The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-11-14
T0REsCUE The FALLEN.
Mrs. Charlton fdhoIm Addresses a Large
Audience on This important Subject.
MANY LADIES TO 60 A-SLuMRING.
CoPfous Figures Produced TO show
the Extent OF tle ,TrafIic-SIrs. Ed.
holm Tells OF Her Experience
Among the Fallen Women and
with the Eiquor Traffic.

For more than an hour last night
an audience which filed the lecture
room of Centenary NJ. L. Church lis
tened TO a stirring address from Mrs.
Evangelist. Mrs. Edhoin is laborlng
In the interest OF the Florence Critten-
zen Mission work and has travelled all
over the. country, visiting hundreds of
cities and rescuing thousands of fallen
girls.
She was introduced by Mrs. r. H
Jones. of the local w. c. T. u. who re-
TERED to her rs one who had stood be-
fore crowded houses all over the coun-
try In an effort to lift up fallen sisters
Mrs. Edholm, In opening. said there
were 100000 erring girls in this land and
every one of them were some fathers
and mothers daughter and possibly
some brothers sister. She offered a
tervant prayer for the hauntS of vice
which infest Norfolk as well as the
larger cities, and asserted that the
traffic in drink was the cause of the
traffic in girls.
Il remember the time when Christ
asked me to go to the SlumS and try
to save these girls" said the speaker
Il pulled my skirts back and said
would work among children and re-
spectacle sinners, but could not go
among these outcasts. When Mr.. Crit
work told him valued my reputation
too highly; that ] was willing to part
with anything for the sake of Gods
work. but l could not jeopardize my
reputation. Give your reputation to
God and he'll take care OF it, said MIR.
Crittcndcn.
II have since consecrated myself to
this work and have never heard any
thing against my reputation-nOt Il
word of criticism
She dwelt at some length upon her
work among the slums OF New York
mentioning one of the haunts of vice
i'll which she found ten girls between
the ages oc Is and IL years. II asked
one Of these girls If her mother knew
she was there" said the speaker 'and
the little thing burst into tears, said
she was held = prisoner there and want
cd to leave. We had to buy her lib
crty for ST from the propretrcss of the
house who refused TO let her leave.
AT the Florence Crttcnden Mission
in New. York there are girls who are
the daughters of ministers. and Con
cressmeu and there are some from Nor
folk"
Mrs. Edholm claimed that there was
an organized and systemizcd traffic in
girls in this country and that the price
Of Il girl slave was from S25 10 S50-not
as much as one would pay for China
pig or n horse.
There are 30. OoC con Christians in this
land to rescue those 100000 errug girls.
She said the various traps to lure girls
were mock marriages. starvation
wages. wine rooms. round dances.
drugs, liquors. fraud, deceit and even
violence
Forty-siX thousand girls. she said, en-
ter this abandoned life every year
more than one hundred every night.
Airs. 12dholm said she would he in
the city eight days and in that time
she wanted To wipt out debt Of Sl,500
hanging over the Florence Crittenden
Home in this city.
She spoke OF the liquor traffic and de-
nounccd the clubs as even worse than
the saloons. making a powerful appeal
IN behalf OF prohibition of the liquor
traffic. She told how her dead husband
had been craZcd by drink. which even
tually led to his death, and many hand
kcrchiefs wept away the tears which
were gathered in the eyes of her audi
tors.
Mrs. F.dholm yesterday spoke ut the
y. NJ. G.. y. rooms to the w G. r. L.
and Frances Barnes Us. and outlined
her work.
Tonight she will speak ut the Gran
by-Strect NJ. l.. Church and at the
conclusion of the meeting and in com
pany with number of ladies of this
city and Chief of Police King. will visit
the slums and talk 10 the girls In whose
rescue she is interested.
On Sunday night she will speak at
NICK endrce Church, in Bramblcton