New-York tribune., 1898-11-28
GRACE CHURCH WORK.
THE sETTL LEMENT ORG 4N1ZATIONS on
THE FAR EAST SIDE.
LIBRARIES CLUBS CnOIRs AND SCHOOLS
THE PARISH.

MANY DEACONESSES LEND THEIR All NE
LIBRARIES. CLUBS. CuoIRs AND SCHOOLS
OF THB PARISH
OF the several Episcopal churches OF New-York
that maintain large East Side missions 81.
Georges Calvary. St. Bartholonews. ST. James
ard Grace are the most prominent The "ork OF
,he last is comprehensive and typical OF the rest
Within a district bounded by Twelfth and Fly
.eonth sts east OF Thrd-ave. to tire river. and by
Fifteenth and Fourth SITS. west Of Third-ave 10
University Place the activities Of great charity
are carried on
Grace Chapel Settlement is in Fourteenth-st,
near Avenue A. The chapel itself Is really large
and beautiful church: the surphccd choir Is made
up Of and boys from the neighborhood' 10
whom a musical training is given. as they con-
tribute their aid c the eInnellishment Of the ser
vices Adjoining the chapel Is Grace Hospital
which Is held TO he not only home for receiving
The STICK but a place where hospitality IS dis
pensec: whers these needing rest. advice or sym
pathetic communion With others may find It.
This building has three divisions. called the
House OF simeon the House OF Anna and the
House Of the Holy Child. The first IS n homo for
eight aged men. the second houses the same num-
ber OF women and the third. which IS In the centre
Of tho building. receives children IN need or care
The helpers are two resident deaconesses' n mousse
mother and trained nurse.
There is bosidcs q dlspensary and an examining
room and bathrooms which children from the
ne,ghborhood may have TIE benefit OF. large
onan SQUARE court az tie back has BIT Of lawn
with seats ebou. IT, and makes a peacoful-iookng
snot upon which 10 look out. There IS clustered
walk leading % the buildings q Thirtecnth-st.
These have also an entrance from the street They
are the clergy, parish and club houses
The Official inmates OF this settlement are the
cbaplain the aouse mother a dcaconess and
trained nurse for the hospital the vicar and his
family and scyc doacons for the clergy house The
vicar has called this last "a twentieth century
monastery Tho seven deacons receive salaries
from the par!sA They serve for two years. work
iny IN prisons ana city hospitals. IN the societies
for boys and raen ard in the regular chapel work
as well as doing parish visiting. There are eight
deaconesses VINO labor In the same districts.
Thirteen SOC @ les ara carried on and Sunday
school ATTENDED by 400 children. An Industrial
school is another feature.
GRACE MISSION.
Grace Mission is stil further cast in Thirteen:h-
st Here there Is a parish Kindergarten and a
kitchen garden. a sewing school and several So
cieties In tie church settlement the workers are
paid. but IN he social settlement work their SER
vices are giveI and large number OF earnest
neople lend assistance 10 the deaconesses TWO Of
the deaconc.scs train th- choir boys VINO sing IN
the Broadway church. These boys also have their
weekday Instructions a. the settlement
For Grace church itself is found stln another
set Of Darstoners or. IN fact. two Many Of the
old church members come from 2 distance 10 SER
vices morning and afternoon. I'll. busy and busi-
ncss people Of tho neiphbOrhood atten1 tho carry
morniag anl late evening services. t'rac@ l,ouse.
next 10 the church, contains the parish Library
and rcading-roor, where shopgrls OF the neighbDT-
hood may for 4 moments res. The Catherine
J.oriilard Wolfe Az Students Club Is open 10 art
students every day.
A. the back Of The church. IN Tonth-st.. IS tho
day nursery where the deaconosses live aHd care
for the chi dren Women car secure employment
through thu laundry connected with the parish.
which Vas helped in one year rs many as 10
women.
This as the work OF ono church. only typlnes
what Is beng done hy many throughout the city.