The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-02-18
WOMEN IN COUNCIL.
Grand Triennial National
Talking Match at
Washington.
ALL THE WoULD-BEs THERE
Mrs. President sewall Discourses
Long and Learnedly on "self
Made Men,
ALL THE WOULD-BES THERE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 49, 1S95.-The sec-
ond triennial of the National Council Of
Women cf the United States, to give
the full title, began this morning, and
for two weeks will divide with Congress
interest i'm Washington affairs. 1t is
safe to say that never before was there
such an enthusiastic assenblage of won,-
en- as that at Metzerott Music Hall at
ten O'Clock when the formal opening oc-
Cured When Mrs. May Wright Sewell
of Indianapolis, the President of the Ma
tional Council, raped for order from the
stage at one end of the hail. she looked
down upon a representative gathering of
women from every section of this coun-
try and few from other countries
while the gallery above was crowded
with an appreciative audience-nale and
female-apparently thoroughly in SYM
pathy with the objects of the meeting.
The gathering was not only represent
tative from a geographical standpoint
but from those of appearance and sphere.
Dress reformers and women in gowns OF
the mode sat side by side, while here
and there could be seen the quaint bon
net of the Quakeress.
Acknowledged leaders in society, noble
women in the European meaning of the
term and several noted for wealth in
their own right or that of their hus-
bands, were there on an equal footing
with delegates from the ranks OF those
who work for their daily bread. All
ages were likewise in evidence. ranging
from more than three score and ten, OF
Miss Susan B. Anthony, President of
the National American Wo1nans Suf-
frage Association, to the nineteen years
of Miss H Augusta Howard, President
of the Georgia Auxiliary of Miss An-
thongs organization.
SOME OF THE CRANKS.
Conspicuous in the gathering by rea-
son of their prominence in woman's work
were the Countess of Aberdeen, PresI-
dent of the International Council of
Women and best known in America
through her Irish exhibit at the Worlds
Fair; Lady Henry Somerset, Miss Fran
ces E. Willard of Illinois, President OF
the National Wonen's Christian Tenn
perance Union; Mrs. Russell Sage OF
| New York, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Grannis of
New York, President of the National
Christian League for the Promotion OF
Social Purity. who recently attained
some prominence in the Metropolis
through following in the footsteps OF
Dr. Parkhurst: Mrs. ]. Ellen Foster Of
Washington, D. c.; President of the
| W oman's s Republican Association of the
United States; Mrs. H. Solomon OF IL
linois. President of the National Council
of Jewish Women; Mrs Annie Jenness
Miller the dress reformer; Mrs. May
French Sheldon of Massachusetts; the
African Explorer, DR.. Jennie de Ia NJ.
Mrc
reaux Blake of New York, the Rev. An
mis- Ford Eastman of Elmira, N. Y; the
Rev. Anna Howard Shaw of Pennsyl-
vania, and the Rev. Caroline J. Bartlett
of Kalamazoo, Mich, the female min
isters of the Gospel, and Mrs. Laura
Curtis Bullard of Brooklyn, who shares
with Mrs. Hatty Green the distinction
of being female millionaire.
Seated on the platform with Presi-
dent Sewall were the officers and the
Executive Committee, together with
number of the patrons of the Council and
some of the notabilities mentioned.
A number of fraternal organizations not
in the council wer also represented. These
societies numbered twenty and included
the Woman's First Dental Association
of the United States, the Wonan's Ma
tional Indian Associations the National
Woman's Auxiliary Keeley League, the
National League of Colored Wome, the
Legion of Loyal Women, the Working
Woman's Society and the International
Order OF Kings Daughters and Sons
OPENING THE SESSION.
The opening session was merely formal.
It began with prayers and this was. fol-
lowed by the Introduction Of Presidents
and Delegates or organizations FORMING
the National Council,
The resentation of greetings from the
National Council of Women Of Canada
| from organizations not in the council
came next on the programme and the
r. WITH Mav ta WgSf wa
''rhe first President of the National
Council, opening it's first triennial ses- !,
tRat a1sa' time mlen Elizabeth M cady stanton had
oeiebrated a birthday anniversary and
| the birth of new idea. No more fitting
| words can be found with which to open
| them with me. "A difference of opinion
on one question must not prevent US
from working unitedly in those on which
we agree There is a ge-mindedness,
chose words whdch characterize, the
msH Much sse ppency oa w91 To Work saF ogethe
| with those with whom one does not
agree has been thought to be impossible
to women and indeed even during the
| era of organization the central motive
| of all organization has been to bring to-
| gether those who do agree. This very
| fact was the weakness and the danger
! of organization as it was known prior to
1883. The fundamental principles of the
! are as we'll worth reading at successive
| triennial sessions as is the Declaration
| CT Independence on every recurring
1 Fourth of July.
1.-THE preambel provides for a federa-
| tion its first article provides for the i'm
| dependence Of each of the federated So
! cieties The motto for the Council was
| suggested by the first Treasurer of the
! Council, M. Louise Thomas and earnest
| ly SUPPORTED by the first President, Fran
! ces E. Willard, Lead Kindly Light
| Surely this motto is worthy of being con-
| sidered in itself a statement of funda-
| mental principle. That it is expressed in
| the form of an apostrophe does not d.
! minish its force.
| THE work in connection with the
Women absorbed the strength of the Ma
| tionaI Council for the first two years Of
| the period just closing. That in a certain
1 sense the Council suffered direct loss by
| having it's interest thus diverted to an
| object outside of it's original conception
| cannot be doubted but that indirect gains
| to the Council Idea more than counter
| balance the loss is also beyond question.
i The extension of the Council Ideas
/ through the agency of the Worlds Con-
| gress Is a fine Illustration of the sacred
| truth that He who would save his life
must lose It.