New-York tribune., 1902-05-17
PROGRESS OF MISSIONS
PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN FROM MANY
STATES ASSEMBLE AT AN
NUAL MEETING.
NUAL MEETING.

Deegates from nearly every State met yesterday
At the Central Presbyterian Church. No. 900 West
Fify-seventh-st. on the occasion of the twenty
thtd annual meeting of the woman's Board of
Elme Missions Of the Presbyterian Church
At the morning session Mrs. Darwin R James
president of the board. in the chair. The Rev.
pr S F. McAfee spoke of the general work Mrs
T. D. Palmer reported the freedmens depart
1nent and Miss s. F Lincoln gave the treasuror's
report. The receipts for the year were S2i3345 D
from contributions and SO6. .4S2 81 from other
sources. OF the amount contributed, the Young
Peoples Society of Christian Endeavor and the
juniors gave 81. .765 %
Mrs J. F. Pingry, acting secretary, reported for
the board that 145 schools and missions are now
in operation Among these are five in Porto Rico
and one in Cuba. That in San Juan. Porto Rico
is medical mission. with physician and surgeon
and dispensary-
OF the eleven in Alaska, the one in Sitka has a
hospital equipment, with trained nurse and ply
sician
Miss Dcra n. Fish. Of Marshall. n c. spoke
Of mission work among the mountaineers; Mrs.
Tlie X Paul, OF Sitka. reported the work in
that Territory, and Grace ". Atkins. NJ. D. gave
an account OF the mission in San Juan Porto Rico.
DR.. Atkins dwelt on the necessity for a new hos
pital building and more funds, and collection
was made for that purpose.
After the reports occurred the ceremony of pre-
senting missionaries who about to to differ
fields of work.
The religious exercises of the morning session
were conducted by Mrs. G. c. Yeisey, of New
York; Mrs. r. G. McNece, of Utah and Mrs. R. B.
Goddard of california.
The princiial interest of the afternoon session
centred in ne account given by Miss Amelia J.
Frost Of tn, Indian mission at Ross Fork. Idaho.
Her description of the mission, without water sup
ply except What could be procured from the irriga
tion ditche. and eight miles from milk supply,
apparently aroused a feeling something like
sternation Mrs. James the president, asked If
sufficient could be raised Immediately to
provide tie water, ana Mrs. Teunis Hamlin of
Washington, d. g, made such energetic appeals
that ths$400 necessary to bring the water TO the
mission vas contributed in about fifteen minutes.
The surs mostly s. and SO with few s25
SUBSCRIPTIONS and one SO
Mrs 2. 5. Herndon, Of the Tucson School for
Indians in Arizona, also had plaintive tale Of
privatins and lack Of funds while Mrs ]. G.
Marcus. Of the Freedmens School Chester,
:. c. told equally dismal story. The Freed
men sSchoOl has 10 library, and the girls sleep in
an atic lighted Only by the door, and in a board
ed-inupper veranda.
s.FSw give them proper standard Of
livirg," Mrs. Marquis asked, when there not
decllt aCcOmmoda tions?'
MSS Serena Nelson. of Mount Pleasant Utah.
sp&e of the increasing difficulties of mission work
thTe, and said that the MOrmOns boldly send
in missionaries here and are making converts in
al the States.
a quartet Of young men engaged in mission work
? Southern Tennessee sang some hymns, TO the
Tident enjoyment of the audience.
The meeting adjourned, after a brief report of
the work in Mexico by Miss Prudence Clark.