Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-30
THEANNUAL MEETING
Woman's Christian Association Wind
Up Another Years Work.
THEIR NOBLE WORK AMONG WOMEN
Hindered by Falling OFF in Receipts
and Increased Expenses.
AN EARNEST APPEAL MADE FOR FUNDS

The annual meeting of the Woman's
Christian Association will be held at 10
O'Clock this morning, in the Y. M. c. A.
Building. Rev. George Hodges, rector Of
the Calvary Episcopal Church, in the East
End, will deliver an address, and the regu-
lar election of officers will take place.
The meeting will be presided over by
Mrs. Felix Brunot, who, as President Of the
association, has held the chair for q annual
meetings. Reports will be read from the
various secretaries of all the branches. and
beautifully written summary of all will
be read by Miss Sterling, the secretary OF
the mother association, from which the fol-
lowing extracts are taken:
''District and Jail visiting being the first
work undertaken, brought to our notice
many cases needing shelter and protection
of home, where weary and tempted women
might rest and be saved. The result was the
founding of temporary home for destitute
women, now located at No. 929 Penn ave-
nue., and whose object is to shelter and pro-
tect homeless, friendless and destitute
women until they can find employment
or gain assistance in searching for friends.
WORK OF THE YEAR.
"During the past year 361 persons, includ-
ing 80 children, have been admitted and
cared for as their several cases demanded.
''In the Aged Protestant Women's Home,
located at Williamsburg, there are 6O in
mates, IL of them having been admitted
during the past year.
"The object of the Woman's Union Mis-
sionary Society is stated to be to gather
funds from little bands in asYlums and
neighborhoods to send over the sea to train
native girls to become Christian teachers.
The Torch Bearers Band in Lawrenceville
supports young girl in Yokohama, Japan,
also the Ridge Avenue Orphan Asylum
one in the same place. The Calcutta Or
phanage receives support from the Katie
Ondry band. As a result of the total
labors of this year $329 have
been forwarded to the above named places.
The Christian Home for Women. in Alle'
gheny, a home for repentant, fallen women.
had its beginning 18 years ago. An annual
average of 20 unfortunate girls, with their
nameless babes, have been cared for, when
all other refuge has been denied them.
During the past year 80 girls and 26 chill
dren have been admitted, three have been
restored to their parents and the others have
secured employment in good homes"
Notes from various letters received from
former inmates are included in the report
which testify to the phenomenal good ac-
complished in this Home.
CALL FOR HELP.
The report SAYS: ga slight falling off in
receipts and an increased expense in the re-
formatory department this year have re-
duced our bank account to a sum less than
$1OO. Our front wall is falling down, and
must be replaced by new one. To our
friends of former days we say, please hand
in your cheques, and to any new contribu-
tors we will say, thank YOU"
The Young Woman's Christian Associa-
ton of East Liberty, now in its fifteenth
year, comprises band of young women who
organized for the purpose of spiritual self
culture and missionary effort. They en-
ploy paid missionary, and have an indus
trial school averaging 157 pupils.
During the past year the managers of the
Home for Colored Children have decided
not to receive any who have father or
mother living, or any means OF support
from friends, as in caring for such the ones
needing were necessarily excluded on ac-
count of want of room.
Sixty-eight is the number OF children who
have been received during the past year.
An earnest appeal is made in the report for
funds with which to make some needed i'm
provements in the Home for little colored
waits.