Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-02-18
MILLION DOLLARS
TO Be RAISED FOR
FOREIGN MISSIONS
Women's Missionary Societies
Hold Progressive Jubilee Meet
ings for This Purpose.

Members OF missionary societies in
this city are Interested In the jubilee
meetings of the women's missionary
societies of the various denominations
which opened last October in Oakland,
Cal, and have been held In a number
Of the large cities OF the United States,
and will be continued by similar gath
eTtngs to b. held in New York March
~ to 80.
The central committee and the New
York executive committee, with the
chairmen Of thirty-twu Jubilee CEN
tres, will meet on Monday, March q,
at the Murray Hill Hotel.
On Monday afternoon OF the same
day there is to be a grand pageant of
missions in the Metropolitan Opera
House: this will be a picturesque pre-
sentation of missions with orchestra
and singing. Tuesday, March 2S. will
be devoted to addresses by pioneer
missionaries and authors of missionary
study books. On Wednesday, March
20, many IF the prominent society
women of the city will hold drawing
room meetings for invited guests. At
/ O'Clock VIII occur the luncheon at
Hotel Astor in W banquet halls. The
Jubilee Climax" will be reached on
Thursday evening with a mass-meeting
in Carnegie Hall; seats OF the floor
will be open to holders of free admis-
sion tickets; boxes are now on sale.
Niece of Mrs. D0remus Active.
Many of the most influential women
of the cities are serving actively on the
committees. Among them Ire Mrs.
6n upYYaI + "A xxnnIt Oho frpnan ~ fha
New York executive committee, a niece
of Mrs. Doremus, thei lustrious found
or, whose daughter, Miss Dorernus, IL
now secretary of the Woman's Union
Missionary Society; Mrs. C. F. Hon.
man. Mrs. e. Z. Olcott, Mrs. II. o.
Armour, Mrs. William 1. Haven, Mrs.
N. D. Hills, Miss Alice NJ. Dawson,
Mrs. Thomas B.. Nicely (wife OF Bishop
Mrs. c. H. Fowler widow of
Bishop Fowler. Miss Grace Dodge,
Miss Helen NJ. Gould and MRS. Russell
The cities visited In order from now
until the first meeting In New York
will be as follows: Buffalo, February %,
"a; Albany and Troy, March 2,3; Spring
field, March s, 7; New Haven, March 8,
Providence, March 10, Il; Boston,
ID, 10; Portland, March 16, II.
The object of the woman's jubilee
missionary movement is two-fold. 1t
Is hoped that IN its magnitude It will
enlist the attention and interest of
of women who heretofore
remained Indifferent to foreign
work. and 1t is also the
hope of the central committee to raise
a jubilee Offering of 81, 00O, 900 for mis-
Lenfet by Mrs.
Three hundred thousand dollars has
been subscribed by the cities in the
West. Mrs. Joseph H. Knowles, of
city, has written a leaflet enti-
tied THE Woman's National Foreign
Jubilee" in which she has
the growth of the missionary
movement. Mrs. Knowles Is the re-
secretary of the Woman's For
sign Missionary Society. secretary of
The Newark conference of the Woman's
Missionary Society and presi-
lent of the Newark Female Charitable
Society.
Plans are being formulated for hold
meetings in thirty-two cities near
New York. and representatives from
local societies will meet in the
Y. M. C. A. building Monday morning
to consider arrangements for "a jubi-
lee" as 1t will be called.