Show in a good work five years ago a little company of working girls met to talk together of something to brighten the lives of working women tbt anniversary of that meeting was held in a club house belonging to a society of working women the second anniversary was celebrated by a convention of the different clubs formed on the original plan of the first society the third anniversary united in an association of these working girls clubs the fourth celebration of the day convened hundreds of delegates from different states and cities where similar clubs had been formed and united in association the latest step is the organization for he purpose of raising and managing a fund known as the mutual benefit fund of the new york association of working girls societies the object of which is to provide for its members in case of illness or death any working girl who is a member in good standing of one of the clubs in the new york association is entitled to membership in the new society and by paying the small dues of twenty five cents a month will receive in case of sickness 5 each week until her recovery and 30 in caad of her death shall be paid to her surviving relatives the officers of this society are mrs gaspar griswold president mrs H 01 les heimer vice president miss potter general secretary and miss virginia general treasurer there is also a board of managers consisting of representatives appointed from the different clubs one representative for each twenty members and the general officers who have entire control of all the of the society the supervision of tha fund and the payment of its benefits like all the working girls societies this new society is in no sense ft charitable one but managed on the co operatic plan entirely new york world |