Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-03-14
GRACE GREENWOOD.
ABOUT SOROSlS.
The Famous woman's Club Elects New
President.

President.
Especial Curresrondencel
NEW YORK, March s-Sornsis had an
election last week. and a warm time they had
If it. Sorosis as everybody knows, is the
oldest wOmans club in the country Its Oh
ject is culture, and to give the intellectual
women of the city an opportunity TO become
acquainted with each other. Ii is generally
believed that women are able disorganizers:
that they disintegrate everything they take
hold of SOrUsis however, refutes that 1t
has held together and pruspered through
seventeen years
Mrs CrUly Jenny June has been its preS-
dent for the last ten years. There is an end
to everything. even to filling an office in
which you have done your duty, and more
than your duty, without money and without
price. \ faction, at first no larger than a
woman's hand arose Then II became form
idable, and Jenny June was voted down
The lady who takes her place is Mrs. VI
Louise Thomas. most worthy person and
not TO blame for the turn affairs have taken
Her friends did the work, and they did il
effectually. They CauCuSet, elcCtloneered and
stumped around quite like men i'll their zeal
to elect their chosen candidate. Mrs. CROWS
friends labOret quite as zealOuSly but did
! not understand the arts OF war as well u
their enemies
There is feeling, and some little fuss, among
the SoroSian fraternity just now. for how can
such things be and stir up no bitterness. 1t
all hung OH question OF equal suffrage, too.
which is a straw showing the direction the
wind is taking certainly. Originally woman
suffrage was a terrible dragon TO SOrosis Ii
dared not be mentioned, TO say nothing OF
being discussed Certain members, who
wanted TO be both fashionable and intel.
leCtual, looked upon woman suffrage as q
fearful thing, the very sound of which would
do them infinite damage. Suffrage and caste
they considered mortal enemies Now that
the once dreaded dragon has become very
respectable pet i'll intellectual fashionable
circles, the number of its adv coates in SOrosis
has increased, and they want TO discuss it
The new president intends TO open the way TO
making it a standard topic. Under Mrs
CrOly's ruling II was forbidden topic. Not
that she Is narrow on that subject, but she
understands the feminine mind. She knows
that a number of women-cVen cultivated
women-COuldn't exchange views on such an
exciting topic without stirring up gall. She
wisely ruled il out.
Ii may be that the club has progressed far
enough in liberation and advanced thought TO
discuss this explosive question without shatter-
ing itself into infuriated fragments | hope So
Emerson has said that i'll really civilized
age, when people become as well poised and
sound intellectually as they should be, all
things can H. discussed
Mrs. Thomas. the new president, is the
widow of Unitarian clergyman. and is her
self a very successful farmer. at FOTdham, n
y. Mrs. Croly goes out of the Office she has
filed with honor 80 long, regretted by a large
number Of the membership of the famous
club SoruSlS Is seventeen years old Per-
haps by the time 1t Is twenty-one it may be
old enough to vote on bigger questions.
MAX ELTON
The Proposed Tehuantepic Ship Railway.
The scheme has been pronounced per
fectly practicable and feasible by the most
eminent engineers of Europe and this coun-
try and il will certainly be carried to sue
ceSsful issue. IL Is almost impossible tU
explain the plan without the aid of draw
ings The vessels will be tiuated into a dock
and upon submerged trucks. Innumera-
bic braces will be placed on the sides of the
hull and the ship will be raised 10 the level
of the railroad by an ingenious hydraulic
device. The railway will consist of four
tracks, along which the ship will be drawn
Jy .Our locomotives at the rate of about
eight miles per hour.
Fear has been expressed that the pressure
of the cargo may be 50 great as TO force
open the sides of the vessel when il is ont
of the water, but persons who have enter
tHined il have evidently never been across
the ocean i'll tempeStuOus weather and
seen the whole force of OncOming waves
expended against one side of the ship while
the other side is left exposed by the reced-
ing waves The cost of the railway is esti-
mated at $l25,OO.ODO. \ prominent Eng
glish firm has offered TO take the contract
I. build it. The time of sailing vessels be
tween san Francisco and Liverpool will be
iessened about two months by the railway
William Window i'll Chicago News
The sea gives up its dead sometimes in
. peculiarly tragic way. Portions Of
wreck have been washed ashore on the
coast of Maine which have been identified
as the remnants of ship that went down
with all on board over forty years ago
Inter OCEAN.
Fifty daily papers are taken at the White
HOUSE.
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