The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-18

! machlnes, factories, ETC., with cooperative
| production and guarantee of a share IN the
| product to the individual We have
branches now in twenty-One out of twenty
SIX OF the assembly districts of New York
city. There is one American section and
the others are made up of Germans, French,
| Hungarians, Spaniards, Italians, etc. The
general committee for the city is to have
its proceedings and records in English. We
| have membership in New York of 1000 or
thereabouts and some 10000 sympathzsrs.
| We have l1Ssections in the country, twenty
four speaking English, and we are growing
| rapidly. Yes, we have many women among
us. There is the German Frauenbuud,
which is made up of women socialists
1t is to one of the German sections that
Mrs. Kelley Wischnewetsky daughter of
Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, and very
sWeet-taced labor refOrmer, belongs. A
type of one variety of anarchist is DR..
Gertrude b. Kelly, who practices medicine
In pleasant house on pleasant street just
Off Madison avenue and whose office, hung
with art portieres and Uttered with BOOKS,
suggest the pleasantest OF associations DR..
Kelly's face is enough to put social theories
out of ones head. She is young woman
and fair one, with a smile that dwells in
the memory. Her education and her abili-
ties put her in the foremost rank of cultured
women. OF medium height, graceful,
| smooth-browed, she is the very of type hap
Ply young womanhood Anarchlsm with
her is not of the destructive but rather Of
the philosophic variety. She will tell you
that it means the substitution of voluntary
for involuntary organization, the govern
ment of the individual by himself, iStead of
by society. The condition of things to
which she looks forward is not to be precip-
itated by dynamite, but advanced by gen
eral education until higher standard OF
l.
1t Is not thing of tomorrow, but an ulti-
mate condition toward which the efforts of
thinkers should tend.
or quite another species of anarchist is
Miss Anna johnson, who was for long
time in charge of the Workingmen's libra
ry, collection of l 900 or 200 volumes of
radical literature maintained by socialists
and anarchists in Clinton place for free cir
culation. Miss johnson is an enthusiast,
and withal hard worker, quick witted
and good looking woman. There was not
much money too keep the library going,
and how she managed to keep uD her cour-
age and exc ont living on the SSpall num-
Der of dollars or dimes forthcoming it would
puzzle anybody but another such ardent
apostle to tell. That she was busy till mid
night, and slept in a closet uninvitlng and
almost UNFINISHED, seemed to make no diff
ference to her. There came time when
| socialists and anarchists quarreled, and
Miss Johnson for the latter faction valiantiy
held her ground. But money for the rent
| came in more slowly after that, and finally
| ceased coming at ALL The library was Civ
en- up, and few people know where the
| books have gone to now.
Miss Johnson's friend and fellow-worker
| is Mrs. Cynthia Leonard, who bestowed
pretty Lillian Russell on an appreciative
world. Mrs. Leonard Is q woman of 90 or
| upwards who might be 16 for the tireless
activity which she displays There is not a
more interesting woman in New York when
she forgets her fads and gives one the bene-
| fit of the life experience of a very bright
woman among men and things. She is
clever and has boundless fund Of enter
tainment There is no end to the theories
which she has espoused. She pushes the
sOcialistic doctrine of divorce on mutual
| consent almost if not quite to the boundaries
| of free love. She eats no meat and she
thinks bomb nice handy instrument to
carry in shopping bag. She speaks flu
emily and writes with some force. She is
pronounced anarchist and a woman of
strong and welldefned convictions, but
she wouldn't harm fly.
There is not another such superb figure
of a woman among the extreme anarchists,
| the destructive wing of anarchists or So
| cialists, as the wife of Sergius Sche witch
| the Princess Helene Racowitz, as she is still
| sometimes called. She is a tall blonde of
magnificent proportions, and with abund-
ant traces of that beauty which made her
for years queen in European society. As
one sees her now, she carries herself erect
and her big, grayish-blue eyes look out from
under her yellow hair as if she were lady
commander of the world. Her story is well
known. Ferdinand Lassalle and Prince
Racowitz of Wallachia fought for her
Lassalle was killed and she became Princess
Racowitz and carried the world before her.
After her husbands death she succeeded as
an actress almost as well as she had as So
ciety woman, met and married her present
husband. She is not much past 40 yet She
knows how to speak and she knows how to
write. She has many friends.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN,