New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-05
THREE ARTS CLUB.
Deaconess Halls Project for Women
Students of MuSic, art and Drama.

The Three Arts Club is the latest addition to the
women's clubs Of New-York City. 1t is about a
month old, and it is modelled the famous Ameri-
can Girls Club OF Paris. Hitherto the club in
Paris has been unique, its distinction lying in the
combination it presented of a home and a social
centre. 1t is just this delightful union of home
and club that the Three Arts Club aims furnish.
When you speak Of the Three Arts Club you
speak of Deaconess Jane Hall Deaconess Hall is
the Three Arts Club. The club has been made
possible only through Deaconess Halls initiative
though her experience in running the Students
Club St. Marks and the trip she took to Europe
last summer for the express purpose of studying
the club in Paris.
The Three Arts Club is at present very small 1t
consists Of five young women students. who occupy
seven-room apartment at No. 325 West Fifty
sixth-st. This modest beginning has been made
possible by the generosity of Mrs. c. P. Hemen-
way, of Boston. whose daughter is a student
Teachers College. and Mrs. George c. Thomas. The
former, who is personal friend Of Miss Hall. has
guaranteed the rent for year, and Mrs. Thomas
gave a check to help furnish the rooms. A great
many Of the things in the fiat. however. are Miss
Halls private possessions.
CLUB NEEDS A LARGE HOME.
And yet unspeakably glad as I am TO see the
inauguration of a students club, even in this
small way" said Deaconess Hall to a Tribune re-
porter, II not satisfied I shall not be satisfied
until I see the club established in a house that
shall accommodate large number Of girls But
as il is think object lesson of the need
that exists for just such a club, and proof that
a club of this kind be run successfully. But
a clubhouse of our own would take money, espe-
ciaIly as it is a part OF the club idea that the
rooms shall be rented at prices within the means
Of students who seIf-supportng who
aiming to become
Because students do not fall under the categories
Of the sick or INDECENT suffering few people
think of them a class in need of any especial
assistance consideration. Many Of them are
very poor Some count paving their way while
they prosecute their studies at of the many
studios or Conservatives, and others having laid
by little have 10 practise the greatest economy
not to exhaust their hoard before they can finish
their studies. These girls either go one of the
institutions designed for self-supporttng women
where there are usually many restrictions that
they afford little of the home environment or else
they go into the hall bedroom in the cheap lodging
house-dingy, cold and cramped. They frequently
give such girls pleasant home at prices they can
AFFORD is the primary object Of the Three Arts Club
struggling woman student in New ork-her cour-
Should ike to see this small beginning develop into
the centre OF al the student life of the city en-
If Deaconess Hall could find thirty girl students
her, it IS said She would venture to take a house
for the club. Twelve girls stand ready TO do this
MUSIC. ART AND DRAMA.
The three arts. be it said. are music. art and the
drama. There are at present resident members
of the club five young women, four Of whom study
art, the other music. Miss Hall herself lives in the
building the club. but three floors higher
up and with her lives the daughter OF Mrs Hemen-
fa in tbe fronI ciUbrooT d T he MISS idaIl pours
hrs IN me Tb Sven m ib ana Inc Fesiaent mem
p.ning to come and live in the club only they can't
from their several studios and schools the tea
There is d lot of socabiIity centring in the Three
Arts Club young and small as il is. For example
synonyme for cameraderie, with Deaconess Hall the
heart and soul of it all as she dspenses sandwiches
are highly popular with the members as well as the
club due OF 81 but who have extended to them the
privilege Of visitors TO the club
had its hrst party They say the long supper table:
egIers imported all the way from Cd5nect lS ab b
Deaconess Hall for the occasion, was a picture.
out a pumpkin, which was filed with fruit. After
supper they played progressive lniqa t. by candle
brought by Deaconess Hall from abroad. a recep-
.Deaconess Hall is herself responsible for the
two general clubr2oms and for much Of the furnt-
tire in the five bedrooms. The atmosphere Of these
Ton curtains from London in Morris designs; their
photographs Of European cathedrals and world
A GLIMPSE OF THE ROOMS.
Behind the tea table-and it is one Of the pretti-
est tea tables in the world with blue and white
china its silver and charming little fancy dishes
hangs a bedspread from Wales. OF the queer.
fascinating touches in the room. It is OF some
white cotton stuff, which peaeocks and queer.
impossible birds spread themselves in dull. old
rose shades. There is a piano. which is rented by
the month, and which some OF the students
practise daily. thus turning in small revenue 70
the club on the plano stands plaster cast OF
the Winged Victory of Samothrace, and over an
old fashioned English card table there Is plaster
bass relief OF the three heroes OF "TriIpy A
crane and frog poster IS an English souvenir
In he girls bedrooms, where each has been free
n follow her own ideas Of decora ton, charcoal
studies 1ostle portraits and landscapes. and one
fans over easels and ban1os and odds and ends OF
bric-a-brac The girls have the privilege OF getung
their own breakfasts and luncheons ana row OF
tiny coffee pots hanging beside the gas range N
the kitchen shows that they avail tneinseISes OF
n They paw far less than they would elsewhere
C-onsiferal HE df1culty was experienced IN getting
M a suitable monogram for the cIap, tSeaa one
NAV the initials Of the three arts-inucic hrt anu
5rarna-spelI mad" and turned about they spelI
sdaro and Deaconess Hall said she ala nor MINI Tttlt
- rssrousFbla either kind or a cluD = nat
~ rrofien has been solved satisfactorily is SHOWN
by The pretty club stationery