The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-05
New York'S New Hotel Club For
 Working Girls
New York Sun)


 At last a residential club for women
 earning from S10 to SIP week with
 all the advantages of hotel, has come, and Miss Dorothy Whitney and other members of the Junior League are responsible for it. It is to ac- | commodate $50 girls and opens next l week in East Seventy-eighth Street | on the banks of the East River. It ] is six story building of Milwaukee f brick with marble halls and staircases ! and natural wood trim.
 It has an outlook over Blaokwell's | Island, which is quite parklike at this I point. and there are balconies 35x12 | feet on every floor of the river side be- ! sides a roof garden, tennis and bas- ! ketbadl courts and a belvedere from ! which an outlook of many miles can I be obtained
 tages which more immediately strike 1 the eye are the arrangemtns made by l Dr. B. R. L. Gould, president of the {. City and Suburban Homes Company, ! which erected the building, to have on the parlor floor a series of small par lors just large enough for two" open ling off the main reception room. Cos l fly furnished, they are at the service of any of the residents who desire to entertain their special friends unmo- tested by the curious
 Miss Dorothy Whitney is chairman of the committee appointed more than a year ago by the Junior League of New York to consider the matter of ! investing the s270.00O which the mem 1 bers of the league had subscribed to- ward a hotel for women.
 Dr. Gould was interested, with the result that the money was invested in | stock of the company and the latter ! erected the building at a cost of $SO0,- | GOO Tn the meantime. however, Dr. Gould went abroad and studied resi- dential clubs for young women in Lon don and other European cities.
 NOT A CHARITY
 First of al.' said Dr. Gould in speaking of the venture, this is not in any sense a, charity. It is a busi- ness venture and we expect to get a good. percentage on our investment. But that it will fill a great need is without doubt. Already there have 1 been lots of applicants, so that it's suc- cess is assured.
 Tt will cater to the girls getting small salaries, ,sayfrom s10 to SIP, furnishing them with home comforts and surroundigs and we hope with sufficient amusement besides. First of all there are to be no rules, absolutely none, other than apply to any hotel. I believe that this arrangement will work out more satisfactory in the ! long run than to encompass the girls about with must nots' and shall nots'. Girls will respect the confidence re- posed in them, and if one shows signs of swerving from the path of propriety she will be quietly spoken to.
 AS TO LATCH KEYS
 There will be night watchman to whom each girl gives her key as she comes in, and if he sees fit to report tion he will give the number to Miss ] Decomyn, the superintendent, who will use her discretion in advising the girl as to the future.
 'It seems as if we had been pecu- l liarly fortunate in getting just the right woman as superintendent. She ! is Miss Marie Decomyn and she has | had a wide experience with girls.
 GOOD FOOD A SURE THING
 One very important point is the . table. The girls are to have good food; that is insisted on, for good, nourish- ing food is absolutely necessary to their well being, mental, moral, and | physical. First we thought of putting the dining room in the hands of a l restaurant keeper, but we feared he might run it for his own benefit rather J than for the girls, so the superintend- ! ent will have entire charge of it. At first we considered having the I restaurant separate, but so many girls are apt to economize on their food
 
 s6 a week for two meals a day and : room. Lunches may be taken if de- ! sired A small charge of cents will [ be made for them
 Miss Decomyn, who is English by ; birth and of French extraction, comes to the Junior League from Mont gomery, Ala, where she inaugurated ! a settlement for girls woraking in the cotton mills of the South. She en- phasized all the points made by Dr. Gould but added, when the question of food was preached. that there was to he no stinting in the matter of quan- tity
 Shall you have stereotyped weeks nenu?" she was asked
 Most certainly not. The girls will never know from one day to the next what they are going to have to eat. ] shall prepare the menu a day in ad- vance and take advantage of what ever the market has to offer