 Mrs. Harmon's endeavor was part of a nationwide Exchange Movement to help women in need discreetly earn a living.In 1880 the enterprise was so successful that a shop was opened at Saratoga and Holiday Streets.In 1882 the State Legislature incorporated the organization "for the purpose of endeavoring by sympathy and practical aid to encourage and help needy women to help themselves by procurring for them and establishing a sales room for the sale of Women's Work."