Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-14
APPEAL FOR Y. w.C.L. FUND.
Business Men Support Wsmsn'' Call fer
Liberal Contribution
CAMPAIGN FOR CASH AGAIN UNDER WAY
Cause n worthy One and Deserving
of support at the Hands
of the Citizens of
Omaha.

The Omaha Young women's Christian as
ISOLATION workers are about to resume their
interrupted campaign for a building fund,
and the following appeal is made in their
behalf:
TO the Business Men Of Omaha As you
are aware, the Young women's Christian
association OF Omaha is just now seeking
TO raise the last third Of the s125,WO needed
to construct and equip building for their
work. The undersigned take the liberty
of calling your attention to some features
I OF this effort.
The work OF securing the $4,000 paid for
the site and the sS2,OO0 subscribed toward
a building has been a severe ordeal for
the women of the association, most of
them unused to such work, many of them
not vigorous in health, and all Of them
burdcned with other duties. These women,
the wives, mothers, sisters, daughters Of
our homes, have bravely and persistently
pushed on. month after month, and year
after year, toward their aim.
Time after time they have felt obliged
to give way to other public enterprises,
the exposition the Auditorium, the Young
Mems Christian association, etc. and when
finally they had pushed their fund UP
within sight of success last spring, their
further progress was checked by the call
for aid for stricken San Francisco They
have had to fight for success at every
stcp.
Does II not seem to you that in recos-
milton of this heroic and self-sacrificing eff
fort we ought to take the matter I'm hand
and see to it that their task from now
ON is made easy? 1t would be very sim
pie matter for the business men of
Omaha to bring this to pass. II each man
will call his stcnographer, or take his pen
how-not al his convenience but now-and
send letter to the associs ton pledginE
the most generous amount he can possibly
spare. the thing is done. Are we doing
justice to ourselves. to our sense of
chivalry to the service these women are
rendering, II we do any less? Granted
! that there many other calls, as there
| ought to be in an enterprising community.
! they should not crowd out this great and
! impe rative claim. All who have not given
| can give something. Many of those who
/ have pledged can pledge more. Let us do
\ it and do it without subjectlng these de-
voted women to the wear of a protracted
! canvass.
J The aim in view must appeal TO us all.
| The 10000 wage-earning women of Omah a
certainly need an agency to care for their
| physical. mental, moral and spiritual well
| rare SuCn an agency cannot ne eHectlNe
without q plant. In the building new
planned when completed the association
can carry on its splendid work fer per-
| haps half century to come. We appeal
to yeu 10 come to the help eff this move
ment after the Omaha fsshion-swiftly and
| generously.
Very truly yours,
| ]. II. WILLARD.
| j. r. BAUM.
! G. w. WATTLES.
CHARLES r. COURTNEY.
J. i. BRANDEIs SONS
| F. II. DAVIS
| C. NJ. WILHELM.
CHARLES HARDING.
N. MERRIAM.
WILLIAM BAIRD.
| c.. F.. YOST.
| HUBERT c. HERRING.
CHARLES c. GEORGE.
| F. W. JUDSON,
| Pres. Commercial Club.
GEORGE +. GILMORE,
| Pres. Conservative Savings
] and Loan Association.
| THOMAS FITZPATRICK.