New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-11
BIG SUMS FOR Y. ". H. A.
Building Fund Gets S66,600 Be.
fore 100000 Campaign Starts.
THE SCHIFFS GIVE $4,000
Organizer of Subscription Work
to Open Headquarters To- day
for Fifteen-D Day Scheme.

AS a preliminary TO ffteen-day cam
paign to collect 500, 900, the Young Women
Hebrew Association held a meeting las
night at their present quarters, Tooth stree
and Lexington avenue, TO explain how
urgently the association needed the money
for new building Abram I. Elkus Pre-
sided. Rabbi Samuel Schulman OF the
Temple Bethel and Joseph l.. Button
wieser were other speakers of prominence
What cheered the assembly most was the
announcement that s56.6O0 had been sub
scribed to date toward the S250OO0 needed
Mr.. Elkus said that $4,000 of this amount
was subscribed before yesterday and sl2, 500
yesterday. or the former sum Jacob II.
Schiff has promised $4,000, Mortimer L.
Schff $500 and Mr.. and Mrs. Felix NJ.
Warburg 5000 each. Mrs. Jacob II. Schiff
gave 5000 of the money pledged yesterday.
"A friend of Israel Warburg' contributed
$3.50 more, Albert Stern promised 5000
and there were various other subscriptions
OF $3.50 and 800. Mrs. Felix NJ Warburg
promised 5000 in addition to the similar
amount she had already pledged when the
fund reached a total of $4,000.
Mr.. Elkus read letter written by Jacob
II. Schiff on March % to Mrs. Israel Inter
berg. president OF the Young Women
Hebrew Association. which was as follows:
Dear Mrs. Unterberg: have a note from
Miss Sophia Berger, superintendent OF your
association, in which she states that you
desire me 10 say something as to your work
ir connection with an appeal you are 10
make for your building fund.
II gives me great pleasure to confirm
what l have heretofore said to you and
others, that / consider the work Of your as
ISOLATION among tho most important con-
structive work which Is being done In the
community. and / feel that you and your
associates deserve and should receive every
encouragement. Very truly yours,
JACOB II. SCHIFF.
= Mr.. Elkus considered the task OF raising
10000 In fifteen days "a simple one" He
and the other speakers emphasized the need
OF adequate quarters for tho association as
an agency in keeping Hebrew girls off the
street, OF saving them from the evils of
their environment in the congested sections
Of the city. Rabbi Schuman said:
Heredty Is safe. but what Of environ
ment? The best heredity may he DESTROYED
eventually by a terrible environment. Our
people have been hurled by the prosecutions
of benighted nations into a terrible environ
ment In this city and It is with this that
ems Hebrew Association helps heredity pre-
serve the chastity and nobility Of Jewish
womanhood.
Louis Allen Abramson who has the title
Of "actlve campaign organizer" will open
his headquarters this morning in the old
Tiffany Building, at 18th street and Broad
way. Here he Will distribute TO forty
captains" each with ten canvassers
under him. the names Of citizens to be
seen on the proposition. Every noon for
the fifteen days a luncheon will be served
at headquarters for those interested in the
aim OF the association.
Mrs. Unterberg urged the need cf a
larger dormitory for members Of the as
ISOLATION as prime essential Of the pro-
posed new building. The present quarters
would accommodate only eighteen girls
over night, she said. and she hoped that
the new building would have a capacity
of at least one hundred and fifty. This
new building it IS understood, will be
built in the district just north Of Central
Park in Seventh or Lenox avenues, proba-
bly,.
Among those present at the meeting we're
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Stern. MI and Mrs.
Israel Unterberg, Mr.. and Mrs. Ado!ph
the Rev DIR. David Dc Sofa
Pool. Mrs. Arnold Volpe and Mrs. Simon
Liebowitz.