New-York tribune., 1907-10-19
CITY FED" MEETS.
Fec Shares Left for Woman's Hotel
The Rod IN School.

| over two hundred shares Of City Federation
Hotel stock subscribed in less than ten min
| utes at the convention OF the federation held at
| the Hotel Astor yesterday Mrs Belle dc Rivera
president OF board of directors, said that the
| directors receiving letters continually from
girls who had read OF the hotel in the papers and
| wanted to know when Il was to be opened
! "One girl wrote us. she said, that she was
getting only s. week and paid s. for small
room. without any fire. Her food her s., and
this left only 81 for clothing, carfarc. etc.
Nov, the reason The hotel hasn't hceu started .'
continued Mrs. de Rivera. lis because artl-
Gl sa M or ~ ~ ocn have Teon 10 ter 80 So "'5I [
only 745 have becn subscribed. Two hundred and
hfty-hve remain. Who viii take them? I know
you all intend to subscribe. Why not do it now
THE Knckerbocker Relief Association will take
TWENTY-FIVE shares" said the president Mrs
Camille Birnbohu.
Il will take five" said Miss Florence Guernsey.
And / will take fifty added Mrs Charles h.
Reed.
A burst of applause greeted this announcement
When IL had subsidized Mrs. de Rivera said:
THAT makes Mrs. Reed the largest shareholder
In the corporation. one time. ladies' for
several women were trying to get the floor at once
The upshot Of it all that by the time tho
ten minutes allotted by the programme to the
! City Federation Hotel had expired twenty shares
had been taken and others sold after tile
meeting adjourned.
The meeting all day one. beginning at 10
o'clock. with the president. Mrs. William Cum
ming Story, in the chair. and most Of the time
was devoted to routine business Of not very
citing nature.
Mrs. Clarence Burns made an appeal to the dele
gates to help her in 4 campaign against short
weights
In an East Side nursery I found" she said
that five pounds Of meat weighed only four and
n half and that pounds of sugar three
| fourths Of a pound short That doesn't matter
much to we-to-do people. but among the poor It
means less food for the people who need II most.
! ! Investigating tho subject ns the South Ferry
! district In the East side gashouse region and IN
IIels Kitchen. ard I will have more TO say about
IT. But you AZ help by getting n pair Of
scales and Weighing your food. rms VIII help me
If you will report me. and it is only justice 20
your husband. who earns the money to support
you"
Mrs Helena Secor TONES nut in a plea for the
grocers boy and the butchers hoy who get no
holidays because thoughtless clubwomen order
supplies those days.
Il wouldn't order anything holiday she
declared. III I never had anything to eat But I
have never heard the butcner's and grocer's boys
publicly defended by any one but myself"
The following resolution against corporal punish
ment in the public schools introduced hy Mrs
Lille Dcvere,x Blake president of the Legislative
League and the Mothers club, and unanimously
adopted:
''Whereas the Board of Education is considering
the advisabnity Of reinstating corporal punish
ment in the public schools Of the city of New
York; and
..Whereas this antouated method Of enforcing
diecfoline has long been established in reform
and penal institutions: and
whereas the whipping of children. so far from
,Dljftiny them. tends 10 make them cowardly and
deccitfuI therefore
..prsoIyed. THAT as mothers and citizens we pro-
brutqzing to the teacher and degrading TO the
pupil. 49,, 49,. =.
a resolution recommending a federal divorce law
was killed by a protest from Mrs. Frederick
| Nathan who thought It too large subject fer
1 careless "resoluting"