The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-18
MRS. WHITNEY
To DROP OFFICE
Retires After Twenty-Five Years
From the w. C. T. u.
Presidency.

turV of service as president or the
Woman IS Christian Temperance Union
of Honolulu, Mrs. j. NJ Whitney viii
reIinquish the reins of Office into the
hands of a coworker and he content in
the future to work in the ranks for the
cause of temperance. This announce
ment was made by Mrs. Whitney yes
terday afternoon at the twenty-fourth
annual meeting of the local W. C. 7. U.
after she had been elected to the pres
idency for the twenty-ffth year.
The announcement caused general
surprise and regret among the large
number of members present, for the
union has come to consider Mrs. Whit
ney as the most potent force in main
tanning the organization as an efficient
moral aid in the community. Mrs.
Whitney, through her long service at
the head of the Honolulu Union, has
become known throughout the national
W. C. t. u, and the central body will
undoubtedly feel that it is to lose the
services of one of its best workers.
The annual meeting yesterday was
held at the home of Mrs. Whitney, and
among those present was Mrs. Kathe-
rine Lent Stevenson of Boston, repre-
sentative of the Worlds w. C. T. o.,
and prominent member of the Massa-
chusetts organization, who is en- route
to China on temperance mission. Mrs.
Stevenson was the principal speaker at
the meeting.
The annual election of officers result
ed as follows: President, Mrs. J. NJ.
Whitney; first vice president, Mrs. D.
Scudder; second vice president, Mrs.
Wadman; recording secretary, Miss f.
R. Yarrow; corresponding. secretary,
Mrs. E. w. Jordan; treasurer, Mrs. L.
B. COan; superintendent, Loyal Tenn
perance Union, Mrs. p. w. Rider; Tenn
perance Instruction, Miss Whitman
and Mrs. Edgar Wood; Flower Mission,
Miss Pindar, Miss Yarrow; Temper
anee Literature, Miss Johnson; Infer
mented Wine at Communions, Mrs. Gu
lick.
The report of the secretary, Miss
Yarrow, was enthusiastic over the vic
tories on the mainland and expressed
the view that the members here had
much to be thankful for in view of the
progress the cause is making in the city.
In her report she referred to a previous
meeting at which both sides of the army
question were debated by two ladies'
Mrs. futile spoke against the army
canteen and narrated the evils arising
from the system. A Mrs. John Martin,
an army lady, took the other stand,
and gave, according to the secretary IS
report, good reasons why the canteen
should be reestablished as a means to
prevent liquor abuses by the soldiers.
However, a vote of the meeting was
against the eanteen.
In the absence of Mrs. Coan, the
treasurer, Mrs. Whitney spoke of some
financial matters, principally the hiring
of Arion Hall while the Atlantic fleet
was in port, for the entertainment of
sailors of the fleet, where they would
find hOmelike comforts and could OBJ
tain coffee and other light refreshments.
She said the rent, hire of help, lights,
tables, groceries, etc, came to $165. |
The receipts from sailors for coffee !
amounted to only 50. Mrs. Whitney
said, however, that the statements of |
young sailors who visited the coffee |
shop made here feel that it was money
well spent, for they said that they knew
their mothers and sisters would feel
happy to know that they spent their
evenings there.
Mrs. Rider, superintendent of the
Loyal Temperance Legion, which works
mainly in Kakaa1o, told of the organi-
cation since it started its labors four !
years ago. She felt that a spirit of
temperance was being inculcated in the
minds of the young people who had
joined the society, and as they grew |
up, although in the midst of surround |
ings which were not altogether good, |
they appeared to withstand the tempta- /
tions. For the restriction of the num-
Der of saloons in Kakaako she was
deeply thankful to the License Commits /
sioners, but the number of demijohns
which pass in and out of the saloons on |
pay days was alarming, and had its de-
moralizing effect among the young. |
There were many homes which were !
the homes of drunkards, and it was from
these places that children needed the
most protection.
Mrs. Gulick, for the committee on I'm
fermented wine in churches, said that
she did not know of any church at
present where wine for communions
was not unfermented. Many of the
churches had yielded to her sugges
tionS