The San Francisco call., 1896-02-17
Eighteenth Anniversary of the
Young Women's Christian
Association.
IN THE LINE OF PREVENTION.
Rev. w. D. Williams Pays a Tribute
to the Merit of The In
stitution.

| The San Francisco Young Women's
! Christian Association celebrated its eigh-
| teenth anniversary at PlymANth Congre-
| gational CHURCH last evening.
| The association is one of the most wor-
| thy non-sectarian charities of the City. Its
work is IN the line of prevention rather
| than cure "Our home is always open to
| intelligent, self-supporting young women,
who pay from S3 to S. week for their
| board and room. This includes the use OF
| the laundry, sewing-room and sewing
| machines, heating and lighting the rooms,
| the reading-rooms, library and parlor and
| admission to all classes and entertainments
| OF the association" says the secretary,
| Miss Helen Van Wrinkle, in her report for
| 1895.
A branch of the work is the furnishing
| OF luncheons at cents apiece to working
! girls, at SD Howard street and SIT Davis
street.
The treasurer's report for the year clos
| ing January 1. 1896, is as follows:
Receipts-Balance on hand January 1, 1895,
| 1919; donations AMI collections by relief COM
mlttee, $50 40; collected by United Work
eTs 1}ed 24 Woy MoTaId street 1926 81 collested by
| collected at public meetings, $685. advertis-
ing in annual report, $3.50; board, $6222 AS;
travellers aid fund, 5000; Mary A. Crocker
trust, $4,000. Total, $17 sos 26.
REPRESENTATIONS expenses S77s9 65;
relief committee, $1282 so; missionary, How
| 81 As; Davis-street lunchroom, $32O4 81:
| class in cooking, S97 so; classes in physical
| culture and elocution, $347 50; sewing and
training e,ass $3.50 At; insurance, taxes and
repairs, $703 45; printing. $167;s travellers
aid, $500; Industrial committee, $37; balance,
s277 So Total, $l7,5o9 26; B., u
Audited and approved.
z. J. bowen Auditor.
The managers are:
Mrs. c. D. Farquharson, Mrs ]. L. Martel,
Mrs. F. A. Ijams, Mrs. William II. Crocker, Mrs
1. s. Van Winkle, Miss 1. Clark, Mrs. william
J: Gum, Mrs. ]. A. Fillmore, Miss H. L. Reed,
Mrs. w. c. Pond, Mrs. NJ. ]. Mcdonald, Miss
Mary Farqu harson Mrs. Wendell Easton, Mrs.
B. NJ Gum, Mrs. II. S. Welch, Mrs. J. Spruance
Miss NJ. Scout, Miss C. L. Gould, Mrs. NJ God.
ley,- Miss Alice Crane, Mrs. ]. 4. Cruzan, Mrs.
J. Hemphill.
The officers for 1896 are:
Mrs. L. C. Redington president: Mrs Will
liam O. Gould. first vice-president; Mrs. George
w. Prescott, second yice-presidept; Mrs. J. f.
Merrill, third vice president; Mrs. NJ. p. Jones,
fourth vice-president; Miss II. Van Winkle,
recording secretary; Mrs. George z. Thurston,
corresponding secretaiy; Mrs. 1. H. Morse,
treasurer
Directors-Mrs. L. c. Redington, Mrs. vii.
liam Q. Gould, Mrs. G. W. Prescott, Mrs. j. F.
Merrill, Mrs. NJ. P. Jones, Mrs. n. G. Kittle
Mrs. II. j. Sadler, Mrs. George p. Thurston,
Mrs. A. R. Baldwin, Miss II. Van Wrinkle, Mrs.
l. II. Morse.
Trustees.zJ.- F: Merrill, chairman; W. E.
Gibbs, E. B. Pond, George W. Prescott. Attor-
neys-Judge E. D. Sawyer, W. S. Goodtellow.
Auditor-E. J. Bowen. Consulting physicians
w. H. Griswold, n. D., Adelaide Brown, NJ D.
The honorary life members are:
Mrs. II. V. Alexander, w. f. Brown Robert
| Balfour, Mrs 2. d. Browne +Charles CLAYTON,
+Charles Crocker, *Mrs Charles Crocker, Will
| Mrs. George Crocker, James V. Coleman, Mrs
A.: NJ. Easton, R.; B. Foreman. +George W.
| Guthriej c. p Huntington. *Asa Harker, Mrs.
George Hearst, Henry Janin, D. o. Mills, Mrs
D. Q. Mills. +Edgar Mills, o. W.sMerriam, R. H.
w. Prescott, Mrs G. W. Prescott, Mrs. L. G..
Redington, Leland Stanford, Mrs Leland
Stanford. Mrs. Irving N. Scott, Claus spreckels,
Mrs. Henry T. Scott, Miss May Scott, Mrs A. L.
Stone, Mrs. H. B. Williams. A. B. McCreery.
deceased.
Rev. W. D. Williams sermon to the
association was on the text. "Who could
find virtuous woman, for her price is far
above rubies?" He said, in part:
An eminent minister, addressing fashion
able audience In London, said: But even you,
my sisters, though only women. may yet find
of women and common one. Here is an
other. On the marriage of Queen Victoria a
famous poet wrote Prince Albert these words:
Esteem that welded hand less for the scepter than
And hold her uncrowned womanhood to be the
royal thing.
That is the nobler estimate: uncrowned
womanhood is regal.
The Bible, the reservoir of the rights of man
is the storehouse of the rights of woman. She
is presented on plane of equality. The Bible
from Paradise Lost in Eye to paradise Re-
gained" in Dorcas is the friend of woman.
Between those points we have honorable
mention of Sarah the beautiful. Ruth the low
ing, Hannah the deyout, Deborah the patriotic
and Abigail the wise. These represent the best
and highest qualities of humanity without
reference to sex. The rights of womanl What
are they in the light of this chapter? The
right to labor and to pray, the right to comfort
in distress, the right to bless when others
blame. The Institution represented here
tonight is not an ambulance at the foot of the
precipice, but home and prevention above
the precipice. 1t is prevention, not cure and
as such ranks with the foremost institutions of
our City.