Evening star., 1925-11-08
FUND Of 100000
SOUGHT BY Y.W.C.A.
Mrs. Robert Lansing, Com
mittee Chairman, to Open
Building Campaign Dec. 2.

Establishing a goal of 500, 900. the
Young Womens Christian Association
of Washington today announces plans
for building campaign To take place
locally and nationally December
10 10.
Mrs. Robert Lansing will head q
national campaign committee which
will include Mrs. William Howard
Taft. Mrs Herbert Hoover, Mrs. John
Hays Hammond, Miss Mabel Board
man and Mrs. Herbert +. Day.
Locally 400 man and woman team
workers will be organized to take the
field in solicitation of a christmas
gift for the girls of Washington"
The 500, 600 goal to which the cam
paign organization aspires is not only
to pay the costs of constructing and
equipping a new administration build.
ing for the Washington Y. w. c. A..
but is also TO cover two years of main
tenanCe expenses. No further financial
appeal will have to be made by the
Y. w. G.. A. until 1928.
building Site Purchased.
a site for the new building has been
purchased at Seventeenth and X
streets and architects plans have
already been submitted. The site is
said to be within three blocks of offices
employing 10000 young women.
The building is to be of early Amer
iCan design both in architecture and
furnishings. On the first floor will
be a lobby. a living room. a cafeteria
with capacity Of 1870, a tearoom and
lunch counter; on the second floor
an assembly hall which is TO be avail.
able TO outside orga nizations. public
rest rooms and baths and offices; on
the third floor Girl Reserve and In
duStrial Club rooms; on the fourth
floor meeting place for the Young
Business and Professional Women :
department and a club dining room:
on the fifth floor a swimming pool
p by 60 feet, lockers. dressing rooms
showers and shampoo room; and
on the sixth floor gymnasium so bv
20 feet in measurements, small
gymnasium for corrective work. class
rooms, rest rooms and a public
laundry.
The gallery OF the sixth floor will
lead to a roof garden which will be
available for athletic work and social
affairs. Between the second and third
floors Of the building will be a mez.
canine lounge. while in the basement
Is provided room for bowling alleys
and Girl Reserve playroom.
The Young WOmen's Christian As
soctation has been considering this
PROJECT Tor the past Two years, aSSO-
citation heads declare. a national
campaign is being conducted with the
sanction of the National Board of the
Y. W. c. A, because young women
come to Washington from every State
in the Union, because the residents of
Washington are recruited from the
entire country and because the Ma
tfOnal Capital should have special Y.
W. G. A. facilities
y service record of work with -, 900
girls within the year IS submitted by
the Washington Y. W. c. A as basis
for the campaign. During the year,
according to the service report 5000
girls have been placed in investigated
furnished rooms by the Y. W. c. A.
rooms registry department.; $500 have
been enrolled in general religious and
health education classes; 25,OO0 have
used the swimming pool; 225 have
Joined the Young Business and Pro
fessional Women's department, and
4I0 girls of high school age are affili-
ated with the Girl Reserves. This
is said to have been accomplished
despite crowded and inconvenient
quarters at GA Z street. and is not
by any means the entire achievement
of the year.
Campaign organization will begin
Immediately.