The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-12-13
Phlanthropc Work of Some American Women in England

ptal and since then she has heard
nothing of him. She has no idea
whether he is alive or dead. Another
of our women, previous to the war, was
IL tailoress, who earned from 81 to So
in a good week. But that employment
ceased and she was soon ON the rocks.
al they say here. Before she came to
us she was getting s1.75 a week from
her club and her daughter, hardly more
than child, was earning go cents a
week in factory. Her rent was 81 a.
week and she had also bound herself
to pay 80 cents a week burial money,
for, you know, all these poor London
people constantly put by money IN Or
der to bury, In elaborate fashion, any
Of their family who may desc You
can imagine what she had to live on
Thus the chairman of the "S. A. w
LIS special committee went on, giving
the details of case after case of desti-
tuition and suffering. Suffering which
in these cases. has been relieved but
which, in thousands of others, unknown
as yet, may be even more dire. And
this American women's factory is only
the third, 1t seems, that has yet been
opened in London, although there Will
be many more, no doubt, when queen
Mary's fund for the employment OF
women really gets going. At present
it's activities appear to have been ef-
fectually strangled with red tape. One
of the two other factories. by the way,
is the enterprise of an American wom-
an Lady Henry, who, previous to her
marriage was Miss Lewisohn, and to
the maintenance of another. in Green
wich (Which was supposed to have been
supported by the Queens fund.-, the
American war relief committee has
been contributing to the extent of SIS
Il week.
In her kindly and cminently eff
Gent administration of the BarnsbuIy
street institution. Mrs. Jenkins has
capable co-workers in Mrs. Curtis
Brown, who comes from Buffalo. and
whose address. in case YOU wish to
send donation. is 4 st. Johns Wood
Park. London. n w. and in Mrs.
George Mower of Syracuse, n. Y, these
women being respectively the secre-
tary and treasurer Of the committee.
Its other members include Mrs X. A.
Davenport of Newark y. t., Mrs. +. c.
Darling of Richmond, Wa. AIRS. Aithur
Fay of New York city Mrs. Robert Nc
Clellan of Schenectady. \. v. Mrs
James Mitchell of Washington, II. c.,
Mrs Edgar Richard of San Francisco,
call Mrs. Short of Montclair. y. j.. airs.
Walter Smith of Boston, Mass -jrs.
Reid Williams of Philadelphia, Penn.
Mrs Lorin Woodruff of Buffalo, n
v. Mrs. Selwyn OF New York city and
Mrs. Knight olso of New York.
These women have issued an appeal
for support in their enterprise. The
smallest sum. ehein declare. will be-
welcome. and will be utilized in pro
g viding living wage for some woman
. or girl who may be in as bad or worse
case than those described above II
may bring Christmas cheer into some
humble home where Otherwise the Ga
would mean only an added irony T."
want and misery. In many cases the
sons and brothers OF these women and
girls. the bread winners Of ordinary
times are in France or BELGIUM, or on
the seas, fighting the battles of their
country. BY this time many OF Them
may be dead. This enterprise Of tn.
Society of American Women in London
is disinterested attempt TO raise at
least corner of the pail of unelnploy-
ment which hangs over the poor wcile n
OF this capital.
Copyright. 1914, by Curtis BrownD