New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-19
TRAINING SCHOOL FAIR.
THE NURSES ARE TRYING TO RAISE
MONEY FOR A CLUBHOUSE.
HOMEMADE BREAD. COOKIES AND CAKES. OLD
FASHIONED CANDIES AND PRESERVES FOUND
IN THE REFREsHMENT ROOM

FASHIONED CANDIES AND PRESERVES FOUND
IN THE REFREsHMENT ROOM.
The fair season was opened yesterday by the
A1ur,na Association Of the New-York Hospital
Training School with a two days sale In the Ad-
ministration Building No. West Sixteenth-st. The
nurses are trying raise money for CLUBHOUSE
and the present display is the result OF some SIX
months of planning and labor. The arrangements
have been in charge Of committee consisting OF
ebou, thirty of the alumni Miss NJ a. Fredricks
being chairman. and Miss NJ. A. Samuel treasurer
while Miss SutT the directress of the training
school, has acted advisory counsel
4 catalogue Of the articles being offered for sale
would sound much like that of any other fair out
nevertheless the wares are entirely different from
those TO be found at the average fair one ais
t,ngushing feature of all is that the prices are not
exorbitant.
Then the candy is all of private manufacture
Including not only such domestic preparations as
butterscotch and taffy. but chocolate creams ana
all sorts OF fancy sweets. Homemade bread COOK
,es and cake are served in the tearoom. and other
homo products may be found in the refreshment-
room. The latter room is decorated with "reaths
of srn,lax green ribbon Of the same shade as the
leaves and pink carnations and Is presided over
by Mrs. NJ. Simons. Miss Samuel ana Mrs' u H.
Peck have charge Of the tearoom. and besides tea
and cake they are selling the photographs OF the
attending physicians and surgeons Of the hospital
The candy table is In charge OF Miss McVean
-oAL LITTLE NURSE DOLLS
Another unique table is the one devoted to dolls
These little ladies the costumes or the nurses
IN different training schools throughout the coun-
try and may brandishing hot water bags
and other weapons Of Among the schools
REPRESENTED are those OF St. Luke's. Mt Sinai the
Roosevelt. the Royal Victoria and General Hos
pitals Montreal; the Truro Inirmary. OF New
intendent the City Hospital Charleston; the Johns
Hopkins, Baltimore. and the Eizaeeth nosPi'aM Me.
Long and Miss Scott. is selling these interesting
tables BY relays Of three They have made all the
articles for it themseves end are taKing ~ e rom
mittee Of Arrangements.
of fSe f2ney Mrs 0fE eher and Two
little daughters the Misses Fernando and Thekia
third table is presided over by Mss Ida s Ir
Of hs bo P Ms sn9 a4fd sa and
nttle friends OF hers, the Misses Dorothy and
LS Sy Wii Il Duncan Ia, table Of mysteries.
vSeT Ss for 5 cents one can buy an envelope con-
2He sd%5erd ON one
Mrs + Wilson and Mis-: b. Dwight, are d!sP2osiRF
aaP{ SSssIa 'on Ass Whmaa
and Miss j. = Br9wn Is ceiling h9weT ovi IRON ana
Mrs S. NJ. Coleman are keeping the gates.
Al the o are %saFns 9ns he OF ee aro
palms gayy f0OFed wares and bght
and VIII close this evening. 1t IS being conducted
under the patronage of Mrs. George s. Bowdoin.
Mrs. Cornelius n. Bliss. Mrs. Thomas II. Barber,
Mrs: A. Brayton Ball; Mrs W. T Bull Mrs joseph I..
Gram ShS Mrs Ms c6rne Mrs W Bntcr Duncan
Mrs. George G; pc witt; Mrs W. A Duer. Mrs
Winthrop Gray Mrs., Irving Grennell, Mrs. Nal;
colin Graham Mrs. Robert p. Graham. Mrs David
Haven; MEs EDWARD K!1g. Mrs ar Henri P LOOMS
Archibald D. Russell Mrs. Edmund D. Randolph
Mrs. James o. sheldon. Mrs. william j. Schieneiin.
Stout Mrs. Philip Schuyler Miss stmson. Mrs
Merritt Trinbe, Nine. de Fangrguese. Mrs. Rich
ard Van Colt. Mrs. Van c. Van Rensselaer,. Mrs
w Seward Webb Mrs. Theodorus 3: Woosey, Mrs:
Robert F. Weir and Mrs j. T. Williams. Most OF
these women are the wives OF the governors. physi-
clans and surgeons Of the hospital ~
The house which the nurses wish TO build Will be
combined clubhouse and home, where they can
not only drop In TO see each other write letters,
send messengers etc. but where they can stay be-
tween cases.