A HOME BUILT BY THE PENNIES OF CATHOLICS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IX, Issue 443, 7 October 1881, Page 7

A HOME BUILT BY THE PENNIES OF CATHOLICS.

Father Drumgoole's new ten-story building for homeless boys, corner of Lafayette Place and Great Jones Street, New York city, is approaching completion. It will be occupied about September. Its cost is over 300,000 dols. The stracture has a frontage of 75 feet on Lafayette Place and 180 feet oa Great Jones street, and is built in the Romanesque style of architecture. There is a court in the centre. All living rooms have plenty of light and air. The dark ones serve for closets. The principal entrance is from Lafayette Place. Upon the first floor is the meeting room for St. Joseph's Union, and the chapel at the end of the hall. Upon the second floor are the library and study hall. Upon the third and upper stories are dormitories. The dining hall, refectory, washing and bath looms are in the cellar and sub-cellar. A passenger elevator runs from the sub-cellar to the top story. The building is as high, if not higher than any of its neighbours. One can look down upon the roof of Cooper Union, and see objects upon the roof of Stewart's store. The observer in the top story has a fair view of lower New York. He seems on a level with the dome of the post-office. Father Drumgoole said the other day that of the 300,000 dols. that the building cost, there is not at this moment 2,000 dols. due. He said :—": — " We were at one time sorely tronbled about our finances. Judge Donohue, of Texas, came in one day, and. suggested that the sale of a certain card would be the best way to raise money .*The card premises that a number of Masses will be said for the persons paying 25 c^nts. The person is enrolled upon the books of St. Joseph s Union, and entitled to a copy of a paper published by us called the Homeless Child, Any number of the cards were taken. To-day they are in every hole and corner of the globe. The post-office people will tell you that our mail is as heavy as the "argest of business houses. Over 800 letters are our avi rage day's receipts. Nearly all of them are upon matters concerning St. Joseph's Union. Yes, sir, you may say that the building was built with quarter dollars," As soon as he has removed into the new quarters, Father Drutngoole intends to offer hotel accommodation to young men of limited means who come to the city in search of work, and in connection with it to establish a commercial course of study for the improvement of such of his young men as desire to fit themselves for business pursuits.