n the men's, have tended to fall into two classes. There is
a great difference between the hotel for women who are almost destitute,
and the hotel for respectable working girls, who have positions as
clerks and stenographers, and who happen to have no home of their own. A
typical hotel of the former class is situated near the Dearborn Street
Railway Depot in Chicago. It consists of three floors, and has
accommodation for fifty girls or women. The woman officer in charge
lives here herself, and seeks to have an environment as homelike as
possible. She states, however, that occasionally the women come in
noisily and are troublesome. There is a great difference between one
woman and another, and she wishes she had one floor with better
accommodation than the rest for the better element among them. The price
paid per bed at this hotel is 10 cents. A good example of this class of
hotel in England, is the one situated on Hanbury Street, Whitechapel,
London, where there are three floors, two upper floors given over to
dormitories containing 276 beds in all, and the ground floor containing
a dining room, kitchen, small hall, and office. Here, women are turned
away quite often because of lack of room. 2d. is charged for a bed, and
for food a scale of prices, such as tea, 1/2d.--soup, 1/2d.--bread,
1/2d.--etc. There are nine officers working here, and nine other
workers, six of the latter receiving 3s. per week, and three receiving
1s. per week.

With the higher class hotels for women, the Army has not had much
success. This is easily understood, as the respectable girl does not
like to be connected with a hotel run by an organization which is
prominent for its slum and rescue work. These hotels charge a higher
rate for rooms and are situated in a good quarter of the city.[46] They
are frequented by shop girls, bookkeepers, clerks and stenographers.
Apparently, no great religious pressure is brought to bear on the girls
and women, but this would probably depend on the officer in charge.

The growth of the Hotel Department of the Army's work, like that of the
Industrial Department, has, of recent years, been great. Soon after the
publication in 1890 of General Booth's book, "Darkest England," the
hotel work was started in England, and its progress has been rapid. In
the United States at first the work did not make much headway. When
Commander Booth-Tucker came to take charge in 1896, there were three
small men's hotels situated i