Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-07-15
SECOND DAYS SESSION
First Convention of National League Of
-Oolored Women.
Addresses Read and Other Bushes,
.
Transacted-The Work of the
Race and Its Needs.

nual convention of the National League OF
Colored Women began this morning at 10
o'clock at the Fifteenth Street Presby
terrain Church, with President Helen A.
Cook in the chair. AS on the first day,
there was a good attendance.
After prayer by Mrs. Lucy Thurman of
Jackson, Mich, superintendent of work
among colored people, for the National W.
c. T. u, Mrs. Julia Mason Layton chair
man of the committee on credentials, pre-
scented the report relative to those entitled
to seats in the convention, the full list of
| which was published in The Star of yes
terday
At this point the convention took recess
aid the delegates went to the front of the
church to let a photographer take their
pictures in a group.
At 1913 am. the convention reassembled,
with Mrs. L. E. Titus of Norfolk. Va, in
the chair.
On the Platform.
At the request of the chairman the fol-
lowing came forward and took seats on the
platform: Mrs. Lucy Thurman of Jackson,
Mich; Mrs. Addie w. Hunton. Richmond,
Va; Mrs. Ida D. Bailey. Washington; Mrs.
NJ L. Meriwether, Washington; Mrs. Mary
Dickerson, Newport. r. L.; Mrs. E. r.
Williams. Brooklyn. n. Y; Mrs. Julia Ma
son Layton, Washington: Mrs. Clair,
stanton. Va; Miss f. F. G. Merritt,
Washington; Miss Mary f. Jackson Provi-
dence. r. L.; Miss Matte r. Bowen, Wash
1ngton; Mrs. c. Z. Pierre, Washington;
Miss Estelle Sprague. Gloucester W. Va;
Mrs. Ella Shepherd Moore of Kentucky
Mississippi and Tennessee societies
The Addresses.
Mrs. Addie w. Hunton made an address
en- the subject What Are the Members of
the Young Mems Christian Associations
Doing for the Young Colored Men of This
Ccuntry?" and said that the salvation of
the race depended largely on the efforts Of
the Y NJ c. A.
Mrs. Lucy Thurman of Jackson Mich
spoke on the work of the Women's Chris
tan Temperance Union among the colored
people of the United States, and she pre-
seEted to the convention the greetings of
Lady Henry Somerset and Miss Frances
Willard, who. she said. were the foremost
women in the temperance cause in the
world.
The influence of the W. c. T. L. was.
she said, constantly widening
Mrs. Charlotte Forten Grimke offered a
resolution indorsing the work of the w c.
resolutions.
Mrs. Ida d. Bailey of Washington spoke
OF Inc advantages to be had at the rooms
OF the Colored Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION.
Mrs. NJ. l.. Meriwether of Washington
spoke Of ''Womans Work Among Men"
Mrs. T. 4. Williams of Brooklyn, n. Y,
representing the Womans Afro-American
Union OF that city. presented the fraternal
greetings of that organization
mrs. Julia Mason Layton spoke of the
work OF the Womans Relief Corps and
made an earnest appeal for a union of the
National League and the National Fedar,e
uoh. as mas been proposed in order that
more good may be accomplished
Inc other topics CT the morning session
were of the Woman's Protective Union"
by Miss E. f. G. Merritt The Y. P s c.
r., Miss Mary E. Jackson: THE Home for
working Girls" Miss Matte r. Bowen:
me Home for Friendless Girls" Mrs. c.
=; Pierre; The Gloucester Educational
Club" Miss Estelle Sprague; The Outlook
In Kentucky and Some Other Southern
States Mrs. Ella Shepherd Moore
Last Evening.
Last evenings session was opened as
| had been that of the morning. with prayer,
| and after a formal address of welcome by
Mrs Helen A. Cook, president OF the league,
| President John W. Ross of the District
Commissioners, at the request of the COM
mittee of arrangements. delivered an ad-
dress OF welcome to the District of Column
Ola to the delegates to the convention.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Ross remarks,
| the corresponding secretary. Mrs Coralie
l.. Franklin. read letters expressing SYM
pathy with the objects of the convention
| from Mrs. Booker r. Washington. president
| of the National Fedora ton of Afro-Ameri-
| can Women. and Mrs Mary Lowe Dickin-
son, president of the National Council of
Women CT the United States.
The Higher Education of Women was
| the subject Of paper by Miss Anna III.
Jones of Kansas City; Mrs. Haidee Camp
| bell of st. Louis discussed the Moral and
| Intellectual Benefits of kindergarten
| Work." and Mrs. Fannie Jackson Coppin
read paper on Woman as an Educator q"
| At the request Of President Cook a num-
| her of preachers and well-known colored
r1lan w hn sv,x-;
| seats on the platform. These We're Rev Dr.
| J. H.N.WariEg, ex-United States Senator b.
K. Bruce, Mr.. John Durham ex-minister to
| Hayti: Rev. Dr. johnson, Rev. DIR. Tun-
nell. Mr. William a. Hutton, national secre-
| tary of the Colored Young Mems Christian
| Association: Rev. DR.. Grimke and Mr.. Jas
| A Meriwether, president of the Colored y
| NJ. c. A. of Washington, each of whom
| made a few remarks
During the evening the following features
| OF the program were also rendered: Violin
SOLO Joseph Douglass: reading from the
Story of 'Hagar and Abraham" Miss Adri-
| enne Mcneil Herndon of Atlanta, Ga, and
solo. Miss Maggie A. Carnes.
TOnighfs Session.
The program for this evenings session
| comprises the reading of the following
papers: On "Heredity." by DR.. Caroline V.
Anderson Of Philadelphia. Pa: Woman
as Trained Nurse Mrs. Sarah l. Fleet
wood. Washington, d. c.: Woman in the
Profession Of Law Miss Ida Plat. Chi
| cago; Woman in journalism Miss Flor
erce A. Lewis, Philadelphia; Woman in
Business" Mrs. Josephine Salone Yates,
| Kansas City: What Our Industrial
Schools Are Doing to Open Avenues for
Women Miss Lizzie Rainey. Hampton,
Va.
There will also be address by Mrs.
| Ruth G. D. Havens of Washington, d. c.;
reading by Mrs. Adrienne Mcneil Hern-
don, Atlanta. Ga, and music.
| Hotel Arrivals.
| Cochran-A. N. Fairbanks, New York; Z.