The sun., 1903-09-29
CHARITY WHERE VICE RULED.
TIE HOUSE OF ALL NATIONS HAS
RECOME POOR GIRLS HOME.
Changed Sights Its Mirrors and Frescos
Now Look Upon-M Adams Let inc
Frsnciscans Have the House aheap'
INT strange Callers Bother the Sisters.

Ersociscans Have the House cheap
I'M, strange Callers Bother the Sisters.
Time which changes everything, mas
mat wrought what to many persons may
seem like a miracle by Transforming INC
House of All Nations, reputed once ~ pe
the most mxuriously equipped abods Oh
vice in this city into home for poor. un-
omnloyed Catholic servant girls since
S.nt I the house has been in the possession
81 a little group OF Franciscan Tert1aries,
with Sister Frances at their head. Who
nrevio,,sly had their home at 100 and Ill
on the same street,
The name under which the building Is TO
ssrye it's new purpose IL, appropr1ately'
the House Of the TRANSPORTATION. 1t ap-
wears in large lettering on the covered
stoop leading up to the house, which other
Wise has undergone no outward change.
Tho old lace curtains still cover the windows
10 the front parlor, and when the whole
huilding is lit up at night, its appearance
is deceptive
The doorbell is rling every evening by
callers- who receive severe shock when
apprised OF the change. There werc ten
OF them last Sunday night. The double
house at III and 119 as well as the
adjoining buildings at l2l and l2S are the
property of AL Adams, the dethroned pol
lev king" who is now serving year In Sing
Sing He bought this house at time
when serious efforts to clean up the Ten
derIoin made property in that neighbor-
hood cheap. Since then the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company has planned tunnel
and station In this city and the price OF
property near Greeley Square is higher
than ever.
It was said on good authority yesterday
that Adams was offered $3.50 600 few weeks
ago for the old House Of All Nations. which
reaches from Thirty-second street right
through to Thirty-third street He refused
10 sell for less than $5O0,OOO. Not long
afterward the sisters, whose desire to move
from their old home was known, were APP
preached with proposition 10 take the
house, and fve-year lease was offered to
them at a lower rental than they we're then
paying. The offer was quickly accepted
by their lawyer. William M. Sullivan OF
serted, guaranteeing them 1900 for the
remaining period of the lease If they de-
sired to surrender 1t at the expiration OF
three years.
Several persons interested in the trans
action asserted yesterday that it grew
out Of desire on the part OF Al ADAMS
to make some kind of restitution for in
iquities committed in the past. The truth
OF these assertions could not be learned,
but both Lawyer Sullivan and Sister Frances
said that the conditions Of the lease were
SO favorable to the tenants that some special
motive must have dictated them.
1t is now more than fifteen years since
the House Of All Nations first caught the
attention Of frequenters OF the Tenderloin.
1t was started and run by Emma Charles
for nearly ten years, or until her place was
ralded fer tho first time by Inspector VII
l-,~~ Yx.T - hat hlNyN tHG
place never recovered, although the Charles
woman continued to livethere. Initspalmy
days tho house had a reputation not only
FOR the luxury Of tia appointments, but for
the selection of the sirens who dwelt there
They we're supIc sed to represent the ideal
types Of beauty of all the principal nations.
Hence the name Of the place.
or late years the house has been occu-
pied only fitfully. A rest talrant was estab.
lished in the basement, and tailor ope ned
a shop in the old smoking room. whioh Is
furnished with brdao, sof ccshie ned divars
another rooca known as the 'Pansy room.
But for all that lruch ofthe old nas ntficence
remained when the sisters tool tHsssssicn.
hrrf row the Trirrored frescoes< alls
look down upon long rows Of narroT Njts.
A SUN reporter visited the house yeeter-
day and was shown through It by Sister
Frances. The parlor still serves as parlor.
Its walls and it's ceiling are entirely covered
With mirTors. che kered with q network
Of roses and ferns. In .ne Of the easy
big-eyed doll, tho property Of sou,e waR
taken in charge by the sisters while her
mother was at work. They do that kind
Of thing, too-in fact, they give every
kind OF help that may be needed Whenever
extreme distress is brought to their AZ
tention.
On the wall hangs portrait Of Pope
Plus K. and images Of saints The rear
OF the room is turned into chapel screened
BY row Of palms and with picture OF tho
Saviour for the altar piece.
psd v. wei jus. t5ns e do%n ssea
little by and by. Here the girls both
those that live hers and those who come
here as visitors, may spend their evenings.
II they have male company they will bring
the young men right In here. Why, we
have marTiod four girls from our house in
corner viii be forbidden. They do lot
Of harm, and we have got the policeman on
post to promise to break them up:
The famous umbrella room back OF the
parlor, which got It's name from tho shape
Of the mirror-covered ceiling, used to be
into an oratory, with a group. -Ihe Agony
In the Garden In one corner. The read
ing and working room will be in the rear
Of the first floor, in the old dining room,
which ha9 an eight rect h1gh WalnscotlnB
of carved oak The champagne bottles
used for decoration in the old days remain
on the shelves that border the wainscoting.
The walls are frescoed with drinking scenes,
most OF the figures represented being
Franciscan monks. Between the frescoes
are painted sentential oouplets in German,
such as this:
"Tst das Bier in der Kann', st die Weisheit
in dem Mann Nf there is beer In the
mug, there is wisdom in the man.
Il like that" said Sister Frances. "1t's
perfectly true as long as the beer remains
in the mug"
The railings of the stairways are all OF
carved oak, and the entrance to the stair
way is protected by fine screen Of the same
kind of work. On the second floor are the
old Egyptian and Turkish parlors, separated
by slender pillars The woodwork Is painted
white. with decorations Of lotos flowers in
bright red and green. The walls In these,
as well as in all other rooms In the upper
part Of the house, are covered with damask.
There is gold room on the third floor,
with a canopied bed I'm white and gold.
Some servant girl may sleep in it now.
The dining room and the kitchen will be
in the basement, where the restaurant
was recently. Tho front room is known
dressed logs. The rear room, almost ham
IL called the wigwam. Its principal fea-
ture is the cement floor into which real
horseshoes have been sunk 80 as to form
regular pattern. An immense open Crate,
with an iron kettle hanging over piio Of
logs, occupies nearly one-half Of one OF the |