A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . 1918 expanded rapidly until today the Association has three Brancheswith a membciship of 5,000 girls and women; incorporates ten depart-ments ; administers $176,000 a year; and touches directly an averageof 25,000 women yearly. The present building winch opened eleven years ago as a board-ing home and class center now includes, besides the rooms for guests, 1918] RELIGIOUS, ETC. 651 a , hydroiiatliic department, two diniiij? rooms, privateparlors, club rooms, library, and olKices. The
A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . 1918 expanded rapidly until today the Association has three Brancheswith a membciship of 5,000 girls and women; incorporates ten depart-ments ; administers $176,000 a year; and touches directly an averageof 25,000 women yearly. The present building winch opened eleven years ago as a board-ing home and class center now includes, besides the rooms for guests, 1918] RELIGIOUS, ETC. 651 a , hydroiiatliic department, two diniiij? rooms, privateparlors, club rooms, library, and olKices. The Annex, added in 1917,contains the offices and club rooms of the International Institute, aschool for foreifin-born and foreign-speaking women of Cleveland, andthe studios of the ilusic Department. The building has lately provedquite inadequate to the increasing activities and funds are in handand plans made for an enlargement of the structure at the close of thepresent war. Two Branch Association buildings, one at 8321 Broad-way, and one at 3117 Franklin Avenue on the West Side accommodate. Thk Dixixg Kdom the girls in these districts. In 1913, the Association purchased theMary Eells Vacation Farm, one of its most prized possessions. Itis an 80 acre tract of land on the Lake front at Madison, Ohio, andis equipped with bungalow, recreation hall, dining room, shop ,nndsleeping cottages to accommodate 125 girls. At the present time the Association offers clubs with recreationaland educational advantages to (1) young business women; (2) in-dustrial girls; (3) high school and grade school girls; it offers to allwomen day and night classes under expert instructors, in commercial 652 CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS [Chap. XXXIII courses, eooking:, dressmaking and millinery; it provides gymnasiumtraiuing, outdoor athletics, folk dancing and military drilling; itmanages a hydropathic department with Turkish and electric-lightbaths at moderate rates for business women; it sustains a first cla
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