New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-02
DIR. TRANSPORTS PLAIN TALK.
Wv. c. A. Methods Inadequate-MOre Per-
sonsl Service Needed.

The Rev Dr. william s. Rainsford. rector ~
St Georges Church. did some plain talking yes
terday morning at the annual meeting OF 'le
Young Women's Christian Association. and ms re-
marks were heard with not altogether undivided
pleasure by that body. Re scored present metAoos
as INADEQUATE. saying that there is too much O.
the CRY FOR money and not enough Of the personal
element The removal OF the churches uptown
also came in for one Of his excavations.
The meeting was held in the association build
ing at No East Fifteenth-st and was largely
attended. Dr Rainsford said in part;
The Lord deliver me from the highly developed
LADY board member. You want The worker -Four
years I inspected the hospitals and found tnat
OF course you attend board meetings. but think
how much more GOOD yoa could Go ii you went and
sat by the bedside OF some poor mother instead
81 listening 10 the reports or what some one else
II You did this the churches would not be leaving
the downtown districts. where the Work IS 10 be
You can't do che work 10y missions. Il a. no use
to have the first rate preachers and the first rate
music and the first rate dresses uptown. We need
The moving Of the churches uptown leaves you
more and more to do. Since came here, twenty,
uptown out OF these reighborhoods Although
those Of my own denominati don have not been
without fault. believe the removal Of the
old Tabernacle from the corner Of Thirty-fourth-
the greatest church site ia the country, with al
hotels and boarding houses no sous! Nhere 90
want the Gospel OF Coo preached II not IN these
OF course am glad to see you all to-day. bu;
there ought TO have been e hundred young women
here
There was slight raurmur in the audience.
whereuPon d.. Raiusford added:
wea we need the girl that is willing TO give up her
afternoon and fancy dress balls and her theatre
parties. and labor WIKI tlOse OF her own age IN
the spirit q true charity ana genueness. II she
does this she shan have her reward even here.
No one stand Of the cross streets
between Fourteenth and Iwenty-thiTd SITS. after
TIE stores close and see the thr0ngs that pour
across the CITY without approaching the great
work that Is here az our doors 10 be done.
What we 1eeC is not one Institution such as
yours but "a ha-f dozen OF them. ! can't eOag-
Eer6re The reess ~ YOUR own sex IN this city
There e no city in the country where the girls
elrl mac get 81 "a week and when she returns
home 10 her HAN bedroom after arduOus Gay in
The factory or the Store she begins TO believe that
lie Is grind. When she comes 10 that point
che is in a dangerous situation. Then size needs
jus. such an institution as this
Money is not SD much needed women. The
ENteen-ge ar-0u girl goes out iu the world 10 earn
ner living and she ls told 90 have a good time
ehe keeps on having good time until 10y the time
~ IS twenty-five she is not nt 70 be good wife.
II cegraoes them ll 7 know what ] am "a *
here
These things are not cong 20 improve. Ask
your Iathfrs and your husbands md they VIII tell
Lenses or living WIZ grow constantly. They are
% ger cent higher Tor the poor now than they
80 Yen years $50. You heip these girls
mentally. Won can help them physically and il
pare The srlcrl.l. handsome FIftr-ave OF N7Ff-
Egl-aie. tlfl Nltl her sister tie East or West
SIC. cell rol we know from our systems %
measurements that the girls and boys or The East