Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-28

ton, endeavoring to bring together within the
limits OF her circuit all women according to
their trades and professions, 10 affiliate them
with the separate departments az well as to
contribute to the general membership. To
give some idea of the numbers already en-
rolled the society when started in each Of the
congressional districts will number IT'S 900
women as officers alone not to mention the
rank and file. Each enrolment secretary in
each district receives a little map outlining its
boundaries. This practical invention il the re-
suit Of DIR. Waite's forethonght. MEMBER hip
Zee Is 81 and membership in each separate de
partment 81 more. TIE accumulated member
ship fees are the fund from which the Irabella
Club House will be built The accumulation Of
departmental fees so toward their separate
plans.
TIE FUND Fon THE STATUE.
Tho statue fund represents 49, 600 in stock
which is sold at IS share. The statue at the
close of the fair will belong to the owners of
these 600 shares and be subject entirely to their
disposition.
cumbersome working machinery. and each de-
partment working independently of every
other. 1t has a modest headquarters in Chi
cago near the corner of Randolph and State
streets, and over Inc window sign reads:
Headquarters
Queen Isabella Association.
1492-lS92.
Headquarters, in fact, is Fart Of DR..
Frances Dickinson's Offices room 200 20 State
street. and at times, when it is filed with
women doing the correspondence of the associ-
alton. 1t presents some busy scenes
DIR. JULIA HOLMES sairH.
DR.. Julia Holmes Smith, the tall and aueanly
president of the association, combines the
tender, sympathetic qualities that are usually
associated with those born under a southern
sky with the practical training of a northern
education and the go-ahead activeness which
seems to be the dominant thought in we'll
balanced professional woman of the west. She
was born in New Orleans and was Just gradual
ing from school when the war broke
out She was belle in Washington society
during those memorable days. and little did
she dream then OF what her future career was
to be. Years later she developed love for
medical study. which she pursued industriously
until she entered the profession. For fourteen
years In Chicago she has been q regular
practitioner. working side by side with
the best physicians of that city, and if success
can be measured by dollars. its stream has di-
verted toward her with gratifying results
She is a member of nearly all the impor-
tant clubs and associations Of women in Chi
cago and still finds time to be charming host
ess in her own home well as to mingle in So
ciety very generally.
MRS. CATHERINE WAITE.
Mrs. Catherine Van valkenburg Waite, the
treasurer, is the wife of ex-Judge c. B. Waite,
and Is one of the most remarkable women of her
day. She studied law with her husband before
she entered the Union College Of Law, from
which she graduated in 1886. She has not
actively engaged in practice lately, but during
the early part of her career established
the Chicago Lar Times. which she has
edited and published ever since. Her real es-
tate and building operations have been carried
on in such a wide scale that she has become
known as one Of the best financiers in Chicago.
This fame rests on q practical and self-evident
foundation. She has conducted a regular real
estate business with notable success. She builds
her houses, to commence with. then rents and
personally attends to their management. For
the most part her own architect, the plans of
her houses receive very little if any aid from
outside sources. She purchases all the neces-
sary materials, has no at all for contractor,
and, placing foreman over each branch Of the
work, superintends the whole construe ton her
self. She has bull. fifty houses in this way
in Chicago and has only recently completed
at Hyde Park. her home, business block
which cost 100000. She is an advocate for
organized labor. employs none but union men
and always the mechanics nearest the scene of
her operations. In every way she is alive to
the public interests. Her husband now re-
tired from the practice Of law has always been
foremost in his support of woman suffragists
and has been successful in financial affairs
as his talented wife