Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-04
READY FOR WINTERS WORK
First Regular Session of the Womans Club
to Be Held Monday.
FIRST BUSINESS TO ELECT A PRESIDENT
Prospective Removal OF Mrs. rcnttic
Leaves II NncnncS-EorminE Plans
for n club BuiIdinV-C -Commit-
tee Asks Instructions.

The womou's club viii hold its first reg
ular meeting Of the season tomorrow at tho
club rooms in ODD Fellows hall. There
are several matters Of interest which vii
come up at this meeting and which arc
expected to call out a full attendance.
Il has been announced that tho president
OF the club Mrs Ella w. rcattie, who was
elevated to that position only last spring.
is about to remove from the city and will
tender her resignation. to take effect at
once. The vice president. Mrs. Towne. be-
ing unwilling to assume the duties OF the
president. 1t is expected that an election OF
a new president will be held at once There
has been some talk about different candi-
dates among the members OF the club but
as yet no slate has been liked and thero
is no way of telling who will be the prob
able choice.
A movement is on foot tc give Mrs Peattie
reception at the Commercial club rooms.
in connection with some of her other friends
and admirers before her departure. This
receptlou will probably be fixed for Monday
of next week and Is intended to be gen.
eral expression of appreciation of the work
which she has done in behalf of the Woman
club and other institutions of the city.
Another important matter which will come
up will be the report Of the committee on
club house. IllS committee, WnlCn was
appointed before the interruption OF the reg
ular meetings last May. has been giving
the subject careful attention and feels that
there Is nothing more for II to do without
instructions from the club as a whole 1t
has examined the plans of womens club
houses in different cities and has consulted
with architects here as to the probable cost
of the desired club house. A number OF
sites have been offered. at various prices, az
suitable for the purpose. Any one of these
sites however, would require a considera-
bit outlay OF money, inasmuCh as the COM
mittee has made it first consideration to
have the location within the business area
of the city
SEPARATE CORPORATION PROPOSED.
The committee will probably recommend
that in case the club house proposition is
favorably considered, a separate building
corporation be formed with shares in mod
crate sums so as to be within the reach Of
individual members of the ,ub. and that
when a sufficient subscription to the stock
is secured active steps be taken to secure
a site and have plans prepared.
The question of club house Is nti-
mately connected with the question of en-
tertainment of the biennial conference OF
the Woman's Club Federation for 1898 that
the two properly go hand in hand. The To-
cation of the conference was left to the
ecutive council and it was expected that
this council would meet this fall and settle
the question. The condition of the finances
of the federation, however did not seem
to Mrs. Henrotin, the president, to justify
the expense of calling the council together.
She wrote recently to the members OF the
council suggesting that they should pay
their own expenses to and from the meet
ing which was to have been held at Gin
cinnati upon invitation Of the Cincinnati
Woman's club but out Of the replies re-
ceived found that only two were willing
to attend upon those conditions. One of
those two was Mrs. Ford the member from
Nebraska. The result is that the meeting.
which was to have been held at Cincinnati
within the month, has been called off and
until next spring. This means
that the location of the 1898 conference will
not be decided before that time and gives
the Omaha Womans club a longer period
to decide upon the various questions in
volved.
Announcements will probably be made at
the meeting tomorrow of the programs OF
the different departments, and active work
begun in those departments before another
week shall have closed.