rufus Dawes memorial." It will represent a fa flier's memorial to a son. Connect ed with the hotel will be free baths and a free employment agency. A lnrge flag, similar to the one raised during the battle of Lake Erie by Commander Perrv and bearing the unids 'Don't glvo up the ship' will adorn the lobby of the new hotel "All of the men may not understand the historic part of the motto." said Mr Dawes, but every one will catch the spirit of the message." However tho breadline of past years has agnin been established until tho new hotel is opened. Last nigln n-?rHy C00 men shivered as they pa tiently shuffled up to the coffee urn and to the bread box. |