New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-08
MISS MORGAN CARRIES
HER PIE SCHEME
Fats 25-Cent Meal Before
Vacation Savings Fund
Society Meeting.
PLAN TO BE CONTINUED
Girls See Moving Pictures and
Have a Ball and Ice Cream
Are Going TO Bronx
Park Soon.

We'll Miss Anne Morgan has the
mirage Of her convictions She not
oply planrcd n % cent dinner with pie.
hu, .hc ate it, Straight through from
,te soup To the thick hunk Of pie. with
, hig cup Of coffee To- wash II down.
Yes last night was the night when
,he Vacation Saving Fund Society tried
rs plan ~ serving dinner for the girls
before their meetings SO they wouldn't
nave 10 hurry home from their work
"a cat. aud back again. The meeting.
which was preceded by the dinner last
night and took place in the assembly
room of the Metropolitan Life Building,
included moving pictures. ball and
pink ice cream at the end. and it was
certainly some bail
There we're one thousand girls there.
including Miss Morgan. Miss Elisabeth
Msrbury and Miss Gertrude Robinson
Smith. and their comings and goings
made such a commotion around that
neighborhood that all the policemen
walked up and came ambling over and
said 10 each other. rs there a ball?"
The dinner was great success. 1t
consisted Of a soup-tomato bisque,
pronounced beesque by the V. s. F. s.
girls-a chop swimming in gravy, with
mashed potatoes on the side; large
slab Of apple pie, and your choice of
tea. coffee or milk. Also plenty of bread
and butter with no extra charge.
Could Have Saved Il Cents.
Some persons felt that Miss Morgan
vas rather extravagant because she
would take the Decent dinner. when
i3-ccnt one was served. too. and she
night have had that and so saved II
ents on the meal. The 13-cent dinner
tas soup. apple pie and coffee, and by
cutting out coffee she could have saved
three more cents. and kept her repast
down 10 the 10-cent mark. But Miss
Morgan acted as il she was out for a
real good time and money was no con-
sideration.
After the dinner, of which about two
hundred girls partook-the rest went
home 10 cat. but they said they never
would again--a lot OF little girls from
Public school 10 and Public School 1SS
trn,ped on the stage and gave little
play. An orchestra, composed OF little
girls from Public School 10. played.
after an introduction from their prin-
opal. Miss Margaret Knox, who said
they were part of her small family of
three thousand.
Then there were pictures thrown on
a screen, explained by Mrs. Josephine
Daskam Baker. Mostly the pictures
were of farmhouses where. If the girls
are good and save up their money
they can stay for two weeks next sum-
mer. and where, as Mrs. Baker OBJ
served the farmers wives are always
so nice about letting the girls VINO
come TO board help with the work.
one picture toward the last raised
bowls and derisive laughter, led by
Miss Morgan. 1t was a picture of a
vacation girl sittlng alone-alolle-p!
lonely. gurgling stream.
Inspires Grand Old Maid.
Perhaps this episode encouraged
Miss Marbury, who made a speech next
or the programme. to drive nail No.
i'm her marry off the -Spugs scheme. II
was Miss Marbury who at recent
meeting of the Spugs-the Spugs being
an outgrnwth Of the V. :. +. S.-intro-
duced herself a the Grand old Maid
and irplored the girls from the depths
~ her own lonely experience 10 marry
the first nice man who asked them,
quick. before he could change his mind.
Last night Miss Marbury divulged
the plan of her campaign IT begins
with an excursion to the Bronx Zoolog-
ical Park Sunday. January 10.
And girls" she said impressively,