, 1880-04-18
The Women's Roarding-House.


To the Editor Of The Chteugo Tribune
CH1cAdo, April 17.-In your issue Of Sunday,
April Ii, you have communication from Mrs.
T. Il. Hill P" In regard to some statements made
by me IN your issue Of April 1 respecting tho
bourdlng- house" Of the Woman's Christian
Association, In which she charges me with un-
truthfnlness, malice, and irrcsponsiblity. !
had no intention whatever to use the
space 80 kindly afforded me to say
anything untrue, and my responsibility Is
not questioned by those with whom am ac-
quainted. I said. and repeat that financially
this Home isa failure, having cost tho Womans
Christian Association s, 100 in two years and
four months, and accommodating, according to
the boarding house receipts for the first four
months, m average OF eleven persons per week,
and, during tho next two years, nineteen per-
sons per week. maintain that it is u failure In
that 1t Is not occupied to Its capacity only as d
transit hotel; that it is not selfslpporting Us it
WAS intended and expected to be from Its COM
mcnccment; that it IS diverted from its original
purpose. and is In measure seminary Of fine
arts. and IN any other way in which it Is diverted
from the purpose for which it was o7ganized.
said TINT the deficit of the bonrdlng-house was
patd by - charitable contributions" Mrs. II.
says. " Let the complete refutation Of this bo
be the record of. the $1.638 carnival fund -
Now what was the carnival fund, IL 1t was not
charitable L7organizea advertised
six Of the charities of the city; and it certainly
was the means Of Il new lease OF life to the Home
owed 'ne amount swi
saen the
Of Viii MIS- enS pcsso Mo eayf m
at the time she wrote that article she had not
The ny nnd addfzs IN fu
mcnt Bureau! | do not charge her with
misstatcments. but with forgetfulness; but, for
her Satisfaction Il want to say that the only per-
nf fha rF
bo.st IN acquntntanceship is the present Super
intendent. have not the honor to be acquaint-
e seisd Mr. that
come This is certainly very indcfinif answer
to my charge. Something like a witness, on
that the prisoner threw, replied that it was US
large lump Of chalk. But is it fair, honest, or
lust 70 ask the Christian people Of the city to
daughters in music or the fine arts? 81rs. H. also
says that "a rule was enacted but recently re-
g sa9rlng 1t,sr that IT. no person e be admitted over
some good results. from ''' my ''< first Letter tier
within two months. And now let mo suggest
2ese to the the a w9s Of
to eonvalesce. Mrs +. being young worker
very vcrdant Ia her official duties or she would
he more careful In her defense. She would have
consulted With some Of her senior sisters In the
principles on which this Home was founded. I
have ut various times contributed to thu
Womnn's Christian Association. Also have Mt
m dlnerent times done Jobs Of carpenter work ut
the Dispcnsary connected with it, and it has al-
ways been done in that obnoxious manner stvind
by Mrs .. anonymous; but that was before her
birth IN this department Of work, ~
Mrs. Fl. says that the financial credit of tho
boarding house Is much improved. Ii support
OF that statement why did she not give thf. tig-
three branches Of work, they say, EXCEPT the
Dspensary, they nre In a auaeasure self -sustain-
11ng, una yet the deficit in the boarding. house
!!9s9. SO there is certainly room for Improvement
# It requires great moral courage to acknowledre
mat we have failed in an undertaking, But.