le building, with its 287 single rooms, besides the above advantages,
is equipped with steam heat, electric service and other modern
conveniences. A special fee of 25c is charged for the use of the
gymnasium and swimming tank, but the other advantages are free to
lodgers. In this way, it is seen that the higher class hotels have more
opportunity for a good social environment and for social work. We think
that the addition of certain features, such as men's clubs, smokers,
popular lectures, etc., would be of great advantage to this class of
institutions. To overcome the difficulty of a transient population,
however, would require considerable ingenuity.[44]

Along the line of religious environment we find the hotels differ a
great deal. In London there seems to be a strong influence of this kind,
most of the hotels of both classes holding gospel meetings frequently.
For instance, at the Quaker Street Elevator Home, which is partly a
hotel and partly an industrial home, meetings are held nearly every
night with good attendance, and at the Burne Street Hotel well attended
meetings are held every night except Wednesdays and Saturdays, these
nights being given over to the men for washing their clothes. But in the
United States we find, as a rule, that the Salvation Army hotels are run
with very little religious influence. In a few cases, meetings are held
regularly, but more often no provision is made for them. Meetings are
generally in progress somewhere in the neighborhood at the regular Army
corps, and the men are left to attend these meetings if they wish.
Generally they are willing to take advantage of the hotel, but do not
care for the sentimental form of religion preached by the Army. Hence,
in most of the hotels, we find the religious influence limited to the
texts on the walls, and to the attitude of the employees, who are not
always Salvationists or converted men.

Some hotels of both classes are fitted with a kitchen and lunch counter.
This is nearly always the case in London, where the hotels have a
counter, over which the food is sold, and then taken to a seat by the
purchaser. In several cases the counter is divided so that it opens into
different rooms, and there are two grades of prices, the lower price
being paid for food somewhat damaged and stale.[45]

We need not dwell long on the subject of the women's hotels, as that
does not form an important part of the Army's work. The women's hotels,
even more tha