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Show I HOTEL FOR BOY 1 AND GIRL WORPRS Chicago, Uan. 10. Gifts amounting to $100,000 for the establishment of a hotel in Chicago, where boys coming com-ing to the city to work might find' t comfortable quarters at a minimum ( rental, were announced today by L. Wilbur Messer, general secretary of ' the Young Men's Christian associa tion. The donors were Cyrus H. JIc-Cormick, JIc-Cormick, pi'esident of the ntcrna-tional ntcrna-tional Han ester company, aqd John G Shedd, head of the estate of the late ..Marshall Field, j Another gift of $25,000 froru'an'un- known "friend"' will be applied to I a $125,000 fund for establishing a boys' club. J The working boys' hotel fupd jnow f amountB to $250,000. Another quarter, ' of a million is sought. While announcement of the gifts' v to the Young Men's Christian aissoci- I , ation was being made, in another part It of tho city, at a meeting of the Chi- I 1 cago chapter Daughters of the Ameri- li can Revolution, a letter was read, 1 ' from Mr. Shedd offering that society j $50,000 to start a fund of one million i ' dollars with which a working girls . home, the most elaborate Institution 1 of Its kind ever projected, might bp t built. La Vorno W. Noyes, presideijt of the Illinois Manufacturers "ssocia-W "ssocia-W Y' tion sent word he would add another f $50,000. |