The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-14
WOMEN At YORK FOR THE GIFTS.
The ReorEanised Municipal League Raising q
Campaign Fund.

Tho ReorEaniHed Municipal League Raising q
Campaign Fund.
The Womnn's Municipal League, which re-
organized on Sept. % to help tho Citizens
Union and Seth Low. is doing some vigorous
campaign work. Tho headquarters arc at 80
East Twenty.third street, and arc open to the
public from o o'clock in the forenoon until 1890
in the afternoon. The league has 80 many
officers and committees that it:strikes one as
being a somewhat ponderous affair. but all
have their work to do. and all are doing 1t
thoroughly. Tho officers arc Mrs. Joseph II.
Choate, President; Mrs. +. Norton Goddard,
Treasurer; Mrs. Edward Ringwood Hewitt,
Secretary; Mrs. Josephine Shaw Low ell, Chair.
man Of the Executive Committees; Mrs. c.. II.
Royce, Secretary Of the Executive Committee,
and Miss A.. II. ID. Stead. Assistant Secretary..-
The league has no opinion of its own as IN
organization, nor as individuals. The members
follow tho Citizens Union and help to curry
out its ideas. In speaking Of the work being
attempted and accomplished, Mrs. Florence c.
Ives said: " arc not trying to influence votes;
we are simply trying to make public opinion.
We are doing n wonderful work in the down.
town districts. Miss O'Rcilly, who is the head
of tho cooperative shirt shop. through her
friends and tho Nurses Settlement. has been
able to reach nearly ever ybody in that district.
Our league has succeeded in getting a great
number of naturalizcd foreigners to register.
"'Wc are trying to reach all classes. Women
and men are speaking every day and every
night in university settlements and in public
halls. and VIC nre holding many parlor meet
ings, too. Wo have piles Of literature, and arc
seeing that 1t is thoroughly disseminated. Tho
900 for tho Citizens Union among tho women
Of New York. This committee Is composed
OF fifty women, and in five days they have Sc
cured SO, 1853, the largest amount received from
one person being 81 900. and the smallest s..
The object, OF the Committee on Women's Clubs
Is to send speakers TO all wonlcn's organiZa-
tons in the.city To talk TO the members about
the Citizens Cnionsssues. This committee has
been somewhat Handicapped in its work be-
cause most OF these clubs do not meet until the
last.of this month or the first of next. How
ever. tho Nurses Metropolitan Club and tho
FortniRhL.y Club OF Staten Island hav" called
special meetings and asked us to serd speakers
to inform thcm concerning our principles.
Lowell sent out a letter to tho working girls Of
his city In which she told them that the Greater
New York must be made honest and good to
live in, a place to be proud OF in the eyes OF the
all to work together to assure this. The wives,
daughters and sisters OF the original $50 signers
Of the declaration of the Citizens Union have
been elected members Of the league
When asked II the members Of the league
were making a house TO house canvass In the
tenement districts, Mrs. Ives replied: No. we
are not doing that, hut are striving to roach
them In the ways 1 have indicated. by parlor
meetings, meetings in settlements. meetings In
public halls and by the distribution OF litcra'
and have gone into this thing on the declara'
tions of It's principles. and we don't even con
slider whether the principles Of other candidates
are good or bad; VIC are convinced that those OF
him. We arc not taking on ourselves indi
yidual opinions"