The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-01-22

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 The annual meeting of the Women Seamens Friend society was held yes l terday afternoon in the Center church | chapel and there was a very good at tendance. The meeting was called to | order at o'clock, about thirty mem | bers being present, and all of the re- | ports for the work during the year ! were read. They showed that consid- l erable has been done during the last | twelve months and that every branch of the society is in prosperous condition | and doing good work.
 The officers for the coming year were elected as follows: President, Mrs. F. Wayland Fellows; recording secretary, Mrs. c. J. Monson, jr.; treasurer, Mrs. Helen L. Cowles, and vice presidents,
 Mrs. George O. Cruttenden, Mrs. John
 H. Booth, Mrs. Frank A. Munson and
 Mrs. A. B. Fuller. Albert s. Holt was
 elected auditor and the following advis-
 ory board was elected George o.
 VI feeSANiCii N1CllCId 1TGSl6y, IlOn.
 II. 5. Harrison, Judge John c. Hollis
 ter, Frank w. Pardee, Joseph Porter,
 Joel A. Sperry. After the election of
 officers the many reports were heard.
 The report of the superintendent, Rev.
 John D. Bergh, was the most interest
 ing and showed that the work accom-
 plished at the home during the year
 was very great and in the different
 lines it exceeds that of last year by
 considerable extent. The report showed
 that during the year there had been l.
 2S6 lodgings This does not include the
 men that work on the oysters boats in
 the harbor and who make their home at the building. The value of the reading room is growing every year and
 this year the record shows that the
 room has been very well patronized. Three thousand, seven hundred and ninety-four visits were made to the room, 664 letters were received by the sailors and 1,031 were written by them. Since the society was organized 110 have been put in circulation and distributed among the different ves- sels that come to this port. This cus- tom is proving to be a very popular as we'll as beneficial one and although a of the libraries are lost from time to time the loss is thought to be much less than the benefit that Is de- rived from them.
 Rev MT Bergh reported that the l office had also extended itself | this year in doing all it could for the | sailors in this line, but the report shows l thta in 1S9h ISIS men were shipped from this port and that this year the number only reached 3O5 The chapel services was another interesting part of the re- port. Rev. MT. Bergh said that seventy services had been held with an attend ance of 1,626 In speaking of the visits | .o the barges and boats along the docks Rev. MT. Bergh said that during the past year the number of visits reach ed 1,532, a larger number than was ever recorded before A number of interest ng miscellaneous events were reported IS having taken place during the past year and altogether the report Of the of the Sailors nome vas very interesting one and showed that his work has been of the most aithful order.
 The report of the treasurer was read 1y Mrs H. L. Cowles and it showed hat the receipts for the year were E, ,647 45 and that the expenditures were ;2, ,426. .91, leaving a balance of $22054 in he treasury The report of the secre- ary, Mrs Albert S. Holt, was also very interesting and gave an account Of the york of the society for the year. This
 poke of the services and entertain nents given for the sailors during the ,ear and said that they had been very uccessful The report of Mrs. Holt ike all of the others, was ordered plac- d on file for publication. The meeting
 djourned about o'clock.