New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-28
GIRLS AT EXPOSITIONS.
A Portland Society Formed to Aid mex
perienced Travellers

Inspired by the success of the Exposition Trav-
ellers' Aid Committee. which formed in New
York last year for the protection Of girls who
travelled alone to the fair at st. Louis eleven
CARNATIONS of Portland Ore. have resolved them
selves into Travellers Aid Association for similar
work during the Lewis and Clark Centennial Ex-
position. Among these cooperating organizations
are the Portland Womens Union, the Womens
Christian Temperance Union. City Federation of
Clubs College AluInine Association Council of
jewish Women, and number of Ladies' Aid
cieties
This Portland association has been working for
the last four months to perfect its methods Of
safeguarding young women, and IN important
point its plans differ materially from those of the
Travellers Aid Committee, carried the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition. that is.
tentiOn IS TO be paid to the work OF protecting
young women the Immediate grounds than was
done last year. For this purpose the association
has planned TO establish headquarters in one
Of the fair buildings. Already 1t has been the
means of closing one house Of questionable repu-
tation. which had been opened the exposition
The that the Portland Travellers Aid
Association is giving special attention the fair
grounds" said a member of the Exposition Trav-
ellers' Aid Committee yesterday. lies in the fact
that Loo girls stranded within exposition
gates last summer in spite of all our efforts TO
protect them on the trains and the stations
There is great need for just such help as this as
ISOLATION VIII give. in the very heart of a great
exposition It has been estimated that at the
Philadelphia Centennial, IN 1916, six hundred
women disappeared in the grounds and have never
been heard OF to this day. Because Of the ap-
paInng number Of girls that led astray at such
times" concluded the speaker. Il call expositions
The great damnation. "
The Travellers Aid Association Of Portland is
supplying all the district west Of the Mississippi
River with pamphlets and posters, calling atten-
ton its work, and the Exposition Travellers Aid
request of the Western association, is doing the
same work IN all the States east OF the Mississippi
Last year the latter organization sent its paI!lp-
let's over the entire United States.
Factories and department stores are being espe-
cially remembered by circular letters telling Of the
establishment Of headquarters at Portland for IS
thought that large percentage OF the girls who
likely go the exposition unchaperoned
may be reached there.
Workers from the Office Of the Exposition Trav-
ellers Aid Committee, at No sc 5th-aVe, are max
ing personal canvass Of the large and fac
tories IN New York City. and have already dis
tr!buted nearly 500 appeals and plaCards. In only
literature been refused and the great majority Of
employers have said that they would be glad to
cooperate in the work.
A report recently published of the work of the
Exposition Travellers Aid Committee at the Louis
lana Purchase Exposition shows that 2,9SS girls
were directed TO private homes for lodgings and
that $50 persons from all quarters or the globe
were lodged from one 10 ten days at the headquar-
ters in ST. Louis. Three hundred and nlnety-seven
of these entirely alone. and 200 We're without
money These" says the report were the
stranded ones, who might have gone down but 1oT
the Travellers Aid Committee"
The matron Of headquarters in ST. Louis reports
that she assisted than 500 women in securing
respectable employment, while many others were
going dangerous