The New Yorker, September 20, 1941 P. 54
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Union League of the Deaf, a society club exclusively for deafmutes. It was founded in 1886 and has 400 members. The address is 711 Eight Ave. Samuel Frankeheim, the president, is also one of the original founders. Description of the club's quarters. The club has an assembly hall seating 500 people. It is used only for membership meetings and Literary Nights. On Literary Nights they have lectures, silent moves, and sometimes a debates, and later on dancing. There are between five and six thousand deaf mutes in the five burroughs, and there are a number of clubs and organized groups. Mentions St. Anne's Church for Deaf-Mutes, the De L'Epee Association, the Ephphata Society. The Welfare of Jewish Deaf. There is one employment agency specifically for them. It is operated by Margarette Helmle, and it has office space in the N. Y. State Employment Service Building, on E. 28th St.