Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-23
TAG DAY BRINGS
5000 TO CHARITY
Returns Would Have Been
Larger but for Unfavorable
Weather Conditions.
MANY REMAIN AT HOME
Money VIII Be Appropriated Between
Associated Charities and
Helpers Circle.

Tag day netted 5000, a goodly sum
considering the handicap of unfavor-
able weather conditions which prevent
ed the stay-at-homes visiting the shop
ping centers. The ladies who labored
all through Saturday in gathering in
the mites to aid them in carrying on
charity work in the city held their
final meeting Saturday evening at the
New Harper, which was the headquar-
tiers for the workers, and the money
collected was counted and turned over
to the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Miss Mary
E. Entrikin.
1--WE want to thank the good people
of the city for their liberality." Mrs.
w. H. Whistler, chairman of the tag
day organization, stated. I'VE feel In
debted particularly to the newspapers
for the publicity they gave our cause,
to the various organizations for their
cooperation, to the Tri-City Railway
company for permitting our collectors
access TO their cars during the day,
and to the management of the NeY
Harper for giviig us the use Of the
hotel for headquarters. The people
of the city who helped us can rest as
sured that the money will be judicious-
ly expended"
Public Always Ready.
Tag day has become an annual af-
fair in Rock Island, and it is looked
forward to with a helpful view by the
public. The best evidence of this is
the fund that yearly is raised through
the efforts of the good women who de-
vote themselves so unselfishly and en-
Enthusiastically to the work. II is not
the most pleasant duty for a woman
or girl to stand on the street corners
and go through the stores and shops
and street cars in quest of contribu-
tons of money from persons the ma
jority of whom are strangers to them.
For the time being they must throw
aside their dignity and sensitiveness
and refuse to see frowns or hear re-
Dukes, if any there be, taking compen-
sation and consolation from the fact
that they are performing a labor of
love for humanity. 1t is a noble sac
rifice that these women make every
year in Rock Island, and the public in
dictates its sympathy and appreciation
in a generous response from it's purse
Organizations Join Hands.
Tag day was directed jointly by the
Associated Charities and the Helpers
circle of Kings Daughters. The for
mer is the central charity organization
Of the city, and has been for years.
It's most recent undertaking is the es-
adjustment of an Association house,
on Seventeenth street, from which it
dispenses charity to the needy and de-
serving of the city. Here are center
ed the offices of the Associated Chart |
ties and the Humane society, both /
working in conjunction with each 9TH |
or, a most practical combination of
effort directed toward the aid of hui
man and animal At this Association
house there are reading and lounging
rooms for. working girls; there are
classes in sewing, cooking, etc. A por-
ton of the tag day fund will be ap- !
piled on furnishing this house. Dur
ng the year the Helpers circle of |
Kings Daughters has established a
in South Rock Island for /
he care and treatment of tuberculosis /
most worthy work The I
young women OF this organization /
quietly have been dispensing charity |
IN the city for years, and the tubercu-
osis sanatorium is only one of its |
works of that character |
The Helpers circle also Will share in |
he returns of Saturdays effort.