The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-25
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nancial Condition.
ELECTED.
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Appeal Made For Funds to
Aid New Benefit
Society.

The annual meeting of the Young
Woman's Christian Association was
held yesterday afternoon, in Memorial
Hall.
The members and friends were greet
ed by Mrs. Charles II. Morgan, who
opened the meeting with a scripture
reading.
The annual report of the treasurer,
Mrs. H. w. Page, for the year ending
April /, 1899. showed balance April l.
1898, of $974.7S, with receipts of
$32, 4OS.4S and disbursements of
sS1, 999 sc, leaving a net balance for the
coming year of s1SS5.71.
The finance committee reported that
the $4,000 balance on the $4,000 mort
gage has been paid and also $1,000
which was taken as a temporary loan.
Every dollar of the $4,000 subscribed
was paid.
The assets are $1SS, SO5. So and the IL
abilities are: Mortgage note held by
the State Mutual Life Assurance Com
pany, $1S,500; bills due April 1 (esti-
mated, $1,000; net present worth of as
sets, $12, 800. So.
Mrs. George H Taft. chairman of
the finance committee, outlined the
scope of the society and concluded by
| saying: I'm starting any benefit So
ciety the need of a reserve fund to
meet possibilities of sickness until as
sessments accumulate is apparent.
The unsolicited gift Of $10O from e. A.
| Goodnow forms the nucleus of our
fund. We take up this work asking
your help in starting by gifts, large
or small, to the reserve fund.
| Miss Frances HeaIey, the gymnasium
/, instructor, had a dozen of her pupils
go through a gymnasium drill, which
was effectively done and showed the
audience what the gymnasium had
done this winter.
The report of the vacation home
committee was in substances: The
season of 1898 at Princeton was inau
| gurated the last week in May by a
| four days visit from a party of IS
young women in charge of the chair
man of the vacation home. In the
course of IL weeks so women were en-
tertained for an average stay of Is
| days, an aggregate of $50 weeks of
which about one-third was paid for
| from the general gift funds. The
latter half of July the committee
gratefully accepted as an annex to
| the Princeton house the loan of a fur
| nished seaside cottage at Sakonnet
! Point, where II girls were received for
visits averaging 10 days each.
Miss Eldora NJ Aldrich, chairman of
| the library committee, reported:
| Whole number of works in library
| 2l97; works for reference, 100; works
in circulation, 2O77; books added dur
| ing the year, "a; books purchased dur
ing the year, %; number of books
charged during the year, $685.
A Kitchen garden demonstration at
this point added quite a picturesque
touch to the business meeting. The
little girls III white aprons and caps
set tables, singing when I was very
little, See the cook" and waitress
song, and then made beds happily to
the tunes, when we wake in the
morning and the Sweeping song"
This exercise was under the two teach
ers of the class, Miss Lottie Thayer
and Miss Fannie Reed.
The parlor was most attractive with
pieces of Indian embroidery draped
here and there, and the tables covered
with the work of the embroidery class
under Miss Corinne Benoit, which was
exceptionally good. In the parlor also
was the work of the sewing class,
taught by Miss Ida L. Eaton, and of
the English class of Miss A. De w.
Pearce. Eight suits and dresses repre-
sented the dressmaking department I'M
der the direction of Mrs. M. F. Morse
and Is hats, all trimmed in the latest
style, the millinery classes of Miss May
A. Williams. There was also an at
tractive display of the womans ex-
change work, embroideries, drawn
work, dolls, baby's clothes, in a room
by itself.
These officers were elected for the en-
suing year: President Mrs. Charles H.
Morgan; first vice president, Mrs. Geo.
H. Taft; second vice president, Miss
Eldora Aldrich; treasurer, Mrs. H. w.
Page; clerk, Miss Josephine c. Aldrich;
chairman of finance Mrs George H.
Taft; chairman membership, Miss Eliza
Barnard; chairman home, Miss Eldora
Aldrich chairman Sunday service,
Miss Harriette Tuttle; chairman Ii
brary, Mrs. j. E. futile; chairman
emergency, Mrs. J. I. Brigham; chair
man vacation home, Mrs. John S.
West; chairman travellers aid, Mrs.
w w. LeaVer; chairman music, Mrs.
Lucie Harrison; chairman Of repairs,
Mrs. NJ. P. Higgins; chairman of junior
work. Mrs. Edward Swasy; chairman
Of May breakfast, Mrs. George d. Da-
Wis; chairman of printing, Mrs. ]. B.
Colvin. The new executive board of
directors were: Miss Eldora NJ AL
drich, Miss Josephine c. Aldrich Miss
Eliza L. Barnard, Mrs. Edward NJ.
Byron Colvin, Mrs. George d. Davis,
Mrs. John Gibbon, Mrs Joseph w.
Gray, Mrs. Edward r. Goodwin, Mrs.
Cora L. Green, Mrs. Milton P. Higgins,
Mrs. Lucy F. Harrison, Mrs. Henry L.
Knight.
The. committee which prepared so in
teresting an annual meeting was Mrs.
Edward Swasey, Mrs, ]. Byron Colvin
and Mrs. John L. Brand