Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-20
TELLS OF WORK
OF Y. v. c. A.
Miss Adams Outlines Activities
of Assn Before Company of
Distinguished Guests.

Distinguished women, including
Mrs. Finley j. Shepard, formerly Miss
Helen Gould, Mrs. William J. Schief-
felin. Miss Reba e. Forbes and Miss
Elizabeth W., Dodge, were the hon.
ored guests of Mrs. Franklin Conk-
lin and Mrs. Forrest F. Dryden, yes
terday afternoon at the Y. w. G. a.
building, SO Washington street, where
association work from a national and
local phase was discussed.
The conditions existing in this city
and where the association is help
were told by Miss Cora May Adams,
general secretary of the local associa-
ton. The speaker answered questions
which she said she had heard asked
and which she thought might arise in
the minds of others who are not thor
oughly acquainted with the work.
The question that the association
might be too Expensive to meet the
pocketbook. of the average self-sup-
porting girl arises Miss Adams de-
clared, in the minds only of outsiders.
never in the minds of the girls who
know the value they are receiving.
The speaker pointed out that the
evening gymnasium classes are at
the rate of fourteen cents a lesson,
paid by the term. while to the clue
girls the cost is only five cents an
evening. The lunches. she said, are
furnished at the lowest rate possible
and that the average had risen from
eighteen to twenty cents owing. the
girls declare. to an increase in APP
petite, caused by the extra walk.
II have never seen a city where
the citizens say, Lower your price to
the girls and we'll make up the de-
Goit do
She spoke at length of the boarding
home, which, she said, at the advice
of experts, was not put in the admin
istration building. This situation, she
declared, would do away with much
o the home atmosphere, which is so
essential to a boarding home, and on
the other hand would probably cause
the city girls to think that the build
ing belonged primarily to the board
ing girls and that they were not free
to come and go as they now are.
Until a boarding home can be pro-
cured by a sale of the property on
Broad street and East Park street
and the payment of bequest of
$50, 900 the association has rented two
rooms across the park, where they
can accommodate girls who come to
the city alone at night.
Miss Dodge, chairman of the North
East Field Committee, spoke of the
work the association is doing
throughout the country, calling at
tention to the fact that in many of
the small mill towns the only social
leader is the Y. w. C. A. secretary.
She urged the women to be one of
the girls. to work with them and not
for them.
Miss Forbes commented upon the
fact that in association work the
group spirit is making itself manifest
among women.
Mrs. Richard C. Jenkinson, the as
sociation president, presided and in
PRODUCED the speakers.
At the tea which followed the con-
ference Mrs. Wallace M. Scudder and
Mrs. Martin Dennis presided at the
table, where jonquils prevailed in the
decorations. The f1oaters were Miss
Prudence Durand. Miss Mary Plum.
Miss Cornelia Boggs, Miss Gertrude
Riker, Miss Mary Belcher, Miss Fan
ME Gordon Dodd, Miss Frances Will
hanson and Miss Margartha Riker.