Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-10
Y.W.C.A.C COMMENCES
CANVASS FOR FUNDS
General Secretary Mabel johnson of
Association Sets Forth Work
Undertaken by Institution.

Between one and two score of women
went into all parts of the city Wednes-
day In the interests of the s. 900 fund
which 1t Is the endeavor OF the Y. w
c. association to raise within the next
week. They canvassed the resident dis
tr1ct and the business district. and the
days labor was quite satisfactory to
the management of the association. Tho
work viii be vigorously pushed the rest
of the week
Early Wednesday morning between 20
and 80 women reported at the Brooks
Arcade headquarters and were assigned
to various parts of the city. knowing
they were out in most commendable
cause. they went TO their respective
territories and worked with heart and
soul. Each carried a lot of pledge cards
and many a resident signed. agreeing
to pay annually a specified amount to-
ward carrying on the work of the Y w
c. A. People were held up" on tho
street. and in offices. and willing sign
ers were found on every hand. In the
evening the workers all reported at
headquarters. This canvass will be
continued until the necessary amount
has been raised, and the association
placed on firm footing, and may carry
on its good work unhampered.
In connection with the campaign for
funds. Miss Mabel Johnson, general
secretary. says.
Representatives of the association
Will endeavor to see every business man
In Salt Lake City, and 1t would seem
only fitting that tho public should have
clear understanding of just what they
are asked to contribute to.
There are several departments of
the Y. w. c. A work. The boarding
home on West Temple street; the cafe
terra, rest and reading rooms, also the
educational (evening clasSes) and en-
ployment department at the Brooks Ar
cade, and the travellers aid secretary
and rest room at the Oregon Short Line
depot.
THE boarding home on West Temple
street provides comfortable room and
board at greatly reduced prices, In a
refined Christian atmosphere. to young
girls Just starting out in life. 1t Is
never intended that the home should
make money but only be self-support-
ing. and it now is. The hope of the as
soctation. however. Is to have home
four times as large. then It's power for
good will be multiplied by four
The cafeteria at Brooks Arcade pro-
vides lunches of superior quality and
at reduced prices, for the army OF
young women clerks. stenographers,
sales women. etc, and adds the COM
fort of rest and reading rooms,
There is no other provision made In
tho city where a woman can go for a
much needed rest of half an hour or
two or three hours. should she require
It, on whore at noon she can have IL
quarter OF an hour for quiet reading
and perhaps find inspiration and uplift.
that makes of her a better woman and
a better worker.
1.-THE cafeteria is self-supportins, but
only so because all the service required
to maintain it (outside of the one wom-
an who cooks) is voluntary. The diff
ferent members of the beard OF direc-
tors of the Y. w C. A. give their serv-
ices one day in each fortnight regular
| ly.
But the educational and employment
| department and rest and reading rooms
| departments are not self-supporting
Then there is the travellers aid de-
| partment. This is a branch of the
work, that from It's very nature Is not
nor would one ever wish II to be self
supporting. To the poor woman (for 1t
Is as rule the poor and lowly to whom
| this branch of the work ministers) ar
rlNlnS IN strange city looking Tor
work, with little or no money to the
poor mother with three or four chill
| dren. rejolning her husband perhaps,
| and obliged to lay over some hours, to
| tho many poor creatures train sick,
| hardly able to stand. to one who has
| lost her ticket and is In a panic of ap-
| prchcnsion. to one who expected a
| friend TO meet her and finds no friend,
to all these the cheerful. comforting aid
given by the travellers section is some
thing that Is beyond money value.
This department Is purely philan-
thropic, and should be cheerfully pro-
vided for by any self-respecting com
munity.
This, together with the reading and
rest rooms. their rent and maintenance
is what the association asks your aid
In supporting"