The Washington times., 1911-05-05
MRS. k'CORM|CK'S
BOARDING HOUSE
FOR WOMEN OPENS
Want Advertisement Tells of
Chance for Girls to Find
Real Home.

25O6-25OS K STREET N. WHO'D
EL BOARDING HOUSE for work.
ing women is now open. Rooms may
be inspected by persons desiring
comfortable lodgings and good 1000,
on Saturday, from 11:30 to o'clock
and from until o'clock, and on
Sunday from 10 until / o'clock, and
from to o'clock in the afternoon.
Single rooms, $500 and 800 per week;
double rooms, $3.50 each person.
rates include board.
This little advertisement, running in
the daily papers, of Washington, an
nounces that Mrs. Medill Mccormick,
daughter of the late Senator NJ. A.
Hanna, social leader. and one of the
most popular women in Washington
New York, and Chicago society, is
ready for boarders. The splendid old
Cruger houses at 2506-250S K street
northwest, which for several months
past have been in the hands of car
penters and decorators who worked un-
der the supervision of Mrs. Mccormick
herself, are now ready for occupancy
oy thirty-three girls employed in the
various department stores Of the city.
Invites Custom.
These girls are invited by Mrs. Nc
Cormick to visit the lodging house on
Saturday and Sunday, at the hours
a tour of inspection of bedrooms, din
ing rooms, kitchen, and fine old gar
dens, and then to put in an application
for board. Mrs McMormick herself
will be at the Cruger houses on these
days TO receive the girls, and to give
any information they may desire re-
garding terms.
The lodging houses, leased by Mrs
Mccormick for fifteen years, are not a
home, and have nothing to do with
charity. They are merely boarding
houses designed especially to meet the
needs of business and working women.
The rooms are sunny and spacious, and
beautifully equipped. The woodwork of
the house is entirely in white, and tho
furniture is mission style. Fine old gar
dens, which Mrs. Mccormick has had
planted in flowers and vegetables, are
in blossom in honor of the opening of
the establishment.
In this house, the working woman
may obtain large, sunny, and daintily
furnished single room for 81 per week,
or small single room for $6 per week.
A girl and her roommate may share a
big room together for $3.50 per week
cooked meals, daintily served. And on
the investment, Mrs. Mccormick boasts
TO her friends that she intends to clear
from to 5 per cent.
Matron In Charge.
The lodging houses, which will house
thirty-three girl employees of the de-
partment stores of Washington, will be
In charge of a matron, Miss Mary
Gorves, of Washington. The girls and
women who board there will not, how
ever, be under any regulations. They
are expected to be in their rooms by
1880 o'clock at night, and except for
this no requirements will be made OF
them.
In June, Mrs. Mccormick will return
10 Washington, and organize her girl
dodgers into a club, which will elect
its own officers, and will be self gov
erning. Mrs. Mccormick is organizer of
the Woman's Welfare Department of
the Civic Federation, and has for i
number of years been interested in the
problems of business and professional
women.
She invites all these, and especially
the girls from the department stores
of the city, to inspect her lodging houses
on Saturday and Sunday.