St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-19
Religious Element Predomi-
mated iii Yesterdays Ses-
sion OF the Congress.
catholic Women Listen to Pa
perS on the Sex and
the Church.
Theodore Thomas Does Not
Answer the Request for
His Resignation.

hallway of the art institute were the
crowds Of women at .today's session of
the great congress that at one time
panic was imminent. 1t WIS at the en-
trance of the hall in which Susan B.
Anthony was speaking. Crowds COM
pletely flied the hall, and hundreds of
less fortunate women found themselves
packed outside in the corridor. In
hySterical voice one woman called Oh the
chairman to postpone the programme
and send for police. Wooden partitions
filling the side doorway to other halls
were crushed in, aud the crash added to
n growing feeling of alarm. The con-
gress proceedings were Temporarily dis
continued until officers succeeded in
clearing the halls. A noticeable feat
ure of the congress is the constantly in
GreaSing number of young women who
attend It's meetings. The scope of sub
jects considered today was most com
prehensive, although the religious ele-
ment was predominant.
The Catholic Women's congress was
crowded to the doors. This was the
first occasion in many years where
Catholic women had taken part in de-
alterations of this nature. Two ladies
Clad fn the SOmber Robes
of religious sisterhood sat near the
platform. Eliza Allen Starr, the vener-
able and Well-knOWn leader of Catholic
women in Chicago, called the meeting
to order. Miss Starr urged the formation
of a grand national organization of
Catholic women. On the platform sur
rounding Miss Starr were Miss Ellen A.
Ford, Mary Josephine Onahan, Miss
Sullivan. Mrs. Alice Timmons Toomy
and Mildred Webb. Papers reviewing
woman in the church and the church's
treatment of her were received from
Emma Cary, Miss Ford, Frances Costi-
gan and Miss TOomy. A poem by
Eleanor G. Donnelly was read by Miss
Dnahan. At the evening session Lady
aberdeen read paper on ''The Work
of the Irish Nuns" and Miss Onahan
one on The Catholic Woman in Philan-
Ehrophy." A poem by Margaret NJ.
HalVey, and papers by Sarah Moore and
Mary A. B. Maher followed, the pro-
gramme being closed by Janet F. Rich
ards with an antithesiS of two widely
different types Of women of progress of
our own daytime. Boucicaut, pro-
pretresS of the Bon Marche, Paris, who,
it was declared, had come the nearest to
a practical solution Of the labor prob
Aem, IN introducing the protft-sharing
System in her enormous business eStab-
aishment; the other type, Margaret of
New Orleans,
Beloved and HOnOred
wonderful work of charity-Margaret
Houghery. the ignorant Irish peasant
girl, famous, if in no other way, as the
pnly woman to whom a public statue
has been erected in America.
In the hall of Washington, at one ses-
sion of the general congress, ''Woman
as Religious Teacher" was the theme
on which Ursula n. Gestefeld. of New
York, read a paper, which was followed
by one on "The Modern Deaconess
Movement" by Jane Bancroft Robin
son, of Michigan. The consequent dis
cusSon was participated in by Cordelia
a. Quinby, Alice May Scudder and
others. Tonight Fannie Sarrier Will
cams, Rev. Augusta J.Chapin, of Illinois,
and Sarah j. EARLY, of Tennessee, and
others, discussed the progress of the
cOlOTed women of the United States.
E'Women in the Puipit'' was talked of
by Rev. Florence E. Kalleck, Rev. Mary
a. Stafford and many others.
The other division of the general con-
gress, held in Columbus hall, talked of
the place in Hebrew thought occupied
by woman, and this was the subject of
paper by Minnie D. Louis. The Light
in the East" was discussed by Eliza
Ann Thayer, and brief addresses ger
mane to the question of women in the
Jewish polity and religion were made
by Emily Marshfeld Wadsworth and
Mrs. John F. Unger.
Congress of Clubs.
The Federation of Women's Clubs
held most important congress, at
which many members made very brief
speeches. which wete mainly reports of
progress in the formation and advance
ment of wOmen's clubs. The report
congress listened TO accounts of the
work and welfare of the Pestalozzi-
Froebel house in Germany the Vino
daughsis association, the American
library association, the Schepeler-
Letteverein in Germany. and the New
Semervile club Of London.
The National American Woman Sur-
frage association listened to papers by
elizabeth Cady Stanton, Laura NJ.
Johns. Helen II. Gardener, Clara Be
wick Colby and Florence Fenwick
Miller, and the Women's Baptist Home
mission society heard reports from diff
ferent institutions and organizations
dnder its control, and the proceedings
were diversified by music apd song.
The Woman's Centenary association
held session that combined addresses,
discussion and singing. In the congress
of the American Protective Society of
Authors subjects of interests to writer's.
publishers and persons concerned in
literature, either as artists or CONNER
cialty, were debated in essays by Mrs.
N. D. Lincoln C'Bessie Beech"), Mrs.
Katherine Hodges, Mrs. Z. NJ. Spofford
and Mrs. Leila H. Roby.