National Republican., 1888-02-12
THE WOMAN'S JUBILEE.
WHAT MISS SUSAN B. ANTHONY THINKS OF
THE SUFFRAGE CAUSE
IL Grows in Strength and Greatness-The
Council VIII he Largely Attended-Un-
usual Concessions From Railroads and
Hotels We'll Supplied with Funds.

| delphia, Secretary OF the National
Suffrage Association, busily engaged
in the correspondence necessary to the large
preparations now going on for the Intcrna-
tional Council of Women which is to be held
in our city next month.
Miss Anthony" he asked, what do you
think the prospects are for a good meeting2"
Splendid" was her reply 1--WE are our
selves surprised at the requests for an oppor-
tunity to be heard in the council which each
days mail brings to us. When we first
thought of holding this woman jubilee none
of us imagined we should find more than
halfa dozen nationally organized associations
of women and the secretary tells me we
have sent out to associations nearly forty
official invitations. | don't think any of us
have realized how woman's work has
branched out and broadcned within the last
few years"
Have you invited only nationally organ
lied bodies of women?'
"That has been our rule so far as invita-
tions to send delegates are concerned. Be
sides these we have invited number of dis
tinguished women to speak on various
kinds of unorganized work. For instsnce,
take the various professions. We have
woman physicians, lawyers, ministers, pub
fishers, editors. No associations of women
in these lines of work exist; yet they must
be heard of at our council if we wish to make
it anything approaching II complete picture
of what women have done and are doing.
So we have invited women who are ac-
quainted from practice with these profess
| ~ t, tall tbpp, in pi ,pn ~
81 hear you have special rates with the
railroads. | that truc?'
YES" said Miss Anthony, smiling, 1T is
almost new thing for the corporations to
favor women, hut we are making ourselves
of enough importance of late to find them
willing TO listen to lis. The railroads give us
one and one-third rates for round-trip tick
cts, for persons really in attendance upon
the council. The steamship companies have
made favorable rates for our foreign dele
gates, and most of the hotels here have
given us reduced prices. One proprietor re-
flsing to give any reduction when applied to
is reported as saying: If Miss Anthony will
move down here and make this hotel her
headquarters then we'll talk"
" It's quite new experience continued
Miss Anthony, with a look of amusement
"to find ourselves thus in demand" But we
can remember when ii was not considered
an advantage to have us 'women's rights
women about, yet, at the Riggs House we
were always welcomed, and am always AN
honorcd guest of Mrs. Spollord. If there is
any advantage in having us now, it isn't
likely we are going to look anywhere for our
headquarters but here-at the Riggs House."
How about the money for this jubilee
Miss Anthony-if it isn't an impertinent
query" said the reporter. Your National
Suffrage Association must have II full treas
ury if it proposes to foot the council bills"
"Ycs, we of the National w. s. A. are the
hostesscs of the occasion, and do the enter
tanning of all delegates and invited guests.
1t is a good deal of an undertaking, but we
depend in large part upon the membership
fees of one dollar to our Association, and
upon the larger gifts of some of our rich
friends. This weeks mail has been full OF
good things for our treasury Then, we arc
led to expect something very substantial
from that good friend of woman and of all
works by which women are striving to bet
ter their condition-George w. Childs, of
Philadelphia. For some years past Mr..
Childs has given me generous annual con-
/, tribution to our cause, and this year he said
he would take time to think-which | know
means more than his usual generosity
rs your programme yet in its final form?''
mot quite, but practically so, rs far as the
leading addresses of each session are con-
, cerned. Miss Foster and have just been at
. work upon it. We hope to have it complete
in all its details and in print by the first OF
next month. 1t will be quite a document
when it is in good shape-with all the COM
mittees, colors of badges to be worn by them,
music, the names of the various women min
i listers who will open the sessions with prayer,
the instructions of the committees, full titles
of addresses and of speakers, and the words
+ of various songs for congregational singing
for the forenoon sessions. l expect it will be
twelve or sixteen pages mt the least. We are
, much pleased with Albaugh's Opera House
where the council will be held, / took Miss
Foster through it last evening during the
4 10.
excellent from every point. Would you care
to publish the programme as 1t now standsi
, We are going to send it to the members OF
! our press committee in various places and to
: great many of the papers"
With these words Miss Anthony handed
the reporter a copy of the programme AS il
, appears here, and he, feeling that this was
intended as n gentle hint, took his depart
, ure.
Sunday, March 25, 2.3O p. M: Religious
Service-Rev. Antoniette b. Blackwell Rev
, Olympia Brown, Rev. Annie ii. Shaw and
/ others.
q Monday, March 20, 10 a. M: Formal
\ opening of the Council lnvocation-Rev
A. b. Blackwell. Address-Elizabeth Cady
Stanton. Statement of object of the Council
| Susan b. Anthony. Discussion and ap,
pontment of Committee on Permanent Or
p ganiZation.
: Monday. 7:45 p M: Education-Mrs. May
! Wright Sewall, Higher Education;" Pun
dta Ramabai. "Women of Inda" Mrs
Sarah B. Cooper, "kindergartens." Discus
sion-Mlrs Louisa Reed Stowel (Michigau
!, University, Prof Rena A. Michaels, Dean o
Woman's College, Evanston, ILL.,; AleXundr,
r Gripenberg of Finland; Mrs Mary b, Will
n lard.
/ Tuesday, March 27, 10 am: Miss II
/. II. Shattuck, presiding; Philanthropies--
!. "Women's Auxiliary of Unitarian Society,
@ Mrs. d. IL, Richardson; Ladies of the Crane
: Army Republic" Mrs. Laura McNeir (presi
dent);" Prison Reform Work of st. Lazart
g Puris), Madame Isabelle Bagelot; "Woman''
S National Indian Association Mrs, Amelia
b. Quinton, presidentD Society of the Red
Cross" Miss Clara Barton (presidenD; Hos
!, pitals Managed by and For Women" Ednal
ID. Cheney,l president N. II. Hospital fo
:, Women and Children.
/. Tuesday. 7.45 pm: Temperance-France
r. Willard president of \. W. g, I, %
/ Woman and Temperance Mrs, II. Whit
d ject and its Plans" DIR, Mary Weeks Burnett
Q The National Temperance Hospitals" Mrs
n j. X. Barney, Prison and Police Matror
# Work." Mrs. M, B. Carse, THE Temperance
- Temple Discussion-Mrs y, H. Saxon
). Mrs. Clara Hoffman, Mrs. Caroline Buell.,
n Wednesday, March %, 10 Il, m, Mrs, l.auri
e NJ. Johns presiding; lndustreS-Mrs. Mary
q A, Livermore, "Women's industrial gaini
n during the last half century," Mrs. NJ. A
g Worden. women in the Grange" Mrs
It Huldah b; Loud, Women in the X, of III,
e Glars b, Colby, Mrs Frances Ellen Harper
y Teaching" Prof. Rena A. Michaels, deal
of Womans College Of Northwestern Uni
4, yersity;, Journalism" Mary Allen West an!
If Laura @. Holloway Publishing Company,
cided); Law" Mrs. Ada Bittenbendel
"Ministryu - Rev OLYMPIA Brown: "Interna