New-York tribune., 1911-04-02
BOROUGH GOSSIP
How the Y. W. C.. A. Acts the
Mother to Working Girls.

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The problem of acting inc n'o'".,
,hre. ,houssnd OF so OF the eleven thou
-. orL;rr -;r,s who board i'm Brook
TN and doins il in WAY that VIII p'"aSe
80, s,d every one of them. is the prob
,s,, that the Young Womcns cnr'stian
,.,<.;o,iou workers have set out TO solve.
,nv mere man who has attempted TO cater
10 the cccentricitics of much Sh'd'''
,,,,v,,,cr would probably view the prospect
With horror but then ii is about as harn
60 teach the ordinary man to understand
,he opposi;e sex as il is TO teach ponucs
90 the typical suffrsgist The mere man
80, asked to help in the 'mothering
...sss his activities about the associa-
lion plant being restricted to sho'ei'"'s
,oa, on the furnace and running the c'e-
vators.
Though the efforts of the workers naNe
IN, always met with success, the ous''u
r,ale members Of the community nave
ro,hinS but sympathy TO offer ana even
ma asculine sympathy is looked upon a"h-
o,co nv the workers unless IL is eApIesSeu
IN the form Of dollars and cents one VI
30 lcadinc committees OF workers ell
r.d IN hooking after the girls is the
eo,ofor, committee. This committee en-
lice the mother principle that undernes
,ha whole scheme Of the institution; noun
ing else is so utterly feminine
perhaps that is why nineteen hunu'eu
Girls carried their troubles 10 the meih-
hers in the past year. a special rooni Is
60, aside at the building in Schermerho'h
stree, for the use Of the committee n
roeiden, worker is always on hand l"
make ARRANGEMENTS for the visitors 10
meet tho members Every day girls Drop
!, 70 talk over their troubles ana thelr
ho,es with the committee women. Ihe
u.ort done bv this committee forms one
=, the greatest and most important OF
81. ossociation's undertakings. The iniiu-
enco on the girls is said TO be profound.
Tbe members could tell many story OF
ho,,esick. beartsick girls who have been
belned. encouraged and perhaps saved at
,ha brink of ruin. The work of this COM
roi,tee is touched with grace of Chris
tisn idealsm thai makes even the efforts
Of the employment bureau. which placed
one thousand seven hundred and eighteen
girls in positions last year, seem almost
insignificant.
Perhsps the Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION might we'll take a page from
the experiences OF its sister institution and
establish comfort committee of its own
10 act the father 20 boys who are cast
loose in the city 20 work out their own
saliva ton
The following letter. received by d. 3.
sesver Of No. 16SJ saith street. in the
Dyker Heights section, from the seer -tary
and Electricity. speaks for itself:
The bottle Of water submitted with your
letter Of March g. containing. as you claim,
an animal the species of which was un-
known TO YOU, was analyzed by the de-
pertment chemist. He reports that the
water is of an excellent quality, and that
the particles in the bottle Of water sub
mitted are what are known as fresh water
shrimps. The department cannot prevent
this growth in the pipes
And Yet they say Brooklyn has no chance
TO develop a fish canning industry.
Although Brooklyn is generally accredited
with being a sleepy little hamlet, nesting
in oblivion and self -sufficiency by the
placid waters Of the Gowanus, she finds a
way somehow to have a finger in most
everything hat is going on in the world.
Perhaps it is not generally known, but a
big part of the machinery which the French
abandoned slonS the line of the Panama
Canal has been bought by Brooklyn firm.
ard tons of old iron arrive weekly in the
Williamsburg section.
The Brooklyn firm is NJ. Samuel & Sons.
At Kent and Metropolitan avenues. The
machinery cost the French upward of
saoo.GoO0o. IL is reported. The firm has
srent about sl25. 900 buying up the scrap at
the rate OF 81 ton. Before it gets
through it will have spent about 100000
for the scraps After reaching Brooklyn il
Is sent TO the iron and steel mills Of East
ern Pennsylvania The firm realizes 81
profit on each ton. The scraps are arriv-
Ing at the rate Of TWO thousand tons a
week The firm bought two hundred thou
sand tons. and half the amount has been
delivered.
The members Of historic Plymouth Church
are waging a campaign 10 have the
city make Nassau and Orange streets one
continuous thoroughfsre from the Man
haitian Bridge plaza under the name of
Plymouth avenue According TO com
munication addressed 10 the Rev Dr.
Newell Dwign; Hills. the pastor strangers
have trouble in finding the church. A
couple Of hundred strangers seek Plymouth
Church every Sunday morning and even
ing. u is also thought that the remaining
&c the street would be fitting recognition
OF one Of the ooro0gh's landmarks.