The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-22
MEMORIAL
Increase of National w. CT. u. Or
ganization Fund in Honor Of
Its Departed Leader.
Fund Partly Expended to Support
Missionary Among Immigrants
at Ellis Island.
Special to The Journal,

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Portland Me, Oct. 22-The women of
the w. c. T. U. have been gathering in
Portland for several days. Official board
and executive committee meetings for two
days have been shaping the business to
be brought before the regular conven-
ton. The Frances e. Willard memorial
fund has increased this year by $500 more
than any previous year. This means that
81, 417.62 has been placed in the hands of
the National " C. T. u. for the purpose
of extending the work throughout the
United States. Quite large portion has
been expended in keeping missionary,
Miss Orr, at Ellis Island, New York, to
meet the fifty or eighty thousand immi-
grants who come to our shores. These
homesick, lonesome people are met with
a kindly greeting, cup of cold water"
temperance literature and given a good
ideal of citizenship at the very begin
ming of their life in the new land. Mrs,
Ella A. Boole, president Of the New York
w. G. r. u, and Mrs. Emma Bourne,
president of New Jersey, have visited FL
lis Island the past year and rendered great
assistance to this department of work.
A still larger portion of the organization
fund has been used in developing the work
in the western states. Oklahoma, Indian
Territory, Wyoming, Montana and the Da.
kotas have been helped with national or
ganizers being sent to them and paid
out or the organizing fund.
The department Of scientific temper
ance instruction has cOnSurnIna ted work
that started twenty-five years ago.. e.,
that of securing scientific temperance in
struction in the public schools of all the
states In the union. Mrs. Mary H. Hunt
of Boston, although her hair has grown
snowwhite in these twenty two years,
is still strong, vigorous woman and is
Planning to extend the work of this de-
oyfrpo ant N1o1F CHI l~I,o tod
for the department will indicate it's wider.
scope, that Is, bureau of scientific inves
tigation and instruction in public schools
and colleges" Mrs. Hunt has probably
the largest private library on this subject
in existence at her home, % Trull street,
Boston.
A grand diamond medal contest will be
held one evening Of the next annual con-
vention. Mrs. E. A. Carmin of Chicago,
the national superintendent of medal con-
test work, will, with a committee, pre-
pare a musical medal contest book which
will raise the standard Of the class of mu-
sic used on these occasions.
Mrs. E. B. Ingalls, of st. Louis, and
worlds fair commissioner for the w. c.
T. T., appeared before the executive COM
mittee last evening, proposing plans for
the w. C. T. u. exhibit at the worlds fair
at st. Louis in 1901. The Louisiana Pur-
chase states will probably erect an ice
water fountain for the. use of the gen.
eral public, as most typical of the prac-
teal aims and purposes of the union,
while the exhibit of the. W. c.. T. U. will
building and will come, under the head of
Efforts to Lessen the Liquor Traffic.
An all days purity conference has been
held under the auspices Of Mrs. Helen L..
Bullock of New York, and Mrs. Helen
G. Rice of Massachusetts, has held an
all days conference on. the Loyal Tenn
perance Legion. Mrs Clara Parrish
Weight is ralying the young women.
Good gains have been made by the young
Women's branch the past year. She ex-
poets the Syoung women of the United
States to- win the worlds. Y. banner at
Geneva, Switzerland. next June for the
greatest per cent gain In membership.
Miss Elizabeth Greenwood, worlds and
national superintendent Of the evangelis-
tic department, held day Of prayer yes
terday. This morning the twenty ninth
annual convention opened in Jefferson
theater. J."
Lady Henry Somerset, worlds w. G.. Il.
L. president, came to the platform, escort
ed by Miss Anna A. Gordon, Lthe national
vice president. Lady Somerset was
greeted by every delegate rising to her
some combining the British flag with the
American. 1t was pretty sight and most
impressive. A storm Of applause met
Lady Somerset and when it had subsidized
a bit she said, Madam President and
comrades of the great white ribbon army,
I have scarcely words in which to thank
you for this beautiful welcome. We are
bound together by the ties of a common
cause. I thank God I am allowed to look
been so good to me- Rev. Dr. Sanders,
rector of parish of 10000 people in East
London, and Miss Cameron, cousin to
Lady Somerset, make up the English par
ty attending the convention.
Mrs Stevens annual address was strong
and vigorous and in her happiest vein.
She spoke of the convention state, Maine,
its climatic peculiarities, it's length of sea
shore, its sturdy people and the splendid
statesmen that Maine has not only fur
nished for herself but for other states
as we'll. She said: "A great deal of in
terest centers in the state of Maine. It is
we'll known that Maine is not engaged in
the liquor business, that it has no dis
tilleries, no breweries, and that for more
than fifty years the state law has pro-
hibited the sale Of alcoholic liquors. save
for medicinal and mechanical purposes;
that while Massachusetts,. New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and other IL
cense states pay from 81 to 81 per capita
to the United States government in in
ternal revenue, Maine pays less . than
cents per inhabitant. Mrs. Stevens
paid a tribute to the Minnesota w. G. T.
u. in their protests and sentiment created
through the press against the inspection
of vice as instituted by the mayor Of Min
neapolis last March, and spoke of the
complete routing of the mayor and his en-
tire staff, including the chief of police,
inspection physicians and detectives.
Mrs. Susanna Fry, the national cor
responding secretary. reported net gain
the past year Of 6,O95 members, Alabama,
Pennsylvania, Maine, New York, and Hill
nois having gained more than 500 each,
which entities them to a place in state
benefit night. North Dakota has made a
net gain Of PA, Iowa has gained 269. :
Friday ! evening was welcome night.
Judge Percival Bonney, who has held high
Judicial office for over twenty years, was
introduced by Mrs. Stevens and welcomed
the national W. c. T. u. to the state of
Maine; Mayor Frederick E. Boothby, of
Portland, extended the courtesies Of the
city; and others followed. A group OF
Armenian men. who had been cared for by
Lady Henry Somerset and Frances E.
Willard in 1896, following the fearful Ar
menian massacre, and had been sent to
Maine where Mrs. Stevens had helped
them to secure work, came forward and
one of them in broken English gave a well
come to the w. c. T. U. It was most
touching indeed. Little Willard Stevens
the first Armenian child born after the
refugees arrival, shyly stood close by Mrs.
Stevens as the welcome was being made.
Mrs. Margaret Dye Ellis, national super
intendent Of legislative. work, was the
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