New-York tribune., 1888-03-25
WASRINGTON INVADED By THE SEX.

WOMEN FLoCKING THTTHER FROM ALL PARTS
OF THE wORLD-A CRUSH.
Washington, March "a Tsp csD.-The National Cap
itol has been taken, not by the enemy but by the
women. Temperance women moved the city at
the beginning Of the week. took possession of churches
and made the week of convocati0n and prayer.
And now, after this advance guard, come the women
Of the International Council. Women are here by
the hundreds, and before the opening OF the council
on Monday the hundreds viii be thousands. Wash
ington is now indeed city of women They are here
from all parts of the world. They all types.
ages, degrees Of comene,s and degrees of intellect
The sun has never risen on such an assemblage OF
women will gather in Albaugh's Opera House on
Monday for next weeks council
The Riggs House is the headquarters for delegates
Here the great organizer, Miss Susan B. Anthony,
and her secretary, Miss Rachel G. Foster have spent
the last four weeks as busy as two bees Here com
mttecs have been organized documents sent out and
all the necessary and proper wires pulled No
poll cal headquarters presented more sy tema C.,
bustling than the council headquarters have
this week. Miss Foster young attractive and grace
full and more than all, she is woman OF tact Miss
Anthony is of her secretarys charms and does
not keep her in the background. Miss Foster has
been more or less in newspaper work and knows how
to deal with newspapers; Her charming manner has has
fun of the incest things" In preliminary praise of the
co CO nc SO much may be said briefly OF Miss An
Nearly all Of the delegates are hero, and this
evening reception was given In their honor at the
Riggs House, from to IL o'clock To say there was
o crowd there would be q mild assertion. 1t was
crush in the most comprehensive sense OF the word
The largest in the Riggs House is the dining.
room. This cleared, decked with flags and
graced with flowers. Here the reception committee
expected to present the people TO the delegates OF
this country and from many other lands But there
were few introductions. The crowd was too much
of a crush
Miss Anthonys widest hopes had not pictured
anything like it. Mrs StantOn's white head was
visible at rare intervals like a great SNOWFALL, as
the crowd struggled to move In line now one way,
the other. After hour Of this, the two ladies
got into the parlOr to be confronted by new and
fresh crowd. But the air was BETTER and they re-
newed hands shaking with smiling vigor.
In the meantime the crowd In the dining room
under the Stars and Stripes continued its crush
ingn welcome to the delegates. Naturally the for
egn delegates the great attraction dozen
or more stood In line, shaking hands when possible,
and bowling when impossible to do more Madame
Bogelot, the French delegate smiled bowed, and MADE
little appeals in her own language for word OF
French. But II an American crowd Mrs Moore,
the Irish delegate, tall. welldrossed woman with
an expressive face, enjoyed the situation and was
not appalled, by the crush She has just enough OF
the brogue her tongue and sense OF the ludlcrons
to make her very attractive Mrs. Ashton Dke
has a fascinating face, young and bright. Her brown
eyes and radiant smile captured tho crowd. Perhaps
the blue satin gown and white lace about the throat
had something to do with IT, Clara Barton. Mrs
Cheny Baroness GrlpenbLrg, Professor Rena Michaeis
Mrs. Chant and dozens Of other delegates came In
for a full share of admiration and crush"