New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-24
GREAT GATHERING OF WOMEN
ADDRESSES AND DISCUSSIONS AT THE TRI,
ENNIAL COUNCIL
MICS vIILARD's REVIEW OF wOMAN's WORK
AND PROGRESS LISTENED TO BY
A LARGE AUDIENCE.
fpY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRrBUyE.l

vaebinCtOr. /, p. 23-Tnc NOnl3nS FREEMAN N0un-
ell which Is meeting here held its first regular session
:, AIhaughs opera House this morning, beginning at
70 go O'Clock The large audience included white
| hoirod men and wmtc-haircd women, young men and
| yornr women, and many were from Congressional
| circ,es II was long programme, the session lasting
rrtu > O'Clock, but with the exception OF perhaps
dozen people the audience sat through, interested
| ,d rnwearcd AT the opening of the session Mrs
Mary II. b. HIT president Of the Northwestern branch
q ,no Woman's Foreign Missions OF the Methodist
| C,uch led in PRAYER. the audience joining with her
~ roncotnc the Lords Prayer. Mrs HIT Is the WHO
% Isaac HIT and cousin of Representative ll!l' OF
| turos she is a graduate OF the Womans College
in Cincinnati, and was schoolnate OF MIS- Ha'o''
| whom she visited in the White House. she Is ap-
| ro,tlv abont sixty years Of age, with sweet
| notbcrIv face and silver gray hair
! Miss Frances +. Willard, the president OF the
| conncl. said she had pleasant surprise for tho
| audience in the presence of Mrs Julia Ward Howe,
! who had lust arrived in the city and was then on
| Tho nlatform She introduced Mrs. Howe "a tho
| representative of the National Association FOR tho
advancement Of Women, and suggested singing the
| magnificent Battle Hymn Of the Republic as a
| greeting to the author. Mrs. Howe was welcomed
with applause ard the audience rising sang the hymn,
Miss Willard repeating the words Of each verse and
making it a more impressive tribute to Mrs Howe,
who was much touched by il.
The delegates then introduced by rollcah, ana
members Of the council seated in the audience were
asked to rise. and by this means pretty full attend
ance was shown. Besides Miss Willard, Miss Anthony
and Mrs. Howe on the platform were the Rev. Anna
shaw. Mrs. Mary IL. b. Hit. Mrs. Lille Devcrcaux
Blake, Mrs. Anna Garlan spencer Mrs. Fanny b.
Ames Mrs. NJ. Louise Thomas, Miss Alice C. Fletcher,
Mrs. Mary seymour Howell and Mrs. Ella Dcitz
Clymer. The boxes occupied b. delegates and
their friends.
Miss Anothny, the vicepresdcnt of the Council said
II time for the presidents address. bnt she would
not introduce Miss Willard, for she was woman who
needed no introduction American listeners anywhere
Right here il may be said and with dlSpara Ccment to
the president of the Council, who presided with much
ability that to the audience but one thing seemed lack
!ng-and that was Miss AnthOny's voice and Miss
AnthOny's gavel. For twenty-five years Miss Anthony
has been the presiding officer at the annual suffrage
conventions, and also al the international Council.
When therefore Miss Anthony appears the platform
In Washington the people expect to hear her voice and
| see her use the gavel. In the Tncnnal Council how
| ever susan b. Anthony rests upon her well earned
aurels and listens Nobody enjoyed Miss Wizards ad
| dress more than Miss Anthony. Her smiling face and
more smiling eyes shining through her spcctaces
showed how fully she appreciated the clever hits and
witty Illustrations in the address BY her side Sat
Mrs Howe, and the two whehaircd women wero noble
examples the Of wifcy and mothcry devotion. tho
other Of devotion noble in her fty years work for
women and the sacrifices OF her beautiful unseIhSh
| single life
| The presidents address filed the best part OF an
hour. 1t was generally conceded that Miss Willard
had made fine speeches. but that, nevertheless, the
| address today surpassed her previous efforts. MISS
Willard was looking extremely well. Her toilet was a
plain black SILK gown, with byV of wSte carnations
pinned on the waist she begtl her address with the
following quotation from Mrs srmtons address at the
| Interna tionaI Council: - difference OF opinion on
| one question must not prevent us from w6lng unit
cdly in those on which we can aTcc." Miss WiliaEu
| said among other things:
| Instr tiouS of ais
spcuousy manifest in the programme Of this council than
ever the fortyyoarlong annals Of the woman
movement for here have nearly forty din rent So
cietes represented by delegates, either regular or ira
| ternal. Since sat here In tic council ur"e-yHf
cycle swept by, in which women have wrought moro
widely aud wOrthiy than In any ten years before,
and what have they been doing with their tmel Let
Philippe Fawcett with her famous -four hundred
marks above mcrciessy nsmcess Senior WTa ger Of
Cambridge University Let Mis- Afford, niece Of the
great Dean Afford. answer with her first honors in the
classical trpos Of great seat Of learning; and
Helen Reed. who the Sargent Prize at our own "FaJ
Harvard long become worthy Of It's name by
fair play rendered % the fair Let MsdemoeN
Belaco OF Bucharest answer who passed ae best
nation the Paris Law School and 10 the first lawyer
known Human annals who studied that profession III
order to defend the poor without Zee Let Florence Hol
land answer who last year double INST IN Latn and
in English Calcutta University Let Miss Greenwood,
OF BROOKLYN with her record superintendent Of
oyangelistc work in the National wonan's Christian
Temperance Union and her list Of 100 pr achcrs
and eya pc-ts Let the Catholic Katherine DrcNcl speak
who February Il cCnsecrated herself b. solemn vows
TO the exclusive service Of the Indian and the Negro do.
voting her Of 100000 to their religious. intellect
| ua and social elevation.
Every woman who yacaes place in the teachers ranks
and enters unusual line Of work. does two excellent
things: She Tor waiting for place
and helps open new vocation for herself and other
women. View Of this consider what IT cans 10 all
Of US that have taken their places successfully
in almost every rank from author ard artist lecturer and
Journalist 10 dentist and barber "a mcr and fanchman,
stock broker and steamboat captain. Concerning this
tremendous evolution, tried in vain u get the foonss
Of the late United States Statistics give 100000
women the number who their own living by in
dustrial pursuits in Germany, 100000 In England,
$3.50 600 France, about the number In Austo-
Hungary and in America over 100000.
The air OF these last days Is electric with delightful
udncs In New-York City such leaders Mary Putnam
Jacob and Ms. Agnew rallied around DR.. Emma
Kcmpn the learned lawyer from Lausanne, and help
ing 10 It easier than ever before for women TO enter
the learned profession that has most hcly hcdQcd
away from them In Baltimore, Mis-, Mary Garrett tho
most progressive Of wealth that country ha
uod iced leads the movement that viii yet open Johns
Hopkins University 10 NJ, and has already moItgaeed IT.
medical college the admission Just thirty
years ago 1861 General Spinner. Of grateful memory.
uroo,ld the admission women u employment III the
Unied States Treasury As Salmon T.. Ctasc was Sece
tary Of that Department. his permission was sought and
freely obtained. but much dnclly made by men
who wanted work that Attorney General Edward Bates
had 10 render opinion favorable to the women and g
nay well that Abraham Lincoln always our friend
WAS in sympathy with the movement
The above extracts give but small hint Of Miss
WiIIard's broad and comprehensive view Of wOman's
work aud progress. The general subjects Of the
sion charities and philanthropy, treated In strong
and admirable papers read by Mrs. Anna Garlan Spcn
GER Oh state Control and social Care Of Dependent
Glasses; Mrs Fanny Il. AmcS the "Carc Of De
pendcnt Children" Miss AhCc c. Fletcher on "Our
Duty to Dependent Races ana Mr.. Lille DcvereuK
Blake Women "a once AdtIODs.
The general subject at this evenings session OF the
Council was Women the Churches The Rev.
Frances Topper spoke on "WOmans status IN the
Church To-day" Miss Jane NJ bancroft and Nike
Frances Elliott treated Women In the Methodist
Church" and Miss Emily : sherwood spoke on
- Modern Charities and Church Work."
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