The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18

and ~, 1898.
This great congress will open the grand
series of Worlds Fair Congresses which
will continue until the end of the expo
sition.
The building in which all congresses
will convene is not upon the exposition
grounds, as many persons seem TO sup
pose. If the congresses were held there,
all those attending them would have to
pay the regular admission to the exposi-
ton.
The Art Institute of Chicago, is a new
building now approaching completion,
situated upon the lake front, quite near
Auditorium Hotel. 1t will be entirely
given up to the auxiliary for the six
months of the exposition. 1t contains
two auditoriums, each seating twenty
five hundred people, and about twenty
smaller halls, ranging in seating capacity
from three hundred to eight hundred.
Some of these will be occupied as the
offices of the World Congress Auxiliary,
but at least fifteen will be left for the use
of the congresses. This gives opportuni-
ty, in those congresses which hold three
sessions daily, for thirty-six sessions
weekly in large auditoriums, and two
hundred seventy sessions weekly in the
department halls.
During the week of the Congress of
Representative Women, the entire build
ing, exclusive of the offices occupied by
the Congress Auxiliary, will be at the
service of the Woman's Congress. We
believe this is not the case with any other
single congress, and the reason is OBJ
vious. The general congresses will show,
each in its own department. the intellec-
tual advances made in all the realms of
thought and effort by men and women,
without special regard paid to the ques-
ton of which sex performed the work,
and they will have five months in which
to show this. The Woman's Congress,
ON the other hand, will endeavor in one
week to set forth briefly, but at the same
time broadly and comprehensively, the
relation of women to the worlds work.
The addresses will be on topics calcu-
lated to show the relation of women to
the subject in hand. The reports from
eili OfCl t1lO WOl1Q \uilCOO'iCp 10 DIV dOb
to be presented orally at the congress
but to be published afterwards) will en-
deavor to give resume of the relation
of women to education, industry, litera-
ture and art, philanthropy and charity,
moral and social reform, civil law and
government, science and philosophy, and
TO religion in every country where
woman is recognized as factor in the
national life.
The management of the Woman's Con-
gress is in the hands of the committee
of arrangements of the woman's branch
of the Worlds Congress Auxiliary, of
which Mrs. Potter Palmer is president
and Mrs. Chas. Henrottin vice president.
1t has been decided to hold but two ses-
sions daily in the main auditorium and in
the department congresses, in order to
leave the afternoons free for social inter-
course, and a subcommittee has charge
of arranging a series of informal recep-
tionsss Ito take place during the congress.
Over forty organizations in this country
and more than that number from other
countries are cooperating in the .Wo-
mans Congress, by sending representa-
tives to present their work during its
sessions. In order to give greater oppor-
tunity for the presentation of the organ
lZcu WoIh VI "oiiioii. oil AdtioHdi doeool-
ations of women in the United States
have received the invitation to use for
one day department hall in the Art In
stitute. These department. congresses
will be managed entirely by the officers
of the organizations holding them. Al
ready twenty organizations have decided
to arrange for department congresses and
are at work upon their programmes,
striving to make them as strong as posi-
BILE, and each desiring to be considered
an addition to other attractions of the
congress.