New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-19
MORE FEDERATION GOSSIP.
A VIEWS OF MRS.
HELMUTHS RULING.
NEWS ON THE PROPOSED EXCURSION OF CLUB
WOMEN TO PARrs-THB ROUND
TRIP FOR 500.


WOMEN TO PARrs-THB ROUND
TRIP FOR $500.
A man parliamentarian In speaking of Mrs
Helmuths lnnexlble ruling during the convention
iust held at Rochester In not permitting even the
| most distinguished speaker on tie platform 10
encroach the time OF the succeeding spean H.
| Convention was due to this ruling have seen
mems conventions thrown into utter confusion ana
| broken up by this very thing or allowing speaker
| TO have more time than scheduled
| The beautiful gavel Mrs. Hemuth uses was
presented to her by the New-York city cIups' anu
| is of oak deliberately ornamented In silver IL ~
kept In black leather case lined with green sath
silver plate the account OF the presentation COZ
| 1898 isss' and on the other MADE OF wood from
| the battle field OF Saratoga
II was the first time in the history Of the fedora
t,on that A special hour had been scheduled Tor
| "Women in Business" and also the first time that
| q discussion on THE Press was conducted ex-
| clusvey by women Journalists The chairman
and every speaker connected with some
| newspaper In the State
Miss Anne Rhodes gave a practical illustration
OF the slow Journalistic methods OF foreign papers
! as compared with the restless energy OF American
editors In furnishing the news TO the public MISS
| Grace Carew Sheldon OF Buffalo. made plea TOT
| practical thorough work on the part or women
| reporters ana declared tnhl lHe "oh'"H WIN We
| mentally equipped with man should have niue
| difficulty in newspaper work. Miss LILY r. Gracey
editor OF the woman's department Of THE Roches-
| ter Post Express" said In part:
Newspaper accounts OF women's clubs used TO
give the public the impression that T TSa has
| been much changed. When the wornan.s cup Pc
eea snd a aSf s h lec need Of
partment in newspaperdom, and so the woman ~, =
page was established. with woman eui !s, -
! Since then reports or women lHleic''S
have taken different type and me day ngMs
paper is obsolete that does not regard the mee.ls
| Of women's organizations az matters OF news 10 Ne
treated decorously. -,. ,o. s,,no-seded
To the woman editor. whose work has superseo na
! the ecissorings OF the man compiler. and mas pre-
pared her page for Intelligent rational oei ns W nS
| phIlanthropic movements OF the day. IL much OF
The Woman edItor-not the scissor man-knows
that woman to-day touches IRE AT many POLE ths
and takes part in the many sideu hcu'''e' u '"'
| day.
| In the discussion that followed Miss Mabel A.
Potter OF 1.-THE Syracuse Post Standard" in speak
| ing OF the Impressions Made on Reporter ny
| Woman's Club" gave some good natureo ci'''o!Sn'
OF club work and methods which some OF the ueie
! gates thought the women would do Wen u pio"'
| by Miss Potter thinks club women shouu po
grateful for the reporters impressions that are
suppressed rather than for those made public
Mira NJ c Hair OF THE Rochester Democrat
| and Chronicle" gave in a firm. decideo ias"ion
some OF the impressions she had received our'"s
| he convention, ana aQueu II IuhDci VI
nerta,ninR TO her work. She believed the oppor-
! tuntics given for women in the newspaper held
were part of the broader domain OF possibilities TOT
women
Mrs BelIe X. Mackenzie OF THE Evening Tele-
gram" New-York. said:
only want to say word to club members it VINO
object to a reporter taking report OF thei, I
Ing during the meeting. and me neN' Jay aeI ~
around the office prepared sna ,c anu makes aS il
two DAYS late Now a newspaper woman r, ana
club woman. know Of what am am saying ayn not cam
didly speaking. true reports ana agar" "'o 'D''
REPORTERS as rule report meetings correctly dI,,t n.y.
and their version OF the affair VIII be gehepaig
epts ~ their meetings have only to notify the
office n club women would more wiiilngS si,e r a
formation it would more or'e" DC 'o''''
ported
The papers read by Mise Anna Higgins or Inc
RrookIyn Eagle" and Miss Jennie Charm OF
Syracuse. have already been published IN Inc
Tribune
MI. Anna Maxweu ZONES was introduced as 1.-THE
urtt.Iost woman I'm the federation" and as niece
of the composer Ofenbach. Every time she spoke
and every humorous illustration and anecdote given
unbounded laughter and applause
Mr.. Helmuth addressed the convention at some
length regarding the proposed excursion OF cruz
women TO Paris next year. The committee OF
bers being Mrs West, OF Summerve. N T.; Mrs
James b. Grant OF Denver. and Mrs. Jennie June
Croly-has planned European tour which VIII IN
clude visits places OF great Interest IN England
and on the Continent. probably including visit
TO Oberammergau the OF the Passion Play
and later TO the Paris Exposition. The round trip
from NewYork will not exceed 500 for daTn PgI
son; b al pa 1is Ey1oston The trip will be made
under the auspices OF the federation on snip
chartered for the occasion Members Of the families
OF federated club women eligible for the trip.
Mrs Harriet NJ Rathbun, OF the Westchester
Woman's Club. leaving Rochester, said we
could not have been more cordially welcomed or
more Hospitality entertained. our entire stay has
been filled with profitable delight and can never
The ushers and pages OF the convention dis
charged their duties in a most charming manner.
Miss Marian Wright was the chairman OF this
committee. and the difficult work was performed
by Mrs Albert Eastwood Misses Benjamin, Ed
ger;on, Furman Mary Forbes. Gibbons. Goodman,
Hall. Hamin. Lima Jennings, Landsberg. Motley,
Newell. 0connor Perrin Reed Ka h; R Robins
Margaret Wright and Young.
Mrs. Caroline Atwater Mason the author, and
Mary ]. Holmes. writer of fiction. were both inter-
ested visitors at the convention Mrs. Holmes is
not club woman. but is much Interested in the
progress Of woman
Mrs. Charles NJ. Dow. president of the Western
New-York Federation OF Clubs. Is a prominent
member OF the Scribblers In Buffalo although not IA
resident OF that city. Not only Is Mrs. Dow the
president OF the Western Federation but she Is
also the president OF the New Century Art Club
OF jamestown. OF the foremost art organlza-
lions I'm Western New York. Its members patronz-
ing art and giving liberal hearing art lectures
and writings.
Mrs. George w. Townsend. OF Buffalo. has been
president OF the Literary Club OF the Church OF the
Messiah for twenty years She has been president
or the WOmens Educational and Industrial Union
ever since II started.
OPINIONS OF DR. j. DE LA NJ LOZIER
1t seems that the State Federation Conventions
are losing sight OF the Importance and interest Of
Individual club reports When the great conventions