New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-25
MEETINGS AND ENTERTAINMEyTS.

The executive officers OF the Commercial travels
lers' Mutual League consisting OF President p. F..
Dove Vice President G. NJ. Thorpe. Treasurer W.
l. Adams and Secretary Charles T. Nelson. met
last evening in the Ashland Hotel to consider rou-
tine business The league i the outcome ,,,,s %
the incorporation of the league short time after
The next meeting Of ras S NAV in S AsbanS
House. and the convention IN Rochester on septem-
Der l3 and IL.
The Hell Gate Republican Club last evening
tertained its friends with concert and vaudeville
entertainment at the clubrooms. In East Eighty
sixth-st Shortly after the conclusion OF the pro-
gramme Mayor Strong arrived and received a most
hearty welcome. lie was accompanied by his secro-
were General Coils. City Magistrates Wentworth
and Crane, Judge Giegerich Judge j. j. Mccarthy.
Judge Van Wyck and W j. Morgan.
The annual meeting OF the NewYork Wellesley
Club was held yesterday afternoon at the home Of
Mrs Charles +. Hughes. No. 20 West End-ave.
The club is composed Of graduates OF Wellesley
College residing In Greater NewYork and It's I'm
mediate vicinity The officers chosen yesterday for
the coming year are; Mrs. Henrietta Wells Liver.
Of YOHSer gr oaS for yo Mis-.
dent; Miss Laura Jones. OF Newark. y. j.. secre.
tary: Miss Efie Banta OF BROOKLYN treasurer;
Mr' wrss Prs.s ommee OF Mss rscs
Miller. OF New-York, chairman of Reception Com.
mittee. Miss Fannie Louise Woodford OF West
Winsted Conn. chairman OF College Settlement
Committee.
A regular meeting OF the League for Political
Educat,on was held at No 20 West Forty-fou
ST. Yesterday morning. The big lecture-room was
well filed. An address THE Struggle for
CIVILIZATION was delivered by the Rev DR. Henry
A Stimson. lie referred In glowing terms to the
standing OF England r. the civilized world and the
OF nI Sr n h an Eng
land was responsible for Us present place IN civil.
ization Or. Stimson said there two great
evils to-day attacking our civilization They are.
he continued 'disrespect for our laws. botn moral
and civil and the sehshness OF the rich as the out
come OF luxury IL is not so much the disrespect
OF the law shown by the criminal and lower
corporations. The great monopoes that to q
large extent control our legislatures are a menace
pernicious laws which are smugglpd through Moth,
Ing can hurt civilization SO much disrespect for
the law"
Twelve hundred Sunday school children men,
bcrs OF the New-York Junior Christian Endeavor
Union crowded into the Marble Collegiate Church
yesterday afternoon al the annual spring rally OF
the society. and long before the hour set for the
services to begin fffth-ave. was alive with little
tots In their prettiest spring dresses. A, 20
o'clock President Percy J. s Ryan called the con-
vention to order. and then for half an hour twelve
hundred small voices Joined In song service.
Livingston Morse. a ten-y ear-old boy then led
the immense convention In reading Psalm cxxi,
after which addresses OF welcome were made by
Mail" given by Mrs G. c. Lieckey, State
a violin solo practical talk on Christian En-
dcavor work was atlerward given by the Rev.
Henry 7. McEwen. The banner for the division
having the largest attendance at the convention
nue. Presbyterian Church. J. NJ. Kyle made the
presentation speech