Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1895 — FOR WOMEN ONLY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR WOMEN ONLY.

A Splendid Apartment House Where No Man Cun Live. Arrangements are now being perfected in New York for the building of an apartment house for women exclusively. No man will be allowed to dwell in it The building and site will cost ?750,000, and the house will be the most splendid of its kind ever built in New Y'ork. In tlie basement there will be Russian, Roman and Turkish baths, with ft full quota of sofas and lounges, with dressing rooms, and a plunge largo enough to play water polo in. There will be manicure parlors, chiropodist’s rooms aud hair-dressing establishments. On the ground floor there will bo club, committee, reading, writing and assembly rooms, together with tho 11-

brary and offices. The main assemblyroom will be 64 by 28 feet. Women’s meetings and banquets will be held there. It will be let to any organization of women which can show credentials of a satisfactory nattire. The club rooms, it is expected, will be eagerly sought as permanent headquarters for several of the leading woman’s organizations. These are situated at

either side of the main entrance, with a frontage of thirty feet each on the street. The tea room is expected to be a source of never failing comfort to femininity. Then the other floors are divided into small apartments, suites, single rooms, studios and bedrooms, all accessible by two elevators. On the top story will be the restaurant and kitchens. No odors of cooking can reach below, nor can the distressing sounds -of dishwashing be heard by the inhabitants of this model house. The restaurant will be conducted on such a plan that the devotee of either the a la carte system or of the table d’hote may be furnished to their own particular taste. But Into the sacred precincts of the dining rooms may no man walk who Is not accompanied by a woman who dwells within the walls of the Woman’s Building.

THE WOMEN’S APARTMENT HOUSE.