Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 188, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1925 — Page 3

TUESDAY, DEC. 8, 1925

MIAMI ROOM S2O A WEEK FOR GIRL Writer Finds Hot Water and Gas Heaters Are Rare Luxuries in Mushroom Florida City.

Editor s Note: Here la the first of a series of articles by Allene Sumner, special writer for NBA Service and The | Times, who has gone to Florida to see just what, sort of conditions confront women who go there to work or run a household. By Allene Sumner OIAMI, Fla., Dec. B.—l was prepared for the very worst. On the train coming down from the North, I had heard many stories of the scarcity of hotel accommodations in Miami; stories of people sleeping in the parks, or paying $5 a night to sleep In parked automobiles* So it was with considerable trepidation that I approached Miss Helen Sullivan, Travelers’ Aid Society secretary, who sat at a desk in the Miami station with a sign which read: “Ask me about hotel reservations.” I did. ' "What can you pay?” asked Miss Sullivan. I reflected. Remembering palatial rooms up North for $6 a day, I timidly suggested that I could pay $6. “With bath?” queried Miss Sullivan with lifted brows. “Can’t possibly be done under $10.” I meekly asked for a few $lO addresses and set forth. The $lO places looked dowdy. I did some research for myslf. The first place I hove into had a Spanish | patio effect with a lobby full of highborn matrons and maids. Scorn and derision greeted my request for “a single with bath.” Pleasantly Surprised Nothing daunted, I treked across the street to where another orange, awninged confection of architecture wafted forth the ambrosial odor of French perfume and Imported henna. And again I made my quavering request. Now recall that Miami, formerly a city of 75,000, is now almost 300,000 Recall that tent cities dot the entire State of Florida, because “there is no room at the inn.” Here was a clerk suavely and apologetically saying: “I’m sorry I can’t give you a single. But I’ll give you a double with bath for the same price—s 6 a day.” Thus did Investigation reveal the hotel situation in Miami. But it means nothing. It’s just one of those constant contradictions in which this play city abounds. Besides, the hotel problem in

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What Girl* Find in Miami Here’s what Allene Sumner found during her first day In Miami: Hotel rooms are not scarce just now, but will be by the first of the year. Accommodations for the working woman are almost unobtainable. It is almost impossible for a working girl to get a single room for less than S2O a week. Hot water and gas heaters are rare luxuries at such places. Hardly fifty wqmen in all Miami are making as much as $75 a week.

Miami is not so acute just now. There is the lull before the storm. The city's population has shrunk slightly during the past month; but before December ends there will be a torrent of tourists pouring that will make the summer’s activity look tame. Hard foi* Working Girls But, though $6 hotel rooms may be found, terror strikes the heart of the business or professional woman who comes here to work and live on what she makes. For, granted that She could get a room for $5 a day; that’s $35 a week! And not more than fifty women in all Miami are making as much as $75 a week, according to the T. W. C. A. The working woman must find a room. She figures on a possible sl2 a week as her maximum. But, startling though it may seem, there is hardly one single room available In Miami, In which a self-re-specting working girl would live, which does not cost at least S2O a week. And a girl has a mighty hard time finding even a S2O room which she may have by herself. Landladies have learned that men don’t mind “doubling up” as much as women do. Four men on cots in one room will pay sls each. There's S6O a week right there. Why bother with a girl with only S2O? The room registry of the T. W. C. A. is desperate! “Stop Coming Here” , “Tell girls to stop coming her© unless they know exactly where

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they are going to live and what they are going to pay,” says Miss Vilona Cutler of the Y. W. The Y. W. has 100 rooms of its own and will have 110 more by Jan. 1. These rooms rent for from $2 to $5 a week. Thousands of girls are after them and the Y. W. simply takes In gins who would be on the streets otherwise. I met one girl who is Joyful because she has the privilege of sharing a bedroom with another woman for $12.50 a week. She walks eight miles a day to work and was bothered with a bad cold when I met her. “Take a hot bath, drink some hot lemonade and take a hot water bottle to bed with you," I suggested. She only chuckled. “Hot water, did you say?" she asked. “We have no gas and no electric heater. I haven’t had a hot bath since I came here, two months ago.” “ Well, heat fi dlslipan of water on the stove,” I went on. Again she howled. “What did voA say? A dish pan? We can’t buy We haven't even a tea kettle. The embargo shut them all out.” A professional woman who made $350 a month in Toronto, and who is working here for $35 a week, complained that her landlady had requested her to leave because she asked for hot water for a bath. And

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she was paying S2O a week for her room. .NEXT: Getting a job in Miami. BUS COMPANIES NOT PROSPERING Commission Accountant Makes A.'oraisal, Report. No motor impany in Indiana is making money, tt was asserted today, following an . >praisal of the motorized equipment <f the Interstate Public Service Company by John S. Poweil, chief accountant for the public service commission. Rolling stock of the Interstate’s bus division was appraised by Powell at. $193,000. On this basis, a five cents a mile fare would .be necessary to provide a 7 per cent return Powell said. The Interstate’s financial problems are typical, .Powell said. The appraisal was made in connection with petition of the Interstate to increase its fares to three cents a mile. A Smith Bowman, People's Motor Coach Company president and Robert I. Marsh, attorney for the Motor Bus Association of Indiana, declared five cents a mile is out of all reason.

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