The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-16
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Tho observant person passing along
Nassau street between the hours Of II
o'clock In the morning and IN the after.
noon may notice that a great many young
women seek a particular doorway on the
east side near the corner Of Ann street
Many are pretty, almost all are neatly and
carefully dressed, and they are all In a hurry
20 get inside.
There are tall. graceful girls, and short,
chunky girls. blondes and brunettes, gay
girls and serious girls. All of the many
types which 60 to make the feminine half
u the downtown population in daytime
are represented.
They are the Princesses going to luncheon
at their club. Its name u In gilt letters on
the green doors ami repeated in the win
dows above the ground floor stores.
Every American girl Il a princess until
she becomes a queen, says Miss Eva Lewis,
who Is president OF the club $50 this Is
tho Princess Club
In plain English, II IL the typewriter
girls luncheon society. 1t was opened
appropriately enough, on st. Valentines
day and it already has a membership Of
more than a thousand and IL prospering
exceedingly.
It is also earning the daily blessings Of
those thousand girls and il needs more
room. In all clublnnd there never was
club that grew more rapidly or was more
satisfying to it's members.
It costs only rs cents a month to be a
Princess Of the Princess Club, as apart
from the mere ordinary unackmowledged
princess who has the right to the title only
because she was born an American girl.
In return for the privilege you get
good luncheon daily at nominal cost.
The latest books at two cents a volume.
dainty room and magazines to read.
MauicuTing at cut rates.
piano and the right TO play on Il.
Shoe shines without men watching.
There's more coming when the club gets
rally established and has paid on its initial
debt, but this will do for start. By and
by there will be, perhaps, half hour study
classes in languages and other things;
accident insurance at FIVE cents a month,
which will insure injured members medi-
cal attendance and bed In a good hospital;
a dressingroom where ink spots can be re-
moved from gowns, gloves mended and
other small repairs made; perhaps a counter
where hairpins, collars, gloves and all other
etceteras a woman needs may be purchased
at little moro than cost.
But all the Princesses say that the club
e doing pretty well now. It has been a
blessing without disguise In the dreary
waste Of work PLACES downtown.
Naturally Il was a womRn's idea. Natu-
rally, also, the woman who thought Of 1t
belonged TO the class that needed such an
institution.
Again naturally II was q man who made
the idea into q practical reality by enoourag-
ing Il and furnishing the money 10 back IL.
He IL getting his money back gradually,
and has the consciousness Of a good deed
as a reward. Quito pleasant story Is the
inception Of that club. Here Is the story:
Miss Eva Lewis. who Is now president Of
the Princssses, was, some time before last
St. Valentines day, a stsnogTapher In the
employ Of the Audit Company Of America.
It happened that she went on a viRit to Chi
cago, and while she was there friend took
her around TO the MONDAY Rest Club,
W i-',-,' an institution similar 10 the Mas
sLu street club, but on a rather more elab-
crate scale.
Miss Lewis liked &C. and what she saw
sent her back home with an ardent wish
for such an institution In New York. Why
should Chicago be ahead Of the Empire
City in a little thing like that anyway
She happened to mention the delights Of
the Chicago club 10 one Of her employers
and he took her up IN q minute.
We'll, he said, why don't you start a
club like that here In New York; You'd
get lots Of members. There are twenty
stenographers right here In this company
who would jump at the chance Of joining
such a club
L would start one II could replied
Miss Lewis, 'but can't. 1t takes money
to do a thing like that. I've even figured
on it, It would take at least 5000 to start
a club like that, and haven't got Ave thou
sand cents
HIM, said the employer, and he thought
minute. Then he added: well, you keep
my name out Of IL and I'll supply the capital.
You needn't worry IL IL isn't a success.
I'm a good loser. But don't think I'll
lose II you 60 about It the right way
That Miss Lewis says, Is just the kind Of
man he Is. Ho gives away money-ever 40
much Of it-in charity every year Puts It
where It will do the most good and never
tells anybody about 1t and never wants
his name on subscription lists. But she
won't tell his name, for then everybody
would bother him 10 death.
Well, she fixed on the third floor Of the
rather ancient building In Nassau street
ne the right place for her club. Il was not
elaborate, but It was roomy and It had win
dovs on two sides looking out into the
streets.
And 1t was cheap for downtown. The
rent was 5000 year. but the angel said:
Never mind that; 60 ahead and wen see.'
And Miss Lewis right there fixed on a mem
bership Of a thousand and a monthly sub
soription Of IS cents az just right to pay
the rent.
1t did seem Job. though, 10 put that place
In club shape. Il had been q printing
ONCE and Il was not clean. But paint
and paper and sorubbing did wonders.
First Of ell the biggest section Of IL was
partlhoned OF for the restaurant, which
was 10 b the principal attraction Of tho
club. Then the darker back part was
ct aside for a kitchen, and finally the
space that was left was divided into two
pretty rooms, papered in plain soft green
tones.
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