The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-04-12
The VISIT
MISS GOULD
SShc Will Dedicate the New y.
81 M. c. A. in This
City.
WORK At TIE MISSION
"A Number OF New Things Being
Planned--Visit OF DR.. Galley. Fl
Methodist Sunday Schools.

fhe approaching visit to Richmond OF
II. Miss Helen Gould Is being awaited Win
the very keenest interest, and more par
$icularly In Y, N. G. a. circles
afftl Miss Gould will arrive here Saturday
morning. April Esd, and will spend sat
,rday and Sunday in Richmond. At the
e ties crvor on Saturday she will dedicate
the new building OF the Street Railway
Young Mems Christian Association. es-
tablished largely through her generosity.
She will hold three receptions IN tF'e
house, and will meet all the members
of the association On Sunday two Cos
{rel services will be held IN the building
one in the morning for women ana an
E other In the afternoon for men. u IS
4 understood that Miss Gould Will attehu
4 both of these services.
Every promise of success attends tne
\ new street railway work. The building
II will lie completed in time for the arflval
OF Miss Gould, and Will be one OF the
best equipped In the country The men
y themselves are thoroughly interested IN
4 +he work. A special observation car IS
a now being completed BY the company ana
Y will probably be christened virginia al
~ Miss Could The car is one of the
Ii long, double truck kind, and Is painted
q beautiful green. Its interior Is peihs
finished in cherry, The car will be hand,
4 sonely carpeted and will be furnished
1adth in,nortad b,irnt-wood chairs. 1t Will
Ia kent for special parties and Will pc
used BY Mr.. Frank Jay Gould, his rela-
ttves and friends.
The Methodist Institute.
Mr.. Wiley said yesterday that 1t was
1 =. u-tti, them at this time.
That Is to say, the summer work OF the
Mission Is largely carried on out of doors.
INST now. the rush of cold weather is
ever, and several departments that we're
needed only IN winter have closed, ana
q half dozen other features OF the WORK
will stop for the summer by the lst Oh
May.
enough to do ali the time If you look for
Il. and always something of interest go
.tng on. For instance, the man brought
me two letters that pleased very much
those about the Institute. One was from
a girl rescued some time ago and sent
5 to her Nome and mother, thousand
miles from Richmond. She was a beau
+ uful young woman, hardly more than
4 child. She writes:
...A happier meeting. Mr.. Wiley was
never witnessed. Mother cried and laugh
ed by turns. ! am going to see Or.
y Blank at once and try to get him TO give
me some work to do. He has connected
with his large church mission | would
+ hav, gone before, but have been so ner-
vcus since reached home. ] read the
littla Bible you gave me, and pray to
understand it. Oh! l am SO thankful
and so happy Remember me to Mrs
Wiley. She was so good to me. Pray
for me. please"
The other letter Mr.. Wiley showed was
from Jacksonville. Fla, where one year
ago he went to help inaugurate work
like the one here. 1t is evident that 1t
has succeeded beyond all expectations.
Money Is being raised to pay for an
5000 building, and an enclosed report
shows a most flourishing institution on
l,ncs OF the well known and practical
Nineteenth Street Mission In Richmond.
The letter urged Mr.. Wiley to come down
and conduct a series OF services for ten
days.
ON being asked what there was ahead
in mission work here. NM wiIey said:
There is trea,t deal ahead. Three
things should be done:
"First, and possibly most important.
there should be a training school or homo
for white girls and women. where after
a course OF instruction, n first-class cook
and housckeopcr will be turned out, who
could get salary enough to equal the
wages paid in factories.
'1n the second place. there should be
an Industrial department in our City Mis-
sion work, whsre brooms are made.
chairs caned and other simple things
taught, only so far as to show who is
willing to work. 1t is quite possible in
this connection that many of the vacant
lots and fields in Richmond could be cul-
1iyated by tho poor. Don't smile. IT is
most successfully done elsewhere. Why
not here?
I'm the third place, we must do some
thing for the so white prisoners who
leave our Jail and penltentiary each year.
Can you think Of anything more Chris
tian than TO have a tactful person To
meet those who are at all hopeful, a.
they leave tina prison and carry them