Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-13
Y. ". c. A. IN
THE ORANGES
IS ORGANIZED
Starts With Membership of
1000 and Donated House
Furnishings.

Organization of the Young Wom-
ems Christian Association Of the Or
anges took place last night in the
Y. NJ. c. A., Main street, Orange,
before an audience that filed the
auditorium. Mrs. Richard M. Col
gate. chairman of the organization
committee. presided. 1t was an
nounced that the membership OF the
new organization will start with
n 200, two hundred more members
THAN the six teams working in the
ten-day campaign had for their goal,
and funds for one years expense for
the upkeep of the new quarters AT
II High street, Orange, were assured
from dues and contributions. The
furnishings of four rooms In the
house have been donated.
The office will be furnished by tina
Misses Tooker, of Evergreen place,
East Orange, in memory of their
father, the late Nathaniel Tooker.
Mrs. Cation l.. Decker, of East Or
ange, will give the reception room,
in memory of her husband. Mrs.
Jesse st. John, of Ridge street, Or
ange, will donate the library, and
the scholars of the Dearborn Morgan
School, Orange. will furnish the
Camp Fire room. The house commit
tee announced that 1t Is expected that
the remainder of the house furnish
ings can be secured without having
recourse to the funds of the CAM
paign.
Three groups of board OF directors
were elected, to serve one, two and
three year terms, respectively. In
the one-year group, term expiring 1916,
are Mrs. Joseph w. Danforth, Mrs.
Helen Lohrke, Mrs. w. t. Palmer,
Mrs. S. Bayard bod, Miss Matilda
T.. Clark and Miss Catherine Wig
gin In the second group, term ex-
piring 1917, are Mrs. William Thayer
Brown, Mrs. William II. Noe, Mrs.
Gordon Grand, Mrs. Jesse st. John,
Miss Mary Tooker and Miss Helen
Farnsworth. In the third group,
term expiring 1918, are Mrs. Richard
M. Colgate, Mrs. Lorenzo Benedict,
Mrs. Edwin c. Merrill, DR.. Sara @.
Spottiswoode, Mrs. Clarence H: KEEL
sey, Mrs. Dickinson w. Richards and
Miss Caroline K. Herrick.
An election to fill the office OF pres
ident is to take place later this
month. The Orange organization be-
comes the fifty-first branch of the
National Y. w. C. A.
Mrs William Fellowes Morgan, OF
short Hills, who is treasurer of the
northeastern field of the Y. w. c. A.,
ave an interesting talk on the work
nat Is being done by the different
ranches of the New York city assoc
iation, outlining the recreation, So
ial dramatic and foreign depart
tents and their development. Miss
lelen L. Purdy, of Orange, general
scretary of the local organization,
poke of the work of the girls club
I the Oranges, from which the new
eganization grew, and she told the
lembers that last nights big meeting
as not the end, but that she ana
or co-workers had only passed the
rst milestone on their way toward q
reater field. Miss Purdy and Miss
ena M. Farrar, city secretary of the
ortheastern field, conducted the ten
avs campaign, with the assistance
I six teams, each team consisting of
IN or twelve young women.
DR. Fred Clare Baldwin, pastor of
alvary Methodist Church. East Or
nge, extended greetings from the
Ministerial Association of the Or
lnges and another address of greet
ing was given by Leonard ID. Bald
win, president of the Orange Y. M.
g. A.
The program opened with Scriptural
reading and prayer by Rev. DIR. John
t. Patterson, pastor of Central Pres
byterian Church, Orange, and hymn
sung by the audience, with Mrs. Jesse
Blume, former secretary of the East
ern district, Y. w. C. A., Brooklyn,
presiding at the piano, The program
also included reports from the follow
ing committees: Membership, Miss
Katherine Richards; house, Mrs
Lorenzo Benedict: finance, Mrs
Francis Tooker; constitution, Mrs.
Joseph w. Danforth; nominating
Mrc EdNiu q Merrill The meeting
closed with singing the association