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The National Federation to Meet
Here Monday.
AN INTERESTING PROGRAM ARRANGED
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Special Discussion Of PhiIanthropic
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Work Among Negroes.
ENTERTAINING THE GUESTS

The annual convention of the National
Federation Of Afrc-Amercan Women,
which begins Monday in the Nineteenth
Street Baptist Church of this city, to con-
tfnue four days. promises to bring together
some of the most noted women Of the race
in the United States. comprising among
others the members of the ''Woman's con-
gress," which met last year In Atlanta.
Never before in the history of colored
women has there been such deep and wide
spread interest in the questions that are
expected to come before the convention
The women of all sections have been
aroused and are deeply concerned about
the proper disposition of many questions
bearing upon the practical upbuildrg of
character and all that pertains to home.
An effort mas been made to bring to the
front women who are not only doing good
work along phianthropic lines, including
the founding and maintenance of orphan
asylums, homes and jnfirmaries for the
aged, infirm and unfortunate, and in this
particular tho program IS unique.
A Racial Deficiency.
Though the Afro-Amercan is recorded as
being the most religious Of races, it does
not provide systema atically for the weak and
crring of that great family. The women
are alive to this great falling, and their
leaders say they will not rest until res
cue crusade shall have been inaugurated
by black women for the upbuldine of
struggling human kind. The isolated log
cabin women and children will have a
place upon the program. 1t is believed that
untll the masses of the women of the race
know that there is such a thing as an
Af:o-American woman's organization anx-
ious to better their condition little good
will result.
The south has been well cauvassed and
the explanation has been made to those in
terested that 1t is the aim Of the National
Federation Of Afro-American Women to
carry sympathy and enlightenment to the
masses.
The Program.
The program to be observed at the con-
rention is as follows:
Monday, July 20. a.m.-Formal opening
OF the convention; devotional exercises:
address of welcome. Rev. w. H. Brooks;
response by Mrs. Rosetta Douglass Sprague;
presentation of credentials by delegates;
maternal greetings; minutes of organiZa-
tior OF the National Federation of Afro
American Women, Boston, July 81, 1895:
reports from clubs; appointment of COM
mittees; music.
Monday, } p.m.-Executive committee
meeting, not open to the public.
Monday, l:aD p.m.-Devotional exercises;
chorus of 1tD Voices Prof. J. T. Layton,
director; address of welcome to the city,
commissioner Ross; music. Capital City
Orchestra. Mr.. George E. Brown, leader;
response, Mrs. Josephine ST. Pierre Ruffin
Boston; annual ADDRESS, Mrs. Booker r.
Washington. Tuskegee, Ala; chorus, Prof
}. I. Layton. director; short addresses by
distinguished guests.
Tuesdays Procedings.
Tuesday. July y. . a.m.-Devotional ex-
ercises; general topic. "Philanthropic and
Evangelical Work. fraternal greetings
from various societies, religious and secu-
lar: orphans and the Care of Them."
Mrs. NJ. F. Pitts st. Louis CoIored Orphan
ASYLUM. st. Louis. Mo; Abandoned
Waifs." Mrs. Carrie Steele Logan, Carrie
Steele Orphanage. Atlanta, Ga; More
Homes for Our Aged" Harriet Tubman.
Harriet Tubman Home. Auburn, N. Y;
Aged and Infirm." Mrs. Ann Hale Hale
Infirmary, Montgomery. Ala: Mountain
Women of Virginia" Miss Jennie Dean,
founder Manassas Industrial School, Ma
ressas. Va; Rescue Work." Miss Sarah j.
Thomas, Sarah Thomas Home ard Indus
trial School for Girls, Macon, Ca: The
frey. Rochester. N Y.
) p.m--DevotfOnal exercises: general top
ic, "Reformatory Work. John Brown"
Mrs. T. II. Lyles. John Brown Memorial
Association; Temperance" Mrs. Lucy B.
Thurman, national superintendent w. c. r.
L. work among Afro-Americans; Reform"
Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett Chicago; Tho
Separate Car System as 1t Affects the
dignity OF Afro-American Womanhood,"
Mrs. Lillian Thomas-Fox. Indianapolis.
Ind; Prison Reform" Mrs. Marie s. Fos-
ter. Cambridgeport. Mass: "a Plea for a
Reformatory." Miss Mamie Mason, At
lanta, Ga.
7:so p.m.-Devotional exercises: general
topic. Moral and Educational Work."
The Necessity Of a Course Of Training
for the Elevation and Improvement of Do
rssti nestle Service" Mrs Fanny Jackson
Work" Mrs. B. K. Bruce, Washington,
D. c.: "The Afro-American Child and Pa
triotisr." Miss Alice Ruth Moore, New Or
leans, La: Defects in the Training of
Colored Girls" Mrs L. B. Stephens, Lynch
burg, Va: ''The Ideal Home" Mrs Frances
Ellen Watkins Harper. Philadelphia, Pa:
moral Influences" Miss K N Hughes,
Somerville. N j.; Miss Elizabeth Smith,
Boston, Mass.
Wednesdny's Work.
Wednesday, July %, 9 a.m.-Devotional
exercises; general topic, "Enterprising and
Cooperative Work'-"The great interna-
tional exposition to take place in Paris
19OO-the part our women should take"
Mrs. ]. Napier Kemp, Mrs. Jasper Gibbs,
Minneapolis. Mimi: "A National Afro
American Womans Paper" Mrs. j. ST.
Pierre Ruftin; Plan for Raising Money for
the Support of a National Afro-American
Womans Paper" Mrs. Victoria Matthews,
New York. discussion open to delegates
Only)
p.m.-Devotional exercises: election of
officers for the ensuing year.
$50 p.m.-General topic, organization
The Coming Woman Nineteenth Century
Type" Mrs. Selena Butler, Atlanta, Ca;
Our Country Women and Children Miss
Georgiana Washington. central Alabama;
How Can the National Federation of
Afro-Amcrcan Women Be Made to Serve
the Best Interests and Needs of Our Wo-
men?' Mrs. F. R. Ridley, Massachusetts,;
Miss Mary V. Cook, Cane Springs. Ky;
Miss L. c. Carter, Massachusetts,; Mrs.
billiard, Selma. Ala: Mrs. ]. st. Pierre
Ruf1in, Massachusetts; Mrs. r. E. Lawson,
Washington, d. c.: Mrs. V. Matthews,
New YORK. General discussion open to del
egates only. Instruction, Of newly elected
officers. ri
1t is expected that many religious insti-
tutions Will send greetings and reports Of
their work ~
Mrs. r. &. Lawson and Mrs. B. K. Bruce
nave charge of all matters connected with
the entertainment Of the guests, and the
ladies OF the church VIII serve luncheon
daily to the delegates. ~
Joseph Mantegari Dead.
Joseph Mantegari. the Italian fruit deal
er who was horribly burned yesterday af-
ternoon at his home. Oil D street. as a