Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-09

string is always out on steamer days for
a chance clnbwoman from the states.
The West End Woman's club Of Chicago
has a house containing a dining room seat
ing 9o. The College Woman's club OF
Boston makes a speciality OF its sleeping
apartments. Another Boston clubhouse ID
the Century building, costing 31Ss,0o. New
York $4,000 Colony clubs homo Is well
known
The woman's club Of Worcester. Mass,
has q 10000 building. So has the Woman
Educational and Industrial union OF Buff
falo. The Worcester women were working
hard to get their house when stephen Sails
bury gave them a fine lot.
Thereupon the women took hold with
renewed vigor. put up = splendid four
story building with an assembly room
finer than anything In New England. ex-
cept one In Boston. The building con-
tain also SIX suites done In different styles,
other interesting apartments and-perhaps
from gratitude to the donor Of the lot-a
smoking room for men.
Several clubs owe a good bit Of thanks
to a helping male hand. A womsn's club
in Dallas, Tex, received from ]. ]. Munson,
a wealthy bachelor. the land and $4,000,
provided other citizens would add 500
toward the $1,000 club house which the
women wanted to build They got it, but
with a mortgage for $1,70o, which Carnegie
disposed of because the club had collected
a library which was opened to the public.
As for Captain Bertrand Rockwell Of
Junction City. Kan, hat shall be said Of
his munificence and garantry7 n cap
tain bought the lot. built a stone club
house, furnished It with artistic trappings'
n gave it outright to the Ladies' Reading
club. II Is recordod-and who can wonder
/ thereat-that on the Opening night the cap
tain "was systematically given the SOrosis
squeeze by ths AppreoLGtiVS OEuo women"
Here In New York state Congressman J.
Sloat FASsstt gave q $4,000 lot for the
Womsn's Decoration building at Ehmira
ana his wife EavS $500 towap4 the build
ing itself.
But the mems ~attentions have net always
resulted Eaoriousay. The enc failure Of a
woman's club house from a financial point
OF view-that At Decatur, m--mght have
been averted. II IL declared. II the men had
not mixed up N the affair. Others have
been financial successes. The Boston club
house has paid since the first six months
4 per cent to S~tockholders. ThO Athenaeum
at Milwaukee has paid 5 per cent; thu $50
900 club house at Dorchester. Mass. 3 per
cent.
There are no less than fifteen club houses
owned by women's clubs In Michigan. An
other club house center 10 California Curl
ously enough there are four clubs In the
state named after a man. DR.. Eben, who
was an early apostle Of culture In Cali
fornia, and every one OF the four Ebell
clubs has its own house.
i The one at Los Angeles il In Spanish
style and cost S2lOo. The one at Long
Beach is built on a bluff overlooking the
sea and is of materials from or suggesting
the ocean.
TIL Friday Morning club OF Los Angeles
owns a $4,000 home built in the style Of
the old Spanish mission. The Shakespeare
club Of Pasadena has a low, irregular
bungalow-like house.
Rhode Island women are to have a state
club house at Providence which win be
unique. II will be called Churchill House
and will be a building especially for women.
The November club OF Andover IL distin-
guished because it built the first woman's
club house in New Bnsland.
n wOman's club at Wilmington, Del,
has a $4,000 building; the New Century
club Of Philadelphia has a house which cost
$4,000. but has risen in value. There are
also club houses in Salt Lake City. Peoria
Ill; Olympia, Wash; Baltimore, Utica,
Oshkosh ana 50 on through a long list Tn,
WOman's club Of Orange. N. J., IL to bulk
a $500 club house which is 10 be a meet,
ing place mot only for the mothers, bu
for the fathers and children also"