Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-26
URGES WOMEN'S
LODGING HOUSE
Rev. Warren P. Coon Declares
City Needs Such Places.
Makes Suggestions.

A plea for lodging houses under
municipal supervision. where young
women may obtain shelter and pro-
lection, was made by Rev. Warren
Patton Coon, pastor of the Union
Street Methodist Episcopal Church.
last night, when he preached on
"Newark's Most Urgent Needs" Mr..
Coon also asserted his sympathy
with the stand churchmen have taken
against modern dances. He said;
THE nome and the family form the
basis of all our prosperity, so 1t Is
with alarm that we learn of some
conditions which the Tenement House
Commission has reported upon inves-
tigation. The ideal city, II ever APP
proxlmated, will have but one family
to o house. With twenty or thirty
families under one roof we are far
from that ideal. physically. morally,
socially and spiritually. Many cities
have outstripped us In their city plan
ming for better housing.
Again, proper supervision Of build
ings, now difficult because of over
palling of supervision by our buildings
department, the Tenement House
Commission, the Board of Health and
the Board of Works, would be more
easily attained in my judgment, by
federated board, and this would OBJ
viate the sense of delicacy about
treading on others toes.
AT the Essex County jail two or
three hundred men are compelled to
battle under one shower in cramped
and darkened quarters. In the name
of all that is sacred, also give those
idle hands behind the bars something
more manly to do than making chains
out of horsehairs.
again, tell me where a poor work
ing-girl or nottingham can go to put
up for the night upon arrival at the
Lackawanna or Pennsylvania depot?
know of one respecta BILE though poor
young woman who cou d not secure
room at any young woman's organ
ization because there was no accom-
mediation for such as she. SO was sent
by an interested citizen connected
with one of our daily papers to spend
the night in the witness-room of a
precinct station-house. Municipal
lodging houses, commensurate with
their purses and their tastes, are an
absolutely crying need in our city.
Newark could learn much from
Columbus, Detroit and Washington,
D. c., relative to lighting the city,
and much Improvement can be had in
regulating our food supply.
"The representatives Of the people
have voted to keep our saloons closed
on Sunday, which means that the ma
ority want the men in that business
to observe their wishes. Other cities
do 1t. Why not Newark?
God knows our people need amuse-
ment and relaxatiC n But why this
everlasting undercurrent of the outre
and blase a. our theatres In the gowns
worn, the risque jokes perpetrated
and the mild profanity which Is evil
IDENTIFY considered smart in the most
conservative houses of the town?
Il rejoice in the stand that our
great sister church has taken regard
ing the eccentricitles of the recent
dancing craze. A mans soul is Ike
quicksilver with the bulb inverted. 1t
would seem that some people have
changed things and are allowing their
heels to run away with their heads.
Public opinion throughout our
country will not leave us far behind
when our conservative citizenry fully
awake to our beloved city's most ur-
gent needs"