New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-04
Women Throng Carnegie
Hall at Memorial to Or
ganizatiOn's Founder.
800 COLLEGE GIRLS
LEAD SONG SERVICE
Appeal for S250,000 in Honor Of
Miss Dodge Read TO Big
Audience.

You might think that one woman
dream wouldn't count much. But FIVE
thousand young women and young
women grown older followed the white
robed ushcrg into Carnegie Hall last
night 70 celebrate the hftieth anniyer-
sary Of that dream. A the great hall
shook with their cheers. j.. echoed also
the distant voices Of other women who.
IN all the cities and towns Of the United
States. had come together. hundreds OF
thousands Of them, 10 honor Miss Grace
lioadlcy Dodge, mother Of the national
Young Women Christian Association.
In the early and difficult years Of the
association Miss Dodge had dreamed
all by herself, for few others believed
i possible that il might come 90 be
great national power. Everywhere in
the United States last night crowds tes-
tilted TO the fact that il is alive. and !;
has come 10 be such power that the
Rev. DR.. Henry Sloane Coffin, of the
Madison Avenue Pres byterian Church,
called j. the most widely useful or
ganization Of women in the world
Bishop Greer sent the throngs on:
with prayer for their next fifty years
Of service. The Rev. Dr.. Coffin made
the address Of the evening, and the
Rev. DR.. William Pierson Merrill led
in the responsive reading. Yet II was
really a jubilee OF women, for women
and by women. The audience was
4 Il.
was woman's chorus OF 800 IN
college gowns that led the singing, AMI
IL was women who took and Who gave
the Grace Hoadley Dodge memorial
gift, which. it is thought will come 20
lie IA quarter of million dollars dur
ing the month Of March.
A huge American flag was drsped
over the stage last night, and under II
was big blue banner bearing the
numerals "s66-19l6.' On the stage
were the college girl chorus, the speak
crs and some of the officers of the as
ISOLATION, among them Mrs. Robert +.
Speer, president of the national or
SANITATION, and Mrs. James Stewart
Cushman, president OF the Young
Wom.r'g Christian Association OF New
YORK City.
The jubilee service began with a pro-
cessional hymn, Rejoice. Ye Pure in
Heart sung by the audience standing.
Then the Invocation was pronounced by
the Rev. Cornelius Woelfkin. OF Cal
vary Baptist Church. Mrs. Robert +.
Speer, president of the national board,
made d speech Of greeting.
I'VE have come TO take look over
the fifty years ahead Of us. rather than
over the half century of the organlza-
49, l..
national Jubilee stands for liberty and
for rejoicing"
DIR. Coffin. in his address, told of the
activities that had made the Young
Women's Christian Association the
most widely useful organization OF
women in the world $500,
Some of the good ladies OF 1866
might be little startled at the courses
in fancy dancing he said. ms, ne
thought. was not the less spiritual.
sampson had been one Of the hrst
advocates o. athletics, and Barnabas
had set the precedent for the travei-
lers' aid Of the modern Young Women's
Christian Association. His address was
concluded by prayer OF praise, gwen
bv the audience in unison.
Mr.. James Stewart Cushman, presi'
don't Of the New York organization,
gave an appreciation OF Miss ponge
and Robert +. Speer read the appeal
that was being made all over the Unit
ed States last night for the Dodge
Memorial gift. and the offering vas
taken by girls OF the association. Ihen
the audience was dismissed with
prayer and benediction by ne hlgn.
Rov. David Hummell Greer Bishop OF
New York.
Among those in boxes or on the stage
we're Mrs. stephen Parker, Mrs. Cleve'
land II. Dodge, Miss Elizabeth Dodge
Wrs. William Fellowes Morgan. MIS-: J.
FINLEY Shepard. Mrs. John French, Mrs.
Henry sloane Coffin. chairman OF the
serv,ce: Mrs. W. W Rossiter, Mrs
Clarence +. Beebe. Mrs. Dave II. Nor
RS. Mrs. Douglas Mathcwson. Mrs.
charlotte Stillman and Miss Gertrude
Macarthur.