The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-20

been made to provide better quarters q
Who are strangers n New York and pro
teot them from the loneliness which Otter
o~vertakes those who come TO a larg'
city for the first time and that art club
for women were being multiplied in cen
trail localities. .She was positive. how
ever, that to find room and board for lesi
than 60 q week In O respectable, clear
house with refined surroundings 10 nov
impossible, insisting that even at tina
figure two girls would have to bunk TO-
gether In q medium sized room; ane
One avenue by which strangers are
helped to find O lodging or a boarding
place is the Young Women's Christian
Association, which maintains a board ano
room directory. An OFFICIAL OF this depart
ment told Q young woman who apphee
TO her the other day that to get a single
room with board In a suitable house for
less than "a was almost Impossible. ,
few on our books at %. but these almost
immediately. are snapped up. AT Presen,
we have nothing lower than st.. II you
can share q room with a friend 1t is pos
sibls that we may place you for 50 or
This executive added that in any case
-students intending TO come to New VOTE
ny oCtODtI IL Nv WlllOh hbo "
art sohools begin the fall classes, would
do better to write TO the Y. W. G. A; OF
10 some other agency a month ahead OF
time and ask that q room at a certain
price be engaged for them.
At the Art Students League, In West
Fifty-seventh street. strangers Gan oo,
tain a List Of addresses Of boarding ano
been investigated and found suitable for
young women, but a tour Of q dozen OF
more OF these made the other day by Q
prospective student failed to find one
which char god less than % q week. the
majority asking % or $40 for o very small
room. although. every one OF the NJ
was west Of Eighth avenue
TO be within walking distance Of the ar
school, hired 0 small room for $3.50 q week
and arranged to take two meals Q day
ut the Art Workers Club In West Fifty
eighth street at a cost Of rs cents for
lunch, % cents for dinner, and to prepare
her own breakfast. In this way she couie
keep her living expenses down to a tribe
OF the club by paying 80 cents every thret
months and 81 membership fee:
At the Woman's Art Club, which ocou'
pies q four story house and therefore car
lodge only afew girls, there are. however
large paflors where tea 70 served free q
an afternoon and q reading room which
is at the disposal Of club members at any
hour up TO 10 O'Clock at night.
Fifty-six young art students have founo
good accommodations at the Three
Arts Club. In West End avenue. formerly
situated In Lexington avenue. at from "
to $3.50 q week, and the club. whose
membership 10 over 800, also gives table
board 10 one hundred or more studenti
who have secured rooms in the neighbor.
hNnd M n NharDa NJ a. n weak for three
meals o day or IS for two meals. The six
dollar rate NEAR that two girls. mus
share q medium sized room. To belong
to the Three Arts Club a student mus
pay 81 membership fee. be under 30 year.
Of age and be studying with q view to
s~ef-support.
tioally q newcomer in the art field and
which some Of the instructors in art
schools wish might have a larger lodging
capacity. is. In the words Of the manager,
to solve II possible some Of the problems
Of the student life Of the large and con-
stantly increasing number OF young
women In the art circles Of this city. It
like tho other art clubs for women stu
dents in New York, 10 the outcome OF a
plan started several years ago by the rec
tor OF St. Marks Church when he re-
solved &c open one OF the large church
parlors rs a social centre for art students,
placing 1t in charge OF . parish d~eaconess.
Very DON the need Of a clubhouse with
accommodations for resident members
developed, and by the generosity Of q
Boston woman an apartment was rented
in West Fifty-slxth street and used as a
dormitory.
After that Bishop Greer got interested
in the scheme and a house in Lexington
avenue was rented with accommodations
for fifteen dodgers, and "a the demand
tor lodgings increased a second house was
equipped. Three years later It vas
thought wiser to secure houses IN the
west side Of the town for this purpose.
and as a result the Three Arts Club with
three rented houses in operation became
nearly two years ego a fixture in West
End avenue, near Eghty-sixth street.
It 10 the hope Of the present board Of
managers that one day the club will
own its own building and be able to pro-
vide lodgings for several hundred instead
Of for fifty six girls.
Unfortunately at the present time the
several homes and hotels for working
girls which give board and lodging at S.
q week and less will not recognize the art
student. To gain admission to one Of
them a young woman must DO self-sup-
porting, and whatever the art student
may hope to accomplish in the future.
during her student days she Is not able
to earn her salt.