New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-03
HOTEL FOR WOMEN.
Small SaInied Working Girls an
Need of Decent Housing.

Mills Hotel for wage-earning women. to bf
instituted by the clubwomen of the city g
concrete expression of their desire 10 benefit
their kind loomed above the horizon Of posi-
bilities yesterday after Mrs. Clarence Burns had
appealed 10 the City Federation at meeting
yesterday in Hotel Aston on behalf Of the So a
week working girl. II was Immediately voted
to empower Mrs. Belle De Rivera, the president,
10 appoint a committee Of nine TO look over the
field. formulate plans and report to the FED
at its open meeting in May.
When the last half hour Of the business ses-
sion was given over TO the clubs for presentation
OF interests particularly dear 10 their hearts
Mrs. Burns. president OF the Little Mothers
Aid Association. was the first TO speak.
There are Do. go wage-earnng women. ex-
elusive OF professional women, in New-York,
she began. "Of these LOS are saleswomen.
Three thousand and ninety-four work in box
factories, the poorest of all women's trades.
Many Of these girls earn only So week. and no
woman can live IN New-York on So a week Of
course. I DO not speak os the women who live
with their families"
The S. a week woman according 10 Mrs
Burns. does one Of three things-she starves. or
she goes to destruction. or she commits suicide
as so many working girls are reported by the
papers 10 have done lately.
Continuing Mrs. Burns assigned three reasons
why the wages Of women are so pitifully small
For one thing" she said, many take up work
as tde-over. For another, they are. as a rule
unskiIled laborers, and. lastly. it is hard to or
game women. One Of the greatest needs Of
the small wage Garner is a home where she can
live decenty and cheaply.
Why ladies'" exclaimed the speaker, do you
know that there are working girls homes in
New-York that do not permit a girl 10 return
10 her room till night after she has once left 1t
IN the morning. Isn't that dreadful, in city Of
the temptations Of NeW-York! Many nice gil
can see her sweetheart only on the streets or
the front steps. Every working girls home has
from thirty 10 sixty on the waiting list.
We ought TO have Mills hotel and Mills
lodging and boarding houses for women While
we ire not in a position TO build them ourselves
there are many men and women Of means who
VIII gladly help, / believe If the subject is prop
erly presented to them"
Mrs. William Cummings Story. representing
the Woman's Republican Club. called the atten-
zion Of the federation 10 the evils Of haZing-
With nine killed this year and eighteen in
JuTed' said Mrs. Story, every mother and
eve-y woman with a mother heart should con-
slider seriously what can be done. and SUR up
her clubs 10 act"
Her injunction 10 teach your children 10 en-
dure il as braYey as possible, if necessary. but
never 10 infict it," aroused applause, as a re-
suit OF which a resolution was adopted In con-
oemnatlOn of the practice and urging the heads
Of colleges 10 hand over offenders to the civil
authorities, copy 10 be sent 10 the heads Of
mems colleges and to the press
Bright speeches, music and amusing toasts
followed the annual luncheon, which was en-
9Oyed by 221 members, while nearly as many
more waited anXiOusly outside in the corridor
for the feast TO end and the talk to Iegin.
Mrs Philip Carpenter caused some disap-
pointment by announcing that the State Fed
Grafton had accepted SaratOga's invitation for
the November convention. Mrs. Dore LYON
who was introduced amid general laughter as
the woman who can start trade school dis
cussiCn and end il with a school," read an
original version Of the BeatitudeS. beginning
Blessed are the poor IL spirit, fer they get all
that IS coming TO them. Blessed are the meek
for they Will he set up. given the glad hand
and plenty Of work to 90. viii be put on all The
committees and thanked once a year by the
president
Mrs Richard Stearus, whose subject was left
blank on the programme, said that after casting
about for the subject Of least urofun8itv she
had hit on Our Husbands" or rather their
conversion to the club idea. From looking on
clubs as hotbeds Of seditiou. husbands. she
said, could now be found actually boastfng Of
the number of their wives clubs.
Angels Of To-day" furnished Mrs Frank II.
Cronise with lots Of chances 10 saw flInnv
things
This calling women angels is only fattery.''
she declared The modern woman doesn't
want 10 be angel-she wants a square deal
NC more angel jobs for II there is any
more household angei work to he done let the
job" " "
Other Speakers were Mrs De Rivera WIN
delivered The Presidents Message. Mr.
Charlotte =. Wihour Mrs y Archibald Sbav,
Mr.. p Jean Nelson Penlield, Mrs. NewhlT1- Of
NeN-JerseE- and Mrs Helen Secor TONES
he meeting was not allowed 10 pass without
an eoulLuou ~ club politics sigualized bv the
victory Of Mrs John s Crosby over Mrs
1eroy sunderland Smith in The election for
elected were Mrs Henry Candles of Richmond
Nm and Mrs. George II. WiuklCr.