Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-29
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Soliciting Committee Will
Begin Work
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To Secure Much-needed Ladies'
Rest Room.
Now Planned 10 Acquire Suite OF
Now Planned to Acquire Suite of
Rooms In North Block.

The task of making arrangements
for the proposed woman's waiting and
rest room on Water street is being
rapidly pushed forward by those hav-
ing the matter in charge and it is
now planned to have the soliciting
committee from the Current Events
Club call upon the public the first of
next week. 1t is earnestly hoped and
peieVed that this attempt at obtain
ing funds by contributions from pub
lie spirited citizens will meet with
generous and hearty response 1t has
already received the hearty endorse
neht of the Board of Trade
As has been already stated in the
Journal, the purpose of establishing
the proposed rooms is to provide a
place where lady visitors in the city
can make their headquarters while in
the city, but it will not be restricted to
this purpose alone. 1t will be intend
ed for all women at all times, wheth-
er residents or visitors, and will be a
place TO meet friends. and for general
social purposes.
If the necessary funds can be Sc
cured, it is now planned to rent the
three rooms in what is known as the
North block, and which until recently
was occupied by the railway mail
clerks. 1t is believed that these rooms
can be made into most attractive and
home-like quarters. An effort will be
made to obtain donations of furniture
later on, SO that the expense of fur
nishing can be reduced to a minimum.
The ladies, who have the matter ac-
lively in charge, have decided. after a
conference with the committee from
the Board of Trade, to call the new
association the Augusta Woman's AS
ISOLATION, and it is thought that later
the work can be broadened out into
larger fields similar to what has been
done in other cities. The work in
Waterville. for instance, is far more
than a waiting and rest room. They
have there facilities for sewing, la
dies exchange and for other purposes.
In that city they have not only been
able to become self-sustaining. in re-
cent years, but has been able to keep
several needy children at Good Will
Farm from time to time.
While 1t is of course absolutely
necessary for the Augusta Association
to secure pledges of the amount neees-
sary to maintain the rooms for year
or more at least, it does not seem to
be such a remote possibility that the
association can be broadened and i'm
proved SO that eventually it~also might
become self-sustaining. Che work
will be entirely non sectarian, bat is
believed that the institution may be
conducted in such a way as to enlist
the sympathy and active operation
OF all our churches.
AT first 1t is planned to have mem
hers of the association act as attend
ants to the rooms, but later when the
proper persons can be found change
will be made. This arrangement
would also tend to keep down the ex-
pense at the beginning
Members of the Current Events
Club have, as has been previously
stated, had the matter under consid-
Grafton for number of months, and
when a similar suggestion was made
by Hon. Ira H. Randall at the annual
Board Of Trade banquet, the matter
was given an added impetus.
Those who are interested are work
ing hard and diligently to carry the
work through. If Augusta people will
respond, and from the encoura cement
already met with, there is little doubt
in the matter. it win be possible for
a needed institution to be added to our
city, and one which will be a valuable
asset in more ways than one. The
soliciting committee expect, as already
stated, to begin work next week.