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KONDAY. JULY 31, 1922.
RADIO’S ROMQANCE
Doubt
and Discouragement
Could Not Dampen Mar-
coni’s Zeal
ous Search .
By WALTER A. DAVENPORT.
HEX Guglielmo Marconi told
the world in December.
1901. that he had snapped
sovernl limos from l’olil-
Eng'and. to St. Johns.
\V
the ieltl‘r S
bu. Cornwall.
NV‘WC‘rvundlnnd, thorn was :\ consider-Q
able number of folks on both sides of;
the Atlantic who said that success had ,
turned tin- young I:al.an's head.
said that they had scoot"?d
onouzh th.» sturies of 'has
cxpvrimcnts and triumphs.
It Mr. )Iiri-o-tl and Sir “‘iliiam
l‘rucr- cnappod (-l lil‘ vibrat:ons
nirnss n flit‘fi‘lt'll of :1 mil" and :1 half.
A your ii’lfl'l" Mari uni slowo-i the King
"‘1
....-y
“"2 inzly
[rt YIOIIS
1‘1"}
of ital) how m mimtain wiro'oss
cortm‘initatinn uitin a warsh'p toll
may “Ff shoru. In 189') he: Wis
brr‘mht in America by THE New Yum;
lira-um and with his~ wiroloss tel-g“
T-Il'ili' THU-10d for that n"\\‘.\‘p,lih‘r thov
ir'crnatzonal yacht raccs. In the
ESL”;
tunn-
year he domonstratod the prac-
' y of miintuining wirelfis
l.a.. l-.,~?wr-c-n battleships nearly 100
runs apart.
Many Scientists at First
Doubled Marconi": Success
Y'voplo wurc willing having been
form-d to accept all those things as
fam. However. they had conceded
that Gugiirlmo Marconi was almost as
rcrrmknl-lo in the way of mvn as
ra communication (it was always
rota-rrcd to as wireless in those days)
was as a scientific development. But
they balked when hc told them he had
flipped the equivnlont of a message
rtght across the Atlantic Ocean—1,800
m’llos. to be cxart.
That was. twonty-one years ago.
7041“)" in the United Stutos about
50,000 bays and girls of high school
age nre spending thoir spare time
dashing and dotting and speaking per—
,,u
lonnl messages from their homes to-
homes in Pittsburgh. Atlanta. Mem-
phis, Chicago. San Francisco audio
or. and on.
There I: somnthlnz nhout radioteleg-
nphy and rmliotelophnny that instills
awe and own rovcrence. 0f rourse to
the cold blooded man of science it is
nothing more than a matter of pro-
pelling and catching waves; but to
us non-scientific duffors there is
mighty and inunovnble mystery about
those mil. spidcry towers and the un-
smn spark.
And cvon thrust- cold hloodod men of
science (in rrnllty they are no more
cold blooded than the milkman) fall
victim of the mystery. Regard. for
example. Sir \\'llllnm Crookes, whose
see mingly lnspirs-d :irtlclos in the Fort-
nightly Rrrxcu‘ span the fantastic
drcamq of rmlln that (‘nllght the imag-
irnrion of Huclivlmo Marconi and set
him to work. Sir “'illlam (‘rookos
became (mo of tho leading splrituallsts.
Anui considcr Sir Ollvor Lodge.
demonstrator of tho cohorer revolver.
Eir Uliwr abandoned material science
to {THIN h spiritualism.
0f mung that ls merely incidental
the l
- to this article. Thé idea was to pro-
iduco defense against the charge of
isentimentallsm. The writer hereof
_ knows no more about spiritualism
5 than he docs about radio. That should
! defeat the charge “propagandint.”
Comprehensive Story of
Radio Yet to Be Fully led
The ( mnprohcnslve story of the radio
t‘rnrn its more suggestion hack in 1827,
u hon Savory found that :1 Stool needle
I‘L-Tild iw mncnotizod by the discharge
firm .1 l.t')ii-‘ll jar. anti 1831 when
Mum»! Fa my. tho groatcst of the
e3.pt~:';n:e-l.:;.., ivhy<icists, discovorcd
nio-trn magnotic induction between
two entirely a-paratc circuits. has not
written. T‘no principal reason
lit-s in the fact that the science of
rmiia transmission has far to go be-
fun: tthlmits of its possibilitics can
to surmise-cl. In other words. it is
an oxtromoly unsatisfactory thing to
lwon
. write the 'story of something that has
duly? nothing more than to gain a fair
SUII‘K.
But it was Marconi that took the
mysteries that Savory, Faraday, Lind-
say. Maxwell. Hughes. Hertz. Thomp-
son. Lodge and Branly played with
and combined them with the practical
productions of Morse and Bell to create
the thing we have tc-day. And before
going further it seems necessary to
be clear about radiotelephony. Mar-
cnni did little in radiotelephony. It
was Duddoll and Poulsen who de-
veloped radiotolephony. It was not
until 1903 and 1904 that this offshoot
of Marconi‘o work became a practical
thing. It is merely because (of the ex-
pense that the American business man
is not at this momont ringing up Lon-
don. Park and Berlin as he would call
Boston. Chicago and St. Louis. In a
your or so the cast of transatlantic
radiotelophony will be nominal.
It is not generally known that Sarn—
ucl F. B. Morse, the American scientist
who gave the world practical telegra-
phy. experimented with wireless teleg-
raphy in lSlZ. He was able to trans—
mit messages through wator from
ashore to shore of rivers. Tummy-five
. years Iator London producr-d an occen-'
, tri: brilliant named James Clerk Max—
;well, whose biography has it that so
{absorbed was he as a pt-nniless but
: persistent student that he couldn't
maintain a roof over his scientific
' head. .
It tells of Maxwell in a boarding
house where his fellow lodgers were
. unlmaglnatlve shop assistants and tho
Elike. The young man. churning with
l the thnory of electro-magnetim which
the was to unfold to the Royal Society
g'lator. thought nothing of lying awake
"inlghts until he felt the immlnonce
; of the solution of another of the many
:pl‘nhlvms that found him from his
goal. A: though in physical pursuit
let his solution he would hound out of
bod anrl into tlw hallway. l'p and
down tho hallway would race the pos-
quvl man and out of their bf‘tlS would 3
roll the s‘o-lcy shop assistants to see
what tho dovil was up.
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be hustled to the asylum for the in-
sane. When he explained they voted,
to make it mother boarding house. i
From boarding house to boarding;
house went Maxwell. only to take to*
rushing up and down the hallway ati
the most unexpected hours. in the;
meantime chattering calculations and.
dashing off hopeful formula; on paper.;
They “Scfl to shy boots and bric~a-brac i
at him. Naturally he couldn’t dodge.
everything. so it was :1 somewhat bat- .
tie scarred scientist who. in 1573. lap-i
poured again before the Royal Society:
with a treatise on electricity and mag- ;
netism that is still read by those who”
desire sound information on the sub-i
fleet. At that time. too, he predicted;
and described the existence of the elec- g
trlc waves that now are used in radio
(ole; ~aphy.
Working Out Communication
By Means of Induction;
For the sake of brevity. lot us passl
the important discoveries of \‘on 158-:
zolii, Henry llizhton, Alt-Minder
iGr..ham lit-ll, David E. Hughes, John‘
GUGLIELMO MARCONI.
l
At first they insisted that Muxwell_
‘considgr Thomas A. Edison. who. in
t
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l
;
Trowbridgo and “'Elloughby Smith to
IRES. with the assistance of Gilllland,
Phelps and Smith, worked out a sys-
tem of communication between rail-
way stations and moving trains by
means of induction and without the
use of conducting wires. Just why
Mr. Edison did not continue his experi-
ments and odd practical radio teleg-
raphy to his many splendid achieve-
ments remains to be told by him. Per-
hnps he abandoned his wireless experi-
mcnts in order to ‘ mplcte other
things. Certainly, waver. he was.
on the right track, and it is acknowl-
odcod by all the scientists that had he
pursued his inspiration it would have
boon he and not Marconi whose name
would to—dny be synonymous with
:2 0‘ {l
somewhat shocked the scientists; He
. Sir
f scientiorsnapped a few characters'and
3 would be seen in the music halls along
investigations that led him to the oon~
clusion that. electricu actions ’and
manlfestntions could be transmitted
through the earth. air or water "by
means of electrical oscillations of high
frequency." He Who making his ex-
periments In his father's home in Italy.
It would seem that Marconi, having
" caught on,‘ abandoned every other in-
terest. Unlike some of his mighty prede-
cessors, he did not work at wireless
communication in conjunction with
kindred and even wholly foreign mob
tors. His was one of those tenacious.
one way minds that contained a suf-
ficient measure of sheer brilliancy to
gild every one of its products.
In 1896 Marconi went tad-Ingmnd.
where he saw vaster opportunity and
more ii 1 support offered. 0n J uno
t year he did something that
applied for and received the first Brit-
ish patént for wireless telegraphy.
‘While others had been working and
dreaming Marconi had been working
.and working. It is not discourtcous to
this remarkable man to say that his
application for his patent earned him
as much if not more renown than his
Eactual productions had. To be coldly
;:zrcurate. Marconi up until this time-
had not startled the world.
In July. 1596, he was inyoduced to’
Sir “'illiam l’roeco, chief c octrical en-
giuccr for 1 British Post Office. At
“'11! '5 request the Italian
code lottors over a distance 'of 100
= yards and later went out to Salisbury
.Plain and repeated the operation be~
tween stations one and three-quarter
miles apart.
That introduced Marconi to the
world at largo. other scientists vir-
tually dropped. their work and has-
tened to join tho mob of specta-
tors. \The nowspapers contain-ed most
guarded statcmonts concerning this
business of telegraphlug without wines.
Of course, they agreed, it was tutor~
esting and mysterious. but it “‘Ould
norvor come to anything. It was noth-
ing more or loss,‘thcy said. than some
queer phenomonon that this man Mar-
coni had fallen upon. Possibly he
with the other Johnnles who did slight
of hand and.the like.
But on July 27. 1838. the Italian
stagod tho first demonntratlon of di—
rectional wireless, using reflectors. and
in 1897 he snapped his messages four
miles with the unerring aim of the
export riflcman. It was during the
same month that Marconi wont to
Spczia, Italy. and from'the shore es-
tablished continued wireless contact
with the warship San Martin. The dis-
tance was ten mllcs. That set Amer-
ica to talking about Marconi.
Marcbni is quite candid in his state~
mcnts that it was from America that
he received the most applause. the
greatest encouragement and the most
unfaiterlng support. "
Messages From Ships in Distress
Caught Popular Mind
Nothing in radiotelegraphy caught
and fired popular imagination so
much as the messages from distressed
ships. It was the “S. O. S." and the
"C. Q. '0." of those early days that had
singers singing songs about the now
radio.
Came then with definite contribu-
tions to vhe science “7. ll. I‘reece, 'E.
A. Dolboar, Heinrich Rudolph Hertz.
who discovered the IIFOL'FPSSWE DY‘ODO'
gation of elnctro-magnetlc ‘actlon
through space, and the Hertz resona—
tor. In lSSL‘. Cixgliolmo Marconi. a
mere Loy of :1 or so. appeared to make
[TELLS WHAT NEW YORK WOMéN’S
,aensation and dramatists making plays
Iaround lt. Itcmcmbcr the sensatlon
ithat followed the news that the mur-
idercr Hawk-y Harvey Gripper! Was
'npprPthde on the American coast
’by oliicials who had rcceivcd the wire-
less request from Scotland Yard men
_nn :1 plunging: liner?
CLUB OF
_- HEADS GREAT INV .NTIONS
Dr. (klppen and his u-tme were
commonplace enough. He brutally
murdered a girl. but girls had been
murdered quite as brutally heron-1nd
have been since without attract!"
half nor even a hundredth the “ten-
tlon.
But the wireless sprang out from n
ship's masthead and collaredcnppen
as’he landed in America. Columns of
newspaper space was devoted to that
incident alone. Masterful editorial
writers wrote additional masterpieces.
The wireless flash that made a. pris-
oner of Crlppen made prkoner: of
every American reader. Cartoons
showing the steamship plowing through
heavy seas at night bearlng the awful
hand of the law from which radiat
lagged streamer- of lightning add
to the imagining: of the masses. One
of those hard. relentless flashes
stretched to a rocky cou'st. striking
'down a. cowering wretch whose hands
dripped red. .
To be sure. that occurred relatively
recently. But it inflamed the ready
imagination almost as much as the
rescues. at sea. via wirelcm. did. So
far as the available records disclose.
the first threatened marine disaster;
.to be averted by wireless came to pass.
in 1899. It was on March 3. Tho}
steamship R. F‘. Matthows ran into‘
tho East Goodwin Lightship off the;
British coast. The Matthew was not
for off shoro. It had been etmippnd
with wirolrss. Before it foundcrcd
gimats from the life saving station took
'off tlto crow and passengcrs.
l-lut it was the sinking of the steam-
ship chuhllc. rammcd by tho strum-E
ship 'li‘loritia, in January, 1909. cit:
Nantucket Lizlitship. that caused tho;
Anni-icon public to arise to a ronle
appreciation of the wireloss as a life
saving dovico. Tho crash came at
night. “’ircloss Operator John T'.
Flinns was manning tho radio key on
the~Ropubllc There were 1.500 pen!
sons on the Republic. In tho station
at Siasconset on Nantucket Island sat
another operator. Jack Irwin. The
stricken Republic bonam to founder
and Sinus began cracking forth the
“C. Q. D." that figuratively was
heard around tho world.
He stuck to his key. snapping his
call for help—“I am in distress: I
want help!" until help came and the
1,500 who depended upon his courage
and t‘Oolness were saved. The Re
public sank almost under Binns. Irwin
received the signal and so did other
stoamshlps. But it was Irwin who re-
layed to the other stmmshlps the posi—
tion of the foundering Republic.
The New York Herald
Brought Marconi to America
However, to follow the story of the
radio's development, we shall have to:E
go back to Marconi in England and
Italy. In 1899 THI_NEW Your; HERALD
caused Marconi to come to America.
It was his first visit to this country
and great had been the fame of him
here. He was still a struggling young
scientist. He had still to convince the
going to revolutionize message com-
munication. Despite his fame thcro
were thousands who viowrd him and
his experiments with much distrust.
This novrspapor took advantage of
the fact that the first of Sir Thomas
Lipton's famous Shamrocks was going:
to sail the American sloop Columbia
for the America’s Cup. It askodfi‘Mnr-
. February
world that he had something that was .
on September 1:, 1895. and it in who ‘
probable that. no maouncement by d:
nowspaper in year! had attracted hilt
rthe attention. i
The steamship Ponce was fitted up'
for the Italian scientist and not thii
least of the excitement and rural
«no that incident to getting the chip ':
snd'nttlng it out in the manner don.
{minded by Marconi. Authorities d'g
national and international mnm5
gave advice. It would never do 00‘:
hove Marconi arrive and and I m"
inadequate to his needs. He came lab
New York harbor on September. 31“
and spent the following few dun In—
specting the city and its environs. A'
sorloug somewhat colt-centered young
man he was. He 3min: but little cad
then always to the point. He seemed
very sure of himself.
He set up his apparatus on tho
Franco and began tuning and testing.
He whlppod mossagos "in Xavosink.
The accounts of his opcmtlons indi—
cate the vast interest the country was
manifesting.
Having made his connections ho
made himself a grout fonturc of the
Dewoy [mmdo on September 30. and
to tho mimxrmont or tho country. ho?
sent out mcsxagcs about tho pamdo
“as far as twenty mllcs." Tlmt road.
the pnlmluco gasp. The unbolieverl
hogan to think (loop. '
Ami ‘ltt‘n tho yacht races. The first
ruco ha-l to be abandoned while the.
Sloops “on- bccnlrnvd. The race was
not finished. But from the Foneu'
Marconi sont more than 2.500 wall“
into THE New Your: Hmutm office and
the noun “as rcndy for the bulletin
,huunis in llcrulil stium‘e sixty sccond. '
:.fu-r Marconi pounded thcm of! tho
kry on tho l‘unco.
Ijlvcntnully Columbia won tho Eerie.
of ram s and by that limo Marconi m
something of a national hero. 0n
(ictolwr 5 a rumor EPI‘O‘Rd around New
York that the oxcursion stcamor Grand.
Republic hod'mmk. Man-(mi. from his
cabin~ on the Room. flashed the new.
to tho entire city that the stramshlp
was all right and that no accldcnt had
onuu-rctl. That added to the Itallun’l
fame.
But despite all this there still ro-
mainod doubt.
““’hnt are they going to do when
four or five fellows got to sending
messagos all at the some time?" de~
mandod the skcptics. "Tho. mosmges
are going to collide in the air. ain't
they?"
Show: That Communication
Is Not a Fair Weather Thin:
On January 19.1901. the Princess.
Clcmcntlne run ashore in the North
Sea and her radio notified (Island. On
II a Mnrgflnigmm was
flushed from Nitron station, Isle of
Wight, and the Lizard station. :1 din-
tance of 196 miles. On December 18
and 13. Mar onl, standing on Signal
Hill, St. J hos. Newfoundland. ro-
celvcd a series of the letter "S“ from
his towers in Poldhu. Cornwall. Eng-
land. In February, 1902. this Italian
scicntist, on board the first American
steamship to ho cqulppvd with 1.0
Wirolossv—rlhn liner l'iiilmlclphla~—rc-
crivod rcmluhlo montage from tho
i‘oldhu .«lnlinn up in :1 distance of 1.551
statutomilos, :1 ml clear slgnnls over .
distance of 2,099 ulnlulv milos.
The critics worn Silt'nt‘NL There
coni to come to the Fund States and
by wlrolcss rrport tho contestS. Tho.
gfact that he had agreed to come was:
ipublishcd in Tm: New Yonx HERALDi
FUTURE WILL BE] 4
was no furthor doubt about wirele.
tolngraphy. (in Dorrmhor IT. 1902, tho
first complete roaslahlc message w“
fiasht-d across the Atlantic.
By
GERTRUDE ROBINSON SMITH.
Prosidcnt of the Ameriun Woman'l
W“ I
New YullK. Saturday.
v,\ll.'.\' :iro to-tiay a group to
Antagonl an
ronfrontw’.
r- if
;.r‘1.’:‘.
ml}
the-
lir‘wjmlzn‘l: which once
“‘H" .Llll
.lft‘
-.~..ll;wll"i2l,‘.’ to a wlvio ox-,
«mag. \‘(nmim arc tho flrStf
vimit that they haw- hooded.
:‘w of the business world;
Hams- tlmo thcy hnvo boon able:
pm.- 'il‘l: businoss training by no}
. nI-wl iuan their femininity in’
rm“. f
.izzcs man have bee ’
‘izvtiuig what thoy wan
it thcir turn and
a «lays they are lieginzvinz'
“i ' :‘.~-y want. This last week
in“ ‘i'li"‘,ln(‘l‘(l to the public
" n club house of their;
",.il have all the all-f
was: comfortable and;
'-.‘v for business mom!
more. This is no
passing fancy. ltl
:..w-ri..xiza':iun o: theé
il (ix-sires of thou—-
I-il. Tho old reproaches
awx that women novcr:
-." hr acrompllsh harmonl l
. .utmn is» being disproved?
m l :lzaln. perhaps nowherei
I? ., i,-,,.'.\2y than in the business‘
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'y reproachos of~men are
! ::.: sits u: teasing brothersi
"Y'nz -’ ;" ' do it. so what's the user
r' ~.;.-"'t Bu: sisters develop ln-,
firiwnden.» under such gibes. and;
n i.~r.~'. lwing rather nice people 31-?
pretty sure to drawl out?
Harni'ncudation as successi'
sfs'ars. Attr-r a while their:
mar <is‘ur‘s doings is hugei
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On: Women First Revealed :
Is Still “On Tap".
i
kGlut is admin-cl Wherever it La seem:
.m mun-«s Woman has shown grit:
At last 1. !
has reached the point?
“him ”l"? is no longor fighting herl
way step by
\‘mfnlr proton-nee against her, refusal
“outfikohgr interest in business serf-
. . an the most ' ‘ ‘
‘n "Bravo y!" ventlous cry of
EXD'Prtcnco
l- respected
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‘m u “TO-(lay the
“gr“!!! her “334‘,“
, L... m 51 one: to lend a irlll be in no sense a. hotel or apart-
5189 against prejudice. the pubuc, .
3 Women Don’t Want Gifts:
inhf' ““3“ her that she cu: finance” It. Therm tired attach;
uroporuon a. me aha” nuance-stood by the public; may]!
busing. when flunk the www.m-
sl’lnsvd on business“ oqunllty and fair
play, and asserts her greatest desire is
itu hnvo only tho thing for which she
roan pivv oqual measure in return. Her
experience and training haw- taught
ghor morn cloarly perhaps than any
§othcr group in socicty that we must
it. .~... lttvhov] Willi in the body 3 all pay in one way or another for?
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hm...“ and domestic.‘m”~‘mmg we lime. and because she.
i s self—supporting she is able to main-3
ltain her lndopomlcnt position of got-l
determined whim: what she wants by giving of her?
ability and intclligoncc in return.
Hence the now club house—her club
how ”—0. business proposition which
will be her great opportunizy of prov-
in; her business creed. »
if?
Applicants to New Club
Must Be Self-Supporting
.‘lcmbership in the new club house
will be basod on onc qualification, that
thr- appiicant be F'-il->u1‘;-(‘i‘ling. An-
nual :lucs will be $10 for resident morn-
hers ol‘or 25 years of age and $5 for
thosi- under "3. on the supposition that
beyond the age of 25 women in busi-
ness will have attalned a. degree of
success enabling them to my the
larger amount for the privileges of the
club house. Non-resident dues for
mombors living beyond seventy-five
miles of New York will be '35. The
fourteen story (lub will be centrally
located and will provide 800’ single
rooms, with bath for every two rooms.
at an average rental of $12 a week a
room to all members, out of town
members and guests of members
There will be a restaurant serving
table d'hote and cafeteria. meals; a
lounge, library, billiard room, recep-
tion rooms for rent to members for
private parties, hair dressing and man-
icure departznents. gymnasium, swim-
ming pool and Turkish baths. A par~
cel checking room, trunk room and
safe dep05it vault will be added bon-
vents-noes.
The club will be purely social-
It
ment house. It will be. democratic,
self-governing. non-political, non-par-
tisan and non-sectarian. From the in-
ltial campaign of bondcelling on to
the maintenance of the completed
plant it will be self-supporting. This
independent financial basis is a. point
strongly emphasized by the commit-
tee of one thousand in coming before
Will Build :12: House 7'kova
But the women mtnanlyughey‘
, nothing. This is a fallacy. for we are
dcnilllg with self-supporting women
who live within their incomes. It is
itruo that thvrc is a large group of
women who through force of clrcum- .
l stances are unable to moot their yearly
expenses. and for these women it is.
only right that the public should give,
a holping ha aid, and give it as gulch,
ously as thE-y are able.
i
who have banded together to eroct a
i club buildinrr, and who represent thou-
lsands of other business and profes-
sional v'omon. Want only what they
lthcmselvcs can pay for. They know
3 that there are 10.000 womcn who can:
'3l'lord and will buy at least one bond
each. They want\ these women to.
unmn forward now. for the time is;
short. and it is essential that the com- ;
mittee should know immediately whcre ‘
they stand, for otherwise the plot the;
committw hopes to buy may be
snapped from under their very noses.
Then, too. they want the club no“?
and. at best. it will take twelve months
before it can be opened.
The building, land and furnishings
will cost $2.600,000. including- the
carrying charges. fees, &c., during the
year of construction. A bond issue of
$1,000,000 thirty year 5 per cent. in-
come bonds will be made. The bal-
ance will be raised by mortgage. The
income from the bedrooms, the rent
charged to the restaurant and the rent
from the shops will carry all, the ex—
penses of the club, including interest.
amortization of the mortgage. taxes
and maintenance of the building.
No account is being token of the
income from dues, activities, conceS-
slonn, &c.. as it is too difficult and
uncertain to estimate upon. The in-
come from this source. horrever. will
help tremendously tdward the sink-
ing fund for the protection of the
bonds. On Wednesday. June 21, ’a
campaign was launched to- secure
pledges to buy the income bonds.
Teams were organized. and it is ex-
pected that by July IoArthe first 8500.-
000 worth 'of bond: will have been
Apleasgd. . .
There are many reasons why the
business women ' want such a club.
even those living in'thelr on sport-
rments. and who would ndg therefore,
live at the club house. ,For matinee.
their apartment- may be many miles
from the center of the town. where in
the evening they usually and thorn-
aelves for theaters. concerts. dinner}.
3c. ”mm question art-era! how—they
.m to much home
Eto mect lht‘il‘ friends.
But the committee of one thousandi
waste'of energy. but by be.onglng_ to
‘3 club ccntrallv locatéd they can ar-
range to stop there after office hours.
‘get réfrcshed, take :1 swim in the
pool or a Turkish bath and be ready
Then, joo. if
they «1m: to entertain friends they
can do so without work in their apart—
moms, nnd pnticuluxiy they can on-
gtprmln their men friends in the club
rooms or rostamrnnt without any dis-
cussion as to who will pay the Check.
lUr if they want just a. relaxing eve-
inlng with a good library and writing
lroom or the lounge filled with con-
.agonial women thcy can find it all in
Ithcir own club.-
There is also the younger woman
; who may want dances and the oppor-
itunlty of meeting men—or perhaps
the man. Her boarding house offers
ino'npportunity for her to receive him
,-—thc club will. If she wishes classes
zto help her to be more like the suc-
, tion of rooms by members, though, of
' have an immediate need of it. but be-
, cessful oldcr woman she can join them, l
and. best of all, she will find the com- ;
panlonship of those successful busl-i
ness women an inspiration to her~nn
inspiration that may mean hcr futurn-
success. She will his lntercstcd in the
pool and tho, gymnasium classes, the
dramatic and glee clubs.
Age will not count in this club. and
the woman over 35 will find just as
much m the girl under that age. There
will be no time limit for the occupa-
coursc. some limit will have to be
placed for guests of members. One
floor will be reserved for out of town
members. This plan has been decided
upon because such a great number of
letters have been received from wom—
cn all over the country saying thl‘Y
would like to Join the club because
"their business brings them-here‘ for
a few weeks each fear." This mem-
bership will. of course. be limited to
give adeguale service to all. and ap-
plications will be accepted in the ordcr_
received. It is hoped that all will buy
bonds, as naturally all membors who
are bondholders will have xrcferooce
over others.
The comments voluntecrcd by .many
writers ln‘letters to the committee are
eloquent of the welcome given the
project. “Your proposition is a tre-
mendous thing." writes one young
womanifrom Brooklyn. "It in 5 50¢
cull. economic and cultural solution of
a great need." A girl in Manhattan
writes that she has been looking for
Just such a club for a long, long time,
and adds: 1’1 know of hundredx of
girl: to whom it will be a godsend.”
others indorae the club whole heart-
edly. not because they themselves
cause they realize how greatly it will
benefit great numbers of otbu- women.
One letter gives a colorful picture of
a young woman who longs for the
; companionship and pleasant surround-
Einga that gives life its rightful rosy
jtlnte. Coming from” a small town '11:
:Connecticut. where her father held a
Halal-led position in a hunk And her
mother tnught in the local school. the
write:- plunged bravely into 1216me
peas whirl of New York and noon ob-
:ihinad n postflon u miter
m}, ’ ,."2m, $15 a‘eek to $35.
not. allowed to cook at all. but must.
cut in a restaurant.
"My othce hours nro from 9 to 5.
I rmu-h home about 5:30 and am free
for tho. romaindor of tho nt‘tornoon
and ova-Hing. New York is mu of
stimulating opportunitlps, but mostly
they cost money. Life soon become.
vcry dn-nry-——lonolinoss in a crowd I-
a spoolnl thing which I hope you'll
never knowwsloop. work and food and
not much else and I grew more and
more unhappy and dt’Pl‘GfiMd. Soon I
realized that my total lack of com-
panionship and atrial intercourse of
any sort was one grout cause of my
discontent and I tried to mnko u:-
quainlanccs. But how to do it was 0
problom.
"At the office my fellow worker-
worv nim‘. but they were montly men.
and I did not like the lawn of meet-
ing thom on the street cornors and‘
having no place to go attorwnrd but
the movlos or a dance hall, and. 0!
course. I could not ontortain them till
my room. No mattvr how I tried h-
make the twdroom look like a alttln‘
room by putting .1 nhuwl over the bed
-—-lt rtlll lonlu-d like what it Wm). M
anyway rt-hpmrtnhln landlndlm object;
to their tonnntn taking a man in their
rooms. The women at the omce hapor
ported to live in Brooklyn. and LI-
though we occau‘lonnlly mot outsido, .
the ofllce We had little in cmnmon exo
oopt business. I longed for friendl.
and. having the standard of 1 mi
town. I naturally expected to mix.
Mend: through my church. I an d!
Protestant and the denomination d3»
whichlamanwmberhunotdoq
veloped the sociability side of its work.
In the country town- every .1an -
la welcomed, and put Into m chumh‘
work she'll um. "i ‘
“I went regularly to church. audit.
was given a good sent End heard j;
80011 sermon. but the", it M ~f
There mod to be no way in W“;
I could meet people and make mill“. '-
aoludedtomako friend-of“
in, Naturally 1 can't acorn to
book- nnd periodic“. to my ext, ,
um the Public ubnnr m - vex-M
blessing. and if 1 mm m; . am
who” portion 1 “mold lava 50‘, _
comma-a and mm. but t vh- 9%
“homo-«3m! a lonely m '
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