The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-11-23
Young Woman'S Christian Association
to Be Provided With Sp|endid|y
Equipped Building.

pied with the offices OF the general secre-
tary and assistants, the library, reading
rooms. parlors, reception rooms and the
large private dining room. Then, also OF
this floor will be large well lighted hall,
for womens meetings, private entertain
ments, etc.
The Offices are at the right OF the main
entrance.
ON this floor, also. reached by another
entrance. Is the large public restaurant
for the use Of women.
The nrst ioor will also contain coat
rooms, lavatories, package rooms, closets,
etc.
ON the second noor are the six class
rooms. the teachers room. the matron's
rooms, sewing room and rooms for tran
sient guests
The other noors are devoted TO lodging
rooms bath, etc, reached by Wide and
beautiful stairways and elevator service.
The reading rooms. resting rooms, bed
rooms, library, etc, viii all be made as
comfortable and delightfui as possible
and when the fact Is considered that
nome Of this character is To be built for
the use of working women, where hoard
aud room may he obtained from $3.50 20
81 per week, its influence for good cannot
/ he measured Then above and apart from
all this, who shall measure the moral. re-
hgious aud intellectual influence OF the
work upon the hundreds af young women
whose lives viii come under it's miuis-
4 tratous tn the class work alone, adyan-
| tages viii he offered which will enable
/ young women to develop themselves I'm al
must any branch of study
/ I'm word the home proposes to pro-
! vide for Young women OF small salary adj
/ vuptagcs. comforts which could not be
/ obtained elsewhere. THAT the need Of
such a home l. most pressing may he
/ understood when the tact Is grasped that
/ there are H. i1 women, d6N of whom arr
| under ~ years of age employed tu the
I factories. mercantile establishments aud
! workshops of this city In many OF these
! Instances "a salary of four oT Eve dollars
"a week r. Of common occurrence and va
one ot our large business houses uuc-dfth
of the girls employed are without homes.
1 If This proportion exists iu other busi-
ness houses What shall We say OF the need
uf comfortable boarding homes?
But there is still a larger side 20 the
work which should not he overlooked
OFTEN q gitl breaks down from uverwork
cor under the stress OF e nervous strain
Thore Is mo- money forthcoming for hei
hoari iu many such instances.
Just herr however the beautiful hom,
atmosphere comes Co., The young woman
is carefully nursed and tlded over th,
breach without money and without price
aud iu uU necessary eases physicians ari
provided without charge
An this b. NOT Bon any sense worl
ct charity however. The board feelin,
that the price ot room snd board mean
care and production not alone in health
hut Goa sickness.
That this prospective and luNuriou
home has been made possible Us due. ID
large dtgr,c. go the mdefatiEahle labor
wisdom ard Inspiration of Mrs }. IS. n
Nightingale The president or the Ncuu
Wumru's christian nssuciatiun.
For months Mrs Nightingale has mad
, I study or similar work iu other elite,
especially in New York and philadelphia
ln her labor of love she has been a.
sisted by Mrs John ~ Rockefeller Ji
who planned and worked with an iuteres
scarcely less than her own.
Together they investigated the wor
/ elsewhere. and when the plans We're Hr
ally cons minated for the new home Nj
? Rockefeller NOT oulv had the plans fo
p the SAME designed bv his own architc,
. | hut gave. fUr his wife tho sum of Sl0n
toward thc huildlnc fund
40 nrespnf hut X.,un has been contrib
uted toward the necessary building fuus
and thes donors are Mr. John Z