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NO JOY FOR THE COOK
But Open House at New Y. W. C. A. Home Was a Success.
ROSES AND PRETTY GIRLS
Miss Helen M. Gould and Miss Grace H. Dodge on the Reception Committee.
The only person who was in the least bit disappointed at the otherwise joyful “open house” held yesterday afternoon in the National Young Women’s Christian Association’s new home, at Lexington avenue and 52d street, was Nancy, the cook.
Enthroned in a scientifically complete kitchen nine stories up, where the air is pure, she bemoans the old inconvenient convenient kitchen at No. 3 Gramercy Park, where she could see the ground and occasionally go out on the back porch.
But while gloom reigned in the kitchen all the rest of the house was bright with roses, and pretty girls delighted in showing visitors about.
Miss Grace H. Dodge and Miss Helen M. Gould received with Mrs. James S. Cushman, Mrs. Stephen Baker, Mrs. William W. Rossiter, Mrs. John R. Mott, Mrs. Robert E. Speer, Mrs. James M. Speers, Mrs. Frank Mason North and Mrs. Clarence Hyde. A member of the national board who was unable to be present in the receiving line was Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson.
While both office force and school moved into the new headquarters in September, it was felt that the dedication should not take place until the last bill for cost of construction had been paid. So it was under these circumstances that the national board and its employed staff, the trustees, the training school students and faculty and representatives from nearby Young Women’s Christian associations gathered on Wednesday to participate in the dedication service written for the occasion.
At the “open house” held yesterday more than two thousand visitors were shown through the scientifically equipped building, which houses the school and dormitories, as well as the national offices.
A room on the eleventh floor which attracted many visitors’ attention was the beautiful living room of the training school, furnished by the graduates of the school’s first four years, and familiarly called “No. 3” in recollection of No. 3 Gramercy Park, the school’s first home. It bears on its door the old brass numeral from the Gramercy Park house. There is a superb view of Manhattan and the East River from here and from the twelfth story roof garden above.
On the eleventh floor the visitors were entertained in the cafeteria, or self-serving lunchroom, of which the demonstrators seemed very proud, and in the more formal dining room of the training school.
The architect of the building, Donn Barber, also planned the furniture, which is all stained to match the woodwork.
The building, which is twelve stories high, is the largest one housing a national woman’s organization. It occupies the northwest corner of Lexington avenue and 52d street, and the site was the gift of Miss Gould. The local Young Women’s Christian Association is planning to put up another building of the same size on the other half of the block.
