The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-03-26
.ISLANDG|FTSAR
SUCCOR|NG women
DE6GAR[DDYWAR
Aloha and Honolulu Chairs Now
Filled ByDeeply Grateful
Needy Workers
UNION RATE PAID FOR
WEEK OF FORTY HOURS
AL Ages Employed: Younger Girls
Take Pains To Give Elders
Warm Seats

-- 80 y r.
Women Of Hawaii will be interested
10 know what their contributions to
the Americas Women s war Relief Fund
are accomplishing in London.
In a letter 10 Philip ~. Hall Of the
Paradise Tours, his cousin, Mrs. Char,
lotte g. ". jenkins, who is niece Of
Mrs. w. w. Hall of Honolulu, gives
some interesting details.
This American women's War Relief
Fund, writes Mrs jenkins, els really
formed of the representative American
women in London and they are doing
marvellous work.
II announced Ut business meeting
of the Society of American Women In
London the wonderfully generous gift
from the Hawaiian Islands and the an
nouneement was received with great
applause, and they were especially
pleased that the society should be
brought before the notice Of the peo-
pie Of Honolulu. ...,'.a,
Aloha Chair
Now / want to tell you whom / am
going to put In their chairs. .as ttl
In the Aloha chair is Lily willing
ham, a girl of seventeen, who is the
eldest OF six children and the principal
wage-earner of the family, which, be-
sides the children, consists of her
mother and n blind father, who is
dying of cancer of the stomach. The
eldest brother, a boy Of fifteen years,
earns from five to six shillings week
on the Great Northern railway, and
this, with Liiy's ten shillings, is the
family income. tAbout 1913 a week
10 support eight persons). They are
A. decent respectable family and have
had very, hard time 20 2.
ISL have just finished letter 10 Mrs.
Catheryne Eaton, who sent me check
for the maintenance of a chair, to be
called the Hawaiian chair. ~. g. Z.
I'm the Honolulu chair am putting
Mrs. Walsh, an old Irish woman Of
sixty-six. She Is such dear old per-
sons, and yet she has had such hard
time. She was for years employed as
working housekeeper in the Great Mid
land hotel and managed to save q lot
of money There she had an accidenti
to her arm and of course used up much
of her savings. Then married daught,
or fell on hard times. OF course the
mother, had to help her, and so it has
{ gone on, NY r. +"" 'l@A
When she came to me, she only ask.
ed to be employed on half time, which
means five shillings a week. She is
living at the Mary Curzon Hostel for
Women, where her rooms cost her two
and six pence week and with the other
two and six she thought she could keep
herself i'm food, as she said, Il needn Z
eat mneh, as am kept so nice and
warm there TX
This week ] am putting her onto
full time and also having her take
charge Of the cleaning of the house, and
she is very proud OF her busting and
profuse in her thanks. She is dear old
soul and we all like to see her CHEEKY
face, and she will be most grateful
when | tell her to whom she Is indebted
for her employment. .@'E ..
All Ages Employed II
p THE ages of the women are most di,
versifed. The youngest is just sixteen
and the oldest seventy.three, but they
seem to get along together very nicely,
though many workers said to me that |
should never be able to mix ages. How
ever, slthave not found il so, and the
younger girls take pains to see that the
cider women have warm corners by the
hre and that they are helped up and
down stairs when their rheumatism is
especially bad. seP. r
80 only wish that you could come and
see the rooms and hear Them singing at
their work and dancing during their
noon hour 1t really repays one for all
the efforts made. ,, ,ra p Ee. VI
Mrs. Jenkins also sends q report she
wrote for the Society of American Wo.
men in London ON their knitting fac
tory in Islington, NJ, established to
relieve distress among Englishwomen
who had lost their means OF livelihood
as a result Of the war. II is In this fac
tory that the Aloha, Hawaii and Homo
lulu chairs have been established.
After a careful survey Of the fields
covered by other charities" says the
report, '.and an estimate of our re-
sources, 1t was suggested that we start
knitting factory, the demand fol
hand ,knitted articles being very great
and likely to continue.
Union Rates Paid a:
We pay women the trades union rate
of three pence per hour for fOrty-hour
week, making q total of ten shillings
week. -" Many of the women
have had no employment since the war
began. Those who we have taken on
lately have been unemployed for ten
and twelve weeks and have existed by
pawning their things and on credit from
the local tradebmen, who, in spite of the
"""' '''"'". of the war, have given credit
urrt DOR people,
we are paying wages to TWEEN.
g. omen. 49, The warm,
''u, gratitude of the women is so
ar"r lnNt wish every one who is
~o}r.r,'og this work might see it. One
.'o'" Il nix that they might take II as
a' Of course. They do not They
ahf' quite clearly what is being, done
tn N and try. to show their appre-
.1i'' If IT, They take great pride
a." work and try to exceed the rec
- sock day. w.. 49,
e. october 10 we moved into our