The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-12-27
CLUB Home for Nurses
Fills Long Felt
Need
NEW YORK, Saturday.

A NURSES life is something like
~ that Of q policeman or fireman;
any time you want her you're
likely to be in a hurry. There are police
stations and fire stations Then why
not nurse station?
The answer is that there Is.
The nurse doesn't come dashing up
on horse or a motor cycle like q po-
liceman, nor does she have to slide
down a brass pole like a fireman, but
she now has q place where she Is on
call at any hour of the twenty-four.
And, wherever you are, she is in posi-
ton to get to you In hurry, for she
is near Times Square, from which ex-
press trains on the subways and ele-
waited radiate to all parts of Greater
New York.
In this case nurse" is q collective
name There are really $50 Of her.
She, or they, live In pleasant eight
story brick building at 317 West Forty
fifth street. The building Is known as
the New York Hospital Nurses Club.
1t is under the control of the Alumn@
Association of the New York Hospital
and Is managed by Board OF Trustees
elected from and by the members of the
association.
night" is the slogan of the trained
nurse. That slogan and what 1t stands
for makes a lot of difference In each
nurses living requirements. If ever
you've been a night worker and tried to
live in regular boarding house or
family hotel you'll know that quiet Is
one of these requisites. The "Oh, excuse
me, forgot !" for the noise outside your
door doesn't compensate for the rude
u iV,ur ho rA 40 ~paA c1oan
does 1t help one to get back to sleep
again.
Then q nurse must have twenty-four
hour and efficient telephone service.
That's as important to you as to her.
A private telephone does not altogether
suffice, because there must be some one
to take her messages when she Is out
and to communicate with her In case or
emergency. Also she must be in CEN
trail location, and It Is desirable that she
have co-tenants who understand her
work and her living requirements.
The solution, so far as the New York
Hospital graduate nurse Is concerned,
was attempted as long as twenty-five
years ago, when they decided to have
uuerters of their own. The building cho-
sen was not adequate within a very
short time, and move was necessary.
The next home presented many diff
culIleS, out II BIT lSdSL ullSu u BIGdh
need and the organization grew. The
nurses wanted a real home, but nurses'
incomes are not large, and there never
was the necessary capital. It was not
unfYl the needs of the nurses came to the
ear of Vincent Aston that the realization
of the idea for the Nurses Club home
became possible.
Mr. Aston is landlord. From his
real estate office in Twenty-sixth street
near Broadway he manages properties
that stretch all the way from the Bat
terry to the Bronx. People say he Is a
good landlord. which I'm these days is
something like saying that a man is
good coal baron. Anyway, In the case
OF the Forty-fifth street building Mr..
Astor lesed it at a special bargain price
for nurses--a nominal figure compared
with other rentals in this district, And
that is how the nurse station" came
into existence.
The need was for an especially de-
signed building fitted in all respects for
the particular purpose for which 1t was
to be used. The architects, Tracy &
Swartwout were called upon to design
a new kind of club hotel which would
contain enough rooms and capable or
being operated on an exceptionally eco
nomical basis even considering that the
lessees paid only a nominal rental. AT
the same time, OF COURSE inc ST. NSeNAV
had TO be thoroughly fireproof. No or
binary. builder or real estate operator
would tie up his capital in such an en-
terprise. 80
The club has accommodations for $50
women. The private rooms are coy
and comfortable and naturally each has
a telephone. On the first floor In ad-
dition to the office are lounge and
library such as may be found In any
other women's club. There is dining
room and roof garden fitted with ham
mocks. lounges and easy chairs.
Every employee understands the value
of telephone calls from doctors and pa
tfents. And one never hears an Oh
excuse me" because of clamor outside
a sleeping nurses room. It isn't that
those at the club are not polite, but
there isn't any clamor.
Nurses who go out on private cases.
nurses who work in the hospital, social +
service nurses and industrial nurses
make up the personnel Of women living
at the Nurses Club. Naturally gradu-
ates from the New York Hospital have
preference as to rooms. but other nurses
are also residents at S17 West Forty
fifth street Needless to say the club is
popular with members Of the trained
nursing profession.