The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-05-15
Arrangements for the Great Conyen-
tion at Toronto.
DELEGATES COMING FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE WORLD.
Queen Victoria the Patroness of the Band
of Hope Which Includes Eight Million
Young Abstainers-Miss Brehm and
Mrs. Abbott in Controversy Over
Woman Suffrage in Wyoming.

Mrs. Abbott in Controversy Over
Woman Suffrage in Wyoming.
| The Fourth Biennial Convention of
| the World S Womans Christian Temper
ance Union will meet in Toronto, Cana
da, October 90 to g.
| Arrangements for this meeting of the
representative women of many lands are
progressing rapidly, and the interest and
enthusiasm are deepening in all lands.
| Miss Slack, secretary of the Worlds
| Union, has sent out her, official call for
the convention, and delegates names are
coming in from all parts of the globe.
Indications are that large Australian
delegation will attend. Among the Aus
tralian delegates will be number of or
ganizers. Mrs. M. E. Kirk, general Sec
rotary of the w. G. T. u, Victoria, will
be delegate. She is now in London,
where she will attend the annual meet
ing of the British Woman's Temperance
Association, and she will visit the United
States on her way to Canada. Lady Win
deyer, National Superintendent. of the
Department of Franchise in the Austria
liam W. G. T. u, has already sailed
from Australia, large and representa-
tive gathering of the w. G. T. U. bid
ding her farewell and presenting her
with basket of elegant flowers and
handsome, useful gifts for her journey
Lady Windeyer's home is in New South
Wales, where she has always been Lady
Bountiful, helping many and varied en-
terprises, including the Woman's College,
Deserted Children's Home, Home for
Consumptives, etc. She will be warmly
welcomed as guest of the Worlds Con-
vention.
Mrs. L. NJ N Stevens, vice president
at-large of the National W. c. T. u,
who is a fraternal delegate to the Bsit-
ish Woman's Temperance Association, to
meet in London, England in June, will
be rendered reception by the United
Kingdom Alliance. Sir Wilfrid Lawson,
James H. Raper and many leading
members of Parliament and of the tenn
perance. movement will participate in
the welcome to Mrs Stevens. She will
return to America in August and will at
tend the Worlds Convention.
The sessions of the Dominion and
Worlds Conventions will last six days.
The day sessions will be held in the Pa
vilion, Horticultural Gardens, the free
use of which has been granted by the
City Council. The evening sessions will
be Of unusual interest, not only on &C
count of the eloquent women who will
speak, but for the singing Of the great
chorus under the direction of A. t. Grin
gan, and the demonstrations of flags and
effects, illustrating the worldwide work
of the great organization.
Miss Frances E. Willard and Lady
Thursday evening under the auspices of
the Dominion Union, in Mussey Music
Hall, which seats 1000 people. The meet
ings on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday
evenings will be held at the same place,
the programme being arranged by the
Worlds Union. On one of these even
ings the children will give grand patri-
otto demonstration of White Ribbon work
in all lands. This demonstration will in
clude patriotic songs, Rotations and fan
cy flag marches.
Queen Victoria has consented to become
patron of this years celebration of the
Band of Hope, which includes 100000
young abstainers.
Miss Marie G. Brehm, superintendent
of the franchise department. of the Ma
tional Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, has looked up the statements
quoted by Mrs. Lyman Abbott, of the
anti suffrage movement, in which she
makes the following declarations:
Claws have been passed in Wyoming
legalizing gambling, licensing saloons
and justifying homicide if committed in
the heat; of passion and without too great
cruelty
Miss BrehIn says she has written to
Wyoming and ascertained that these laws
were repealed some years ago, so that
they ought not to be quoted as an argu-
ment against the ''gentle and humans
zing influence of women Miss Brehm
calls attention to the fact that women
constitute but one-third of the population
of Wyoming; that it is mountainous