Two Decades / A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York :: NEW YORK STATE WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. ORGANIZED

NEW YORK STATE WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. ORGANIZED

NEW YORK STATE WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. ORGANIZED 1874. HEADQUARTERS, 30 WEST 23D ST., NEW YORK. 818 WOMAN'S AND 102 YOUNG WOMAN'S UNIONS: 22,003 Members; 4,443 Honorary Members. 345 LOYAL TEMPERANCE LEGIONS: 20,584 Members. LAWS SECURED:

Scientific temperance instruction—1884.

"Age of consent" raised from 10 to 16 years—1887.

Prohibiting sale of liquor on fair grounds of state—1888.

Prohibiting sale of cigarettes and tobacco to boys under 16 years of age—1890.

Forbidding employment of women and girls as barmaids—1892.

Forbidding opening of the state's exhibit at World's Fair on Sunday—1892.

SUCCESSFUL PROTEST:

Preventing introduction of the bill (into the Legislature) legalizing houses of prostitution— 1892.

OFFICIAL ORGAN: "WOMAN'S TEMPERANCE WORK."

COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, A.D. 1893.

This brief History answers in part that oft-repeated question, "What is the Woman's Christian Temperance Union doing?"

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