Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1913 — Working Girls’ Home to Be Built at Hammond. [ARTICLE]

Working Girls’ Home to Be Built at Hammond.

A public spirited movement, having for its object the establishment of a working girls’ home, for at least 125 girls, has been started among Hammond manufacturers who expect to spend $40,000 in the philanthropic undertaking. Hammond employers feel that responsibility for their employes extends beyond the daily working hours, and have come to the conclusion that their moral obligation could be best paid by providing a real home for a girl, where her salary could more than make both ends meet, and where the best influences would dominate. It is believed this plan will remove some of the causes that contribute to the delinquency df girls. It is proposed to provide each girl with a room of her own which shall be furnished with every convenience; to provide at least four parlors in which the girls can entertain their friends and to devote part of the building to dining rdbms. *

Girls will be expected to pay three dollars a week for their rooms and meals. A matron will have charge of the home and she will have the assistance of a sufficient number of servants to take care of all ‘the routine work.

Thus far the plans provide to keep the institution Independent of the Y. M. C. A. or any of the other national organizations. Among the manufacturing companies Interested are the W. B. Conkey Company, the F. S. Betz Company, the Reid-Murdock Company, the Enterprise Bed Company, the Hammond Knitting Works, the Interstate Transfer and Storage Company, Kaufman & Wolf, and other employers of girls. These men and others expect to raise all the money necessary without calling on the general public for support.