Morning journal and courier., 1881-02-03
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COMMUNICATIONS.
Provision for Our Young Women.

Provision for Our Young Women. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 The attention of our community has often been called during the past few months to the just need of some organization for the social and religious welfare of the numbers of self-supporting young women whose days are fully occupied, but for whose evenings there should be some home-like, cheerful rallying spot, safer than our crowded streets.
 During the summer and autumn public meetings were several times called by those whose attention had been earnestly turned to the subject, for the purpose of discussing plan for formin- Young Women's Christian Association in our city and devising the best methods of furthering it's interests For years such institutions have been in success full operation in Hartford, New York, Bos- ton and other places, and from their experi- ence invaluable help has been gained. Much individual labor was given to the cause, and the response was so cordial and the sympa- thy so general, from all classes of the commu- nifty, that those who had laid the foundations of the work and gathered in the nucleus of an association were encouraged to organize themselves and elect board of managers from our various churches, into whose hands they put all needful business arrangements for the continuance and success of their pro- ject. Much time had already been spent by the earlier workers in search of pleasant and suitable rooms on Chapel street, to be fitted up attractively, furnished with books and pe- riodicals, where strangers who have no cheer full home to hasten back to, or those who need the refreshment of pleasant compan- ionship and some mental stimulus after their day of work, or long for counsel in their per- plexities could find welcome and sympathy. After great care and deliberation, rooms have been rented on the second floor of what is known as the Masonic building, No POS Chapel street, corner of Union. These rooms are warmed and lighted but they are with out furniture, and for this the managers look with confidence to their fellow citizens, who they are sure must feel the necessity and value of this enterprise and will gladly aid in it.
 The rooms selected, and, after some un- avoidable delay, slightly altered for our pur- pose, consist of a reading room, with dres- sing room attached, connecting with it by folding doors where general meetings of the association, lectures, religious meetings, social gatherings, etc., can be held.
 Donations respectfully requested of plain, substantial furniture, such as chairs, large and small tables pictures for the walls, rugs or carpets and stationery musical instrument will be also greatly needed.
 On Friday and Saturday of this week manJS agers will be at the rooms from half-past o'clock a. m. till p. m. to receive anything that may be sent, and at later time the jan itor will be authorized to care for articles sent. We trust that liberal response will be made to this appeal, as well as to the call made later by our collectors for donations or annual subscriptions in money needed to meet the expenses for rent, fresh reading matter, attendance, etc.
 It is hoped that in time the association will become. in a measure, self supporting, but with all enterprises for the public good it must, like it's kindred institution, the Young Mems Christian Association, be established and fostered by the generosity of that large class of our citizens who appreciate the i'm perative necessity for such work and the benefits that will accrue from 1t to the con- munity at large. As soon as furnished the rooms will be opened to the public, of which notice will be given later
 The officers of the association are Presi- dent Mrs. H. B. Allen; vice president, Mrs. H. B. Bigelow; treasurer, Mrs. G. w. Cur tis recording secretary, Miss L. R. Bliss. The board of managers, so far as completed, consists of Mrs T. W. T. Curtis, Mrs. F. R. Bliss, Mrs H. D. Hume Mrs. M. T. Land fear Mrs. H. W. Benedict, Mrs. l.. D. Brown, Mrs. F. W. Pardee, Mrs. Miller, Mrs. W. D. Whitney, Mrs. J. D. Dana, Mrs. s. M. Whitney, Mrs. Henry s. Kelsey, Mrs. E. S. Cutler.
 Connected with these is an advisory board, consisting of the following gentlemen: Rev. Noah Porter, D. D., Hon. H. B. Bigelow, Mir. c. B. Willis, MT. F. R. Bliss, Mr. F. w. Pardee, MT. J. N. Adam, MT. J. J. Matthews, Rev. W. D. Mossman.