The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-22
WINE At
COMMUNION
|Unfermented Kind
Advocated by
w. c. 7. u.
ANNUAL MEETING
OF LOCAL UNION
Many Interesting Reports Pre-
sented by Workers in the
White Ribbon Cause.

=
local temperance field were rounded GU
yesterday afternoon by the Women
Christian Temperance Union of Homo
lulu when the annual meeting was hel.
at the residence of the president, Mrs
J. NJ. Whitney, at Punahou. The meet
ing was one of the largest and mos
enthusiastic ever held and the report:
of the past year, showing that whar
was done was uphill work, bore upor
| the good results.
There were more reports read at yes
terday's meeting than at the majority
of past sessions, owing to the fact that
new departments have been added to
the Union work, and even one new one
was proposed. There We're many trib-
utes to the work done by the late Miss
Mary Green in the cause of temperance,
| especially among the Hawaiians in the
| sos, when the courageous woman trav-
elled over all the rough places on the
| various islands on horseback, in all
VI NSdtilcIr Tie wv
| trine of anti-drink The attitude of
Governor Dole on the liquor and license
question was also referred to and when
it was stated that the Governor had
stood for keeping the Territory from
being further encroached upon by the
| increase of spirit saloons, there was a
| futter of applause.
The report of the nominating COM
mittee was presented by Miss Chamber
lain, and adopted. as follows:
President, Mrs J. M Whitney.
| Vice Presidents, Mrs. VIM. NJ Kin
caid, Mrs George E. Pearson and Mrs.
e. S. Muckley
Recording Secretary Mrs Caroline H.
| Austin.
| Corresponding secretary-Mrs. E. W.
Jordan.
| Treasurer, Mrs Lydia B. Coan
| Auditor, w. A. Bowen.
! Superintendent of Departments
Band of Hope, not filled.
Scientific Temperance Education,
Miss Gertrude Whiteman
| Influencing the Press and Legislation,
Mrs. j. M. Whitney and Mrs. w. w.
Hall.
| Temperance Literature, Mrs. w. D.
| Westervelt.
Flower Mission, not filed.
| Sailors and Soldiers, Mrs. P. w. Rid
| er.
Cigarette Movement, Mrs Henry
| w. Reitow.
| Savings Banks in Schools, Mrs Henry
| w. Re1tow.
Unfermented Wine in Churches, Mrs.
| O. H. Gulick.
1t was also voted to print the pro-
ceedings of this years annual meeting
| in pamphlet form. 1t is believed that
this will do much toward increasing the
good results of the Union work.
| The report of the recording secretary,
Mrs. Caroline Austin, showed that
much had been done during the year
| and that the Union had been in close
| touch with the movement being con-
Quoted by the Anti-Saloon League. The
report showed that the Flower Mission
had been a busy body of workers
throughout the year, distributing floral
messages to the sick and poor in every
part of the city.
| Mrs E. w. Jordan, the corresponding
secretary, read a letter from Anthony
| Comstock, head of the Society for the
! Prevention of Vice, in which he asked
/ for contributions to a fund now being
raised to conduct the affairs OF his So
! ciety which has had thirty years OF
| hard service against vice of all kinds.
| He thought that if each member of the
| local association was assessed 80 cents,
representing one cent for each year of
the society's existence, the amount
needed would be forthcoming. Mrs
Whitney announced that the local
| Unions total would be about S12.
| Mrs. Coan, the treasurer, reported a
balance of $1.3O on hand.
Mrs. Austin, superintendent of the
Flower Mission, announced her retire
melit from the direction of the depart
ment. She told of the weekly work in
| which the members had been engaged
| in making up bouquets which were dis
tributed at the Queens, Chinese, Japa-
nese and Incurables hospitals, and the
prison. The flowers were largely fur
nished by Mrs. S. N Castle and Mrs. r
Give Davies, and the money for fruits
mostly by Mrs. Lowrey
Miss Whiteman made a report on the
Introduction of temperance instruction
III the schools, and the literature which
had been placed in the hands of the
teachers. She spoke encouragingly OF
the savings bank for schools.
Mrs. Reitow presented concise re
port of the anti-cigarette movement
among school children, and of the sue
cess which she had met. She fell
cramped in endeavoring to enlarge the
work on account of the lack of neces.
sary funds. She was DESTROYS of plac
ing literature bearing on the subject il
the schools. She wanted the American
boy to be "a frst-class American boy
and not cheap imitation of a man."
Mrs. Westervelt's report on literature
read by Mr.. Westervelt, told of the dis