. The National Civic Federation review . lars and fifty cents a dayfor each. The absurdity of the situation may be re-alized when it is stated that two rooms, each havinga bath, were secured at six dollars and seventy-fivecents a day each. Employes residing at the Tivoli pay seven dollarsand a half, ten dollars or fifteen dollars a monthfor one in a room without bath and twenty-five dol-lars a month with bath, table board being thirty-fivedollars a month In addition. Table board is eightdollars a month more there than at the mess hallsalong the line. Employes would expect to pay moretor the se
. The National Civic Federation review . lars and fifty cents a dayfor each. The absurdity of the situation may be re-alized when it is stated that two rooms, each havinga bath, were secured at six dollars and seventy-fivecents a day each. Employes residing at the Tivoli pay seven dollarsand a half, ten dollars or fifteen dollars a monthfor one in a room without bath and twenty-five dol-lars a month with bath, table board being thirty-fivedollars a month In addition. Table board is eightdollars a month more there than at the mess hallsalong the line. Employes would expect to pay moretor the service, which is better than at the messes,if the food were good. For two in a room without,bath resident employes pay ten, fifteen and twentydollars, and with bath thirty-five dollars a month,board being in addition as above. Resident employesare charged for accommodations at the Tivoli,although quarters aro free elsewhere, to meet theexpense of furnishing bed linen and towels, which October, 1907. The National Civic Federation Review 7. A Ttpical Camp fob Laborers. is not done generally. There is discontent amonghigh officials and other employes because they areobliged to pay so much for quarters in that hotelfor the reason that other accommodations cannot beprovided. Commutation, amounting to about eightper cent of the salary, was at one time allowedunder such conditions, but that was discontinuedbecause, it was announced, there were adequatequarters, which did not prove to be the case. Employes going to the hotel for separate mealsmay secure them on the following basis: Breakfastfifty cents, lunch fifty cents, dinner seventy-five rooms without baths transient rates for employesare from $ to $ a day. With baths they arefrom $ to $ a day. In addition meals are twodollars and twenty-five cents a day. This seemsabsurd in view of the fact that by paying for singlemeals, as above stated, they would amount to onedollar and seventy-five cents a day. Rooms a
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