The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-08
EMIL PAUR CONCERT.
The Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation Speaks for Its Approach
ing Benefit at the Armory.

The Young Women's Christian asso-
citation of Scranton, in making appeal
at this time to the public, desires to
call attention to three things.
First. the splendid character of the
entertainment to be given in its inter-
ests--the Paur Symphony orchestra
concert at the new armory next Mon
day evening.
Second, the value and magnitude of
it's work in this city.
Third, that while many other organ
izations and institutions for doing
great public service in various lines
have been most generously aided by
Scranton's support of benefit entertain
nents for them, or by large subscrip-
tions, the Young Women's Christian as
sociation has not for Il number of years
been upon this specially favored list,
and it now comes forward in earnest
appeal for the full support of a gener-
Gus, appreciative and cultivated pub
lie. in it's turn.
In every modern city the Young Wo-
mems Christian association has dem
onstrated not simply the value, but the
absolute need for its work for and
among the less favored classes of girls
and young women-those who from
early years must earn their own bread,
and often, of others dependent upon
them, in great hives of labor, at small
remuneration. For the uplifting of such
spiritually, for the broadening of their
moral and mental outlook upon life, for
the helping them also to the means for
preserving and reinvigorating physical
health and nerve force often worn to q
thread by unintermitting daily tasks
for all these things the Young Wo-
mems Christian association sets itself
to work. The success and magnitude
of its labors must depend in a great
measure upon public support.
In this city, without being enabled to
have any home of it's own, in leased
quarters often insufficient for the doing
of one-half the needful work that it's
managers see spread out before them
and calling upon them to enter in, the
association has steadily planned hoped
and labored for accomplishing more
and more each year. What it has done
for successive hundreds at time of
young girls and young women in Scran-
tons factories, department stores and
offices, by it's various classes efficiently
maintained; its gymnasium. it's lunch
rooms, where the best and most nutriti-
Gus food Is furnished at Il minimum of
cost to the workers who must econo-
miZe, perfOrce, to the last possible
cent; by its reading rooms; and by the
advice and aid of it's secretaries in the
endless succession of daily cases where
wise advice or the helping hand to
some avenue of employment is needed
all these things are in a general way
known to the public. But of what all
this means in foresight and in work of
a tithe of the good accomplished by it,
none can know who have not shared in
it, or else have been it's observing and
generous supporters.
AS already said, that work has al
ways been hampered by lack of suffi-
cient financial aid for it's ever increas-
ing calls into an ever widening field of
labor as the city itself grows-not to
mention it's need of suitable home of
it's own.
For the sustaining of it's noble work
this year it now asks the public of
Scranton to help the associations treas-
ury by crowding the armory next Mon
day evening, on the occasion of the
Emil Paur symphony concert, assisted
by two notable vocal artists
Mrs. f.. II. Ripple, President