Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-09
THE GREAT PETITION
Complets Program for the W. O. 7. o.
Gathering Next Week.
Convention Hall to BE Drnped With
the Huge Petition for Peace
ON Earth.

All details have been brought to a state
of perfection by the committee arranging
for the great convocation of White Rib
boners, in connection with the presenta-
ton of the poiyglot petition, the sessions
of which will begin in this city on Friday
Eext. February IL. and are to be continued
on Saturday and Sunday. The meetings
are held under the united auspices of the
Worlds National and District of Column
bias Woman's Christian Temperance I'm
ions.
The session to which is attached probably
the greatest interest is the mass meeting
to be held i'll Convention Hall on Friday
evening, when the immense auditorium viii
be draped with the petition. The commit
tee, in its contract with the management
OF the hail. has emphatcally stipulated
that unless the same is properly heated the
rental is not to he paid no fears as re-
CARDS comfort need be entertained. small
admission Zee Will DE charged for this ses-
sion only. The program in detail for the
entire meeting is as follows:
Friday, February l5.-NorninG session,
Metropolitan VI. Il. Churchill. address of
welcome, Mrs NJ. II. Griffith president
District w. c. 7. u; response. Mrs. Clara
c. Hoffman, recording secretary. National
w. c. I. u. 1870. prayer and conservation
meeting, conducted 10y Miss Elizabeth w.
Greenwood, worlds and national evangel-
istic superinten lent. Prayer for the power
of the Holy Spirit upon those who present
and those who receive the great petition,
both in Washington and in all it's future
journeyings, Mrs. Anna NJ. Hammer, pres
ident Pennsylvania W. c. T. L.: Mrs. p. o..
Aydelotte of Massachusetts, Mrs. Jennie
Fowler Willing. New York, and others. l.,
noontide prayer, Mrs. NJ. L. Griffith.
Afternoon session.-2:;i0 devotional ser
vices, Mrs. Helen NJ Barker, national treas
urer; address, The w. G. T. U. Has At
tanned Her Majority; is She Worthy of Cit
iZenShipY' Mrs Margaret Il. Piatt Wash
ington; address, Mrs. Emily l.. McLaugh-
in, Massachusetts,; address, Mrs. Matilda
Il. Carse. Chicago; music; adjournment.
Evening session. Convention Music Hall.
$50, grand mass meeting, hail draped
with petition; presiding officer, Frances
+. Willard, LID, worlds and national
president, w. c. +. u; devotional exercises,
Mrs. katharine Lente Stevenson. Chicago;
music, Moody choir of 800 voices; address,
Origin of the Petition Miss Willard; ad-
dress, Its Value an Educator, Mrs.
Mary III. Hunt, worlds and national Su-
perntendent Scientific Temperance 1nstruc-
ton; solo, Miss katherine Willard, Balti-
more; address, What the Petition Will
Mean to the World Lady Henry Somer-
set, president British Women's Temper
ance Association. England; address. Its
Relation to the Final Victory, Mrs. Clara
C. Hoffman; music, Moody choir; benedic-
ton.
Saturday, February 16.-Morning session,
Metropolitan NJ. e. Churchill discussion:
What are the Special Needs of the w. Z.
T L. in the National Capital and How
May Those Needs BE Met? Opened by Mrs.
La Fetra. Miss Weightman, district cor
responding secretary; Mrs. Mary Haslup,
president of Maryland. 30. devotional
hour conducted by Mrs. j. Fowler willing,
national evangelist. II, noontide prayer;
adjournment.
Afternoon session, Metropolitan NJ. T..
Church,. Young Woman's Work, Miss
Frances Ensign, national organizer; Miss
Belle Kearney. national organizer; Miss
Margaret S. Hilles, president of Delaware
Miss Elizabeth L.. Yates, department lee
turer g. The Claims of the l.. L. l.. as
Juvenile Organization, Miss Anna A. Cor
don, worlds superintendent l.. t. L.; MISS
Ellen A. Dayton Blair. national organizer.
4, address, Physical Culture and Artistic
Dress, Miss Julia Leavens; music; adjourn
ment.
Saturday evening. February 16--Mass
meeting.-7:3O, devotional services, Mrs l..
NJ. N. Stevens, vice observation-disclosures
Maine. Brief addresses; the W. Z; L. Z. IN
its Relation to the Individual, Miss Belle
Kearney. Mississippi. Its Relation to the
Home, Mrs. Helen NJ. Barker, Chicago
Its Relation to the School, Mrs Mary H.
Hunt, Boston. Its Relation to the Church
Mrs Katharine Lente Stevenson. CHICAGO
national corresponding secretary. Its Re
lation to the Nation, Mrs. Clara Z. Hof-
man, Missouri. Its Relation to the World,
Frances E. Willard; music: adjournment
Sunday February 1I.-AfterEoon mass
meeting, First Congregational Church-
8, presiding officer. Miss Frances H. En-
sign Addresses. Miss Belle kearney, MISS
Frances H. Ensign, Miss Alice Palmer
round-the-world missionary; Miss Eliza
beth u Yates; music.
Sunday evening.-First CONGREGATIONAL
Church-T:3 30 addresses. Lady Henry SOM
erset, Mrs. Clara C. Hoffman.