New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-09-09
W. C. T. U. AT ooNEY ISLAND.
Bethesda Unions All Day Meeting-stories
of Eescues

That even good people like the Womans Chris
tan Temperance Union women sometimes suner
from the blues and that when they do so suffer
they lapse into Coney Island were two Of the in
teresting facts brought out at the all day meeting
which Bethesda Union held yesterday at the Coney
Island Church and Rescue Home. Mrs Mary }.
Annable, president Of the Kings County Woman s
Christian Temperance Union. owned TO as much In
the course OF her address, the speeches Of the day
having turned rather largely upon the new Coney
Island as contrssted with the old.
When jumped on that Gates-sve- car. said
Mrs Annable. 4 didn't know it went 10 Coney
Island. Presently woman with a hard face and
a girl still in short dresses got in. At the island
I watched them go into a cheap eating place where
the woman ordered two cocktails.
The girl pushed hers away. with: You can
drink both
Nov like 10 see obedience in daughters"
continued Mrs Annabe. ''but 1 pleased to
see that girl dsobey her mother, for such took
her TO be. J went and sat down by her; and didn't
look pretty. with those two cocktails In front
Of me- and / with my silver cross and white
ribbon on
AT first all 1 got was Mind your business
Then, as there seemed no other way 20 find out IL
that dreadful the girls mother. Have
you a mother 1 asked her.
Il suppose must have smiled as l said Il, for
the girl turned on like a hash-Dont you dare
smile at me, ana speak OF my mother-
Well, finally got her away ana TOOK her nome
put her 70 sleep in my best bed, and the next
%5S O. mother living in sufoik County IN
SUMMER they took In boarders. and the girl washed
told her she was a fool to do that all her life
why DIDN'T she come TO the city and make lot
"A few days later The girl and went to her
Suffolk home. When she saw the boarders. she
strippins corn when I walked in and said: Mrs.
- I've got a little girl outside that J guess you
On my Godr was all she said, but she sank
Gown on her knees among ali the corn shucks-I
car near them rusting now-and praised Cod
Now what saved that girl from death Of body
and souiP A branch Of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union up In her little native town She
womas's cocktails. and I was sent to meet her
Only that day. Mrs Annable said. continuing.
rsIue of inherent beers ION the way down a
woman with nice little boy turned TO me with the
No kind Of beer Feed your boy on milk
But the milk al Coney Island is so poor
To rather have the poorest milk in Coney Island
than the best beer vas Mrs Anneble's rejoinder.
years ago and better. when she first visited Coney
Island. NEWCOMERS used 10 cross over Williams
a5F tf s o s no by sg eeoP
then in the whole place there are now on one OF
do the churches reach the multitudes?' asked
Mrs Nanderhoef In CONCLUSION NO, and they
never VIII one OF the oiscOuraging things is that
90 many more women are drinking to-day than
Mrs. Louisa Pritchard told how she and her hus-
band had spent one Fourth Of July taking notes
OF what they saw on Coney Islands Bowery. That
evidence was used when the cleaning up movement
1T is possible for girls to come to coney and
Il was talking with one who dances for her living
M music h s1a n the Bower She sends g week
she Is going 20 make home for her grandmother
next year. The girl is Earried. She doesn't drink.
and every night she saws her prayers But what
Soulo you say Of q girl ike that. in skirts up to
None OF the women being willing to say what
rney would say, the meeting adjourned TIL the
svening. About one hundred women were present
n The course of the day.