New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-10-01
SALOONS AND ANARCHY.
STATISTICS REGARDING THE FORMER
GIVEN BY MRS. ANNABLE, OF
THE TEMPERANCE UNION

Several practical suggestions were made by Mrs
Mary Annable. president Of the society before
the eighteenth annual convention of the Kings
County Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
which began in the Enbury Methodist Church.
Leyis-ave. and Decatur-st.. Brooklyn, yesterday.
One of these recommended the securing of a
building for the union in which should be the
various departments; lodging accommodations for
the homeless and friendless. and a room where
GOSPEL meetings could be held daily and nightly.
She also proposed the establishment OF clubs for
working girls where they might find helpful social
intercourse
During her address Mrs. Annable said: Saloons
have been turned into headquarters for anarchy
snd bloodshed, which have destroyed the peace OF
the country and endangered its people"
From the State Commission OF Prisons Mrs.
Annable has learned that one-thirG of the inmates
of warehouses and jails are there because of
drunkenness, and nearly one-third Of those in
penitentiaries prisons get there through strong
drink Besides these, there IS the great number
brought before the magistrates and fined but not
shut up
The traffic fills almshouses hospitals orphan
asyiums and potter's fields she said. In the
Borough OF Brooklyn alone there IS a saloon TO
every one hundred and fifty persons. and through
out the slum sections there is saloon to one
hundred and tvventy-nine persons. Woe you
when all men speak well OF YOU will not be said
Of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. a
tnlcdgo rumSeler was heard TO say: / had rather
meet the devil horns hoofs. pitchfork and all.
than one Of those white ribbon women We are
;dealists should not be reformers-'
In the memorial service Of the afternoon. led by
Mrs Celia r. Smith. tribute was paid TO President
Mckinley. Short addresses were made by repre-
sentatives Of the local unions regarding the mem
hers VINO had died during the year. During this
part Of the meeting Mrs. Ida West sang several
solos suited TO the occasion.
Mrs. Sadie L. Berger, in the report OF the score
rary, showed that the Kings County Union com
prIses twenty local organizations with total MEM
bership Of six hundred and forty-seven- Twenty
every line for the uplifting OF humanity. During
the year the union has cO-operated with the New
York Anti-Vice Committee and has lent both
moral and financial support to the work Of the
Monan's Auxiliary OF the City Mission Society for
the regeneration of Coney Island In the passage
OF the law closing butcher shops Sunday the
union feels that il victory. The treasurer or
the society, Mrs. Julia r. Daley, having died in
June, Mrs Lucy Van Deventer read the repor,
as temporary treasurer The Rev. b. VI. TippIe.
pastor OF the church, welcomed the convention "a
The church. and Mrs NJ. F. Johnson responded.
A temperance symposium. composed of fifteen
minute addresses. occupied most of the evening
session. The Rev. Madison g Peters considered
the subject from the minister's point OF view
Darwin r. James, from the business mans; Pro
lessor William Felter Of the Commercial High
School, from the educators: DR. Libbie Hamilton
Muncie from the physicians. and Frank Harvey
FIELD from the lawyers.
Three sessions Will be held in the same place to-
eay-at S3o m. p and 7:45 p. m. The meet
lngs viii close tomorrow afternoon.