Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-05
|PLAN VACATION
FUND FOR GIRLS
Factory and Store Employees
Will Be Given Chance to
Save Money.
PROMINENT LOCAL WOMEN
INTERESTED IN MOVEMENT
Vacation Savings Clubs TO Be
opened-Meeting to Be
Held Monday.

| rounding towns VIII get a cnanCe TO
save their nickels and dimes in a
systematic way for the coming Vaca-
ton time, when the Vacation Savings
Fund is started on a large scale in
this State on February Is. On that
date the vacation committee, COM
posed of some of the best known wom-
en- in Newark, will open an office in
the Kinney building and conduct the
affair under the auspices of the main
branch in New York city.
The idea of the Vacation Savings
Fund is to let the girls save their
money bit by bit until such time when
they have an amount large enough for
any purpose for which they may want
1t. The girls employed in several of
the stores and factories in this city,
including the General Electric Com
pany, at Boyd street and Seventeenth
avenue; Hahne G. Co., Oppenheim,
Collins g. Companw and the General
Electric Company in Harrison, have
been interested in the Vacation Saw
ings Fund for more than a year, and
In that time collectively have saved
$4,000.
Part of this money has been paid
back to the girls on demand, but the
proposition is one that should interest
every girl or woman in the city," was
the way Miss Robinson Smith, of New
York, who is the chairman of the New
York committee, put it. The Vacation
Savings Fund is not for the working
girls or women alone; any girl or
woman may obtain the proper savings
blanks at her place of business. if the
| idea has been installed there, or at the
offices in the Kinney building after
February Is, and put away her extra
pin money until such time as she
needs it.
Started Two Years Ago
The Vacation Savings Fund was
started more than two years ago by a
number of prominent New York So
ciety women and women interested in
the welfare of girls in general. Miss
Robinson Smith is the chairman of
the committee, while Mrs. August
Belmont is the vice. chairman and an
active worker in behalf of the COM
mittee's work. Any new branches of
the fund that are started are done
under the advice of an advisory COM
mittee, consisting of seven prominent
New York men, headed by Henry w.
Taft, brother of eX-President William
H. Taft. In the two years the girls
and women in New York have saved
more than $4,000, without cost or
trouble to themselves. And the ma
jority found the money very handy
when vacation time came around.
The idea has worked with such
splendid success in New York city
and the few places in this city that
Miss Robinson Smith and the main
committee in New York, after a con-
sultation with the advisory commit
| tee, decided to start the fund on a
! large scale in this State With this
end in view, q committee of promin-
ent women from this city was ap-
pointed to gain the interest of the
employers of girls in and about New
ark. Miss Alice G. Kirkpatrick. of AZ
South street, was chosen SUD- chair
man of the main committee and was
given charge of the work in New
Jersey under the supervision of Miss
Robinson Smith, of the New York
committee.
Local Committee.
| Miss Kirkpatrick has as her assist
ants: Mrs. j. Lewis Hay, secretary:
Mrs. Franklin Murphy, ir., treasurer;
Mrs. George Barker, Mrs. Benjamin
Atha, Mrs. q. Belcher, Mrs Campbell
Clark. Mrs. Forrest Dryden, Mrs.
Frederick Frelinghuysen, Mrs. Felix
Fuld, Mrs. John Howell, Mrs. William
| b. Kinney, Mrs. Robert McCarter.
Mrs. M. r. Stanley.
| Yesterday at noontime Miss Rob-
inson Smith addressed 800 girls EN-
ployed at the factory of the American
Undergarment Company at "a Green
street and outlined the savings sys
tenn. The girls were so enthusiastic
about the idea that local branch
will be started in the factory on Feb
ruary Is.
1T is very essential" said Miss
Smith, that the employers of girls
take an interest in this undertaking
The whole thing is democratic and moi
a charity scheme by any means. Ths
lack of the usual red tape in an affail
of this kind makes 1t very easy fol
a girl to Join without a penny of cost
to herself. Her first five-cent deposit
will entitle her to the savings books
and she will then be able to save as
much as she cares to and when sht
wants to. The two main reasons fol
the savings fund are to make girl:
and women efficient and independent
Method of Starting Branches.
The method of establishing what II
known as a local branch of the funt
in a store or factory employing more
than twenty-five girls is as follows
The employer is interested, and he 1!
asked to appoint woman or girl t
take charge of the books and make
the collections from the girls holding
the books. Stamps of f1ve-cent, ten
cent, twenty -five-cent, fifty-cent ant
one dollar denominations are giver
to this woman, and when a girl wishes
to purchase any of these stamps she
gets them from the woman in her fac
tory or store and pays the amour
stipulated on the stamp. The stamp Il
then pasted in her book and she /:
credited with having saved tn,
amount on the stamp which she ha,
purchased. The money Is turned ovel
to the committee in charge at TIL,
Kinney building and Is then banked
until the time the girls wish to draw
1t out for their vacations.
In addition to the savings fund par
of the committees work they Issue {
booklet containing all the information
needed by q girl or woman who in
tends to go out of the city for va
cation. Boarding houses and hotel
are recommended. the rates given
the attractions at each place and thu
railroad fare with time tables are in
cluded in the booklet.
The booklet is distributed free o
charge to any girl who is enrolled Ii
the saving fund.
The New Jersey Vacation Commit
tee will hold its first vacation eve
ming in the auditorium Of the Ham
burg Place Public School, in Hamburg
place, on Monday evening at 5 o'clock
Miss Kirkpatrick and Miss Robinson
Smith will address the girls and ex
plain In detail every part of the va