The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-30
me CHRIsTIAN YoUNCs wOMEN.
They Celebrate Their Anniversary at tn
First 11ethoaist Church.

First Methodist Church.
The First Methodist church was filed
last night with people who are interested
/ in the Young Woman's Christian Asso-
citation, and who have watched its prog
res5 IN this city for the past six years. 1t
was celebration of the Sixth anniver-
sary Of its organization. and the meeting
was presided over by Miss Abbie Ander-
son, OF POtTln, president of the assOcia-
ton A praise service was led by Miss
Laur 4 Radford, the state secretary who
succeeded Miss Dora Cady, who is teach
ing literature IN a Young Woman's
school in SteubenvIlle, O., and j. n.
Howard Of the Baptist church led the
choir.
Miss Emma Burgess, who has done
more to make the Y. W. C. A. an organ
ization Of interest and Importance to
Topeka people in the two years that she
has been secretary of the association.
than all the women put together did be-
fore, read her report and showed that the
association is far reaching in its good
and Is bound to be Teit as an educational
power among women.
All sorts of women are drawn to the
rooms in all sorts of ways. When young
women throughout the state want to
come to the capital 1.-The city,, as they
call it. to get work, they write to Miss
Burgess. Clerks, stenogra pliers, shop
girls. servants and nurses have applied
there and foand work. Women under
stand that they can get the best help by
putting in an application at the \. w.
G.. "A. rooms and they do it. When girls
come TO town, strangers, and want
boarding place they are apt to notice
a card in the depot inviting them to the
Y. ". {. A. rooms
Miss Burgess has a list of all the good
boarding houses in town and directs them
to the proper place, and the work does
not end there. A new woman is invited
to the classes and made 10 feel at home
in all the meetings in the rooms I'M
til she becomes staunch worker in
the association. Next to the directory
and intelligence office" Miss Burgess has
kept. the noon lunch brings more
girls into the rooms than anything else
During the winter there are 100 girls
who take their lunch there and buy soup
or hot drinks, entire lunch, day
after day. This pays for itself, and
there is no effort to profit by it in a mon
etary way.
Glasses for study of German and other
branches are also organized
The bible class work of this associa-
ton is reputed to be the largest in the
country. and there are several young WO-
men in town who have been members of
the association since its organization
that have done much to further
the work Miss Re becca Adams, Mrs.
George Howe. Miss Jean Wallace and
Miss Eliza beth Rodgers are earnest
workers with Miss Burgess, and Miss
Cady was a strong worker who has been
missed since her departure two months
ago. The total mum Der of visitors at the
rooms of tho association during the past
year was o. III: attendance at the lunch
room II ,334 The association found en-
Dl0yment for 235, directed 40 to boarding
houses, otherwise assisted 1872. There
were 81 gospel meetings held with a
total attendance of 2,2S4 One hundred
and seventy-seven Bible classes were
held with attendance Of 1881. Thirty
young women confessed Christ and
twenty joined churches.
A talk by Rev Charles B. Mitchell
pastor of the Grand Avenue Methodist
church in Kansas City. and whose wife
is vice president of the Kansas City Y
W. c. A, was the important feature Of
the meeting last night, and he was thor
oughly entertaining. Rev. Alr. Mitchell
thinks that Topeka has the strongest
of any city Of its size in
the country. He talked of woman and
her influence in every line of work and
complimented the women of this city on
the wide spread good they have accom-
plished.
Rev J. B. Thomas followed him with q
short talk on the future possibilities of +
the association and asked for the collec-
ton.
Miss Emma Burgess and Miss Laura /
Radford leave Thursday for Hastings, I
Neb.. to attend the state 7. w. G. A. con
vention there
i. Z. Hay. ex-representatiye from
Leavenworth county and for several
years superintendent Of the government
printing office at Washington, is at the
rhroop accompanied by his family.
For the last six months Mr.. Hay has been
of the Syracuse Post, a position
ne has just resigned
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