The age-herald., 1900-09-16

quarters, although no venture of this kind has been attempted in the South. He re- called number of instances that had come under his personal observation where young women were compelled through necessity to find work in the large cities and who were entirely unprotected and ignorant of the dangers that confronted them in the great cities. He referred to those women who unfortunately are thrown out of a pos!tion and consequently grow desperate by reason of the misfortunes which their environments do not tend to lessen. He urged the need of a home for the Wage earning woman, but in this connection he called attention to the suggestion that was recently made regarding the proposed new building for the Y. M. c. A. It was suggested that in this building there would be the headquarters for the Young Wo- mems Christian Association. MT. Reilly emphasized the fact that the two ssseela-
 tions, while working along similar lines. were distinctive and should remain sepa- rate In every particular. In speaking of the work of the Y. M. c. A. he dwelt upon the object of these associations, not on:- as a means of redemption, but particularly the restraining influence that they exert over the young men in a city, and he ap- proved of the plans now adopted in other cities of adding sleeping apartments to the reading rooms and gymnasium. The Young Womens Christian Association, he said, in their work had a broad field of useful ness, and there could be no more important work than the maintaining of home for wage-earning women Chicago and the Eastern cities maintained these homes, that were conducted under various eauS- pices, and with the numbers of young two- men who are crowding every avenue open to them a city should recognize the5im- perative need of establishing an economical place of refuge.
 An organization that is at once in tHlch with the unprotected business woman is the Saleswomen's Protective Association of Birmingham, which has been in existence several months and is the first organization of its kind in the South It Is conducted along the lines followed by the Interndti on- al Association, it's object being the nliitu- al protection of its members. While.A the organza tion, as its name implies, is for the protection of business women, 1t is in no particular antagonistic to the interests of the merchants, and while the movement met with opposition, all prejudices sthat existed have been entirely removed. ~
 The practical features of the association appeal at once to the business woman, and she is made to feel that her individual in terests are those of the association. The unprotected young women who come as strangers to Birmingham have been par ticularly impressed with the advantages to be derived from membership, and it Is this class of busy women that the association is especially anxious to benefit.
 When the subject of establishing home In Birmingham for the unprotected busi- ness women was discussed yesterday with
 Mrs. Carrie l.. Bond, the president of the Saleswomen's Protective Association, 1t Qet with warm words of encouragement. &hd she declared that no movement should meet with more earnest cooperation than that looking to the opening of an apartment