Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-05-22
A PERMANENT HOME
White Ribboners of the District in
Commodious Quarters.
LARGE BUILDING ON SIXTH STREET
Purposes Of the Organization Ex-
planned by Its President.
THE WORK FOR GIRLS

The Womans Christian Temperance
Union Of the District of Columbia has ac
CURED by purchase premises No. SD 9th
street northwest. This will be the home
Of the w. c. T. U. and will be headquar-
tiers of the Young Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union, the Loyal Temperance Legion
and the Young Wage Farmers Club The
building, as its number indicates, stands on
the west side of 9Th street between E and
F streets. 1t is a three-story and base
ment dwelling of pressed brick and brown
stone. A broad bay window extends from
the foundation to the roof on the north
side of the front. The basement story is
of stone and the main building of red
brick, the sills being of stone Three bands
of ornamental brick, each band having
margins of black extend across the face
Of the house at equi-distant intervals. A
heavy stone stairway leads to the entrance
on the south side of the front and above
the doorway is a small balcony supported
by two columns, the shafts being of high
ly polished red granite and the bases and
capitals Of brown stone. The balustrades
of the balcony and stairs are of brown
stone. There is pretty yard in front,
in which two small spruce trees grow.
There is also a yard at the rear of the
house extending to an alley.
The floor of the vestibule is tiled and
the woodwork is black walnut. On the
right of the hall are Two connecting par
lors, entrance to small conservatory be-
ing through the back parlor. The walls of
the hall painted in old and conven-
tional design and the coloring of the walls
of the parlors is dark red. The main floor
is finished in oak. The house contains
thirteen rooms, is about twenty-four feet
wide by sixty deep, and the purchase price
is reported to be $4,000.
Discussed by Mrs. Smith.
Mrs. Clinton Smith, president of the W.
C. T. U. of the District in speaking with
a reporter for The Star today Of the ac-
QUESTION Of a permanent home for the
union, said:
Last fall the national organization held
its annual convention here 1t was COM
posed of more than 500 delegates besides
officers and superintendent from every
state and territory, fraternal delegates
from other countries and large number of
visitors. In its personnel the convention
represented every religious belief, every
political preference and every walk in life.
It was a body of commanding presence and
of far-reaching influence. Since then our
aims and methods have been better known
and our principles better understood and
appreciated.
1.-The result has been an increased ac-
tivity among the membership in the Dis
trict of Columbia and desire to press for
ward into broader fields and to open up
new avenues of endeavor. We are admon-
ished both by outward circumstances and
by inward promptings that the time has
come when we must extend our lines Of
work and assume new responsibilities. AS
a means to this end We have purchased a
house that we may possess a sure abiding
place to bear our name. 1t will be CEN
ter from which can radiate our various
lines of work, a home for our departments
and point of concentration for our wide
| spread benevolences.
I'VE have high ideals for this building
| and the work that shall be prosecuted
rr,o11a will ha rityhf nd
| cheerful, humming with activity and beam
ing with kindly and gracious welcome to
| all who are homeless or tempted or de-
spondent. Here the young will find the
| best of counsellors Here the ignorant will
| be advised. 1t will be the chosen meeting
place of the Y. w. c. T. u, the Loyal
| Temperance Legions and the Young Wage
| Farmers Clubs. Here an abundance of the
| hest literature will be obtainable as we'll
| as information upon moral. religious and
| patriotic subjects. 1t will be open and
accessible at all hours, and should not be
| Swallowed by financial straits nor chilled
by GOODNESS or Indifference.
Quotes From the Star.
| 1.-THE Star" continued Mrs. Smith, has
| frequently expressed itself favorably to-
ward the work and principles of the w.
| c. T. U. An issue in October, 1900, says:
| The city that is without w. c. T. u is
| without a good friend. This order has
done most effective work in this community
| for many years, not alone IN the promul-
| CATION of temperance ideas, but in the
| amelioration of unfortunate conditions in
| all walks of life. 1t has been an element
| for good, and it deserves recognition and
| assistance even from those who do not
subscribe to it's central proposition
| mo organization is SO well fitted to do
girls work as is the w. c. T. U. We
would gladly do for young girls and young
women what the Y. M. G: A. is doing for
| cent public see that facilities are provided
us? Those who SO generously contributed
thousands of dollars to establish the Y.
quarters cannot be Indifferent to the APP
peal of the w. c. T. u in behalf of young
womanhood and of helpless childhood. 1t
is womanhood and childhood that most
| liquor traffic. 1t is the childhood Of today
| that makes the womanhood Of tomorrow,
and it is the womanhood of today that
| determines the social status of tomorrow
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