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A Vacation Home.
"Elmcote," At Craigville, Almost Ready For Occupancy.
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The Working Girls' Vacation Society Ready To Provide Holiday Homes For Self-Supporting Women.
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The Working Girls' Vacation Society is now opening up its summer homes, and in a short time they will all be filled with guests. Miss Marion D. Collamore, one of the managers, returned from Elmcote, at Craigville, yesterday, and says that it will be ready for occupancy in a few days.
This society is now in its fifteenth year, and its object, as indicated by its name, is to provide vacations for the young working women of the city. As other societies arrange for giving vacations to well women, it holds to the rule of assisting only those who are broken down in health, for the work, without this restriction, would be overwhelming, and, moreover, this obviates the danger of unwise charity. Applicants are obliged to present a physician's certificate, and must also be vouched for by some responsible person. A fortnight's vacation is usually allowed, but little more time is sometimes given when it is thought necessary by the examining physician. Each girl is required to pay a nominal sum of $1.50 a week for board, except when the person recommending her certifies that she is unable to do so.
To those unable to leave home for more than a day at a time the society furnishes Glen Island tickets, which it has been able to secure at half rates through the kindness of John H. Starin. These are sold to well girls, and about seven thousand were used last year. Sometimes girls have friends in the country that they could visit if they could afford the travelling expenses, and in these cases the society pays for the tickets, provided the sum does not exceed $10.
The society had seven houses in operation last summer, and owing to the enlargement (through the generosity of George E. Dodge) of the house at Santa Clara, in the Adirondacks. It was able to provide vacations of from two to three months to a number of consumptives.
During the year, a prosperous one, the facilities of the society were considerably enlarged for accomplishing its aims, and the society trusts to the generosity of its friends, not only to make! no retrenchment during this season, but also to enable it to take advantage of the new opportunities that are opening before it.
The officers of the society are: President, Mrs. William Herbert; vice-president, Mrs. S. D. Floyd; secretary, Mrs. Richard Irvin; assistant secretary, Miss E. A. Buchanan; treasurer, Miss Edith Bryce, …
[Image caption] Vacation Home "Elmcote" At Craigville.