Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-04-13
MRS. FANNY HUMPHREY GArrSEY.

university. She is also identified with
New York and an active member of the
Demarcst Temperance union and other
organizations of progressive women.
Mrs. Gaffney is attractive in person
and manner, and is bright, witty and
original She has very pleasing add
dress and is speaker of quite unusual
force and eloquence Her voice is fire.
quently heard in earnest advocacy of
measures of interest to her sex in the
women's clubs Of New York She is
an earnest speaker and has n clear and
rapid delivery. She is the wife of
Thomas St John Gaffney, a prominent
New York attorney and Republican
politician.
Staid Massachusetts has taken LEAP
ahead. 1t has appointed woman in
the person Of Mrs. Hannah Fairbanks
Perham as tax collector.
Miss Alice Carey Hatlow, cultured,
sympathetic young woman, who occu-
pies prominent position as an edu
Gator, is the originator Of movement
for the abolition of capital punishment
in Illinois.
Nine Anita Vivanti Chartres, the
author of the farce comedy THAT
niece of the German playwright Lin
dunn.
Mrs Edna Maxwell raised over $4,-
600 for charity by conducting boot
backing shops in Kansas City.
Miss Virginia Brush has attained dis
tinction in New York as decorative
artist She has decorated the homes Of
many prominent New York society wo-
men.
Mrs. Eva L. TUFTS a practical cleo
trician and engineer, is the secretary,
treasurer and general manager Of the
Long Beach and San Pedro (Cal. Elec-
trio company.
Among the few American women
upon whom decorations have been be-
slowed by foreign powers is Mrs Marie
Robinson Wright, whose history of
Mexico won her the distinction from
that republic
The wife of the United States minis
ter to Sweden, William w. Thomas,
bears the picturesque name of Dagmar
Elizabeth, and is the daughter of Rag
mar Tornebladh, member of the upper
house Of the Swedish parliament. The
American minister showed good taste
in choosing as a wife this fair haired,
blue eyed daughter of the north and she
( in turn has added much to his prestige
/ in Stockholm.
| Mrs. Jane B. Creighton, the founder
| and president of the White Cross associ-
alton, is one of the leading women of
Portland. Or. Her purpose in organic
ing the White Cross is to send nurses
to the Philippines ON the same plan as
that used by the Red Cross
Falling Star, the Indian girl, is Civ
ing lessons in basket making and birch
bark work to some of the most advanced
kindergarten teachers in New York and
/ Brooklyn.
Tuolumne county, Cal, the scene Of
great mining camps in 1S49 and Of Br t
Harte's stories, has an energetic woman
railroad contractor in the person of Mrs.
Annie Kline Rikert.
Miss Lala Davis, one of the youngest
and prettlest nurses in the United Stat !
army, has joined General Lee Seventh
army corps in Cuba
Mrs. Undine King, wife of Captain
James A. King of the whaling vessel
Spree of San Francisco, proposes to run
whaling expedition on her own hook,
and has list of the names of reliable
whalers who are willing to ship with a
captairnin skirts.
The largest stock ranch in Pomona
valley, California. has been successfully
operated for ten years by Miss Elizabeth
ECcles, a native of Bethlehem, Pa.
Miss Alice Westover, young and pref
ty drives "A four horse stage thrice a
week between Ramona and Mesa
Grande, distance of 50 miles over a
mountainous and wooded road.
A Chicago society belle is about to
open in the shopping district of that
city an establishment where women ex-
clusively may have their shoes cleaned
and polished
Mile, Odon, n Frenchwoman, once
the protegee of Florence Nightingale, is
at the head Of movement in New York
for the establishment of training
school for women embalmers.