Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-12
FIRE FAILS TO
CHECK energy OF
Y. v. CAMP Align

While Y. w. G. A. workers were
busily engaged in the campaign TO
raise 900 this morning, a fire
broke out in the ~" building, burn
ing an awning and spelling appear,
ances. 1t was rumored that the fire
was due to spontaneous combustion
caused by the flood of money flowing
into the Golfers.
All through the fire the workers
contBced to come in, and the janitoF
and one or two secretaries were left
to fight the flames. One OF the staff
hurled a bucket of cold water but il
struck the janitor who was rendered
hors de combat
A large sum is expected in the cam
paign which will end this week, and
the workers are bending every effort
to make a banner drive tomorrow. AS
an incident of the work which the wo-
men Of the association throughout
the world are doing the following let
ter which was recently received from
Halifax is particularly interesting and
significant when all the allied world
is mourning for the Canadian city
The letter is to Miss Dorothy ROwell
from her sister.
THE most interesting thing | have
heard this week was a description OF
her summers work in an ammunition
factory from Miss Murray, fourth
year medical student. Her cousin is
premier of Nova Scotia at present.
But ! wish could transcribe all she
told us of the two ammunition fac
tories where she spent ten weeks last
summer. 1t was good fun she said,
but hard, too
"The night shift on which she was
most Of the time, was from 6:15 to
7:15 a. M, thirteen hours of standing
on ones feet, handling heavy shells,
with just a half hour off at midnight
The day shift of eleven hours WIS
hotter, Of course, but she said that
even at night one would be dripping
with Precipitation as late as II o'clock.
She vas inspecting shells and mark
ing them for various Notifications.
thing requiring very minute measure
ments; then carrying them over to
the men who did the rectifying.
zone shell in each hand meant a
weight Of fifty-five pounds. and Of
course each one was handled as many
times as was necessary till passed.
There were all kinds Of people
there, college men and professional,
as well as clerks, mechanics and reg
ular factory workers. The girls wore
the uniform with trousers, which is
common IN England. The hardest
thing was not having regular meals:
she had to have her supper at half
past four, to get to the factory in
time, nothing from then TIL midnight,
Gnd In the morning too deadly sleepy
70 eat anything. They got so that they
could sleep anywhere. Sometimes
when work was not very pressing the
foreman would let her and another
girl 60 out for half an hour; then
they would climb on the roof of a
freight shed and sleep till they were
Awakened" 4
This Is what thousands, millions in
deed, Of the women of our allies are
doing to help win the war. In Ameri
ca these same conditions are begin.
ming to be felt. Last summer. several
hundred girls from Hunter College,
In New York, spent their vacations
doing such work in munition plants.
The Y. w. G. A. is doing great ser.
vice In having places Of rest available
for these women when they are off
duty, In having bit OF refreshment
ready for them to enable them to con.
.tinue their heroic work.
Part OF the $4,000 the Honolulu Y
w. c. A. is raising will go directly
for this purpose.