The Jersey City news., 1899-11-14

NEEDLE { | WORKERS.
How Society Women Supply
Hospitals and Homes
With Garments.
JERSEY CITY PRESIDENTS.
Each Pledges Over q Hundred
Garments Annually Elk
hibition on Thursday.

Fourteen years OF existence Is the re-
cord or the Needlework Guild Of America.
organized April. 1885. In Philadelphia by
Mrs. J. w. Stewart. and seven years is the
record of the two Jersey City branches,
now consolidated in one.
The Needlework Guild is modelled after
a society In England, founded by Lady
Wolyerton, and is non-sectarian. It IS
composed Of many separate organizations
called branches. one of which exists in
nearly every city throughout the United
States. Where the city has a population
Of 5000 or over sections are formed,
which are composed Of president, secre-
tary. at least three directors, and must
collect annually not less than 40 gar
ments. when ten sections have been
formed they become a city branch by the
election Of an honorary president, presi-
dent secretary and treasurer. Any one
contributing two garments or an amount
of money per annum may become mem-
Der, therefore there should be fifty mem
bers to each section.
In the year 1892 two branches of the or
ganization were formed one for the down
town section, with Mrs. Alexander T. Nc
Gill as president, and one for the uptown
section, with Mrs. Marcus Beach as pres
ident. This, however, was unconstitution-
al, as that document only admits OF one
guild for each city, and has come up for
consideration at several of the National
Conventions. and thus it. came about that
the two branches were consolidated at
their annual meeting on Thursday last
by the National president, Mrs. J. W
Stewart, OF Glen Ridge. N. J. Miss Marie
L. Manners was then president Of the
down0wn. and Mrs. John ]. Toffey presi-
dent Of the uptown branch. In console
dating, two officers were elected from
each branch to represent the whole, so
|, that the Jersey City Needlework Guild
now has as its officers. Mrs. Alexander
udcGiil, honorary president; Miss N. H.
CONN, secretary, and Miss Marie L. Man
ners. treasurer.
The object of the Guild is to collect and
distribute new, plain, suitable garments
to meet the great need of hospitals, homes
and other charities. On a specified day
in November these garments are sent to
designated place and distributed accord
ing to vote of the officers and section
president. Accordingly. the Jersey City
Branch has fixed upon November Is, next
Thursday, when the garments will be on
exhibition in the Bergen Reformed
Church parlors, where the public is cor
daily invited to view the same. On this
occasion the Ladies' Aid Society OF the
church will serve one of those luncheons
for which they are noted, the society hay-
ing postponed its regular Wednesday col
lation for the exhibition.
Among the section presidents as they
now stand are:-Mrs William Perry, Miss
Blanche Manners, Mrs. J. w. Harden
bergh, Mrs. Charles c. Black, Mrs.
Augustus Creveling. Mrs. George w.
Cierihew, Mrs M. C. Hall, Mrs. John Day,
Mrs. John A. Shawda, Mrs. William Reed,
Mrs. J. A. Dear, Miss Margaret Wood.
Mrs. samusl Allison, Mrs. Cornelius Brett,
Mrs. ". q. Bumsted, Mrs. John J. Toffey,
Mrs. Charles Laws. Mrs. Charles Brown,
Miss N. H. Coffin, Miss Detwiller, Mrs
M. Hammerschlag, Mrs. J. Lawrence
Nevin, Mrs. VIM. Cummings, Miss Edna
Edwards. Mrs George Snyder, Mrs.
Ulamor Allen, Mrs Edwin Van Houten,
Mrs. George T. Werts, Mrs. z. V. r..
clifford.
garments numbered about four thousand,
and this year it is expected to reach an
even higher plane, as seFefdi VI 'he idoie'
have already reported in the neighborhood
OF two hundred garments from their in
dividual sections.
Among the institutions which have been
benefited by the Jersey City Guild are:-
Children's Home Home for the Blind. ST.
Francis Hospital Christ Hospital. Ray
mond Roth Home Day Nursery. Home
for the Homeless, St. Katharine's Home.
City Hospital, Newman Mission. The
Whittier House. Home for Aged Women,
Salvation Army Volunteers and Baptist
Home for Men and Women. Newark. Be-
sides these there are also number Of pri-
Yate cases.