The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-05-31
SAFETY FOR
THE WOMEN
North Yakima Y. w. c. A. De-
cides to Organize Department
of Public Safety in Fall
GENERAL SECRETARY
RESIGNS HER OFFICE
Miss Webster Will Retire From
Active Work for a Rest and
VIII Visit Rose Festival; Miss
Fuller Gets New Appointment

Coincident with the resignation OF
Miss T.. Vesta Webster as general
secretary of the Young Women's
Christian association because of i'll
health, comes the announcement that
a department of public safety for
women will probably be established in
the autumn and that Miss Edith Full
er, at present employment and tray
elers' aid secretary, will have charge
of the work.
Miss Webster Resigns
Miss Webster resigned her position
to take effect on the first of the
month. She will take some much
needed rest, travelling about the state
visiting friends and will attend the
Rose carnival at Portland. When Miss
Webster came here last November
from Nassau, n H, the educational
work Of the association was badly run
down and the present success of the
classes is due to her good work, the
office of the organization say. Glasses
in millinery, art embroidery, china
painting, domestic science and out-of-
door athletics We're established and
carried on successfully.
For the present, the position OF
general secretary made vacant by Miss
Webster's resignation will not be filled,
but Miss Mary Lindgren of Belling-
ham, will be appointed office secretary
and for time the work of the as
sociation will be divided between her
and Miss Fuller Miss Fuller also
came from Bellingham, where she
stood high in the estimation of all
who came in contact with her and
her work.
Miss Fuller had been in North Yak
ina only a short time when her value
as a Warker in the line in which she
is most efficient became evident to
Chief of Police Kinnaman and to
render her efforts still more successful
he appointed her a special officer OF
the department. Few who see the
quiet active little woman at the rail-
road station eagerly scanning the face
of every arrival, on the lookout for
some one of her sex in trouble or i'll
need of help or direction, would sus-
pect that she wore a police star, which
is kept from public gaze, and knew
how to fill the office which it indi-
Gates.
In Bellingham the work that Miss
Fuller did was that Of an officer of
the department of public safety for
women, but there her designation was
police matron. Recently when she was
spoken of here for the appointment
of police matron, her friends back in
Bellingham got busy and offered Miss
Fuller her old position there at an
here through the columns of the Bel
bingham Herald, which came out
strongly in her favor and told OF
what she had done in that city.
Mayor de Mattos, of Bellingham.
speaking of Miss Fuller and the effort
being made to reestablish the Office
Of police matron, abolished when she
left there and not reesta blished be-
cause there was nobody to fill it to
the satisfaction of the authoritics,
said, eve had a police matron, tina
best, in my judgment, on the Pacific
coast. The city council. the chief OF
police and myself certainly would do
almost anything to get Miss Fuller
back"
Department OF Public Safety
w Ieil II WAS TeDDIleu IIiesl lilc CITY
and county would probably cooperate
with the Y. w, c. A, and establish
a department Of public safety for wo-
men in North Yakima, with Miss
Fuller at it's head, there was consd-
cradle newspaper comment in Belling-
ham, which reached the Herald Office
here from friends in that city.
The Bellingham Herald contained
these comments anent the reported
appointment of Miss Fuller;
THE officials of North Yakima, city
and county, will make no mistake if
they seize upon every means to use
the splendid abilities of Miss Fuller
said Chief Likins. III consider Miss
Fuller to be the equal of any police
matron in the United States She is
| firm, tactful, incisive, but better than
all, considerate and sympathetic. This
city suffered an almost irreparable loss
when she was taken away from us.
II have worked alongside Miss Full
Ter on many cases." said Captain CAL
lahan, land if there is any good thing
in the vocabulary which the chief has
left unsaid about her, just say it for
me. 1 prohesy that the people of
North Yakima will be treated to
surprise when they recall their first
impressions of that frail little woman,
as contrasted with her performances.
No male officer has any more nerve or
grit than she, but with thathaustible
supply of sympathy and understand.
ing"
Miss Fuller is credited at polica
| headquarters with having done more
constructive work than any officer ever
in the position. The general public
is not aware of the details of the tasks
performed by her and which really
| result in genuine good
THE public at large knows nothing
of the dozens of hayward girls and
| careless mothers who have been set
right by Mis- Fuller" said the chief;
in that line her work was superb
| She exhausted every eXpedient before
bringing d girl into the limelight Of
! publicity ana ! know personally of
many instance of girls who right now
are living proper lives who. without
the advice and--counsel of Miss Full
I Ter would hape been in the stata