Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-14
TWO MORE JOIN
FAMOUS HUNDRED
SPLENDID GIFTS CONTINUE TO
wv. C. A.
Fund Grove Steadily, but Tremendous
Effort Being Made Today to
Bring Amount up to the
$4,000 Mark

fwo more women in the famous one
hundred llst"--Miss Bettina Brown Of
Angeleno Heights and Mrs. Robert
Hale, wife Of the realty operator. The
latter made known her donation of $1,000
over the telephone, when speaking to
Miss latham yesterday Miss Brown
Is we'll known for various quiet philan-
thropies and has aided the association
IN times past In material ways.
Her Emerson class. of which she Is
the organizer and leader. has been the
center Of fortnightly gatherings Of
women interested i'm all that pertains
to the great philosopher
Tonight sees the great rally at the 6
o'clock supper. when the general COM
inittee and the twenty-five captains
and their STATS will gather around the
board and hold an experience meeting
1t is expected they will have a big
valentine to offer themselves in the
shape of a reported total of SIS, 900 sub
scribed to the new building. This will
mean lively hustling for today, with
s26,000 to get between daylight and
dark.
To Begin Letter Canvass
A letter canvass will begin in a few
days. Thousands Of persons will be
written to. This work will not be done
haphazard with names taken prOmiscu-
ously from the city directory but will
be carefully planned, as has been every
movement made by this businesslike
institution. Each one of the commit
teewomen will have a certain number
to whom she is expected to write and
of whose donations to the cause she is
expected to keep track.
Other Y. w. c. associations have
built their own headquarters, but the
local branch is the first to try the up
to-date quick campaign for raising the
building fund With most of the others
It has been a long, hard pull to get the
money. Two branches were so for
tunate as to have philanthropic friends
take the entire expense upon them
selves. Detroit has a fine Y. w. G. A.
six-story building on a corner over
looking a pretty park, which was half
the gift of the Whitney family. Mrs.
Grace Whitney Evans, a daughter of
the family. was formerly president of
the Detroit association and it was
through her the gift came.
Women Watching Los Angeles
Mrs. Evans is now Mrs. Grace Whit
ney Hoff, having married again, and
is serving as president of the British
American association in Paris. 1t was
to the post of secretary in this asso-
citation that Miss Caroline Patch, for
April.
The Minneapolis Y. w. c. A. build
ing and lot, as we'll as part of the fur
nishings, were given by Mrs. w. S.
Benton of that city. Mrs. Benton is
well-known winter resident of Los An
geles, as she comes here nearly every
year and makes her headquarters at
the Hotel Fremont.
Only the larger associations have
their own buildings, but the movement
is on and throughout the country there
is evidence of the impetus given the
branches by the success of the more
progressive. There has been more ac-
tivity in this direction in the past two
or three years than in ten years be-
fore. All are awakening to the fact
that they must and can have their own
buildings, and many are waiting the
result of the daring Los Angeles VEN
ture in attempting to have a building
of their own through the quick cam
paign method.