The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
EXPENSIVE CAMP
IN PAC|F|C GROVE
Young Wonen's Christian
Association Will Meet
There in August
Only Camp of Its Kind in the
United States Will Have
400 Delegates

The annual Pacific coast conference
of the Young Women's Christian asso-
Citations. which meets in Pacific Grove
from August l to August 13 will be
memorable this year, for during the
conference there will be dedicated the
administration building and social cen
,er OF the permanent conference head
quarters of the associations.
The association is planning a camp
ana headquarters, to cost $125,ooo, on
the ocean side OF the Pacific Grove
peninsula near the seventeen mile
drive, and the central building. which
VIII cost about $4,000, and which was
designed and is being constructed un-
der the supervision of Miss Julia Nor
gan. VIII be completed Rand dedicated
7urlng the fortnight conference
Another picturesque feature of the
conference will be the presentation of
the pageant, The Ministering of the
Gift in which 400 members Of the
association. assisted by large choruses
and with music furnished by the mill
tary band from the Presidio of Mon
terey, will take part
This pageant is the one which was
successfully presented in Richmond,
Va, during the national conference,
and the production will be under direc-
tion of the field committee of the con-
ference. The pageant will be given
August Z.
1t is the purpose OF the association
to make Pacific Grove the permanent
conference headquarters for the Pa
eifc Grove, and in addition to the ad-
ministrati building and social center
permanent camp is being laid out on
so acre tract fronting on the ocean.
Groups of tent houses, with per-
manent wooden floors and ceilings. a
dining hall and assembly room, a swim
n0Ql
for the conference are being erected.
It is the intention OF the association to
keep the camp open to September l.
and hereafter to have il open at all
times of the year as an outing place
for members of the Christian associa-
ton.
The administration building is con-
structed Of native stone and logs from
the forest in which it is located. The
social hall is 4S by Se feet and the
stone fireplace and inglenook will oc-
cupy a so foot space. The social hall
opens at one end into elassrooms and
ut the other into the offices of the
conference.
Four hundred delegates from Cali
fornia, Nevada. Oregon, washington
and Arizona viii take part in the con-
ference and many national workers.
including Miss Louise Holmquist, ma
uonal secretary, will attend.
The camp Will be the only one OF the
kind in America owned by the asso-
citation. Headquarters have been in
Los Angeles. but it was desired to be
nearer San Francisco and the center of
the state
The conference in 1912 was held in
Plcasanton. where the delegates were
guests of Mrs. Phoebe A Hearst
The conference is under direction of
the Pacific Coast Field committee of
the association, Of which the following
are members:
Mrs. Warren Olney, Miss Helen Fulton. Reno
chairman Mrs. Charles Morton
Mrs John F: Merrill, Heron, Los Angeles
nrst vice chairman Mrs. Carl A. Johnson,
Mrs. A. Crawford San Diego
Greene, second vice Mrs. L. A. Kelley, San
chairman Francisco
MISS Rose r. smith Mrs G. A. Kofoid,
Mrs. Arthur B. Wood Miss Edith Latham San
secretary Francisco
Miss Edith Slack treas Mrs. Arthur Let's, HoI-
lywood
Mrs Phoebe A. Hearst Mrs. A. r. MacIeish
San Francisco Los Angeles
Mrs. Thomas Addison, Mrs. Ralph p. Merritt
Berkeley Oakland
Mrs E. L. Baldwin. Miss Virginia ". New
Berkeley hall. San Francisco
Mrs. o. Shepard Bar Miss Grace Nichols, San
mum, Alhambra Francisco
Miss Katharine Bar Miss Ellen M. Parker
rows Berkeley Los Angeles
Mrs. Wesley Fl. Beach Mrs. William E. Rit-
HOLLYWOOD ter La Iolls
Mrs. James A. Blais- Mrs s. s SALISBURY
dell, Claremont Los Angeles
Mrs. George F. Bovsrd Mrs. c. e. SpauidinS
Los Angeles Los Angeles
Mrs. Henry J. Crocker Mrs George P Thur
San Francisco ston San Francisco
Mrs. Walter Douglas Mrs. c. r. Van de
Bisbee, AriZ. Water. Long Beach
Mrs Robert Freeman, Miss Helen Eoss Weeks.
Pasadena Alhambrs
Mrs Arthur Heineman Mrs. Benjamin Idc
South Pasadena