Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-28

hundred sixty-six dollars and eighty
two cents.
Plan Erection of New Building
The building campaign was carried
on by the association because the
quarters at Fourth and Walnut streets
had become far inadequate for the
work that was trying to be done in a
city growing with the rapidity of Har-
risburg. With the funds secured by
the whirlwind campaign the building
committee with Miss NJ. Caroline
Weiss as chairman, and the mems ad-
visory committee consisting of E. u.
Wallower, John Y. Boyd and John Fox
| Weiss, were enabled to proceed with
plans for the erection of a suitable
to completion.
The erection of the new building
was placed in the hands of w. S. Mil
| Ter, contractor and builder with off,
ces in the Telegraph building. Work
on the razing of the old buildings was
begun May of last year and Lost
Fall, September 16, the cornerstone was
laid with impressive ceremonies, John
Y. Boyd, presiding.
w. S. Miller, the builder, Yesterday
stated that the new building will in all
probability be completed by the latter
part of the summer when it will be
formally dedicated.
| New Home Up-to-date
! The new home of the Y. w. C. A.
will be up-to-date in every particu-
lar. 1t will be six stories high and is
being built of a special hard pressed
red brick over a reinforced concrete
structure. Trimmings will be of lime
stone. The buildings dimentions are
ffty-two and half feet by seventy
| five feet.
| In the basement will be a laundry,
Kitchen, rest rooms toilets and so on.
Offices, lobby and cafeteria will occupy
the second floor. On the third floor
Will be showers. a club room, class
rooms, and kitchenette. A well equip
ped gymnasium, sewing rooms and
dormitories will be on the four floor.
Baths and dormitories will be on the
NTH and sixth floors. A roof garden
will be built on top of the new home
for summer meetings and receptions.
In every particular, such as light
ing, ventilation, heating and so on the
most modern appliances will of course
be installed throughout the building,
making the new Y. w. c. A. one of
which any girl may we'll be proud to be
affiliated.
Work Being Done and why
One reason that the Harrisburg Y.
w. c. A. is doing such excellent work
Throughout the city is that the best
women of the city are interested in
what is being done. The annual meet
ing of the association was held in
January and officers were elected as
follows: President, Mrs. John w.
| Reilly; vice-presidents, Mrs. J. K.
Smith, Mrs. E. z. Wallower, Mrs.
George Preston Mains, Miss M. Caro-
line Weiss and Miss Mary Jennings;
recording secretary, Miss E. Blanche
Clute; treasurer, Mrs. J. Frank Pal
mer. The directors elected are: Mrs.
Edward Bailey, Mrs. B. w. Campbell,
Mrs John H. Weiss, Mrs. Robert A.
Lamberton and Miss Mary Gorgas.
Reports of the various committees
| showed that splendid results are being
obtained in uplift work among the
| girls of this city. Four sides of the
girls nature are reached by the vari-
Gus activities including the social,
| mental, physical and religious
| To reach the social side of Harris
burgs girls, receptions and class work
are held throughout the week. Reli-
gious meetings are held every Sunday
and often throughout the week, and a
circulating library gives the advan-
tages of the best literature.
Noon Day Luncheon
| One of the best features of the as
sociation work is the daily noon-day
| luncheon spread for the benefit of
| girls who can not afford to spend a
| big sum for their lunches and who
can not very well go home for their
noon meal. Food is we'll cooked, dain-
| tily served, and sold at cost. A lunch
con such as a business man pays from
thirty to forty cents in a restaurant
girls can get at the associations din
ing room for about eighteen cents,
nothing on the bill of fare ever being
more than six cents. About a hun
dred girls take advantage of the noon
luncheon every day, showing its popu-
! larity.
Work in the Factories
Extensive work is being done in two
of the largest factories OF the city
under the direction of the general
secretary. At the Blough Manufac-
turing Company plant, where there
are modern rest rooms for the use of
the girls, meetings are held twice a
week which are attended by from
seventy-five to a hundred employees.
One of these meetings Is religious in
/ its character, being addressed by one
of the ministers or prominent lay
| church workers of the city while the
other takes the shape of a short en-
tertainment where the best talent of
the city appear.
| One meeting in a week, religious in
character, is held each week at the
Moorhead knitting Mills. The man
agement of both these factories are
doing everything in their power to
further the work of the Y. w. C. A.
in its efforts to help the girls whom
fortune may have driven to work be-
fore they had obtained many desir-
able advantages.