The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-01


Mothers congress arrived in the city
yesterday morning and were taken in
charge by the club women. They We're
met at the depot by a special commit
tee and escorted to the Ladies' Literary
club, where they registered. Among
them is numbered some of the most
prominent literary and club women of
the country.
OFF FOR SALTAIR.
At 1890 they were taken to the depot,
where special cars were in waiting to
convey them TO Saltair On arriving
at the beach a bath was enjoyed by
the visitors, and afterwards a dainty
luncheon was served by the committee.
Tables were set in the dining room on
the pavilion and decorated with pink
and white sweet peas and carnations.
The ladies who assisted in serving were
Mrs. c. B. Hough, Mrs. Vincent, Mrs.
Z. r. Eldredge, Mrs. Julia Taylor,
Misses Clark, Hunt, Culmer and Farms
worth.
INTERESTING ADDRESSES.
after lunch the ladies adjourned to
a room off the dancing pavilion and
enjoyed the next hour in listening TO
speeches from the most prominent of
the club women.
Mrs McVicker called the meeting to
order and in a few well chosen words
welcomed the visitors to Salt Lake,
and called on Mrs. Kate Tenant Wood
for a speech
MRS. KATE T. WOOD.
Mrs. Wood thanked the women of
Salt Lake for their kindness and hos
pitaiity, and after speaking in glowing
terms of the biennial at Denver, COM
pared their treatment here to what is
known in old New England as the af-
termath-the second sowing, which is
always the sweeteSt-and spoke of
their meeting here as the aftermath
of the federation.
MRS. MUMFORD.
She was followed by Mrs Mary E.
Mumford, who spoke OF this her first
visit to the west as one of great pleas
ure. She was surprised to learn of
the number Of wOmenS clubs in this
city, there being more here than in
Philadelphia, and was much impressed
with the club women and the Mothers
congress, and thought that in the unit
ing of the mothers and the club women
was the answer to the old question of
''Wil club women forget their homer
MISS WILLARD.
Miss Willard was the next speaker.
She compared hospitality 10 that of
the western women, and thought that,
after all, women We're much the same
everywhere, and that the line could no.
be drawn at certain localities.
MRS. GIST.
Mrs. Gist, a delegate to the Mothers
congress, followed Miss Willard in a
short, breezy address, and closed by
proposing a rising Chautauqua salute
to the Salt Lake club women.
MISS KNOBE.
Miss Bertha D. Knobe of Chicago.
who represented the Associated Press
at Denver, spoke of the pleasures of
the trip, and said that although not
strictly a club women, she belonged to
one, the Press club, which was de-
voted TO social enjoyment, and closed
W inviting Salt Lake women TO visit
mem, and promised to write them up,
not down.
MRS. WASHBURNE.
Mrs. Washburne of Duluth, said she
had been sent 10 Denver to write her i'm
pressions of the biennial She thought !
her first impressions were of the beau |
tiful gowns and bonnets of the women |
but her recollections were of the faces
of the women, and the broadening in |
huence of the association and of COM |
ing in contact with the brilliant women /
of the country.
MRS. c. S. KINNEY.
Mrs Kinney OF Salt Lake spoke OF |
the biennial and the pleasure it was I
TO Salt Lake women to entertain such /
noted visitors.
MRS. JONES.
Mrs. Jones OF the Boston Musical
Courier, brought the meeting to a close
by proposing they all join n singing
America" The visitors returned to
the city on the 4:30 train and were tax
IN to the homes of the club women,
where they viii be entertained during
the congress.