Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-02
GEN GORGAS TO
AID Y. ". c. A. FUND
win Address Mass Meeting
Today to Help Raise Wash
ington Quota.
BUILD HOSTESS HOUSES

BUILD HOSTESS HUUSES
surreon General William c. Gorgas
Of the United States Army will be the
rincipal speaker at the large mass meet
meeting today at $3.50 pm at the Belasco
Theater in tho interests Of Washing
toms share of the 100000 campaign
fund asked by the war work council
of the Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation for the endowment OF hostess
houses at the training camps in this
country and the proper housing OF
girls working in munition factories
and near the cantonmenta Mns Bertha
Condo of New York, a prominent Y. w.
C. A worker. will outline the work OF
the war work council, both locally and
nationally.
A total in excess of $4,000 has been
raised in Washington toward the
$4,000 assigned to this city as part
of the national quota The campaign
ends December 10, and John D. Rookie
Teller has pledged himself to give
100000 to the fund il the national
total is raised by December TO-
Requisitions for Rooms.
Reouisitions for rooms right here in
Washington have been pouring in to
the hands of officials at q great rate
for the past six months. and officials
assert that the housing problem here
70 becoming acute. Last week . gov
eminent department asked the associa-
ton to ind room for 5000 women and
girls who are coming here on war
duties. An appropriation of $4,000 has
council
devote to providing proper housing
facilities for those who come hero on
work for the government, 80 per cent
Of the amount asked as Washingtons
money will be spent right here in
Washington and it is believed that
Washington will do its share.
The Y. W. C. A. is doing its share to-
ward winning the war. Not only by the
erection and maintenance of hostess
ments in the country, but by finding
places of abode for the thousands of
girls who have leh their homes to
work for the government; THESE girls
ings and placed in contact with the
proper persons through the work OF the
association women and undoubtedly
increase their efficiency for their daily
duties.
Pronounce Work "Great."
At the Army camps all over the coun-
try the boys in training pronounce the
work of the Y. w. C. A great" and
feel that the women are doing some
thing that could not be handled by the
government In providing and maintain
ing place in which they can meet their
woman friends and relatives in con-
genial and homelike surroundings.
Finished Last Week.
rh> hostese bousa az Corn Aeode
Admiral, Nd, was only finished last
week and already the soldiers there
have taken to it like duck takes to
water. Previous to the building of the
house visitors to the camp were forced
to stand outdoors, sometimes in q rain
storm. and had no place in which they
could sit down and enjoy quiet chat
and something to eat with the boys in
vided and a cafeteria has been opened
where food may be obtained and where
the soldiers are always welcomed
The hostess house at Camp Funston
of Gen. Allen before the building was
completed or the cafeteria opened. On
its first day, Sunday In mid-October,
more than 200 persons visited 1t. many
give their boys home cooking. and
they and the soldiers basked around
. big open fire while a fierce duststorm
ragged outside. The site of the hostess
mouse, wnlch ID most dQVdntdSeOuSly
located just at the railroad terminal
and outside an entrance to Camp Fun
ston, was selected by Gen. Allen and
given by the government.
Women Reported There.
At his command all woman visitors
to the camp report there. The house.
which cost $4,000. has big living
room, kitchen and ample 1avatories,
some Of which the government fur
nished. Its veranda- which commands
q view of the country round, is to be
inclosed for the winter because the
added room is already needed.
= The two buildings at Army City in