New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-21
JEWISH WOMEN MAKE
FIGHT TO GET $4,000
New Building for Y. W. H. A.
Depends Upon the Success
OF Their Efforts.
SCHIFF'S $4,000 AT STAKE
Organization Gives Girls Place
to Spend Evenings and Has
Study Glasses for Their
Mothers.

Wanted. $4,000 before Thanksgiving
Day. Fifty thousand isn't much, IS II, 10
bring about a result that will mean TIE
salvation of hundreds and hundreds of
girls? Hundreds and hundreds OF girls
yes, thousands in course Of time-will
benefit If the Young Women's Hebrew
Association of New York gets the money
to erect the splendid new building Il is
planning.
OF course, $4,000 won't build il; II will
cost s25oOOO but the association has all
but $4,000 and Jacob II. Schiff has prom
ised to contribute $4,000 If the women
can manage to raise $4,000 before sunset
Thanksgiving Day. And maybe they
aren't straining every nerve to do it, and
maybe they won't eat their Thanksgiving
feast with grateful hearts If they ate
successful.
You see," Mrs. Charles RI. Israels, who
Is on the campaign committee OF women
formed to collect the money. said to the
Tribune reporter yesterday. you see, our
present building. at 103d street and Lex
ngton avenue, is dreadfully cramped.
Not but what good work is being done
there. 1 could tell you dozens Of in
stances. There is the little girl I came
across one day who did not have any
place TO spend her evenings. any place TO
80 when her days work was done. put
her in touch with the association, and you
ought to see the four-page letter she wrote
me. full Of happiness over the pleasant
evenings she was spending there and the
nice friends she was making there.
DO you know that little girls bring
their mothers there TO attend the classes
in English? / think that is very graft
flying, because too many of the things
done for the children Of immigrants draw
them apart from their parents. But I
could tell you OF not a few young Jewish
girls who hurry home from their work
TO see that their mothers get fixed up,
and then escort them TO the association
building, study the English lesson with
them, and escort them home again.
zone young woman who has Joined the
class in English is always brought there
by her fiance. lie waits in the parlor
downstairs while she is having her les
son. and then takes her home again.
But all this only shows how much
good We could do IL we had larger quar-
tiers. The ground has been purchased
a plot at 10th street. between Fifth and
LenOx avenues, facing Central Park. IL
consists Of two big lots.
we have all sorts OF ambitious plans.
There will be classes in different yoca-
tons dressmaking and typewriting and
so forth, besides the things necessary
TO make Americans out Of raw immi-
grants; and then there will be plenty OF
amusement. big dance hall will be
a special feature OF the new building.
and there will be reception rooms where
the girl members can have theih young
men to call upon them. As chairman oil
the committee or amusement resources
Of working girls, ! see the need OF these
features. The girls will go somewhere.
We want to give them the right sort OF
place"
Mrs. Israels says they mean TO take a
good many leaves out Of the book OF the
Young Womens Christian Association
for she thinks they couldn't do better
than copy some Of that organizations
features.
Mrs. Felix Warburg is chairman OF
the women's campaign committee. one
of the active members is Mrs. a. a.
Cohen, who is over ninety years Old.
But all OF them, young and old, are
going TO work as hard ever they can
at begging until the $4,000 is raised. II
IS being done methodically, by districts
each woman in charge Of a district.