The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-13
GIRLS BOARDING
HOME PURCHASED
Working Women and Girls
of Tulsa at Last Get a
Place to Live
PROCURE TWO HOUSES
Now Being Used as Apart
ments, Will Be Renovated;
to Accommodate SO Girls

At last--a girls boarding home'
Employed girls and women OF
Tulsa who continue to be harasscd
by the "high cost OF board" though
other living expenses have taken "A
uumpty Dump,v-like fali will re-
joice at the glad tidings that girls
boarding nome IS at last certainty
ard thaJ two adjoining houses "a;
-3B South Cheyenne were purchased
Saturday for the purpose by the sal
yn.on Army with funds contributed
in "a public campaign last fail,
Consideration IL About 100000.
The location is the choice Of Com
mandant and Mrs. O. r. Johnson OF
the local citadel, col. George wood
OF the southwestern chief division
and the Tulsa county advisory board,
uf which T. j. Hartman Is chairman
and Alva j. Niles treasurer, after a.
search and wedding -out process GOV
cring a number Of months. Articles
Of sale were signed yesterday for the
property, the sale price being over
$4,000. The salvation Army will
take over the property as son as the
contract has been ratified by the
property board in Chicago, where
tho Salvation Army Is incorporated,
and the present tenants OF the
houses. rented as apartments, have
moved.
Necessary building alterations, TO
be done by Captain Upper of the
southwestern division, and furnish
ing will be expedited to permit early
opening of the home. Commandaut
and Mrs. .. r. Johnson will close
their quarters" as their residence
is denominated in the Army Ian
guage, temporarily and will live at
the boarding home until things are
running smoothly and 1t can be
placed in fun charge OF special Of
ficers for this work.
Accommodate 85 Girls.
About 90 girls can be given sleep
ing and boarding accommodations
In the home, according to present
estimates. The two houses. each
two-story. face east on a lot S0xl 56,
affordng room on the lawn for a
lawn swing, tennis court or croquet
grounds, II desired. Each has an
upstairs and downstairs porch,
The houses will be connected by a
g,assed- in passage yet to be built.
There are 20 rooms I'm the larger
house. The dining room will be In
its basement which must needs be
redecorated and fitted out for the
purpose.
There are eight rooms In the small
Ter house. Its basement will be used
for n laundry where the girls can
wash and iron,
Ncrd More Money.
As the funds raised for the home
are not sufficient to pay the entire
purchase price, requests for pledges
amounting to about $4,000 made
during the campaign will be sent
out Immediately. \ large sum Of
money will also be needed to furnish
the home. 1t has been suggested
that furnishing Of a room by n club
or society and individual contribu-
tions Of furnishings will be accept
able, the first gift of this kind being
piano given recently by j. p.
Means.
There will be a wage maximum
above which employed women will
not be allowed to reside I'm the homo,
The weekly charge for lodging and
for breakfast and evening dinner
will be about $3.50. Meals will bC
served family tsyle and every
effort made to create home like
atmosphere throughout the place.