Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-12
WORLDS FAIR WOMEN.
They Meet and Confer With an As
sistant Commissioner.
A GLASS ROOM AT THE BIG SHOW.
An Allegheny Minister Protests Against .
Proposed Exhibit.
RARE WOOD CARVING TO BE SECURED


members were present, as we'll as Lo WIDEN
w. Richards, Assistant Commissioner of
the Board of Worlds Fair mana
gers. After the reading of the minutes of
the previous meeting, a report Of the vari-
GUS committees was called for. The Com
mittee on Art reported that they had made
favorable progress, having obtained prom
ises from four lady artists for specimens of
their work. Art needle work will be repre-
sented by the Woman's Exchange, who
have undertaken to make lot of fancy
work which will be sold as we'll as exhib-
tied in the Woman's Building at the Fair.
The converts in the county will also con-
tribute largely to this branch, In the art
of music, Mrs. L;ppey has composed a
chorus, with orchestrated parts, which she
desires to have placed for inspection and
asked the General Committee for their in
fuence in having the composition placed
before the Committee on Music so that 1t
NAV be rendered at the Fair.
The report OF the Committee on Educa-
tion consisted chiefly of statistics Of the
public and private schools 1t was not
complete-not all of the private and none
of the parochial schools having sent in
their returns.
The Moral Reform Committee have had
hard work in getting the material required.
| One of the members said she did not believe
| there was much of moral reform in ALLIE
gheny county. This committee has also
been instructed to inquire into the mis-
sionary work of the county.
Many Local Lady Inventors.
Perhaps the most satisfactory report was
the one submitted by the Committee en-
| Science and Invention. After great deal
oflabor the committee found that there had
| been 81 women inventors who were granted
| patents in this county since 1870. In the
| State there have been 205 patents granted
women, but these are mostly in Philadel-
| phia county, all other counties except ALLIE
| gheny having but two or three female in
ventors The articles patented range from
| q cosmetic and footpad for sewing ma
| chine to a rotary engine. One woman
patented compound propeller pump.
The Public Health Committee reported
! 2O2 women engaged in hospitals as superin-
| tendents, matrons, nurses, ETC., and two
| women physicians, two dentists and two
pharmacists. There are AZ sisters engaged
| in relieving the sick in the various Catholic
| hospitals.
The Social and Economic Science Com
mittee reported about 25, 900 women engaged
| at work in Allegheny county, of whom 10,
| 600 work in factories Here Mr. Richards
| suggested that the matter wanted by the
commissioners regarding occupations for
women was more the distinctive work than
the general employmehts.
After the various reports had been heard,
u. L l. L.. - l., h fhnv nfofc
| in the circular under which the committee
has been acting, which were not fully un-
derstood by the members. In the colonial
and curios department the ladies found that
the owners of relics did not care to risk
them out of their possession, even it they
should be fully covered by insurance. The
matter Of selecting an alternative to fill the
| vacancy in the Twenty-third Congressional
delegates, occasioned by Mrs. Rutan NOV
ing from the city, was not acted upon.
| The board is anxious to obtain pictures OF
celebrated women in the county, with short
sketches of their lives An unfinished por-
trait Of Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm, painted
by herself, was among the first mentioned
| as being desirable. A copy of Mrs. Swiss
helms "Advice to Country Girls" will also
| be on exhibition.
A Museum Will Result.
All the materials used in the decoration
of the ladies' parlors of Pennsylvania State
building will be bought by the State and
removed to Harrisburg after the Fair,
where they will be placed as nucleus for
State art museum which is to be estab-
lshed. An appropriation will be made for
| the building next year.
The colored women of the country wanted
| to make some display. They decided upon
| a bust OF Avery, and wanted Edmonia, q
colored sculptress of some note, to execute
| it for them. For some reason or other they
were unable to obtain the sculptress' ad-
dress, so the matter fell through.
The project of erecting g ass building
| for Allegheny county women's exhibit in
| the woman's building had to be abandoned
on account of the committee being unable
to obtain space. 1t was the intention to
erect Temple of Vesta, and the exhibit
the fair Not being able to carry out this
idea the committee did the next best thing
and decided to make q glass room. This
will be composed entirely of plate mirrors,
| and will be decorated with cut and etched
glass of every description. The prominent
glass manufacturers were seen yesterday by
Mr.. Richards, and each one said he would
furnish whatever the ladies wanted. With
this assistance the ladies will doubtless
make creditable display.
A letter was read before the board yester-
day from Rev. S. Collins U. P. minister
of Allegheny, which said he had noted the
intention of the women to erect Temple
of Vesta, and wanted to know if they were
going back to heather worship. Gas an
American and Christian and q minister of
the gospel" he continued, II protest
against this as an affront to the true God,
and ask that you give up the project"
Some Rare Wood Carving.
Mr.. Richards says that Franklin county
will have a novel exhibit from q convent
near Chambersburg. There is large estate
there which belongs to a religious order.
There are only two of the nuns left, and
they being the last of the order the ques-
tion has arisen as to whom the estate will
70 upon their demise 1t will be matter
for the courts to decide The Punishment
of the convent is all from the hands of the
nuns. The wood carving is something grand.
1t is the intention to obtain number of
specimens of this carving, as we'll as the
other samples of the nuns handiwork, and
display them at the Fair. The altar, it is
said, is perhaps the most magnificent speci-
men of wood carving in the United States.
1t is a question whether the ladies will sue
ceed in securing the articles they wish.