The Washington times., 1895-02-04

End-of-the-century women will be repre-
sented in this city this month as never before
in the history of advanced femininity.
The second triennial session of the National
Council of Women of the United States will
be in session at Metzerott Hail from the 18th
/ TO March 2.
/ At least 700 delegates are expected from these
societies: National American Woman Suffrage
| Association. National Woman's Christian Tem-
| perance Union. National Free Baptist
Woman's Miss. .onary Society. Illinois Indus
| trial School for Girls, National Woman's Re-
/ lief Society, Wimodaughsis. Young Ladies'
/ National Mutual Improvement Association,
| National Christian League for the Promotion
Of Social Purity. Universal Peace Union, In
ternational Kindergarten Union, Woman's
| Republican Association OF the United States,
/ National Association of Loyal Women OF
American Liberty, Woman's Foreign Mis-
sionary Union of Friends, Woman's Relief
/ Corps, National Association Of Women Ste
nographers. National Council OF Jewish
! Women, and the American Antl-Yivisection
! Society.
OPENING OF THE MEETING.
| The business sessions OF the triennial will
be held at Metzerotts at 10 O'Clock a. m. on
| Wednesday. February 20, Tuesday, February
! &c, aud Saturday. March 2. The general
/ public will not he admitted to these sessions.
! The ether day sessions will be free to the
/ delegates and general pubic, but admission
will tie charged at tie evening sessions. The
rate for season ticket with reserved seat is
/ $3.50. season ticket without reserved seat 50
ole ticket with ~ CInUln
reserved seat % cents. EoNes. lower Eoor
/ Tor the season SIS, one evening -. balcony
boxes for the season Si2, ohe evening SI.5O.
! The Ebbitt House will be the headquarters
I for the trienniai. but the delegates who can
( not be accommodated there will be provided
4 for by the local committee of arrangements,
Of which Mrs. jeanette VI. Bradley is chair
man. The latter has n complete list Of desir-
7 able hotels and boaTding-houses where ac-
( commodations may lie secured at consider
+ ably reduced rates.
ADAITTANCR OF DELEGATES.
Members Of the triennial and fraternal del
/ egates will be admitted to the parquet by
showing their badges ar the door. Members
/ Of the trennial will be distinguished by Grim
( son badges. members of organizations form
/ ing the council, light blue: fraternal dele
. gates, dark greea; committee of local arrange
! ments. yellow, and newspaper reporters,
violet.
A bureau OF information, post-oflice, and
! other necessary eonyeniences will be estab
2 lished in the rehearsal hall adjoining the
music hall, and everything possible done to
provide for the needs Of the ladies.
The officers and standing COMMITTEES of the
National Council are as follows:
May Wright Sewall. president; Frances L.
Bagley, vice president: Lillian NJ. n. Stevens,
+ treasurer: Rachel Foster Avery, correspond
/ inc md leo ufsalf arin narfu
recording secretary.
Committee on dress-Frances L. Russell.
chairman; Annis Jenuess Miller, Frank
Stuart Parker, Octavia w. Bates, Laura Lee,
Bertha Morris Smith, Annie L. Sloane, and
Annie White Johnson.
Committee on equal pay for equal work
Lucia L. Blount, Mary Desha, and Mrs. Le-
] land Stanford.
/ Committee on divorce retorm-Ellen Bat
/ telle Dietrich. chairman; Mary A. Liver
more. and Fanny Il. Ames.
Committee On patriotic instruction-Kate
/ Brownies Sherwood chairman; Isabella
| Charles Davis. Caroline E. Merrick, Eliza D.
Keith. Frances Z. Willard, and Mary Desha.
The programmed is very elaborate and prom
| ises an unusually high standard OF addresses,
| as every known subject pertaining to woman
has been selected, and the most prominent
and intellectual women in the country will
/ speak.
RESUME OF THE PROGRAMME.
The programme opens with an evangelical
religious service Sunday, February II, and a
sermon by Rev. Annis Ford Eastman. OF
New York. The next day the formal opening
aud greeting will take place. The topics
! 20 be treated by the famous speakers
will be religion, temperance. philanthropy.
patriotic instruction. organized woIk in edu-
cation, anti-yivisection. liberal religious serv-
ice. equal pay for equal work industry.
politics. organized work in the municipality.
dress, divorce reform, universal peace, gov
eminent reform. moral reform, and multi
tude of others.
The speakers will include Harriet Y. Rails
ton, Ellen S. Mussey. J. Ellen Foster, Frances
E. Willard, Lady Henry Somerset, Annie
Johnan Smith. Alice c. Fletcher. Mrs. Samuel
s. 8e.ler. Sarah ID. La Fetra. Mary Desha.
Ruth g. ID. Havens. Belva A. Lockwood.
Susan B. Anthony, May Wright Sewall, and
many other notable women.