Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-18

their part in furnishing a happy hour
for many girl.
One branch OF the work with which
many Salt Lakcrs are familiar and
which has already won for itself great
commendation from people of NIL creeds
Is the Travellers Aid branch This
means the meeting OF the daily trains
as they como into the city. bearing
many young girls who are seeking s
| friends place to work, or permanent
employment, or who for any reason are
homeless or friendless In q strange city
Not many years ago Salt Lake was
shocked over the tragic death OF a
young woman. capable. of good repute
and of honest purpose, but unable to
obtain employment. who In nt OF
despair ended the whole sad story by
death. This one incident opened the
ewes OF men and women In this COM
munity and made the Travellers Aid a
welcome innovation here.
MINISTER OF THE TRAINS"
Today a gentle. kindly faced woman
meets the incoming trains. and WIN
eyes accustomed to just such work sees
each young woman who comes alone
and perceiyeS quickly if she needs care
or attention, or protection. 1t may be
that she is only train sick" and needs
IL DldCe TO rest UCIWtGH lIdlllSs II may
be that she is not used to travelling and
needs someone to direct her where to
go, or It may be that she seeks friends
whose address Is unknown to her Not
long ago n very young girl reached
Salt Lake having had her pockets pick
ed on the train and being shy and
afraid she had not told any one OF her
loss until she saw the kindly minister
of the trains" Weary, hungry and dis
a oh f1l6 hnT ctn nnnPU
was furnished her by the association to
continue her trip.
This in brief Is the kind OF work be-
ing carried on by the good women of
this organization. The local association
is under a board of directors headed by
Mrs. 2. 3. Critchlow. who has brought
to the work all of the splendid cnthusf-
asm with which she is endowed as we'll
as a consecrated love of humanity, To
her indomltable courage and optimism
Is due almost entirely the success OF the
organization as It exists today. Through
her good business ability and clear
headed management the association has
been tlded over shoals on which less
firmly builded organization might well
have lost out.
WOMEN AT THE HELM.
Associated with Mrs. Critchlow arc
Mrs. w. NJ. Thome, Mrs. C. E. Marks.
Mrs. Mary A. Caffall. Mrs. J. r. Bow
die. Mrs, a. o. Clark, Mrs. John Weir.
Mrs. L. NJ. Bailey. Mrs. G. R. Han
cock. Mrs. C. G. Plummer Mrs. T. B.
Beatty. Mrs. C. ] McNltt, Mrs. P. A.
Simpkin. Mrs. A. T. Moon and Mrs. r.
l.. Tracy, and with these the various
committees who hold themselves re-
sponsible for the work of the nsSocla-
tion. But directing the whole. putting
through all lines OF work. keeping in
sympathy with every proposition and
touching all of them with the wonder
OF her ability and enthusiasm, is tho
general secretary, Miss Mabel john
son. under whose direction the associa-
ton has more than doubled its men,
bership
Miss johnson came here last summer
to assume the work after most fiat
terlng experience in Billings, Mont For
two years previous TO her coming she
had held similar post there and had
built UP In that small town an associa-
tion out of all proportion to It's popula-
tlon.