The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-24
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1.-THE working woman has no more
reason for regarding the home comforts
| and pleasures that are brought within
her reach through this agency and her
| own cooperative efforts as charity,
| than the student of an endowed univer
| sity has for regarding as such the
| privileges which the university endow-
| ment makes possible to him."
Such is the need and the nature of
| this business woman's cooperative
movement in America, as set forth by
the department of labor.
First Of It's Kind.
| The pioneer organization effected in
this country to secure self-supporting
young women suitable and attractive
home environments was the Ladies'
| Christian union founded in New York
city in 1856. This society, very much
like the more modern Young Won
ems Christian association, established a
Young Women's Home" on Washing
! ton square, for any self-supporting
Protestant woman of good moral char
acter." The work grew SO rapidly that
! the ladies' union has now under it's
! tutelage the branch home, at 30S Sec
| ond avenue, and the Eva home, at 153
East Sixty-second street. At any of
these three homes a respectable and
| self-reSpecting woman can obtain
board and lodging for from 50 to S.
per week. In any case. each boarder
Is provided with her own bed, wash
stand and rocker. The registers of the
three homes show that the women who
avail themselves Of the advantages are
| seamstresses. teachers, bookkeepers,
stenographers and saleswomen. The
Eva home, which is the Youngest
N oil re-
expenses and cleared during the last
year nearly $1,000.
According to the bylaws of this or
SANITATION, $500 makes one a patron of
the union; 500 an honorary member,
| and $50 a life member.
The ninety reported women's organi-
cations thus far seem to have gravitat-
ed toward five or six specific forms of
management. The first, of course. are
those that are under the patronage of
some association, as the Ladies' Chris
tan union, or the Young Womans
Christian associations, many of which
have esta blished such homes
The second form Of management is
that of board of trustees, directors
or associates. An excellent Illustration
of this is the Young Womens Boarding
Home association, of Philadelphia,
which has two homes ON Clinton street,
and one on Pine street. Under this
management the uniform living rate Is
IS, this amount covering board, room,
washing, ironing and medical atten-
dance when necessary. To gain admit
lance satisfactory references are re-
quired, and one must be under thirty
years of age.
Under Similar management
Institutions throughout the country
under similar management, are:
!
at 275 Indiana street. Chicago where the
! average cost of living is 81 go week.
The house is thoroughly respectable the
service comfortable. but necessarily plain.
z. The Business Women's Union of the
City of Brooklyn has for twenty-six years
owned and lived in a house at 80 Will
Ioughby street The rates here are from
"a to Sc per week. The home furnishes
a good library, parlors, reading rooms
| and all reasonable accommodations.
| 3. The New England Helping Hand So
ciety has home for young girls at 124
Pembroke str Get, Boston. The object of
the society, which organized under its
present name and form early in the year
1887, is. as set forth in its charter, the
providing of homes for working girls
and otherwise extending to them a help
| Ing hand whenever it is deemed expedient
by the society,"" The home is established
especially for working girls who receive
less than 81 week. None are received
| who earn over that amount, and when this
sum Is obtained in weekly wages by one
| already in the house, she is expected to
give place to another who earns less, II
the demand for such place arises.
| The house accommodates q, and many are
turned away every winter for want of
ROOM All boarders pay So week The
house is attractive and homelike and
social intercourse is encouraged. Family
| worship is he'd daily. An object of the
society is to keep the home small enough
to be homelike. Students are received as
well as those already at work. 1t is es-
timated that the cost per week for sup
porting each girl is about S., including
laundry work This society also carries
on as department Of its work vacation
home, fer invalid and tired-out working
women, at Hanson, Mass.
a.. The Cooperative Home, for Working
Girls, at 34S West Fourteenth street New
york city, is a home for girls who receive
from 81 to Sc a week, out Of which they
pay from $3.50 to s. week for board.
laundry privileges being Free
The girls are seamstresses saleswomen
stenographers, typewriters, and pocket
book makers.
Besides these. there are many other
| institutions under similar management
| where working and business women
| OUT or employment are taken in tenn
porar1ly. Such institutions approach
| more nearly the charity homes. and
hence have no place in this sketch.
| Another Form.
A third form of management is to be
| IoQHo III lIlG under Roma n
| Catholic care
| Such house is located at SO Union
Park street, Boston, and is known as
The Working Girls Home of the Young
Woman's Catholic Association" The
| home offers excellent accommodations
| for from So to S. per week. or an av
erage Of $3.50. The institution is in
charge of the Gray nuns. The Fran
| clscan sisters run similar houses In
Denver, Chicago and ST Louis. The
st. Frarcis House of Providence. in
Chicago, is open to girls of all denomi-
nations, and charges from 81 to So. so per
week The Roman orders have MANY
other institutions Of this nature, main
ly for working girls who cannot paw
more than $3.50 or So per week.
The Protestant Episcopal church has
several housing institutions under its
care, notably the Girls Club Boarding
House of s.. Bartholomew Protestant
| Episcopal Church, located at 1856 East
Forty-seventh street, New York. The
organization is but three years old,