New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-30
A NURSES BAZAAR.
Ne1o-Pork Hospital AIumne Hold
Attractire Far.

How admirably the training school of the New
York Hospital lends itself to the uses of bazaar
was perhaps hardly realized by the alumnae them
selves until yesterday. when they opened their
doors to their friends and the public for the two
days bazaar which they are TO hold for the benefit
OF their new clubhouse"
To be quite exact, the alumnae association moved
INTO It's new clubhouse last NAV. that is it took
half of the apartment house at No S West Ninety
second-st-. and proceeded to it on-club prin-
ciples a residential club for its members. In
october they took over the entire house on a lease
for five with the privilege of extending the
lease five years more. or buying the building out
right The association has papered and remOdeed
the house and now it wants TO furnish the
part. The governors of the hospital have given
them more than 5000 toward their fund Mrs
Clarence II. Mackay whose interest in hospitals
and nurses is well known, has given them furn-
ture. pictures etc, for their quarters, and
other friends have helped What the alumne
would really like is for some TO buy the house
as a business speculation and lease it to the
association for long of years.
There could be no possibility of failure in such
speculation" said Miss Irene H. Sutf the chair
man Of the bazaar committee and for eighteen
years superintendent of the training school.
Nurses are graduating every year from the hos
pital. they all earn good salaries they keep
rooms somewhere. and they naturally prefer to do
at the club Of their alumne association. In
few years this house will not he able to accommo-
H.
association does not desire to purchase the build
ing itself. but the nurses are amply able pay
the current EXPENSES. and they want TO convince
the public that in asking its aid they do do
objects of charity il any sense
The association has a membership of $50 The
club accommodates 105. AS it can whip
things into shape. which probably Won't be till
after Christmas. it means TO give housewarming.
New-York Hospital nurses must have the deftest
Of fingers. There were scarlet peoples, pink roses
whit oh ant l.ary
work of their hands growing all over the stalls
gas fixtures and cornices yesterday. The effect
was exceedingly pretty, with the nurses fitting
about. all in spotless white. One was given
up to old brasses and coppers.
Miss Marion Wilson, Miss Leila Finney Miss
NJ. 3. Post. Miss E. VI. Dinehart and Miss Sophie
Higginbotham were in charge Of the picture and
book booth. At the household table hand woven
rugs made of the hospital uniform, a Scotch ging-
ham OF dark and light blue. were sold. These rugs
were made in South Norwalk expressly for the
sale. Miss Lucy Grafton, Miss Margaret Belindir
and Miss Margaret Mckenzie were here.
Nearly everything the fancy table had been
made by the nurses. Miss Naruse. a little Japan
csc girl. who returned Japan after being gradu-
ated from the NeTv-York Hospital, and VINO has
since married japanese sent some attractive
mer IN Denmark, contributed some Of the beauti-
ful Hardanger embroidery. and a nurse whose
home is IN Nassau gave some necklaces Of native
shells. With these exceptions, everything in the
nurses themselves. The lovely handmade lingerie
won especial admiration but the whole collection
was charming. Miss Marie Young, Miss Kate
Clark. Miss Alice HincIiH and Miss Jordan We're
in charge.
Miss Linda Thomas Miss Emma Goldng. Miss
Charlotte Birdsau and Miss Margaret Ryerson
were at the flower booth: Miss Martha NJ. Russell
Miss Rose Green, Miss Houston and Miss Kate
LesheT at the doll booth Mss annie Duncan
manufactured by the energetic nurses.
The training school stall was the only one where
the attendants the beloved blue gown, white
cap, kerchief and apron Of the hospital Miss
Elizabeth Richmond, Miss 1nga Lund, Miss FLICK
and Miss Mathilde Jaufert were in charge mere
Downstairs was one of the most captivating
tearOoms any one ever II was all in crimson
peoples On big table Kissed an old brass samo-
var, which with the elegant brass circular tray
on which r. stood used to stand in a little country
railway station in Russia, and was lent by an
alurnna who a resident Of the Nurses
Settlement Henry-st. Mrs lie b'etra7 MIS-. Z. n.
Peck. Mrs. c. Victor Twiss and Mrs, Herman
Aaron all alumnae who have married, assisted
here. while Mrs Ethel HOsking and Miss DooAttie,
the cooking teacher were at the diet kitchen tanle
where work Of the class sold A mystery IN
the form Of a lemon lady" operated by MIS-;
Matilda Robinson and Miss Frances Everett ana
q side show, Hokey-Pokey. Wtnkey-WaTn OF VAN.
Miss Baker. of Nassau Jamaica, VINO, iIipeT-
sonatfrg an old negress, sold baskets and oeaos.
Miss SutIT was assisted by Miss Goodrich, pres
emf sr1Derintendent of the training school MISS MO
Tarr1ntf Miss Duncan Miss Broom, Miss Mary
Yourg Miss Clifford and others. The bazaar VIII
Sixteenth-st Yesterday 1t was crowded both ar
ternoon and evening. among those present peins
NJ poland Redmond. Mrs. Hermann n. Cam
-rayn and Mrs TheodOrus 3. WOOlsey. Mrs. Will
lam Rockefeller sent the flowers for the flower
stall.