New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-08
Workers for LenOX Hill
Settlement Aim to Get
New Building.
PENNIES AND CHECKS
HELP TO SWELL FUND
Those Who Will Benefit Vie with
Benefactors in WhirlWind
Campaign.

on its seventh day this morning. Up
to noon Saturday, when the thirty-odd
teams last reported, $33 ,2S706 had been
secured
The members of the team are start
ing out this morning with their minds
made up to get the remaining $4,000
before Thursday, the day set for the
windup of the campaign. AS Miss
Resale Manning, head worker of the
Settlement, said yesterday: This may
seem like Herculean task. but il
there Is anything in having a corps
OF workers whose interests reach from
Avenue A to Fifth Avenue il will be
accomplished.
"Let me show you what I mean. At
one OF the campaign luncheons the
other day the largest single contribu-
ton reported was one of $1,000. from
an unnamed giver. II was turned in by
Miss Carol Hartman, captain of one
OF the auxiliary teams. Immediately
before this there had been reported
collection OF 257 pennies.
This collection was taken up the
day before by one Of the members Of
our mothers club She is Bohemian.
and makes her living as a cigar roller
in one OF the factories in our neigh
borhood. During the noon hour she
made n tour Of the factory, her lunch
con in one hand, the other held out for
pennies for the new house.
"New House" Old Idea
That's the way the neighborhood
people speak of IL, and | wish the peo-
Pile of New York that have money 10
give could know how much they want
that new house. Why, the new house
-. II ho Col lie tl,.t
quent the settlement. They began to
talk about it ten years ago. More
than that. they had raised $4,000 for IL
in small sums here and there long be-
fore we ever planned this campaign.
1.-THE other night a lad came into the
house and asked for the Boy Scout
master. When he appeared, the boy
handed him an envelope, remarking
casually as he did so:
Here, boss, de gang took up a col
lection an here's two bones fr de new
house
"Of course, we don't expect 20 build
the house on such contributions as
these, but they show that the people
who are going to use IL when il is
built are not sitting back and waiting
for others to get it for them. Henry
Sloan and John Sloan have each prom
Used us $4,000, and there have been
other large gifts. We need many more
of them.
"Thst our teams and friends are
working hard you may judge from tho
fact that Mrs Oliver Iselin, secretary
Of the Settlement Auxiliary, has col
lapsed from overstrain and has been
ordered South by her physician. We
shall miss her in the remaining days OF
the campaign"
The Lenox Hill Settlement was
founded twenty years ago by the Asso-
ciate Alumna Of Normal NOW Hunter
College. il was first known as the Col
lege Alumne Settlement This name
was changed for the present one three
years ago in order to broaden the work
Of the settlement and secure new in
terest.
Present Quarters Restricted.
The present quarters of the settle
ment are at 446 East Seventy
Street. The building is a three story
one and has a frontage of sixteen feet
and a depth of forty-ive feet. The
work Of the settlement requires staff
of eight residents" but so restricted
are the present quarters that four OF
these are forced TO be nonresident
residents" and find rooms for them
selves outside.
1t is not possible to carry or il this
house any sort of gymnastic or other
athletic work for boys, an adjunct of
settlement work considered indispen-
sable in a neighborhood where gangs
are common.
Nor is 1t possible TO hold dances for
the young people who come to the set
Element This is felt by the residents
to be great drawback, especially in
view of the fact that the neighborhood
abounds in cheap dance halls.
In connection with the work of the
settlement about thirty-fve clubs have
been organized, some for adults, some
for children. To accommodate the
meetings of these there are in the pres
ent quarters three small clubroOms.
In addition to these activities a daily
kindergarten is maintained at the set
Element, and the house is used by the
Child Welfare Committee of the York
Vile Neighborhood Association as its
Headquarters These various lines of
work have been developed in the hope
that an adequate building would be
provided. II this is not done imme-
diately much of the work begun must
be discontinued
Have Site for Building.
The land for the proposed new build
ing has already been purchased. II
comprises q plot 42xl00 feet on the
north side of Sixty-ninth Street, just
east of Avenue A.
The building itself is to be five
story affair with an open air play
ground and summer garden on the roof.
The interior has been planned to ac-
cOmmodate in comfort all the activi-
ties of the settlement IL will have
large gymnasium with shower baths
and lockers for boys and girls. 1t will
have an assembly hall with a seating
capacity of two hundred, a number Of
club meeting rooms. a kindergarten
room, lounge, a game room and other
necessary features.
The aim of the settlements hackers
is to provide a house which will be a
real neighborhood institution. That the
present house is Overcrowded at all
times is evidence that the people of the
neighborhood will make good use of
the new one when il is provided.
Contributions 10 the campaign fund
should be sent to W. Barton Baldwin,
treasurer, Empire Trust Company, $50
Fifth Avenue. The headquarters Of
the campaign are in the Hotel Savoy,
where daily campaign luncheons are
held.