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THE Western Reserve of Ohio . . and ..
Some of Its Pioneers
Places and
Women's Clubs By MRS. WILLIAM G. ROSE
VOL. II 11
1915
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COLLEGE WOMEN'S CLUB WASHINGTON, D. C.
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A GROUP OF REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN
1. MRS. POTTER PALMER, PRES. LADY BOARD OF MANAGERS WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION
2. MRS. HENROTIN, PRES. WOMAN'S BRANCH AUXILIARY, WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION
3. MRS. CHARLOTTE EMERSON BROWN, PRES. GENERAL FEDERATION OF WOMAN'S CLUBS
4. MRS. W, G. ROSE, PRESIDENT CLEVELAND SOROSIS
5. MRS. A. A. DAVIDSON, PRESIDENT NATIONAL SCIENCE CLUB
1915 Press of Euclid Printing Company Cleveland
INTRODUCTION
In this second book of the Western Reserve some of its Pioneers, Places and Women's Clubs we have given the sub- jects discussed at the organization of that club. For instance at the first meeting of the Women's Employment Society the matron of The Bethel told of the truancy of boys who had no well-fitting garments and were made fun of by other boys, and advised that we buy cloth and employ poor seamstresses to make them, giving thereby work to these needy poor. She said many women with small children could do this work that had not strength or time to go from home in search of it.
In Sorosis we have given the first meeting in New York city, who chose a name that would define its object. Sorosis means many clubs in one, each with separate officers and meth- ods, and would give one month to the general society and pre- sentits best papers at that time. Thus Sorosis would have eight very fine programs. It also gave opportunity for many offi- cers, and their interest in it made a large gathering at these monthly meetings. Helen Watterson Moody, a Cleveland jour- nalist, gave us Sorosis constitution of New York. We made only two alterations, the fee for admission and the annual dues. Jennie June, the third president of Sorosis, came from New York to give us courage, as did Helen Watterson Moody. The membership at the end of the third year was 369. Only those who desired need take part, but they could listen to able papers, forget the weariness of house work or the fatigue of caring for children or be soothed for the death of friends. It soon became one of the largest clubs in the state and is now with its Junior Auxiliary.
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The Health Protective Association was formed from mem- bers of Sorosis who would influence public officers to have clean streets. They soon persuaded the city council to purchase waste paper boxes that would by their advertisements pay for them, and a garbage plant, which also paid for itself by its grease and fertilizer, and had placed in street cars a fine of five dol- lars for spitting on the floor. Three playgrounds were made by the Health Protective Association, and the city soon intro- duced many of them. Cleveland had not yet adopted the rule of Toledo that weeds must be cut before they come to seed in border lots or the city would do it and charge it in the taxes of the lot.
There was one lot cultivated by the H. P. A. Now the Cleveland Plain Dealer is doing this work with great success and other cities are sending persons to see and report ways and methods.
The new methods are so often by new officers that the idea of change of officials, say two years, as in our Legislative As- sembly, is beginning to prevail. There is no reason that ex- officio members should lose their interest in anything in which they have been actively engaged.
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THE WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY
Believing that the strong should help the weak, that many of our poor could support themselves, if aided in obtaining employment, a large band of ladies organized a society in No- vember last to furnish as much sewing as their means would allow and constituted themselves a committee to buy material and sell the garments. Prices to be paid were fixed by the committee.
Many were obliged to work twelve to fourteen hours for the pittance that would supply rent, food and fuel, and were carrying bundles of work that ought to be delivered by a wagon.
The lady in charge of the work, at a salary of four dollars a week, investigated personally and encouraged by a little in- struction those who failed in some of the minor details and was invaluable in securing good work done. After a few trials the garments were neatly made.
The unsalable ones were given to the Bethel, of whom the society received four-fifths of its seamstresses and from whom it received an order for $100 worth of cloth.
The Women's Employment Society held its first meeting November 13, 1885, with its capital donated by Messrs. J. H. Wade, M. D. Leggot, Thomas K. White, Julius French, J. B. Cory, Capt. A. Bradey, Root & McBride, Edward Townsend & Co., ten dollars each. F. A. Sterling and Mrs. Joseph Cody each five dollars and smaller donations.
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Collected by Miss Bascom and Mrs. W. G. Rose, total ... $125.00 Associated Charities in cloth 100.00
Thos. Kilpatede, satin badges 5.00
M. Taylor, India linen. 4.50
Gen. Barnett, for clothing 8.00
McGillen, twenty yards cotton cloth 1.60
Donation of J. H. Doan 25.00
Entertainment Nov. 29, Dec. 1
23.00
Dinners given Jan. 19, 20. 246.99
Total $539.09
Garments sold for Telequah Mission 7.40
Garments sold Feb. 6. 101.22
Sold since Feb. 6 by Mrs. J. M. Haight 30.31
Total . $678.02
$738.02
Paid for sewing by Mrs. Granger $219.35
Paid to Mrs. Granger for cutting 112.00
Paid for printing report 11.00
Incidentals 8.62
For job printing. 16.25
$368.22
Balance
$379.80
CONSTITUTION
Whereas, during the present great depression in business, and the many urgent demands for charity, and fully realizing that many of the most worthy objects of such help are never reached by direct giving; therefore, we the undersigned ladies of the City of Cleveland, O., do hereby join ourselves in a bodv to be known as the Woman's Employment Society of Cleveland,
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and to give such aid in the way of employment to that class of worthy poor women of this city, who, otherwise, would suffer great destitution rather than be known as paupers; and be- lieving that true charity consists in giving such employment as will enable the applicants to support themselves, therefore, we the undersigned, do hereby join ourselves in this organization to co-operate with other charitable organizations of the city, and give such aid to the above named class of poor women as we may find within our power.
MEMBERS
Mrs. J. H. Wade,
Mrs. Dr. E. T. Goucher,
Mrs. D. R. Tilden,
Mrs. H. B. Payne,
Mrs. L. M. Oviatt,
Mrs. J. M. Phelps,
Mrs. F. H. Penfield,
Mrs. W. G. Rose,
Mrs. H. C. Ranney,
Mrs. J. K. Hord,
Mrs. E. D. Beery,
Mrs. T. C. Stiles,
Mrs. B. D. Babcock,
Mrs. James M. Hoyt,
Mrs. J. C. Miller,
Mrs. Stevenson Burke,
Mrs. H. B. Corner,
Mrs. W. J. Rainey,
Mrs. J. S. Tilden,
Mrs. J. C. Preston,
Mrs. S. T. Wellman, Mrs. Joseph Cody,
Mrs. N. P. Bowler,
Mrs. W. S. Kerrush,
Mrs. G. B. Selover,
Mrs. Joe Wade,
Mrs. John Cary,
Mrs. B. A. Hinsdale,
Mrs. H. C. Bedell,
Mrs. E. G. Rose,
Mrs. H. Oviatt,
Mrs. A. A. Granger,
Mrs. G. Barber, Mrs. G. A. Ingersoll,
Mrs. Walter Austin,
Miss Mary Quintrell,
Mrs. C. H. Seymour,
Mrs. F. W. Britton,
Mrs. E. C. Parmelee,
Mrs. A. M. Burke,
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Mrs. E. B. Hale,
Mrs. A. W. Campbell,
Mrs. P. E. Dieterichs,
Mrs. Chas. Lowman,
Mrs. J. B. Cory,
Mrs. W. A. Ingham,
Mrs. X. X. Crum,
Mrs. J. C. Covert,
Mrs. Lewis Ford,
Mrs. F. G. Blythe,
Mrs. E. R. Pearson,
Mrs. G. G. Souden,
Mrs. S. Stillson,
Mrs. Carroll Cutler,
Mrs. S. C. Kane,
Mrs. G. W. Little,
Mrs. Wm. Robison,
Mrs. A. M. Searles,
Mrs. O. C. Whitney.
President, Mrs. J. H. Wade.
First Vice President, Mrs. J. M. Phelps.
Second Vice President, Mrs. D. R. Tilden.
Third Vice President, Mrs. B. A. Hinsdale. Fourth Vice President, Mrs. E. B. Hale. Fifth Vice President-Mrs. John Cary. Sixth Vice President, Mrs. James Hoyt. Seventh Vice President, Mrs. Carroll Cutler. Recording Secretary, Mrs. W. G. Rose. Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. A. M. Searles. Treasurer, Mrs. H. C. Bedell.
Assistant Treasurer, Mrs. G. A. Robertson.
Cutter, Mrs. A. A. Granger, No. 46 Wood Street.
COMMITTEES
Purchasing Committee-Mrs. J. M. P. Phelps, Mrs. W. G. Rose, Mrs. D. R. Tilden, Mrs. T. C. Stiles.
Committee on Ordered Work-Mrs. S. C. Kane, Mrs. A. M. Searles, Mrs. A. A. Granger.
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Mrs. J. W. Willard,
Mrs. Wm. Price,
Mrs. Alfred Gerty,
Mrs. Alfred Hopkins, Miss A. Wade,
Mrs. L. L. Leggett,
Mrs. G. A. Robertson,
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Entertainment Committee-Mrs. J. K. Hord, Mrs. F. A. Penfield, Mrs. E. P. Dietrich, Mrs. A. Barnitz, Mrs. A. Camp- bell, Miss M. Quintrell, Mrs. Phelps, Mrs. W. Robinson, Mrs. C. H. Seymour, Mrs. E. G. Rose.
Selling Committee-Mrs. W. G. Rose, Mrs. A. A. Granger, Miss M. Quintrell, Mrs. B. A. Hinsdale.
Investigating Committee-Mrs. E. B. Hale, Mrs. N. P. Bowler, Mrs. E. C. Parmelee, Mrs. A. A. Granger, Mrs. H. V. C. Gregg.
Cutter-Mrs. A. A. Granger.
The duty of the Cutter shall be to give a weekly account to the Treasurer and Secretary of the balance on hand; the num- ber of bolts of cloth received from Purchasing Committee; the number and kind of garments into which this was cut; what was paid for the making of each kind; the number of garments given out where the work was furnished by others; the number of women employed; their places of residence, and the amount paid to each; their improvement and condition as far as prac- ticable; the money and cloth needed for the ensuing week; the balance of money and cloth on hand.
Each member of, or subscriber to the Society, shall be en- titled to send the name of only one woman to the Society for work during the winter, except by special permission from the Board of Managers, but no woman so sent to the Society shall be given work without a thorough investigation shall have been made by the proper person or committee appointed by the Board of Managers.
The annual meeting of the Society shall be held the first week in November, of each year, and the Secretary shall give one week's notice of such meetings to the various committees,
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and a fine of one dollar shall be imposed on all absentees from the annual meeting, and no fine shall be remittea except for sickness, or other excuse thought reasonable by the Society.
The work was in the dull season of summer, when the fac- tories supply at half-pay, and is therefore a great help to the poor. Four-fifths of cost was received from Government; the balance was supplied by contribution, and the rendering of the operetta of "Red Riding Hood," in the Euclid Avenue Opera House, July 13 and 14, 1885.
Thanks are extended to Mrs. Klumph, the lady in charge, and to the Misses Westover, Hutchins, Pettee, Harris, Wade and Norcross, for leading parts. Also to the little girls who, as fairies, gave such exquisite beauty to the whole play, and to Mrs. Haywood, pianist, who has suffered since then from a misstep and fall from the platform. The net proceeds were $169.54. We would return thanks to the Teachers of the Public and Mrs. Mittleberger's Schools for our first patronage, and to the ladies of Idaka and First Baptist Church, for purchase of garments for Indian missions; Mesdames M. Taylor, C. H. Sey- mour, G. Hyde, H. A. Sherwin, J. P. Standart, A. B. Buell, W. G. Rose, L. Latimer and Mrs. James Parker.
From entertainment given after organizing Society when thanks are due Mrs Robinson and Mr. and Mrs. Dietrich for a fine rendering of "Miss Maloney and the Chinese Question."
The net proceeds were $23.25. W. H. Doan donated $25.00 for rent.
Mr. Heyse loaned silver, Mr. Levan loaned crockery, Mr. Sneed loaned crockery, Mr. Krause donated half a ton of coal, Mr. Dietrich donated gasoline, Mr. Ostermeyer donated cream.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Office of Indian Affairs
March 24, 1885.
Mrs. Emma D. Berry,
Madam:
Yours of the 21st inst. only reached me this morning.
Immediately after making the arrangement to furnish the samples, I sent to New York and ordered them sent as directed. Two days ago the bill for payment of the samples was sent to me which I paid from my own funds.
I presume the samples were sent to Cleveland at the same time the bill for payment was sent to me and I hope they have been received before now. I will, however, write or telegraph to New York this morning to know about it. I will speak to my successor and believe you will have no trouble about the matter.
Very respectfully,
HIRAM PRICE,
Commissioner.
Cincinnati, May 15, 1885.
Mrs. W. G. Rose, Sec'y W. E. S., Cleveland, O.
Bought of J. V. L. SEASONGOOD & CO. Importers and Wholesale Dealers in
Woolens, and Manufacturers of Clothing
7521/2 yards jeans, color 1 style, for 296 pants ... 271/2 $216.94
Less 5 per cent. 10.34
$196.60
For trimming and cutting, 296 pants .40 118.40
$315.00
Paid by draft sent May 23, 1885.
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Mrs. W. G. Rose, Sec'y W. E. S., Cleveland, O. Bought of J. V. L. SEASONGOOD & CO. Importers and Wholesale Dealers in Woolens, and Manufacturers of Clothing
Style 1-5481/4 yards jeans II for 212 pants. . .271/2
$150.77
Less 5 per cent. 7.53
$143.24
For cutting and trimming 212 jeans, pants . . ... 40 84.80
$228.04
Paid by draft sent May 23, 1885.
No charge for boxes, cooperage and drayage.
$900.00 Cleveland, May 14, 1885.
Five months after date we promise to pay to the order of H. R. Groff, Treasurer, nine hundred dollars, at the First National Bank of Cleveland. Value received, with interest at 4 per cent. MARTHA E. P. ROSE.
Cutting flannel shirts 11.63
Braid and thread 14.35
Making garments for government.
253.95
Commission of 2 per cent.
20.00
Freight 10.02
Insurance 3.10
Cartage
.40
Interest on $900.00, six months.
19.52
Received from government for 900 garments.
822.00
Received from Red Riding Hood Operetta, given July 13 and 14, for Indian work.
156.51
Donation of flannel
50.00
Donation from Adams Express Company
1.60
Freight to New York
11.80
Value of stock on hand, 149 shirts
77.49
Strause & Orth
5.00
Mrs. Collins
5.00
E. J. Baldwin
5.00
H. R. Groff
5.00
Total cost 1,087.01
MRS. N. A. GILBERT, Treasurer.
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INDIAN CONTRACT WORK
Expense
$1,074.13
Receipts
1,107.90
Balance
$33.77
MRS. W. G. ROSE,
Chairman Committee.
SUMMARY
Cleveland, Ohio, year 1885
Paid cash for materials $889.62
Paid women for work 650.00
Paid to cutter 112.00
Paid incidentals 8.62
Paid printing 16.00
Balance to credit 171.09
Received membership fees 60.00
Cash donations, November, 1884
94.00
Goods at Mr. Haight's 67.34
Interest in bank 3.00
Total balance at close of year
238.49
Garments sold 308.25
As Chairman of the Contract Committee Mrs. Rose re- ported :
The United States Government expends yearly millions of money in improvements and supplies for the army, navy and Indian Agencies, beside the Harbor and River Appropriations. Cities like New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincin- nati and Baltimore are places where goods to the agencies are shipped, and they no doubt manufacture articles constantly for these departments.
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April 2nd the probable opportunity to make garments for the Indian Agencies was discussed and referred to the Asso- ciated Charities-a committee to take charge of the government contract consisting of Mesdames Rose, Phelps, Styles, Wade, Quintell and Searles-the time, on account of change in admin- istrations was limited to September 10th. The garments were reduced in number to eight hundred. Five hundred Kentucky jean pants and three hundred grey flannel shirts. Through rec- ommendation of Secretary of Interior, I. & L. Seasongood furnished and cut the jean pants.
Cleveland should have some of this work, and in March last the Secretary of Interior said to one of our members: Let your Women's Employment Society say how much they want and they shall have it.
From a printed list of eight thousand shirts, calico flannel, overalls, pantaloons and suits we chose to make these, because these samples were sent to us: five hundred pairs of jean pants and three hundred grey flannel shirts. The merchants of the city interested themselves in finding the cloth and the work was begun about the second week in May, to be sent to New York by the first of September.
In response to advertisements we hired in these days all who could do the work. And as they applied we gave them each a trial. The garments were well and often beautifully made, and these women offered to continue the work.
Our cloth had cost us about what we received from the government, for the competition is very close, and we offered to take it below the lowest bidder.
The trouble after having secured the cloth has been small in comparison to what it would be to secure an equal amount of work in any other direction. The goods were cut by J. M. Seasongood & Co. of Cincinnati, and the Rosenblatt Bros. of
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Water street, and were delivered to Mrs. J. M. Haight, 1173 Euclid, who has kept a careful account of it, and in the ab- sence from the city of many of the contract committee, much of the work has fallen upon her. She has a list of those who ap- plied, the work taken and amount paid. One lady remarked: "Prices in Cleveland were much lower than in Cincinnati." One had made bags for hams at 35 cents per hundred, and must find something that yielded larger returns.
Our work goes to those who must remain at home during the day and cannot be hurried in their work, but can do it at their own convenience. It helps to pay their rent or furnish a few of the luxuries of life that promote health.
It is money from outside the city, and is that much more to be circulated in our midst. I wish it could be as Mr. Rosen- blatt said, he saw a firm that furnished $67,000 dollars worth of suits for the agency, and they had to be all repeated, because of some slight mistake.
It has not been all fair sailing with us, but we can rejoice in the fact that our goods have been accepted. A letter dated October 3 says the inspector reports the goods furnished by you as satisfactory in material and manufacture. It will cost us between one and two hundred dollars, but we have given nearly three hundred dollars worth of work out of the little more than a thousand dollars invested. It goes to those who say "We have a hard time to get along, but we want to earn what we get."
Every day some one is asking "When will your society be- gin?" and in its regular work it will have an opportunity to help those who are not, nor can they be, trained seamstresses.
We had the mistake made by the cutter of making 300 shirts of men's sizes, but as our award was for boys and men's and he followed the sample sent, we purchased additional cloth to fill the order for boys.
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These shirts will certainly bring the price the government pays for them, 55c and 43c. They are of the strongest material and best thread, and are now at Mr. Haight's. Had we had this contract last autumn we could have made four times the amount, and perhaps with less mistakes, but we have done better than we hoped. Not one pair of pants missing in the whole eight hun- dred garments.
The operetta of "Red Riding Hood," given in the Opera House, July 13th and 14th.
New Scenery Beautiful Costumes
Eminent Soloists
Directress
Mrs. M. Klumph
Leader of Orchestra Prof. Thorndyke
Pianist
Mrs. J. Heywood
CAST
Red Riding Hood Edith Harris
Wolf Mr. Herbert Willson
Robin . George Sellers
Mother Miss Lizzie Norcross
Woodman Mr. Will Hatch
Grandmother
Miss Edna Thomas
Fairy Queen Miss Helen Hutchins Harlequins
Clare Burt
Helen Skinner
School Girls Mrs. J. Wade, Miss C. M. Westover
Rose.
Miss Hattie Pettee
Buttercup Mabel Evans
Blue Bells-Chorus.
Twelve (12) Little Girls
Village Chorus . Fifty (50) Voices
Fairy Chorus Twenty (20) Young Ladies
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SYNOPSIS
Overture-By the orchestra.
Act I. Away to the Village Green. Mamma sends Red Riding Hood to her Grandma with goodies. Villagers returning.
Act. II. Fairy revel in the heart of the forest. Queen commands her fairies to protect Riding Hood from the terrible wolf, once a fairy but changed to a roaming monster for wick- edness. Beautiful Fairy Tableau.
Act III. Riding Hood on her way to her Grandma. The flowers beguile her with song and beauty. Buttercups, Blue- bells and Rose Encounters Wolf. Woodman's Song. Enter Fairies. Solo-"I am a Fairy Queen."
INDIAN CONTRACT WORK
Begun May 14th, closed September 1st.
Money borrowed from the bank $900.00
Paid for 500 Pants, cutting and furnishing 543.04
Flannel for 300 Shirts 166.58 Additional Boys' Shirts 63.84
Hundreds applied for work. Their honorable desire, to give an equivalent for money received, was thus made mani- fest; but with our small capital only a very few of those most needy could be given work.
The lady whom we employed to cut, give out, and receive work, listened with sympathy, and investigated as thoroughly as a visit to their homes and neighbors will give, and gave work to fifteen needle women.
Ordered work, where the material was furnished, aided us in employing more sewing women, until it has become a large source of revenue.
For the convenience of customers, Mrs. J. M. Haight, at Euclid Station, took our goods into her store and has been of
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great assistance in bringing our goods to the notice of friends. We wish our garments to have all the merits of the home-made article, in quality and durability. The patterns are suggested by neighbors, and the cutter renders invaluable service by in- structing and finishing the minor details of each garment. A number thus encouraged and recommended have found perman- ent places of work, or become cheerful and brave under the difficulties of life.
In the death of our beloved Treasurer, Mrs. H. C. Bedell, February 9th, 1885, we mourn the early termination of a most promising and useful life, and a faithful and capable officer.
In March we received from the Secretary of the Interior at Washington, an order for nine hundred garments for the United States Indian Agencies.
Mrs. W. G. Rose, Chairman of Contract Committee, se- cured the cloth and furnishings for five hundred Kentucky jean pants, of Seasongood & Co., Cincinnati, for $543.04.
Mesdames A. M. Searles and T. C. Stiles obtained from Strauss & Orth flannel for three hundred shirts. The garments were made in sixty days, thirty women employed.
INDIAN CONTRACT WORK
Expense $1,074.13
Receipts 1,107.90
Balance 33.77
SUMMARY
Attendance during the year, 226; number of sessions, 20; average attendance, 11.
The government work was given exclusively to a Commit- tee, as it was considered mainly an experiment, and is reported by the Treasurer in a separate statement.
Mrs. W. G. Rose, Recording Secretary.
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BOARD OF ADVISORS
Mr. J. H. Wade,
Hon. D. R. Tiden,
Mr. X. X. Crum,
Mr. E. B. Hale,
Mr. Henry Ranney,
Hon. Geo. Ely,
Judge R. P. Ranney,
Gen. L. L. Leggett,
Mr. George Gardner, Rev. J. B. Corey,
Judge J. K. Hord,
Col. W. H. Harris,
Gen. James Barnett,
Mr. Edwin Cowles,
Mr. W. H. Doane,
Mr. W. J. Rainey,
Mr. A. C. Hord,
Mr. J. H. Rhodes.
BOARD OF MANAGERS
Mrs. J. H. Wade,
Mrs. D. R. Tilden,
Mrs. J. M. Phelps,
Mrs. E. B. Hale,
Mrs. T. C. Stiles,
Mrs. Carroll Cutler,
Mrs. E. G. Rose,
Mrs. Stevenson Burke,
Mrs. J. S. Tilden,
Mrs. James Hoyt,
Mrs. Wm. Robison,
Mrs. B. D. Babcock,
Mrs. H. Oviatt,
Mrs. H. B. Payne,
Mrs. G. A. Robertson,
Mrs. F. H. Penfield,
Mrs. N. A. Gilbert,
Mrs. A. W. Campbell,
Mrs. W. G. Rose,
Mrs. J. K. Hord,
Mrs. John Cary, Mrs. B. A. Hinsdale,
Miss Mary Quintrell,
Mrs. W. J. Rainey,
Mrs. Carroll Cutler,
Hon. H. B. Payne,
Mr. T. P. Handy,
Dr. Carroll Cutler,
Mrs. S. T. Wellman.
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FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF WOMAN'S EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND, OHIO
November 4th, 1885
At our first meeting, after organizing, Mrs. E. C. Parmelee, of the Bethel, stated that many boys were unable to attend school for want of suitable clothing. The mothers who applied to her for assistance had little time and no skill in altering clothing to fit the form, and many boys were ashamed to be seen in the garments so many sizes too large for them. One of the first and best charities is to furnish the young with clean and well fitting garments. It is a question of the future health of the child and prevents truancy.
We read in the Cleveland Herald of the crowded House of Refuge, and that a farm as a home for the youth of the refuge, was necessary. Seventy-five thousand dollars was con- sidered sufficient for the purchase of a farm.
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