St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-03
WOMEN TO CONFER.
A Convention Called for
Thursday at the Peoples
Church.
The Exhibits Of Minnesota
Women at the Worlds
Fair.
Mrs. F. B. Clarke, Of the Lady
Managers Board, Will
Speak.
Explaining What Must Be
Done in the Way Of
Exhibits.

A distinctive feature of the worlds
fair next year will be the department
devoted to women. The lady managers
OF the fair, headed by Mrs. Potter
Palmer, of Chicago, have for many
months being devlsing schemes for the
proper representation of wOman's work.
and now the work has assumed definite
shape. The next step is to get thu
women of the country interested in the
fair. The lady managers may do the
planning, but without hearty cO-opera-
ton of representative women the sue
cess of the wOmen's department at the
worlds fair would be jeopardized. To
create this general interest the lady man
| ayers, in their respective states, will hold
meetings, to which an invitation to all
women will be given and the objects of
| the fair fully explained. 1t is expected
that at these meetings state organize
ton will be created, committees ap-
pointed and general canvass made for
exhibits. Mrs. F. b. Clarke, of st.
Paul. and Mrs. Brown, of Minneapolis,
are the representatives from Minnesota
on the board of lady managers. These
ladies are very DESTROYS that Minnesota
women shall be properly represented at
the worlds fair, and towards that end
convention has been called for Thurs
day afternoon, at O'Clock, in the Peo-
pies church. Mrs. Clarke is interest
ing herself deeply in this meeting and
in making the announcement says that
1t Is open to every woman resident of
the state who desires to attend.
The Peoples church should be crowd
ed Thursday afternoon. 1t is a great
opportunity which is being placed be-
fore the women of this state. and GER
tainly they ought to be as patriotic as
the men are in having Minnesota prop
erly represented at the fair. OF course,
the first question that woven are likely
to ask is: ''Well, what is it we can do?''
And the answer thereto is an invitation
to Thursdays meeting, when all infOr-
nation will be furnished. Bishop Gil
bert will preside, and. considering her
position on the board of lady managers
and her membership ON the executive
committee, the address to be delivered
by Mrs. F. b. Clarke will give all the
information needed. Mrs. Clarke is
most enthusiastic over the wOman'S de-
partment. Citizens who have not fol-
lowed the work of the worlds fair man.
ayers will be amazed when they read
the elaborate preparations already
made. Take
The Womanss Building.
The design for the wOman's building
was made by Miss Sophia G. Hayden. of
Boston, who won the $1,000 prize which
was offered for the best design. The
structure measures 200 by 400 feet, and
ifC actin q tod ic c)n0 Tho txrIo
of this architecture is classic, with end
and center paviliOnS. The conner and
center pavilions are connected i'll the
first story by an open arcade surmount-
, ed by classic vases. The first story is
doric and the second ionic. The cen
ter pavilion contains the main entrance
of the building. This is treated
with a triple open archway Of the
story above, with row of free standing
Corinthian columns. The main cOrnice
is an elaborate decorated frieZe. rum
ming the entire length of the building.
The whole is covered with low Italian
roof. From the main entrance of the
building the visitor enters the main gal
lery, 60X240 feet. To the extreme left
of this, in room S0x200 feet, the retro
spective exhibit will be arranged, while
like space at the other end of the
building will be devoted to reforms and
charities. On either side of the en-
trance space is reserved for model
Kindergarten, and
A Model Hospital
A bureau of information, library and
record room are to the right of the
main entrance. Wide colonnades ex-
tend round the skylight on the second
floor, which gives light to the rooms be-
low. The front and back suites of
FL. Il
paTlOr gatherings. In the extreme left
of the building is club room for ex-
hibitors, and opposite this is an assem-
bly, room 80X120 feet. There are also
rooms for kitchen demonstrations, and
for officers headquarters.
There is no time for delay, If Mime
sofa women are to be fttingly repre-
scented at the worlds fair work upon
the exhibits must begin at once. Mrs.
Clarke would have called the meeting
earlier, but was compelled to wait until
it was known that the 100000 extra ap-
preparation would be raised. 1t was
only then that anything definite could
be agreed upon in the matter Of exhibits.
The women will receive per cent of
this 100000. In prospectus the lady
managers of the worlds fair say their
desire is, in the wOman's building,
to present full, complete and
exhaustive exhibit of the work of
women in domestic economies,
education, manufactures, literature, art
and science. To set forth woman's. at
tainments in all the industrial, intellect
ual and moral lines of human endeavor
in all the centuries and in all the ma
tiOns. including her best and grandest
work: the reforms and philanthropies
which illustrate her ideal and spiritual
nature; to set before the people of the
earth woman's share in making the his
tory of the world. 1t is also the desire
of the lady managers to set forth COM
plete and perfect representation of the
condition of women in every country of
the earth at the present day, and par
ticularly of the women who are wage
earners, whether their work be mental
or manual; to portray the legal, politi-
cal and industrial status of women the
world over. '.Their purpose is to open
up the light Of day, their scope is wide
as the EARTH"