Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-09
Organization Workers Hope to
Add $4,000 to Its
Treasury.
CANVASS OF THE CITY
TO BEGIN TOMORROW
Mrs. Thomas r. Marshall, Wife of
the Vice President, Member
of Committee.

Plans were completed today for the
fve-day campaign which is to be start
ed tomorrow morning by the Young
Women's Christian Association for
s7.o0o-s5,o00 to complete the associ-
atoms budget for running expenses and
$4,000 TO buy additional land for it's
vacation lodge for working girls, near
Cherrydale, Va.
Miss Helen a. Davis of New York.
one of the secretaries of the national
board of the y. w. c. A., who has had
successful experience in financial cam
raigns. arrived here this morning to
take charge, and after canvassinS the
situation. expressed confidence that the
fun amount needed will be raised.
A group of nearly fifty Washington
women, who will make q personal can
vass among the people of Washington
Tor the needed fund. met this morning
At the y. w. c. A. offices. at $50 f street
northwest, and mapped out the plans for
the campaign. Miss Davis spoke at this
meeting, as did Mrs. William Hamilton
Bayiy. president of the Washington y.
W. &. A
Is Nearly Self-Supporting.
the Y. W. c. a. is s. per cent self
supporting. and its officers feel that the
people of Washington not directly con-
nected with the movement should be
willing to contribute the remaining 10
per cent. They feel that the association
Is doing a service to the city which is
more than worth the money sought at
this time.
The vacation lodge near Cherrydale is
stated to have been the means of furnish
ing pleasant and cheap vacations to
many working girls during the summer
months. II is kept open from June 1
10 October | each summer. 1t is now
proposed to buy approximately two acres
of forest land for pleasure purposes and
In order that girls desiring to do so may
live in tents.
Each of the women who are to take
Part in the campaign has been furnished
with list of persons they are to visit
in order to make the campaign thorough
and to avoid the possibility of duplicating
appeals.
\ tea is to be held at the y. ". c. a.
headquarters each afternoon this week at
40 O'Clock. and at that time the woman
canvassers are to gather and make re-
ports of their progress. 1t is hoped to
raise at least $500 each day.
List of the Canvassers.
Those who are to make the canvass
arc: Mrs. Thomas r. Marshall, wife of
the Vice President; Mrs. Charles w.
Richardson. Mrs. John S. Scully, Mrs
Thomas II. Mitchell, Miss Elizabeth F.
Pierce, Mrs. Woodbury. Pusifer. Or. Ada
+. Thomas, Mrs. William Hamilton Bay
ly. Mrs Robert y. Page Mrs. H B. F.
Mcfarland. Mrs. Grace Kendall, Mrs
William Lincoln Brown, Mrs. Ray p
Teele, Mrs. Perry Heath, Miss Frances
Chickering, Mrs. II. L. Day, Miss Mar
garet Fox. Mrs. Fred Wright. Mrs. A NJ
keppel Mrs. d. {. Merrill Mrs. Thomas
Robertson, Miss Barlow. Miss Gertrude
Blauvelt. Mrs. Luther w. Hayley Mrs
Frank G. Wilkins, Mrs. Alice NJ Baxter,
Miss Julia Hoge, Mrs. Fannie MacAll s.
ter. Mrs. X. G. Kemon. Mrs. Albert Hale,
Mrs o. B. Jenkins. Mrs. Isabella Camp
bell. Mrs. Kirk Holmes, Mrs. Frank z.
Edgington. Mrs. n. S. Fawcett, Miss Cur
lis and Mrs. Robh Corby.