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Show OAUGHTER OE iOM 10 OPEN RESTAURANT Will Prove That Workers iu Navy Yards Need Not Seek Saloons for Lunch.', NEW YORK, March 15. Miss Anno Morgan, daughter of J. Pierpont Mor-can, Mor-can, will opou o. restaurant in tho Brooklyn navy yard obout May 1. As ehairmnu of u conuiiittfo appointed by the New York section of tho National Civic federation. Miss Morgan has boon authorized by the govornmout to carry out the plan, which aims to provide for tho men who work in tho navy ynrd bettor food thau thej' can now obtain and at loss monoy. Iu a - statement today Miss Morgan said : "Wo have been working for a long tiriie on this plan. Tho refctaurant is vastly needed. Most or' the meu at present have to go to tho saloons for thoir lunches. We hopo to show tho uavy dopartment that tho restnurant con bo run on a self-supporting baste, so that tho government will take it off our hands and perhaps establish others like it in other yards whero thoy arc equally uecded." Tho government has gran lad tho uso of a wnrohouse. 05 feet wide npd 2-10 feet long, anil 700 men can be fed without with-out difficulty at ono time. Miss Morgan's younger sister, tho wife of Herbert E. Satorlco, former assistant as-sistant socrotary of the navy, is also interested in tho scheme. Mrs. E. H. Gary, wife of tho chairman chair-man of tho United States Steel corporation, corpora-tion, is a member of the committees. Other women who havo assisted aro Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Miss J. Jlordcu Harriman and Mrs. Francos Higgmson Cabot. |