The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-30
NHHDLEVORK ON SHOW.
The Ladies of the G u1d Ex-
hibit Their Work at the
Tabernacle Parlors.
GARMENTS FOR OLD AND YOUNG.
Charity Coyereth a Multitude of
Sins and Many Bodies
Besides.
fARMENTs FOR OLD AND YOUNG.

gress in the parlors of the Tabernacle.
York and Henderson streets. There is
no admission fee, no n will be requested
to buy this, or stake chances in" that,
and although it represents a years work
on the part of the largest organized char
ity in Jersey City, no one will be a nenny
the poorer for going in. 1t is the first
annual display of garments made by the
Needlework Guild.
This remarkable organization, which
b. gan in Jersey City last june, was de-
scribed in detail in The JERSEY CITY
NEWS at that time, while it's subsequent
operations have been published through
the same medium. Its object is, as the
name implies, to furnish new garments
to charitable institutions Anyone who
contributes W new garments becomes
a member, a signes a membership
card.
Anyone who p%ersuades ten others to
join. making, with her W contribution,
twenty-five garments in all, becomes a
Director. Five Directors may choose
one of their number a ''Seetion Presi-
dent" who in turn chooses a Secretary.
Thus as each Section President repre-
sents fifty members. or ITO garments, and
their are twenty-six such officials, judge
of the eytent of the organization and the
network of needlework that spreads over
the city!
GARMENTS GALORE.
AS the visitor enters the hall. she sees
what appears to be a disrupted church
fair or a drygoods store under process Of
stocktaking. Here are long tables, piled
high with garment of all Kinds, and sur
mounted with Dlacards bearing the name
OF the institution to which they are des-
tined. Here is one table labelled sHome
for the Blind, land neXt Friday afternoon
the gentle Sisters of Peace will distribute
its contents 10 those who are sitting in
darkness within its walls. Here Is the
sChildren's Home" table. all laden with
little garments that will make the Board
of Domestic Control sing praises. Here
is a aole with warm wrappers and night
gowns, such as the patients in st. Fran
els Hospital are waiting for, and here a
great pile of gay shawls aud knitted Slip
pers and warm undergarmenJs. that one
might tell we're intended for the Home
for Aged Women.
WINTER AND SPRING.
Extremes meet. Next to the shawls
and hoods that speak of the winter of
life, lie plies of pretty slips, folded az if
some one were thinking tenderlY of the
little ones to whom they are to go. Here
are knitted socks, lying with their pink
aud white toes turned up for ap-
approval. Here are warm coyerlets, and
here white flannel skirts and blankets. all
so dainty and delicate that only some one
very new to the world would look well in
them. The young mothers in St.
Katharine's Home will have these gar
ments for the helpless morsels in their
care.
Christ Hospitals share comes next, and
then the City Hospitals. When a JER-
CRY f.TpV NEWC ran0rfQr Fl rat hpnnuht tho
news of the Guild TO Warden Osborne. he
declared that there was Il great
field for such a work right at
his hospital. and that he had
interested hopes in the success of the en-
terprise. When the bundle of blankets
n clothes reaches him, he will see That
his hopes have come to something, But
the Home of the Homelessl Six Sc ctions
were working for it. and over eve hun
bred garments came in. They filled the
modest table provided-theY overlooked
on the piano, the piano stool, two chairs
and the floor, and Mrs. VIM. Reed and
Mrs. John Van Horne, who were trying
to make out the returns. went home last
night with severe headaches, and a dis
position to repeat 'Three t%hirty-one,
three thirty-two," and so on ad infinitum.
MEMBERS N OFFICERS.
The officers of the Jersey City Branch,
are as toilows:-HoDorary President, Mrs
Alex. i. McGlll; Acting President, Mrs.
John Van Worst; Secretary, Miss NJ. l.,
Manners, and Treasurer, Mrs. Abram
G. Garretson. The twenty-six Section
Presidents are Mrs. r. G. Fessenden,
Mrs. w. w. Varick, whose work was
conspicuous on st. Katharine's table;
Miss Blanch Manners, Mrs. q. G. Black,
Miss M. l.. McCarten, Mrs. j..
Warren ~Hardenbergh, Mrs. N.
w. Condit, Mrs. j. r. Wortendyke,
Mrs. Augustus Creveling, Miss G. E.
Warner, Mrs. Alex. Brooks, Mrs. S. Well
man CLARK, Miss Louise Edge, Mrs. John
Day, Mrs. Theodore Heisig, Mrs. John
Van Horne, Mrs. j. L. Edwards, Mrs.
John Snawaa, Mrs. William heed, Mrs.
E.. Van Wrinkle, Mrs. j. A. Dear. Mrs.
Robert Muirhead, Mrs w. p. Brush.
Mrs. John g. Welsh, Mrs. Samuel ALI
son and Mrs. William Bonynge. OF these
only TWO failed, on account OF serious ill
ness. and surplus garments made up the
deficiency, one section sending 1854 gar
ments, another 146, and others over 100.
The exhibition will be open until
Thursday evening, aud all interested are
cordially Invited to attend. On Friday
morning at ten O'clock the annual meet
ing will be held.
The Guild desires to express its sincere
appreciation Of the services of Ogden's
express, which conveyed twenty-slx hugs
nqndies, containing over 5000 garments,
from all parts of the city, and will dis
tribute Them to the various Institutions;
to The Rev. ]. 4, Sepdaer, for use OF lhe
rooms. and TO. THE JERSEY CITY NEWS,