New-York tribune., 1914-11-22
HENRY ST. JOYOUS
OVER BIG BAZAAR
Crowds and Cash Flow
Into Settlement to Aid
Fund for City's Poor.
GIFT DISPLAY DRAWS
UPTOWN VISITORS
General Store, Girls In Costume,
Dancing and Fairy Tales
Features of Show.

The Henry Street Settlement is hav-
ing a bazaar. Anybody would know II
who approached within a block of 30l
Henry ST., the house where the bazaar
is held. for swarms of children sur
round the doors. and visitors are hailed
In imploring tones:
"Please, misterl Please. missis!
Voucher take me int tn bazaar2"
Inside the doors IL seems as IL all
the children Of the neighborhood wsre
there, and their elders also. 1t Is a
regular congress Of nations. Miss Lii
liam ID. Wald, head worker Of the settle
ment, said yesterday that every ma
tionality in New York was represented
in the throng that came Rumanians,
Lithuanians, Germans, French, Rus
slams, Italians, Japanese, Chinese,
negroes and a score of others. The
Russian girls, who serve steaming tea
in thin glasses and sell pieces Of rare
copper and brass, collected from imml-
grant homes. are in Russian peasant
costume, and the boys and girls who
preside over the laundry, where you
buy a ticket for five cents and draw a
package that may have almost any
thing in it, wear some OF them mi
nese costumes borrowed from young
Chinese girl who is Miss Waid's ward.
The bazaar, which is for the pur-
rose Of raising money 20 help war vic
tins on the East Side, families Of re-
servists and people who have lost their
Jobs because of business depression
caused by the war, was conceived and
planned by the young people or the
settlement, members of the boys clubs
and girls clubs.
"They see enough of the suffering
about here" Miss Wald said, "to know
that this is going TO be a hard winter.
Now, they have been working to raise
money for another building, which we
need badly, and they had collected
$4,000 But when the need Of hun
dreds Of families began TO rise up and
hit US in the face, they said, Let US
give everything we can get TO help
those who ere in want; and let US hold
r. bazaar I didn't want a bazaar, but
the council, composed of heads or
clubs, voted me down. And the clubs
have done all the work.
Several Of the girls clubs cooper
ated in making the fudge, etc., which
furnishes the candy booth In the mid
die of the room The most startling
contribution from the boys is a guilt
made out Of the tiny silk flags which
come with certain makes of cigarettes.
There is a country store, with post
Office in one corner, and the hodge
podge stock Of a real country store.
The Camp Fire Girls have an Indian
booth. with some woven baskets from
Jamaica on the side. At a railway
lunch counter at one end Of the big
room those whose appetites are not
satisfied by the Russian tea and cakes
may sit on stools and devour hot
dogs" and coffee and sandwiches. But
nothing about the bazaar is so charm
ing as the fairy-tale room.
The fairy-tale room is dim and mys-
terious, with thick evergreen boughs
that have tiny fairies balancing on
them: and here Miss Florence Clark,
known for blocks around Henry Street
Settlement as the lady what tells fairy
stories. holds court. She tells stories
all day, every day of the bazaar, and
as she talks the heroines Of her tales
Cinderella and Little Red Ridinghooi
and the rest tiny girls in costume
dance out from the evergreen boughs
and fit about the room.
In the kindergarten room those who
are not fairies may dance, for music
Is provided afternoons and evenings.
There will he folk dancing in costume
to-day. This is the last day Of the
bazaar. 1t will be open from o'clock
until II. Friday night, the opening
night, $500 was taken IN.