New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-10
GOSSIP or WOMEN'S CLUBS.

| Miss Harriette Keyser expects to leave the city
for Albany this week to be present a; the conven-
! ton Of the New-York State Branch OF the Fedora
ton of La boz She goes In her official capacity as
! chairman IF the Indusi rial Committee of the New
| York State Woman's Suffrage Association. From
! Albany she will proceed to Cooperstown where she
will deliver three lectures one on Friday evening
! AT a suffrage meeting. another on Saturday even-
| ing before the Library Club on I'm and Out or
| London" and the third Sunday night In the
| Methodist Episcopal Church. Social Problems. "
| She will probably 60 then to MONTGOMERY County
TO work IN the !nteTes: OF sunrsse ana Will De gone
| ten days In all
| The president Of the New-York Association Of
Cooking Teachers. Cornela c. Bedford. Is anxious
| to form a society for the study OF mushrooms Such
organzs ton exists. she says In Boston. ana IS
called the Theological cub
"Our Club outlook" the organ OF the Jersey City
| woman's Club has published the following New
Years resolutions. which canno: be altered or
| amended, II says. during the year 1877
Resolved, To literally patronize the Womans Elk
Resolved. To secure five subscribers to the Free
| Resolved That January. 1885, shall find us In our
Resolved, That parliamentary law shall cease to
| be a theory and become practice In our club
meetings.
A generous gentleman has placed a pleasant sunny
! room the disposal of the Jersey City Woman's
volunteered their service teachers The club hopes
that Its kndergarten may be the means OF teaching
the public the need and use OF such institutions.
The Girls Fortnightly Club OF Jersey City. was
organized with the idea of making the evenings OF
its members pleasant and profitable 1t Is under the
management OF Mrs. Justus Slater.
Jersey CITY has three women's clubs belonging to
the Federation the oldest being THE Odd Volumes.
| literary society Of thrty-fve members The next
is THE Ramblers." aumnae organization formed
TO visit historic places. and the third Is the Womahs
| Club. organized three years ago
Margaret T. Yardley says in "Our Club Outlook:
"A woman alone cannot do much. but the women
| banded together be power for good as strong
as any lever that can possibly move the world on.
| The city Of Amsterdam. in Montgomery County.
has only about 1900 inha btan:s. according to the
| last census vet 1t has a fourlshing womans club.
| whose membership was at first limited to 100. ana
recently extended to 200 owing to the numbers tnat
were anxious TO join. The president Is Mrs Trap
nell woman Of wide culture and IA, grac cnh pre n
| a luxurious suite OF rooms In the Board OF Irade
Building.
| The principal womans club Of Utica has just
erected a large clubhouse. which will be devoted
| not only to its use but TO The various Sood
works 10 which 1t Is turning Its attention In spite
| Of the cost Of the edfce the finances OF the cuo
| In al
| far from being crippled by the enterprise II con-
| terminates building an addition to Its home. The
| members are interested in all the movements OF
the times. and are at present studying CIVIL soVe'"-
ment.
rh. x,omen o. Syracuse appear to be particularly
"cl,ba ble and are noted all over the country FOR
,h.,r associated enthusiasm. Their principal or
| SANITATION possesses fine clubhouse. ana on
| Election Night the members gathered there ana
| received the returns by telephone. The most i'm
portant department in the club is the musical one
| Of which that ardent suffragist Mrs. Jenney' Is
/ president Previous organization II had al
| wavs been found impossible to make classical
| concert pay in Syracuse but never neiess ms
club a last oven Wsn'e the 20 CLUB found
treasury The department expects 10 give ys' ,h ,
wnter regular monthly morning musicals anu three
large concerts.
The women Of Buffalo rejoicing In new anu
| haaut,ful clubhouse in the Renaissance style OF
.rch,,e cture and Of luxurious appointments. Ihey
also have the happiness Of knowing mat tne'r
treasury Is full The president OF this club Is Miss
| charlotte Mulean. a woman noted Tor her orisi-
| ra,,tv and progressive ideas. She 70 also mem
her Of Political Equality club: which Miss iar
riette Keyser organized In bunaIo ast sun nnins
miss, Miss hromgh the State she is Impressed by moth
ing so much by the numbers and ACTIVITY Oh
wOmens CLUBS
One OF the features OF the annual jollihcation OF
the Twelfth Night Club held on Twelfth Night.
In No
the entrance to the old Shakespeare lhh'
,s-s paekman De Peyster and Mrs. Edward
Lauterbach have been elsS.sd president ana vice.
president Of the Prison Guio'
The stock OF the woman's Clubhouse CORPORATE ton.
Of Boston, is now sale. The corporation holds its
annual meeting Tomorrow
The european Club, Of Brooklyn. found itself IN
An odd dilemma Immediately after Its incorpora-
,ion for while Its constitution limited Its member
ship to $50 2s7 were enrolled on its books: AZ
the last business meeting. held last week. 1t was voted
TO eliminate the restriction
City Chapter of the ID. A. r. says that 1t Is not =
paradox for the daughters Of Revolutionary sires
10 advocate arbitration. She thinks women were
born TO be peacemakers
The annual election of the Society Of Holland
Danes was held on Tuesday. This very exclusive
society is composed of such New-York women az
are descendants OF the Dutch arstocracy that first
came to Manhattan Island. Mrs. William Gihon
was elected Encouragement; Mrs. Alexander
Crawford Chenoeweth. first deputy directress-een-
eral: Miss Vanderpoe second deputy dlrectress.
general; Miss Harriet Duer Robinson; historian I
Jam Budd registrar. The society expects at some
S tho to p.os OF IL
Among its active members are Mrs Roosevelt SEQ
W % Srs smith ns M sr
sen, Miss Hegeman Miss Florence Bailey. Miss
Caroline Webb Miss Catherine Turnbull and Mrs
Charles Hillhouse.
Miss Helen Varick Boswell says that. though the
Womans Republican Association prefers Plat AZ
United States Senator. Il will cordially indorse
whoever may be the candidate Of the regular or
! ganization.
ON MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.
Miss Hamm made some strong statements on
municipal government in her remarks before the
members Of the Chelsea Club last Wednesday
and New-York City came In for great share OF
the fair speakers pounding" She said:
Though the richest city In the New World New.
York has been so shamefully mismanaged that Its
| enormous revenues have been diverted from the
p,,bc welforA TO Ali the pockets OF bic re-.