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Show which aims to Interest all girls in the association and its ideaJs. It is just twelve years since this organization or-ganization began its work in Salt Lake. ! During that time, with the exception of two years, Mrs. E. B. Ontchlow has been its faithful and efficient president. In 1906 an association boarding .home for girls was established in the old Anderson An-derson home on Third East street, and a little later a cafeteria was opened in the Brooks Arcade. In June, 1012, the association came into possession of a valuable property" at Third East and Third South streets. This gift, from the educational board of the Congregational church, made a wider scope of work possible. An Indebtedness of $25,000 on the property was, cleared by a vigorous building campaign, and the two buildings fitted up for use. The boarding home for girls was then moved to the commodious building on the corner of the grounds, and classes for girls, offering instruction in dressmaking, millinery, English, domestic science and 1 physical education were organized and conducted in the educational building. About the same time the cafeteria was moved to the sixth floor of the Continental Continen-tal National bank building, where it has expanded into a thriving, self-supporting' business. y. W. C. H. TO BEGIN DRIVE NEXT lOiif Finance Campaign Will ft Start at Lunch for Workers Work-ers in Cafeteria. The annual finance campaign of the Young Women's Christian association will begin next Monday with a luncheon for the workers at the Association cafeteria, Continental National bank building. Miss Sada Johnson of New York, Miss Elvira Slack and Miss Vera Barger, field secretaries, sec-retaries, who have come expressly to help in the campaign, will be the speakers. Only two departments of the Young Women's Christian association are self-supporting, self-supporting, the cafeteria and tne boarding board-ing home. For the maintenance of the other branches of the work, whtcn are in their nature philanthropic, the city at large being the beneficiary through the service rendered Its women and girls. It becomes necesasry each year to call upon the general public for financial aid in ! carrying on the work. I Not onlv is the Salt Lake association i an Indefinable force for civic betterment. but it Is doing a number of concrete ! things which contribute materially to the i city's welfare. The TiavWers' Aid do-: do-: partment keeps two women employed at i the two large railroad stations. These i women meet the incoming and outgoing ; trains and give assistance In many dif-j dif-j ferent way a to traveling girls and women. The employment bureau Is an impor-I impor-I tant feature of the association work. Here thousands of girls and women of all creeds and many nationalities are pro-t pro-t vided with work during the year, and it 1 Is here that much quiet rescue work is done. ! The cafeteria, attractive, spotlessly I clean, moderate in its chargfeS, ia an ideal place to go for a wholesome, appetizing, appe-tizing, inexpensive meal. The boarding homo has fifty young women as regular boarders; while many transients -girls in the city for a day or two are cared for. A new department has been added to the work within the last year, which has already become a valuable part of the Young Women's Christian association activities. ac-tivities. .This is the girls' work branch. |