The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-02

-. Many Clierts-Where brlghU
o,,ybt to ucceed-Women's
talent as it Buds in Boston and
Chicago.
Copyright Secured.
Nrw YORK, Juue 29.-Boston has a
or,s club of a sort which perhaps can
Ia dupIicared even in this era of women's
- in any city of the world. Its mem
are the women lawyers and law stu
80 of the Hub. This legal fraternity, or
.-bons I had best say sorority, meets on
pe.+rrdsv afternoons in a private dining
-, in a down town hotel, where it eats
% dinner and discusses many things be-
Is Blackstone. Indeed, if the testimony
- q, asi 7nally invited outsiders, whose
,-,a+ron saint is not fair Portia, is to be adj
-:.+a5 tbase lights of the bar have ABOUT
% cbsrming a series of gatherings as can be
beasted by any society in the modern
Athens
In Italy there was they say, in the Mid
die Ages a woman professor of law who
-,os 50 beautiful that when she lectured
they placed screen IN 'front.' OF heT tnat the
Students might not see her face and pine for
10 of her No modern woman
would lie kept out CT court by the fear OF
ench Susceptibility on the part of the jury,
hnt in the minds of many 1t must be con-
fessed that the calling and election of the
woman lawyer are not as clear as that OF the
woman in medicine. Nevertheless the sue
cess achieved by most OF the women who
have en- cred the profession proves that
thev have place in it, and, in the west
e,recially the woman of law is becoming of
essential Importance in all the varied move
nents in which her sex Is engaged.
London has woman conveyancer who is
said TO 90 a good business and to give salts
faction 10 her clients. In France legal
djploma has been awarded to Mile. Chau-
velin. In Russia there are professors of
the St Petersburg faculty who lecture on
law before the womau'S courses, though
women are forbidden by the government to
engage in legal practice. This country is
the only one which has any appreclable
number of women las yerS
It's only twenty years this month since
the frs woman made an attempt to gain
admission to the bar, but the number of
women lawyers has increased SO rapidly
tat at the Womans congress in Washing
ton last year a Woman's International Bar
Association was formed. The purposes set
forth in its constitution are to open law
schools 70 women, to remove all disabilities
Of admission to the bar and the bench, to
spread information as to woman'S legal
status and to better her legal condition.
The first board of officers elected was as
follows: President, Catherine V. Waite of
Chicago; gene al secretary, Ada NJ. Bitten
bender Of Lincoln, Neb. treasurer, j.
Ellen Foster of Iowa secretary for the
Unted States, Leila j. Robinson of Boston,
Mass. with secretaries for all the foreign
Countries represented by legal delegates.
rIheSe are representative women lawyers
though the most famous practiclng woman
lawyer in the country is Belva Lockwood,
Whose campaign for the Presidency on the
platform of the Equal Rights party af-
forded US so much innocent amusement in
1854 and again last fall. Mrs. Lockwood
has gone to Europe this summer as CO.
delegate with a woman preacher, the Rev.
Amanda Deyo, to the International Peace
Convention, but that is no reason why
should not say behind her back that she is a
very clever woman who will never let her
bread drop butter side down
Belva Lockwood was a practitioner in
several of the lower courts of the District
of Columbia, but was debarred the priv
legeS of the supreme court until she secured
the passage of an act of congress in 1879
preventing the exclusion of women. She
graduated from the National University
Law School and edited for sometime the
Legal Net0S, published in Chicago. She
has been counsel for the defense in numbers
Of murder trials, and has 1000 clients who
are applicants for places on the pension roll.
She is not an exceptionally clever lawyer,
IN spite OF these achievements, having small
gut OF logic or power of consecutive thought
but is rather woman of strong personality,
much executive ability, and a talent for
getting there on schedule time. She has a
genius for advertising, and is quite aware
tlfJ to address 1900 people in a month at
lar grounds, grand army encampments,
graSlgerS' reunions and the like, to be es-
--cQrted to grand stands by torchlight pro
Fesslons and bands of music will make ones
praetlce grow. Mrs. Lockwood is some
- saalg more than 80 years old, is personally
pUThar, and has a fetching way in CONVEX.
ssatfon. Her hair is gray, her mouth mo-
BIZ and face expressive.
org ffe woman doctor was born on the At
antlc seaboard and migrated toward the
ssaenlc coast in prairie schooner, but the
GSdman lawyer is true product of the
aIN estern soil. In June. 1869, Arabella A.
Mansfield applied to the Iowa bar at Mount
Peasant for examination for admission as
an attorney, aud was received without
hesitation, year earlier Phoebe Cousins
: since famous as United States marshal
nag begunher law studies at the Washington
q eAlVers!ty Law School, st. Louis, and two
2 mouths later Mrs. Myra Bradwell, Of Chi
100 SASosSo III Ou6 VI Inc IFSU contests
over the admission OF a woman to the bar.
MrS. Bradwel's name was brought before
the supreme court of Illinois, some of whose
members were in sympathy with her cause
Inc point made against her was that being
married woman and hence incompetent
10 make contracts she was ineligible. Mrs
Dradwell pleaded her own cause in an able
nrleT and the court shifted its ground tC
general disability on the score of sex
IhalIy, the case went to the United States
supreme Court where Senator Matt Car
penter appeared for her. The decision was
ADVERSE, though Chief Justice Chase dis
sehted from the illiberal opinion
Other Of the earlier women LAWYERS were
ADA d! keply of Efingham, ILL.,, who grad
uated at the Union College of law in 1871
aIo was admitted to the bar at her home
without opposition and Mrs. J. Ellen Eos
ter, who was admitted to the bar in Iowa
IN lofS, and who was during the last cam
PdlSh Che most prominent republican in the
cpunIry In petGicoats, being Chairman Of
.pe "Stnans national republican commit
Cee; Mrs. roster went into a legal as vel
az ooIneStlc partner ship with her husband
the nfIn name on the shingle being Foster
q roster. For years she has been distin
gulshed as a tempe ance advocate. Nearly
a. al her work for the Woman's Christian
temperance Union has been of a lega
character When that organization helt
us convention in New York last fall Mrs
roster tried her strength against Miss vii
taIa on the prohibition issue and was de
t S;a. She calls che third party" PRO