New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-23
FRENCH Y. II. G. 4.
Society in Manhattan Hopes to Haze
Home Of It's O7cn Soon.

Nine Octave Buensod. % No. los West Trirtieth-
II, the president OF the French Young women's
Christian Association. has set on foot a movement
70 raise sufficient funds 10 hire q house where the
members may End home and the work Of the
organization be enlarged. This Union ds Jeunes
Files Is connected with the French Evangelical
Church, in West sixteenth-st-. IS about fifteen
years old and during au but the arst SIX months
Nine Buensod has been az It's head
What we need" said Nine. Buensod 70 a Trfb-
une reporter. is a home q our own a house which
we can make our headquarte-s and viii allow OF
our increasing the scope OF the work At present
We are meeting IN the basement OF the church and
not only are our quarters not particularly appro-
pirate Tor our purposes hut they are available
only on Sunday afternoons. We need house-a
1ocaI-where the French speaking girls OF the city
may spend their evenings. where can have
classes and reunions. games and a reading room
six years ego preached the subject OF obtain
Ing rooms OF our own. but met with so much op-
position that Jet It drop Then two YEAR, ago
I revived H. only 20 meet with the same feeling
among the members. Now. however. The union
seems to have walked Up 10 tho necessity OF seek
Ing better accommodations and 7 think IN time we
shall carry the thing through Fifteen hundred
collars is The minimum for which we could engage
satisfactory rooms but hope 20 raise s. O00 which
viii enable Us 20 have house. II seems as II IN
city Ike New-York f. should not be hard to
raise this comparatively small sum"
L Union de Jeunes Files has about ninety
members. II IS open 20 ell French-speaking girls
whether Swiss. Belgian French. and whatever
their creed. The majority, however. Protestant
only about ten being Roman Catholics They
goveruesses. teachers ladies maids nurses An
attempt IS being made 10 bring IN working girls
minners. dressmalers. etc. The annual dues
g. At present the only meetings OF the union sre
held on Sunday afternoons IN the form OF prayer
meetings which last from TO $50 o'clock and
are followed by a tea The secretary. Nile. Lecoul-
ire. is a paid employe, who visits the members
when III or IN trouble. keeps track OF them. and
performs IN many ways the duties OF missionary.
The union also maintains sewing school which
meets Saturdays. and publishes little news,
Daper once a month called lie Trait d'Union,''
which contains AL the news Of the society and OF
when the Union gets into quarters Of its own one
IRE arst thirgs ~ viii start Is class IN Eng
iish II viii also institute classes and entertain
sflssa rforflv bv the Young Women's Christian
Assocfstion IA FIfteenth-st. Indeed. the Young
Von'en's Christian Association has proved model
and inspiration In more ways than one for the
iIle 20 be se3liated with the Young Womens Chris
tan Association French branch, old the con-
yftutton OF the older organization permit IL II the
Union succeeds IN getting q whole house IL viii
prozase living accorn odations for about ten OF Us
members. a home for French working Women being
arnonV Tie things desired BY Nine BuensOd. The
French EcvangeicaI Church. with which the Union
n conn ected. runs a home for young French women
out OF employment at No. 81 West Thirtieth-st.
also an employment bureau but there Is no accom-
feels thaf the dangers surrounding girls not familiar
With the language Of the country are very great.
sn6 that they need all the assistance that a SAFE
ana congenal home can give them