The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-16

| The Shriners, under whose auspices tho
Nat Reiss shows will exhibit the entire
week of April q, afternoon and evening,
| Is leaving no stone unturned that can IN
any way assist in making the carnival
the success 1t should be. The master
Tenn, from Holston conference.
| Miss Mary Jane Baxter, Huntsville,
from North Alabama conference.
COrea
| Miss Agnes Elise Graham, Comanche.
Tex, from Central Texas conference.
| Miss Eva Hardie, Seoul, Corea, from
South Georgia conference.
Miss Bessie Hardie. Seoul, Corea, from
South Georgia conference.
Mexico
Miss Edith Brittingham, Portsmouth,
va, from Virginia conference; Miss Ethel
Mclaughlin.
| Cuba, Miss Margaret Webster, Ennis,
Ten, from central Texas conference.
Following this cervice various reports
by different committees and represen-
tatives of the council were placed on the
calendar and will be acted upon today.
Resolution to President
| The resolution authorized by the coun-
ell at the morning session was read and
adopted. The resolution is as follows;
sTo His Excellency, the President of the
| United States:
| ..Dr. woodrow Wilson-The Woman's
Missionary council of the Methodist
| Episcopal church, south. representing
$4,000 women, in conference at Birming-
ham, desires to express for you its great
appreciation of your attitude toward the
recognition of China as a republic and
does respectfully petition you to accord
the recognition as soon as all conditions
have been met"
Work Among Negroes
report on negro work IN Augusta
Ca, and Nashville, Tenn, was next
submitted to the council by the sec
retary of the department on negro ex-
tension work.
In connection with this report strong
speeches were made by Mrs. John D.
Hammond. wife of the president of
Paine institute, Miss Mary DeBarde-
leben, a deaconess at Augusta, Ga, and
| secretary of the extension OF WORK
among negroes; Miss Estelle Haskins.
teacher of sociology in the Methodist
Training school at Nashville, Tenn,
and by Bishop Walter Lambuth, who
| paid a special tribute to the high char
acter of Prof. John w. Gilbert former
| ly professor of Greek at Paine Institute,
and now waiting to accompany the
Methodist party to Africa for the pur-
nose of opening a missionary station on
the dark continent.
| After these addresses Miss Leila
Roberts, principal of the Methodist mis-
sion school in Mexico City, spoke. Miss
Roberts made a strong presentation OF
the opportunity of that school in solv-
ing the problems in Mexico. "This
school," stated Miss Roberts, is the
best equipped in the country of Mex
| leo The school in the beginning, 20
years ago, had only seven pupils to
start with, but now it enrolls more
than 300 pupils annually.
| DR.. w w. Pinson followed Miss Rob-
erts and in short talk emphasized the
| truths brought out in her talk.
Additional Estimates
l
partment of the council was then pre-
sented to that body by Mrs. Luke john
| son. Thes estimates were for appro-
| priations to be made to the Ruth Har-
grove institute, Key West, Fla; Wolf
Mission school, Ybor City, Tampa, Fla. !;
West Tampa school; West Tampa Wes-
Hey House; Corean work, San Fran
cisco. Cal. Japanese work, San Eran-
! cisco, Cal; Mary Helm hall, Alameda,
Cal; Brevard Institute, Brevard, n. C.;
| Homer Taberman home and hospital,
Los Angeles, Cal; Vashti Industrial
/ school, Thomasville Ga. Virginia John
A son home and school. Dallas, Tex; Gall
1 weston Immigrant home. Galveston.
Il Tex; French work, Houma, La; Gulf
i port, Miss; Wesley House, Biloxi, Miss;
sue Bennett scho J, London, KY; Paine
annex Industrial department, Augusta,
Ga; extension work, Nashville. Tenn;
II Augusta, Ca, and the sociology depart
ments of the Scarrett Bible and Train
ing school, Kansas City. Mo-. and the
Methodist Training school, Nashville,
Tenn
i The final action on the estimates for
these institutes will be aiken today.
City Mission Appropriations
Then the following 23 cities of the
United States received appropriations
from the council for city mission work
during the coming year. These appro-
priations We're based on the collections
received from the cities during the past
year: Asheville. y. c. 800; Atlanta,
Ga, $685. Augusta, Ga. s2T4, Birmine-
ham. s264; Dallas. Tex, s3e9 DanvIle,
Va $144; Houston, Tex. $226; Jack
son, Tenn, $3.50; Kansas City, Mo. sS07;
Knoxville, Tenn, s97; Lexington, KY,
sl2; Los Angeles Cal. SIS; Louisville.
Ky. s22s; Macon, Ga ssO3. Memphis,
Tenn, S162; Mobile, Ala, $219; Nash
Vile, Tenn, $15S; Meridian, Miss, SIS;
Portsmouth, Va, s73 Richmond, Va,
si1o; Spartanburg, S. c.. SIPS: st. Jo-
seph, Mo. $780, and st. Louis, Mo-, s76s.
Total amount appropriated $561e.
After the rendering of these esti-
mates several ladies made Speeches
telling of the needs of a larger appro-
priation in different cities.