The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-07
AUTHORS CLUB OPEN MEETING TUESDAY NIGHT Members to Hear Speaker
 On War Relief Work MINUTE WOMEN
 TO HELP TAG DAY Ladies of Charity to Hold
 Regular Meeting
 March 13

The Authors Club has devoted con- siderable time this winter to work for the Red Cross. Every Friday it has met at 2:30 o'clock instead of 4, the usual meeting hour, and has accomplished a great deal in that extra time. At the present time the club is working on layettes for the French babies. Believing that perhaps the enthusiasm of the mem bers would be stirred somewhat by a portrayal of conditions by one who has seen them A-st hand, arrange ments have been made for a special meeting of the club that will be held on Tuesday evening, in the Assembly hall of the Y. W. c. A.
 At this time, which will be an open or guest meeting of the club, the members are to have the privilege of asking five guests to be present. The speaker of the evening will be Mrs. Marie Coverdale, who has re- gently returned from England and France where she has been for the past year and a half doing war re- lief work. Her portrayal of condi- tions is most graphic and she speaks authoritatively. She talks in a most interesting manner and since her first talk a few weeks ago has been in great demand.
 The regular meeting of the club is to be held tomorrow afternoon at the home of Mrs. John Wooster on Park street. The members will meet at 2:30 o'clock for Red Cross work and at o'clock Mrs. Daniel Jones is to have paper on "The Prose of Henry Van DylSe.'
 Members of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the Advent Christian church, are remind there will be no meeting of the so- 1 ciety at the church, but the mem bers will devote the afternoon to Red Cross work in their homes.
 The Ladies of Charity St. Vincent | de Paul are to have their regular monthly meeting on Wednesday l March 13, at the Nurses Home or l Lindley street, and the president Mrs. W. D. Allen, will be in charge of the meeting. Those who have not made their returns from the con- cert given in Polfs theatre some few weeks ago are asked to report at this meeting as there is still quite num- | Der of tickets to be accounted fo1 l and it is the desire of the society to 1 be able to make full and complete | report.
 | Tomorrow evening the members ot | the Round Table of the Catholic l Charitable Bureau are to hold theil regular meeting at the office of the Bureau, 542 Fairfield avenue, at l o'clock.
 The Minute Women of the city arc ! to turn out on Saturday together with large number of other worker! to make the Tag Day of the Salvatio- Army a success. This body of work 1 CTS reaches a different class of mel from any other organization and i! 1 endeavoring to raise the sum of $6,' 500 for the erection of another hu l for war relief work at the front.
 'I used to laugh at the Y. M. c. A and the Salvation Army, but the! have done more good than any othe, charities for the comfort and amuse ment of the allied soldier. They art both wonderful organizations"
 These words were contained in letter written Somewhere in France by Sergt. Houghton Bulkeley to hi father, EX-Senator Morgan G. Bulke Jo,r ofT of converting the elder MT. Bulkele, to the Salvation Army cause, ant brought an unsolicited check for $2,
 000 It was the first contribution to ward the $200,000 fixed as New Eng lands share in the national drive fo $1,000,O00 for war work.
 ''If I am ever able, I am going t give money to the Y. M. c. A. at home and am never going by the Salvation Army people that stand on the cor ners without dropping in something, wrote Sergt. Bulkeley.
 That letter describing in a meagr way the part which the Salvation Army is playing in the great Worl War, gave the former solon his frs impression of what that work mean to the boys at the front.
 Accompanying his contribution, tn former Senator sent a copy of his son letter, to be used, as he said, in dem
 onstrating to other American father the importance of supporting the Sal
 vation Army in it's campaign to rais
 money with which to provide nor
 comforts for the boys who are fight
 ing for the cause of humanity. ':