The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-08-19
SOLDIERS SERVICE !
CLUB IN WALL STREET
The War Camp Community Services
CRuteen Serves 500 Soldiers and
sailors Daily. II

Especial to The Richmond Virginian.tf
New York. Aug lS-The Wall street,
district in New York city has long beeu
noted the country over for sdpportingS
clubs whose list OF members Yontain L
names that are powers In every linoJ
Of successful endeavor. TO belong tuY
these clubs YOU must be some bodye
in law or in shipping. in banl1ng orr
railroads, in hardware, or leather, in5
the organization or administration oh
vast nterprises-anything in fact that L
means progress, construction ana
money.
But now Wall street has a really exA4
elusive club one into which money WIEN
not buy your way nor achievemenof
open the door for you unless YOU rasa4
the threshold clad in khaki or IN blues
Il is the service club founded by thAi
New York war camp community serSSt
vice. The soldier or sailor is a msm@}
Der because he is a soldier ar saiiaAi
and for no other reasoH--there are MOI
dues and he has all the privileges OH.
the club because he is the maA Who'll
is going 10 the front SO that we suaya
stay safely here at home,
First came the canteen, There nraf
many soldiers and sailors stationed
near the financial district and some OIL
them are attached TO offices right onl
Wall street. These men, whose tn43
comes are about on a par snith tho
average Wall street office boys werAi
looking for place wheN they coul6J
get the food and pies like motasrss
used to make At price that lefef
them something in their pockets for fhal2
next meal Cooperating with the Naa4
tional League for Womans ServicAf
the New York war camp comm1nityt
service jumped In and took the quarff
tiers at ~ Broad street. where more
than $40 soldiers and sailors are eat4}
ing daily. The canteen. above which II
is the service club, is right above 1hAA
New York curb market. the whiriwfhds
of street brokers whose activity. hua4sa
tie, bustle and noise makes this thes
Hveliest spot in New York city.
All the mattresses in the cantsen are
women whose names figure large Ia
New York society. During 1.-The hotte4t
days these girls worked on, taktnRT
+ care OF the men who are to Aghr thNss
nations battles. Under their captainisA
Mrs. II. Renwick Earle they work IN.
three shifts OF eight hours each an6ta
the soldiers and sailors can get a meal}
at any hour day or night The fo1qS
Is the best that can be bought and q
. sold az exactly half the price that tha&s
men would have TO pay in other NnW4
! York famous restaurants where low
prices are the rule This Is the onGf
best bet was the terse opinion IT Ass
chief yeoman the other day after !uncha Il
Ing at the canteen. saa
where can write iettersE MAJ
the question most often asked By th@
men using the canteen. Fer aimoe9S
| two weeks. there was no answer. Them
4 one day, one of them asked Rowiard4
! Haynes, director of the New Yori
war camp community service and shIE
next day the question was sansw erred
/ The floors above the canteen wSI2a
/ leased furniture moved In. tteiephone1
writing desks and Photographs ina3s
stalled and now the soldiers and salt<
.ors can write rest and srsnd a. pissss
ant hour. -4ss az
/ Like the other work dare by th4(S
war camp community service, the slvAA
gan. Your Uniform Is Your Pass goAMS3
| in the Walt street servics- ctsh 416Ex
Ecanteen. All men II uniform -aEe wE4naZ
come and this 10 becoming 40 NA ~
known that one young fellow IN cssttfM
clothes was heard to say. they Az
got no use for . guy unfeHa ks'a
uniform these 0aFeE - No ekNe4
. ing Nietf1lIy ~ The rxQ1Ed9