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Show MANY WOMEN ARE t GOING OVERSEAS The increased number of American' women going; oversea with relief organizations or-ganizations tern made ft necessary for the Amerfcjan T. W. C. A. to take over a large House, one bloet from Hotel Petrogmd, the T. W. C. A. Hostess House in Paris, for additional addition-al housing spane. Croups of forty and fifty Jled Cross nurses; canteen and social workers T have hail to ba turned away from the hotel almost daily for thw lack of space during the past two awnths. Hotel Petrograd. which ws opened In Decmber for the purpose of caring car-ing for these American women while they were waiting orders to their posts, has accommodations for 200 ' women,, aaid has become the America center in Paris. The new annex wllk be Just a rooming house. There will)Nr also be as tta room. ' . -J- French people are no longeT allowed allow-ed to get any meal, save tea, at the Petrogra as the dining room is not large eno'jfh to accommodate all of the American men and women who throng tfiere tor Americans cooked meals. Frequently the line extends from the dining room door through the lobby of th hotel. i Concerts and lectures hy famous musicians, authors and writers of the allied countries are daily events at the Petrograd. Miss Mary George White of Baltimore, is director of the hotel. |