New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-03
MEETINGS WILL BE LIVELY
FEDERATION MAY CAUSE A BIT
TER FIGHT AT MILWAUKEE.

Milwaukee, June 2 (SpeciaD.-All preparations for
the biennial convention of the General Federation
of Womens Clubs now made, and the city
has assumed distinctly festive appearance
The woman who cannot find what she wants at
this biennial will be the of woman whom
nothing would suit, for 1t would be hard 20
find a varied programme than the one winch
has been mapped out jointly by the officers or the
General Federation of Womens Clubs and the ciuo-
women of this city. Every woman VIII nave
chance to do anything she wants to- from wear
ing her best frocks at series of social events 10
taking a hand in the big fight over the reorganlza-
ton of the Federation. which is likely 10 make tie
Milwaukee biennial famous.
The Wisconsin State Federation, on whose invita-
ton the General Federation comes to the city VIII
give a large general reception at the flahNintoh
House Monday evening. Mrs. A. c. Neville, the
State president and other officers of the state
Federation receiving On the same evening the
biennial Local Board will give garden fete at the
Deutscher Club. which once the home OF sen
John Mitchell The grounds Will be elaoorately
decorated with electric lights for the evening as
will be also the Court of Honor as the park IN
front of the club Is called, because 1t is there that
the King of the Carnival holds forth.
On Tuesday afternoon the Athereum, one of the
first clubhouses in the country be built by won-
en-. will be thrown open for reception by the Athe-
neum Association and the Womans Club, On
Wednesday afternoon hundreds of carriages VIII
be furnished for a five mile drive along the lake
shore to Milwaukee-Downer College. Thursday ar
ternOOn will be given to receptions at private
homes, and every visiting clubwoman will receive
two invitations of these. The College Endow
ment Association will be at home every afternoon
in the parlors of the Plankinton, serving tea and
ices; the Colonial Danes and Daughters of the
American Revolution will keep open house in the
parlors of the Pfster. and the Art Committee and
the Library Bureau will give informal receptions
every evening during the week.
Visiting newspaper women Will be Hospitality
welcomed by the press of the city. A large
a. a beautiful private home, and on Thursday af-
ternoon the Bohemian quarters of the Milwaukee
Press Club which unique. and which have been
visited by nearly every celebrity who has ever
! come to town. will be thrown open, and COM
mittee of local newspaper men and women will
receive the guests and informal luncheon Will
be given.
Art education, philanthropy and civics the
general heads under which the programme is di-
vided; these again divided and subdvided till
there will be three four meetings going on at
once. The general headquarters will be at the AL
hambra Theatre. The general sessions VIII be
held there while section meetings will be held at
the Davidson and Pabst Theatres, the Public
Library and Pythian hall. There to be two
general meetings and report session on art.
with Mrs. Zurne Taft Garland and DR.. George
Kriehn the chief speakers on sculpture and
municipal art, and with Mrs. Herman ]. Hall, of
Chicago, as chairman; an educational session.
under the Craftsmanship of Miss Margaret j.
Evans of Northfeld, Mimi, which the educa-
tionaI needs of all sections of the country VIII be
discussed by leading Clubwomen; an industrial ses-
sion, presided by Mrs. Corinne S. Brown, of
Chicago at which reports of industrial conditions
affecting women and children will be made, and
addresses by such well known students of SOCIAL
problems Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Stetson, Miss
Florence Kelley and Mrs. Frederick Nathan of
the Consumers League, and Mrs. A. P. Stevens, of
Hull House, Chicago. There will also be
authors evening", presided over by Mrs. Lowe.
One of the unique features of the biennial will
be the arts and crafts exhibit, which has been
arranged by Mrs. S. S. Frackleton, of this city.
The Bureau OF Library Information, in of
Miss l. E. stearns, of milwaukee, will be held in
the Public Library and Museum Building. The art
exhibit will include examples of womens work
along all sorts of artistic lines while the
library bureau will be devoted exhibits
Of travelling libraries picture collections and other
phases of library work in which clubwomen
interested. The Art Committee has also arranged
a series of Eat homes for the evenings of biennial
week and proposes have young women in the
characteristic dress of different countries
national dishes to guests
Two other novelties that under the work
of the General Art Committee the evening
sessions at which Mrs. Garland and DR. Kriehn
are to speak. The Tuesday evening will
have all sorts of accessories in the way of