The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-13

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30 | have ono whole dollar each week
20 devote TO uarfare and clothes. A
Ior doctors bills and rainy days. We have
10 pray Tor them not 20 come.
" the ladies who are always talking
IN the'r clubs about building homes for
wording girls are really trying to help ~
they viii have To give ma something for
less than $50 week. We can do with
ont elevators. without books and parlOra
70 receive oar friends. hut We have to have
food aud once IN while a nickel 70 pay
our Way on the care.
= was told by one Of the officers Of the
working girls hotel TO which ] refor that
the owner was clearing per cent.
ON his investment and was thinking Of
putting up Hnother. In spite Of this We
were always being reminded that We owed
that man gratitude for his goodness IN VA.
II always struck me a. being the same
as be,ng grateful 90 the man who pays
as our money after Ne have earned q by
hard work
Another working girl who began "a .
by the reporter.
There is one place where the working
girl geta her moneys worth and IL not
made 10 feel that she is an object Of char
ity.- ahe said. That place II tho up-
town branch of the Young women's
Christian Association.
i have existed. tried To live. in four
homes or hotels for working girls and feel
that know them all pretty we'll. There
are very few Of them that are not In the
making the giris feel that they are objects
Of charity.
One place limits its guests to those
that arr receiving 81 . week and under.
a. l:as, that Was the way Il vas adyer;
tised. though the three months that
stopped there many Of the girls were
getting a. high a. SIS and so and made
no secret Of Il: The manager explained
that :h-y would be dropped - soon a.
there were other applicants. but most of
making more money. They pay $50 n
week for q comfortable single room With
breakfast and dinner. They can well
afford IL and | think should he allowed
TO stay, a. 10 gives them a chance 10 Law by
against sickness and slack tinle@
-Of course tho first hotel that was built
for work ing women IN out ~ tho question
for a girl Who j. not able 10 paw a. least
two dollars aud a half day. ] know q
good many old ladies. retired milliners
and school teachers. Who live there and sol
have found ont the rates pretty thor
Oughly The majority ~ the younger
women who have rooms In the house go
out for their meals a. they cannot paw
the high prices charged IN the hotel din
ing room
The change - almost a. great in The
dow ntONn branch II the Young WOmen's
Christian Association There the meals
haN. gone up within the last two years
Ia such an extent that girls earning less
than o.. a weed. cannot eat there The
rooms we're never. so long as | can re-
member lees than forty GENTS a night.
aud hard tO get al that Besides. you can
ONLY remain there one month in each year
~ ia ~ Gan learn Mostly college omen
in t"~u Tor a short time gU there.
Al an"th-r home ! know about the
prices are loser than the downtown hotel
10 which | refer. but the lbcatiOn - 50 re-
muts. that y''u have to paw t~" car fare-
~ ~, u almost am other part 1T the city
Twei1y vents a day car far ~ more than
IN. ma ;urity Of working girls eau afford.
-. that plaC,. j. only desirable tOT girls
wurl ing IN its immediate n-ishhorhOod
There ~ vet another home where I
haV,. stayed where the food ~ good and
.hs. r,sOfOs are a. comfortable a. rooms
can IL. With from four To- ~ girls in them
rhs however ~ q small place and the
number 81 girls u can accommodate very
limited Ihis also - ~ az announcement
n,.i ghborhood ~ far az ear lines are con
cprnsd
M the clubwomen ~ New York want
10 Il-lp the working girls. the girls who
really need low priced boarding plaCs--.
whv don they enlarge The Harlem branch
II the Y " e. A. They are turning
away Eiri. every dav there
Their rates are from $50 week
to $3.50 This Includes breakfast and
dinner. with n third meal Sundays aEd
HOLIDAYS There you can fin ypuT lunch
and carry aWay any and -vsrvthinK
yuI don't ~a'.
The dining room = "a 'hs basement.
in; ~ - spot ezsly ci"au The food - well
cooked w,n served. and ia -ufici-nt
quantity 9" make yop fell coinfOrtsbl~
sh.u Won leave IN. table. | lived there
a y.si ana only left becaus~ ] passed
the. age limit. -. They have To make
some such r'ils. Ut the girls who 60 there
would never want 20 leave.
Many ~ their rooms are dark and
small. but not ~ much 80 - in other homes
where the priCe- are higher. They
are always well kept. u il in one ~ the
most oonveuisnt locations in the city.
and YOU are never made TO feel that you
are a charity patient by anybody
live as near TO 70 80 can get q comfortable
room and 60 there for my meals.
$50 II the clubwomen who are talking
Of buiIdinR another working girls hotel
want to help W. let them make u along
hose lines and in a similar situation con-
veuiens to car lines