New-York tribune., 1913-11-17
Y.M. c. A. HUNTERS FIND
QUARRY IN COUNTRY
MiIIionaires Fail to Escape
from Collectors by Fleeing
the City.
FUND INTERESTS NURSES
Workers Unite in Paying a
Tribute to the Memory OF
Mrs. Janet McCook
Whitman.

Milionsires who hoped to find refuge
st weekend parties or i'm suburban re-
treats Yesterday overlooked the enterprise
Of the corps Of fair money getters WIN
are pushing the hands around the rho''!
clocks that register the accumulation vi
q 100000 building fund for the houlis
Women's Christian Association ana 'hs
Young Mems Christian Association sew
eral gifts ranging into the four ana hle
6e,re class followed sudden trips OF t'e
women canvassers out Of town. Some o1
,be men were equally successful Inc
amounts of contributions made on sat
yrdav and Sunday will be announced at
she MONDAY luncheon at No. % Broad
street to-day.
Yesterdays developments showed tha'
The trained nurses OF the greater CITY are
very much interested in the success OF
the campaign. The Young Women ;
christian Associations big central clun
Cor women is TO have a new 100000 build
jng out of the 100000 Of the fund Wh'ch
Is 10 go 10 the women's organization
MANY of the trained nurses are mah'hh
contributions ranging from 500 10 " All
NURSES are interested in the project pa'-
,icularly because the Young Women
Christian Association is doing a helpful
work for nurses Miss +. j. CraWforu'
general secretary Of the Young Women :
Christian Associations central cluo' sn'
yesterday that the financial aid from the
nurses would be one of the features OF
Ihe campaign.
Miss Anna Maxwell. superintendent OF
+he training school for nurses OF the
PRESBYTERIAN Hospital, is said to have
done more for the profession than any
one else except Mrs Janet McCook WHIT
man. She heads team No 80, made up
entirely OF professional nurses. Other
members OF the team are Miss Margaret
Bewley, Miss Golding. Miss Mcmillan
Miss Amy f. Patmore, Miss Pitcher MISS
Eden. Miss Whitman, Miss Ward, Miss
Frances LurSins and Mrs. Lyle.
MANY workers for the fund paid trlo-
ute Yesterday to the memory OF Mrs.
Janet McCook Whitman. The following
statement was given out:
In making Monday Woman's Day the
leaders desire not only to pay tribute 10
those who are living and active In thelr
service to girls and women, but to those
who have served faithfully in the past
and who gave so large part OF thei
lives in helping to make possible the
present great project.
Much of the devoted work that Is
now being done is being silently rendered
in memory of Janet McCook Whitman
Her life was the kind of inspiration that
makes those who knew her eager fol-
service. and they find In the present en-
terprise the long sought opportunity
Seventy-two hours campaigning without
let-up is causing a severe strain on
some of New York's best society women
The Rosebud" team, commanded by Miss
Perkins; the flying squadrons.' under
Mrs. Florence NJ. Stowell Miss r. r. i.
Gould's team. Miss Elizabeth W. Dodge g
and the team headed by Mrs Nathaniel Il.
Potter have been working more than
twelve hours a day. getting to bed some
times as late as o'clock in the morn
ing. Last night was the first time they
got full nights sleep since the cam
pagn began.