The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-05-16
WORLDS FAIR CONGRESS.
First One of the Great Series Of
Gatherings Begins.
WOMEN AND THEIR WORK.
Many Famous Women from All COun.
tries Present.
1t win BE a Memorial Congress and VIII
Celebrate the Progress of Women
Since the Discovery of This
Continent in 1892.

CHICAGO. May .-[Speciall-Th first
of the great Worlds fair congresses be-
gan today. 1t was that of the representa-
tive women of the world, and it promises
TO be of vast interest. Two kinds of pro-
grammes have been planned, one pre-
senting the topics to be considered in
method calculated to interest general
audiences, the other arranged with refer
ences to specialists who wish to consider
the same topics with greater detail than
would be possible for large miscellaneous
gatherings. The intention is to make
this memorial congress, and to have its
papers and addresses chronicle what the
congress itself will celebrate, namely, the
progress of women since the discovery or
this continent in 1892. Each country
represented in the congress is expected to
send reports showing woman S advance in
that country along the various lines
above mentioned, setting forth her pres
ent educational opportunities, and the
agencies through which these opportuni-
ties have been received, also the objects
now sought in each country by its lead
ers.
Eight rooms in the art palace have been
set aside for the use of the eight general
departments into which the work of the
congress is divided, one room being as
signed to each department, and In these
rooms will be conducted a constant Sc
ries of special conferences of an informal
character. which will enable women en-
gagged in the same work to become ac-
uuainted with one another, and also with
the various methods by which the work
is prosecuted in different parts of the
world. In the other seven halls meetings
of the various associations represented In
the advisory council of the congress Will
be held, and each association is to have
one day for its own special use, arranging
fits own programme, providing its own
speakers, and with its own officers pre-
siding. One hall will be used each day
of the week for the especial purpose OF
hearing and discussing reports OF organl-
zations Nine meetings may thus be in
pre- gress simultaneously, two in the main
halls and seven in the department halls,
giving a wide variety of choice to the
thousands who will assemble in Chicago
during this most interesting work.
This morning the congress opened with
m address of welcome by Mrs. Potter
Palmer. president of the wOman's branch
OF the auxiliary. Mrs. Palmer received a
great ovation and IN clear voice she
welcomed the first great congress OF
women known to history.
Mrs. Henrotin, first vice president.
made a graceful address, in the course OF
which she said women are weary Of bear
ing their sons to be shot down and
the wars of old Will soon give
way to arbitration and peace.
Women have a broader field, a greater
chance and know how to improve them.
Mrs. Henrotin enumerated the parts to
be played by women in the coming con-
gress and exhorted her members to be
awake to their opportunities and not
shrink from opening possibilities or cling
to shadows of the past.
Mrs. May Wright Sewall, chairman OF
the committee on arrangements, spoke OF
the vast scope of the congress, saying
notable indeed was the fact that on the
list of the advisory committee were the
names Of representatives of Indian and
Negro. Glad also were they to meet rep
resentatives of that older faith, the jew
ish. who would tell how women of that
faith think and feel.
At the conclusion of Mrs. Sewell' 6
speech. Clara Barton, president of the
Red Cross society, was invited. to the
platform.
Lady Aberdeen was then introduced
and made brief and felicitious speech
about woman and her work. Then Mrs.
Albert Barker, of England, recited with
splendid eloqutionary powers and effect
Edna Dean ProcJor's ode to columbia Is
Emblem
A recess was then taken till evening at
which session addresses were made by
Mrs. Florence Fenwick Miller of Eng
land, Baroness Thorborg of Sweden, Mrs
Caliinhoe Parren of Greece, Mrs. Josefs
Zeman of Bohemia, Mrs. Katherine
Shirmake- of Germany, Mrs. John
Harvie of Canada, Nine. Isabel Bogelat Of
France, and several others. All the
speakers confined thsir remarks to the
condition of women In the different
countries represented
Tuesday the morning addresses in the
large halls will be on 1.-THE civil and So
cial evolution of woman;'' in the evening
on ssWoman, the new factor in econom.
les, - ''The industrial position of woman
In Germany" and 1.-The industrial posi-.
ton of woman in France"
Wednesday-stT ethics of Dress
ssWoman on the stage, - 'sThe new wo.
manhood Of Italy, - FfOur debt to Zurich
end to Brussels" and ssWoman in the
pulpit
Thursday-ts Woman as a financier, D
"Woman in municipal government, >
ssThe political future of woman, - 1.-The
solidarity of human interests"
Friday" Woman's War for Peace, .
stWoman as Social Leader, - ''The Pro-
fessions and Trades Underlying the
Home, - woman in Science, - 'Wom.
ans Place in the Republic of Letters.''
Saturday sessions will be devoted
to the presentation Of the work of women
in organizations, considered in respect t
religion, philanthropy, education, mora
reform and political liberty, with q gen
eral discussion OF the economy OF won
ans forces through organization.
Sunday moruing-There will be relig
ious service entirely conducted by womeI
ordained as ministers, representing every
denomination which has admitted womeI
10 the ministry. and the congress vii
close Sunday night with sacred concer
with music composed, rendered and con
Quoted by women, and closing address
on the influence of the Columbian exposi
ton in Woman IS development.
AT THE FAIR.