Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-14
WHITE RIBBONERS
Biennial Convention of the Worlds
W. G. T. U. at Toronto.
SELECTION OF DISTRICT DELEGATES
Advance Expression Of Welcome
by the Toronto Membership.
DISTING UISH shed LEADERS

Preliminary steps will, it is understood,
be taken at the meeting tomorrow in this
city of the executive committee of the
District Woman's Christian Temperance
Union for the selection of delegates to the
great Worlds Biennial Convention of the
w. c. T. T., to be held in Toronto Canada,
next month. The full list of names will
not, however, be known until it is made out
at the annual convention of the District
w. c. T. L., October ) and next
The convention in Toronto is to be the
greatest one the union has ever held. The
entire city will take part in it, and will en-
deavor to make a more enthusiastic gath
erins than those famous in the annals of
the Christian Endeavorers.
The chairman of the reception committee
has circulated this petition:
TO white ribbon members of every land:
we greet you in the name of 10000
Canadian white ribhoners, and in the name
OF the convention committee which for
months has been preparing for your coming
by planning for your entertainment and
making the thousand and one preparations
Tor so great a convention shall honor
our queen city of Toronto next October
we pray that your stay in our midst may be
a permanent blessing to our home and
nation. and that you shall carry back with
you to your homes and work an i1spira-
tlon that shall more speedily bring Christ's
kingdom 20 the hearts of our humanity
For your information and guidance and
Tor our helpfulness in further arrange
ments, VIII you be kind enough to note the
following points:
DeieSates TO the convention will be en-
tertalned free. the hospita ity of our Cana
Glan homes is most generously offered
We extend cordial invitation to those
who are not delegates to come and enjoy
the sessions of the convention AID re-
celve the rich inspiration of the great gath
erlhg. Arrangements will be made for the
entertainment of such visitors for about
81 day. Delegates and visitors will be
met at the station and escorted to Toronto
district w. c. T. L. headquarters, SO Elm
street, the business headquarters of the
convention committee and here the assign
inents to homes will be made
ne day sessions OF the convention will
De heid IN the pavilion. Post office, te.e-
sraph ana telephone facilities will all he
directed to The Pavilion Toronto C.pada
care of Worlds w. C. T. L. Convention
The Decorations
we desire to make the decorations "a
representative as possible of our world
VIDE organization. You are, therefore.
specially requested to send your National
w. Z L. L. banners and national flags for
decoration purposes at least one week he
iore lhe convention, addressed to Mrs +,
Scho1, Of Elm street, Toronto Canada
Superlntendehts are requested to send their
department notices. Please mail q com,
municaton now to Mrs. Schoff. staring
what you propose to send so that arrange
Inents may be made to pass the customs
once. Flease state wneth ar a deleglt., will
take care OF these decorations at the close
OF the convention. or give definite irstruc
'ions as TO where they are to be returned
we cannot, l.: this brief circular do
i uae 'hah mint at the welcome which
plan for better and greater work for tho
oelcVed cause which binds orr hearts
social features which will make us knnu,
each other Will be introduced PERCEPTIONS.
urlVes' ana other diversity s. Again we as
sure you of our hearty interest and hone
ribbon armY.'' A'e
1t is announced that at this convention
tbeEe WIZ be present ali the famous wo-
men speakers, such as Id ly Henry Som,r-
set Anna Gordon and Miss Willard. he
SIDES the local secretaries of Boston. whore
Miss willard claims many friends. WEI
ington, Chicago. San Francisco ST I.onis
baltimore Richmond, Philadelphia and
New York. Gnu
The Organization Formed.
Tie Worlds w. c. T. U. was the outcome
OF the union of the w. c. T L. of the
united States and a similar organization
III England, with which Lady Henry Som
set was prominently identified. Lady
Henry and Frances Willard corresponded
and laid plans for the combined work Of
the Two societies. which afterward became
the w. =; T. I. OF me whole world 1t was
not untli 1871, however, that these two
great leaders met, when Lady Henry vis-
tied Miss Willard at THE Rest" Evans
ton, III.
Over forty countries were grouped in tho
one general union. and laws were laid
down for the guidance and helm Of ali
These were so much the work of Miss j
Frances Willard, and showed SO Thoroughly
her skill and executive ability, that she
was elected the president of the union a
position which she has since held. The oh
ject. according to her own wording. is: '.,To
unity throughout the world the work of
women in temperance and social reform,
and to circulate a petition, addressed r.,
all the governments of the world for the.
overthrow of the alcohol and opium trades
Its methods are preventive, educational
evanseliStic. social and legal
Then there are these 'advisories':
Time OF prayer noontide; badge a knot
of white ribbon; watchwords, ASitare!
ORGANIZED Motto, For God and Home and
Every Land"
The officers are: President Miss Frances
Willard. Evanston. ILL.,; vice president-at
large Lady Henry Somerset. the Priory
dents Mrs. Mary Clement Leavitt. Bos-
ton, Mass; Miss Jessie Ackermann, Lon
don. S. W. England Mrs. Elizabeth Wheel
er Andrew. Evanston. ILL.,: DIR. Kate Bush
ueAt- rev. AHce Il. Palmer,
Wayzata Mimi; Mother Stewart Spring
field. Ohio: honorary secretary. Miss Agnes
f. Slack. Ripley, Derbyshire England; hon
orary assistant secretary, Miss Anna A.
Gordon. Evanston Ill; treasurer Mrs
Mary E. Sanderson, Danville, Quebec Can
ada.
In addition to the convention regular at
Toronto. there will be ovation to Miss
Willard. birthday celebra ton and of con-
graduation of her having attained her
ffty-ninth birthday, which she does Sep
tembcr "S. AS Miss Willard has been in
Europe almost continuously since her first
meeting with Lady Somerset it has Eeen
Impossible TO observe her birthday pub
liciy of late. 1t is therefore thought hest
to make some celebration of it at this time
Miss Willard's Birthday.
Regarding this, Miss Anna Gordon, her
fright hand man." writes from Ogunauit.
Maine, under date Of August, 1897:
1--WE are here at the seaside. where Miss
Willard Is trying to take a genuine vacation
from her correspondence and to give wha.
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