The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-27
Gift of S5OOO Last Night Nucleus for Campaign Which
 VIII End Saturday
FRANK NELSON PLACED AT HEAD OF THE WORK
Mrs. Orr Explains Work of Y. w. c. A. and Workers Willingy and En- thusiasticslly Agree to Raise
 Required Amount.

Cheerfully, and with display of gen uine enthusiasm. the same organization of business men which had just raised the
 building fund for the young men of the city, took hold of the campaign for the
 l. w. C. A, and will begin bright and
 early this morning to raise s50,oo0 for the
 girls.
 The fund was inaugurated with a sub scription of s50oO by lady who refused to
 permit the use of her name, the same lady who gave s5000 to the other fund. The
 only change in the organization was the
 election of Frank Nelson, Jr., to the chair manship of the citizens committee, the place held by Walker Percy, who will have to be out of the city. The ladies will also organize a committee of their
 own.
 c. S. Ward has consented to remain and
 manage the campaign, which will close Saturday at noon. The regular noon
 meeting will be held at the lunch table at l5 today. when the actual work for the two days will be mapped out. Must Take Care of Girls. That it would be disgrace to the citi- zenship of Birmingham to care for the boys and forget the girls who work for small salaries in laundries and shops and department stores was the tenor of the re- marks made by James Bowron, who in troduced the subject. Emmet Collins
 looked upon the job as easy. and pledged ' ,f 1,te
 Exum thought that the time is ripe and
 said he would willingly help. Erskine
 Ramsay, Colman Blach, R. NJ Goodall and others indorsed the move feeling that the sentiment already in the air would give the campaign an impetus that would
 be hard to stop.
 The four payments in this case will be made July and January 1, 1911 and 1912,
 and will not conflict in any way with the payments of the other association. Mrs. Orr Speaks.
 ! Mrs. c. P. Orr, president of the Y. w 1 c. A., made 8 short talk last night ex-
 blaming the work of the organization. Among other things she said
 | "The Young Womens Christian associa-
 ton, which Is aiming to protect the self supporting girl in her effort to make a | respectable living. is located on West
 Twentieth street, opposite Capitol park. "The building, four stories high, stands on the front half of beautiful lot 50 feet
 wide, the property extending through to
 Nineteenth street. On the rear half is
 two-story frame structure that is rem dered almost useless by its age. The as-
 socation's quarters are convenient to the
 business section and yet retired. How
 ever the building was originally a girls
 school, and the equipment provided is utterly inadequate for carrying on ef- fectively the work of the organization. The old frame structure is used as dor mitory annex, but 1t is so unsuitable for this purpose that some of the girls are
 leaving.
 "The noon lunch, which is furnished to business girls at a nominal cost, and
 which is one of the strong features of the
 work, has been dropped because of the financial embarrassment of the associa- ton. Practically every day applicants for board are turned away because the brick
 building is already taxed to it's full ca- pacity. The frame building is only par I, tially furnished, is lighted by kerosene | lamps, and Is so uninviting that only | those girls who are forced to take rooms | there will do so.
 "The earning capacity of girls of l 5 and IS years of age, of whom there is . considerable number away from home in Birmingham, Is less than 1t costs for the am to live decently. There is no place with assured Christian surroundings for them except the Young Women $ Christian association. The organlza- l tion has not the right to refuse to ac- commodate the claims of these girls, and yet the officers are being forced to do so every week.
 There is debt of about $16,O00
 handicapping the organization in it's work of developing the mental, physi- cal and spiritual condition of the young women in Birnin gham. Of this $l4000 Is on the property and s20oO incurred
 in necessary expenses. With gift of
 $50, from the city to coyer the in
 debtedness and erection of a new
 building on the Nineteenyn street side.
 with a domitory for poor girls, class
 rooms and complete furnishings, the
 work will be practically self-sustain- r.
 ing"
 Officers of Association.
 Here are the officers of the Young women's Christian association: Mrs c.
 P. Orr, president; Mrs, soseph McLes-
 ter. vice president; Mrs. T. Q. Smith,
 secretary; Mrs. c. T. Randall, treasurer
 Mrs R. W. Cecil, general secretary
 Mss Enda c. Sandlin, physical direc=
 tor; Mrs. A. I. Livingston, business
 manager boarding department, Mrs.
 Helen Walpole, day travellers aid sec
 retary; Mrs. Annie Dudley. night trav-
 elers' aid secretary.
 The following is the personnel of the