The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-19
ALL WANTEDTOHE SUSAN
Crush and Seni.Panic in the Art Palace
While Miss Anthony Was Speaking.
Police Necessary to Clear the Halls of Women.
Who Had Broken Down Partitions in Their
Eagerness TO See the Venerable Maid.

CHICAGO. May $50 wedged in the hall
ways of the Art Institute were the Gro wds
of women at so-day's session OF the worlds
congress that at one time panic W as immi-
nent. 1t was at the entrance of the hall in
which Susan b. Anthony was speaking.
Crowds completely filled the hall aud bum
dreds of less fortunate women found them
selves packed outside the corridor In
hysterical voice one woman called on the
chairman to postpone the programme and
send for the police. Wooden partitions
filling the side doorwsys to other halls
were crushed In and the crash added to a
growing feeling of alarm. The congress
proceedings were temporarily discontinued
until officers succeeded In clearing the
he lis.
A noticeable feature of the congress IL
the constantly increasing number of young
women who attend its meetings. The
scope of subjects considered to-day was
most comprehensive. although the relig-
ions element was predominant. The Cath
Ole women congress was crowded to the
doors. This was the first occasion In many
years where Catholic women had taken
part In deliberations of this nature. Two
ladies clad in the sOmbre robes Of relig-
lous sisterhood sat near the platform:
Eliza Allen Starr, the venerable and
we!l-known leader of Catholic women of
Chicago. called the meeting TO order. Miss
Starr urged the formation of q grand ma
tionAl organization OF Catholic women.
On the platform surrounding Miss Starr
were Miss Helen A. Ford, Mary Josephine
Onahan. Miss Sullivan. Mrs. Alice TIM
mons Toomy ana Mildred Webb. Papers
reviewing woman in the church and the
church's treatment of her were received
from Emma Carey. Miss Ford. Frances Cos
tigan and Miss Toomey. A poem by Flea
nor c. Donnelly was read by Miss Onahan.
At the evening session Lady Aberdeen
read paper on THE Work of the Irish
Nuns ana Miss Onahan on the Catholic
Woman in Philanthropy A poem by
Moore and Mary A. B. Msher followed. the
programme being closed by Janet L.
Richardson with an antithesis of the two
widely different types OF women OF progress
In the Hall of Washing ton at one session
of the general congress Woman as n Re-
liglous Teacher was the theme on which
Ursula N. Gestefeld. of New York. read Q
paper. which was followed by one on The
Modern Deaconess Movement by Jane
CONSEQUENT discussion was participated in
by Cordelia A. Quimby, Alice May
Scudder and Others. Tonight Fannie Bar
rier Williams. Rev. Augusta j. Chaplin. of
lllluOl6, auO SaTdn Js EnIlf, Va AcuAosScc,
and others discussed she progress of the
col0red women of the United Statea
Women In the pulpit was talked OK by Rev.
Florence +. KillOck, Rev. Mary A. Stafford
and many others.
The other division of the general con-
gress, held in Columbus Hall, talked Of the
place 10 Hebrew thought occupied by
woman, and this was the subject of paper
by Minnie ID. Louis. 1.-The Light in the
East was discussed by Eliva Ann ThsyeT.
and brief addresses germane TO the Ques-
ton of woman in the Jewish polity and
religion were made bv Emily Marshfeld
Wadsworth and Mrs. John f. Unger.
The department of women's clubs held q
most important congress, at which many
members made very brief speeches, which
were mainly reports of progress in the
formation and advance of the women's
clubs.
The National American Women's Suf.
frage Association listened TO papers by
Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Laura NJ. Johns,
Helen ii. Gardener Clara Bewick
Colby and Florence Fenwick Miller. and
the Woman's Baptist Home Mission Society
heard reports from different institutions
and organizations under its control. the
proceedings being diversified by music and
song. The Women's Centenary Association
held q session that combined, addresses.
discussion and singing.
In the congress OF the American Protect
i've Society Of Authors subjects of interest
to writers. publishers and persons con-
cerned In literature, either as artists or
commercially, were debated in essays By
Mrs Nj. ID. Lincoln Bessie Beechl Mrs.
Katherine Hedges Mrs G. NJ. Spofford and
Mrs. Leila P. Roby.