Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1891-01-24
WOMEN JOURNALISTS.
Authors and Poets Assembled in ConcIave
at the Banquet Given by the |. w. P. A.
A Delightful Time--Emma Alb
bolts Funeral.

where went to attend the annual banquet Of the
Illinois Woman's Press Association, to which
was invited and also the funeral of dearly loved
friend, Emma Abbott.
Before | go any further, wish to insert in this
article, if yon ever desire to 60 to Chicago from
Cincinnati or Louisville, take my advice and 60
by the Monon Route. | have travelled a great
deal, and am usually i'll with what is termed 'sea-
Sickness" even On the Railroad and this is the
first time was entirely free from any such feel
ing The ease and comfort was charm. The
coaches are elegant and luxurious, and free from
dirt. The train is vestibuled throughout, and the
recent Masson wreck demonstrates and estab-
fishes the fact that there can be railroad wrecks
without loss Of human life. In this wreck safety
to life was due to the yestibued train, which pre-
vents the cars from separating. The train is
called the "-Air Train" from its lightness and
speed in motion. 1t is heated by steam and
lighted by electricity, and is the only regular train
from Cincinnati to Chicago that has dining car
and serves meals in this way. The menu is ex-
cellent and the dining service almost perfect 1
was delighted, and had no feeling Of illness or
WEAKNESS at the end of the routt.
And new for the banquet and business session
of the l. W. P. A. The annual meeting and ban
quet was held in the Palmer House. At the
afternoon business meeting it was disclosed that
the 1. W. P. A. was organized in 1886, at the
home of DR.. Julia Holmes Smith in Chicago, with
very few ladies present, but this little band
proved SO earnest and effectual that the assoeia-
ton Is success IN numbers as we'll as in literary
ability. Iii now powerful organization
The following officers were elected for the COM
ing year:
President, Miss Mary Allen West vice-presi-
dents, DR.. Alice B: StecRhar, Mrs. H. V. Reed,
Mrs. Sarah Wilder Pratt; corresponding secre-
tary, Miss Emily A. Kellogg; assistant CORES
ponding stcretary, Mrs. Jeanette M. Abbott;
recording secretary, Miss Belle L. Gorton; assist
ant recording secretary, Miss Jessie King.
The hour for the banquet was announced at
80 p. m, but it was found that there were one
hundred more guests than covers laid, and so il
was O'Clock before we entered the BANQUET hall
which WAS scene of light and color and rare
beauty. The long dining tables were covered
with ivory linen and bouquets of hot-house flowers
and favors OF rich roses lay at every plate. Wax
candles in silver candeabras with dainty shades
Of rainbow tints, added fairy-like loneliness
to all.
The menu was superb and plentiful The at
tendants gracious aud attentive
There were so many notabes present that it is
rd to designate them, and as time and space
u in 'ot permit, will only say that of the several
L,..5,. present, not one was there but earned
~. 1850 d, be in a Press Association banquet
oithara s outt. 8, poets, journalists or publishers
Tho [,a"onaI q. ling that prevailed was very
fraternal one, and rna> l ''0i '""' IL was good
to be there. w., NJ,
The toast master, Dean Il vi" p nicnaels, oelng
detained at home by illness, Miss t w hslogg'
corresponding secretary of the 1. ), - 49,, Az LOOK
her place. and in her charming and Il, 'que way
gave the toasts.
Mrs. Myra Bradwell, one of the board of la> "
managers of the Worlds Fair, responded 10 THE
Worlds Fair, the Fair World" She is fine look.
ing, graceful woman, and made happy hit in her
selection and did her subject Justice,