Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-11-05

Cannot something be done by be
nevolvnt ladies that shall remain a
permanent institution" This was
the question asked by Mrs. Lucretit
Boyd a city missionary OF boston, de-
pressed by the deplcrable state of
things existing among the self-sup-
porting girls whom she met. Her reg
ular duties took her from house to
house, from street to street month
after month, and she knew that many
young women were rooming and
boarding themselves in the attics OF
lodging houses where the better
| rooms OF the lower stories were occu-
pied by young men. Few made a parl
of any pleasant social circle, but were
either lonely and discouraged or ready
for chance acquaintance at railroad
stations, on the street or in places Of
Worldiiness and folly. Some Of these
girls had been re!lgiuusly educated
and had sufficient Inherent strength
to resist the downward tendencies of
city life, but others were unconscious
of their own danger.
Young womor were continually
coming from all parts of New Eng
land and the maritime provinces to
earn their living III Boston, but there
was no agency offering protection o.
advice to them as strangers. When
| i'll they were ne eglocted, when out OF
work they were helpless. Mrs. BOYD
| set IN order the facts made up from
her diary entries of several years, ami
| reused the interest of sor!e Of the
| leading Christian women She re-
ceived a hearing of the Boston city
| Missionary Christian association, and
II looked as il the desired permanent
| institution were to be compassed in
| 1852
one of the women, Mrs. Edwin
Lamsnn of the Park street church,
| discussed the plans with her pastor.
| lie thought the women could not do
all this alone, and that the men would
not help in the undertaking, vet he
| presented the matter to the ministers
meeting. His brethren evidently saw
| eye to eye with him, for them decided
that it would be hazardous FOR the
/ ladies' To undertake such a scheme.
and seemed to believe that in advis-
ing them against it they were kindly
preventing them from making fail
ure. NonplusSed, the women saw no
way TO go ahead in establishing Il
| Christian organization in opposition to
/ the leaders of Christian affairs. and
action was indefinitely postponed
Response Was Nil.
This unfavorahle response from the
clergy was all the more unexpected
| because they had been most active a
| few years before in forming the loCa:
| Young Mems Christian association, al
| though sea captain, Thomas V.
sullivan, was the real moving spirit.
He had read in his denominational
| paper, The Waterman and Reflector,
an account of the London Young
Mems Christian association. written
| 4 than1nyip.1 -t M do M
visiting London, and reporting upon
this novel organization. where there
is no turning crank, no doing good
by proxy, which asks for men, young
men, nothing more Captain Sulli-
van is said to have visited the Lon
don association, to have become a.
enthusiastic as the previous America!
visitor, and to have lost no time ir
imparting his knowledge and entnusi'
asm to the young men in his owr
home city. They advised With theii
pastors and Boston organized on De
cember 29, 1851, the first Young Men:
Christian association in the Unitet
States. They afterwards heard tha
Montreal. Canada. had taken the same
step some weeks before. Within {
year twelve hundred men had joinoC
and the first quarters had been out
grown
oHly one conclusion can De QrdWI
from this unhappy attempt at inter
denominational work for girls, namely
that the pastors knew the needs o
the young men of the community
much better than the needs of tn,
young women. They probably had no
realized tina young women We're enter
ing the business world to such an cx
tent that the reasons. for the com
bination of effective religious appea
with Il humanitarian social-servic'
emphasis upon a better environment
for the tempted young man" We're be
coming valid also in the case of youns
, women. This realization came a lit
tie later when someone said, 9TH,
considerations that have led to the
formation of a Young Mems Chris
tian association apply, if possible, witt
increasing force in the case Of youn.
women. who. from their position ant
sex, are more unprotected and mor'
helpless" And the next time the cal
for the young women of Boston wa
sounded 1t was heard and needed.
5 Suspects Make Bond.
Special to The World.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. A.