New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-20
EDINBURGH CONVENTION.
SOME OF THE IMPORTANT AMERICAN
DELEGATES WHO WILL ATTEND
THE MEETING.

The preparations are far advanced in Edinburgh
for the fifth biennial convention of the Worlds
Womans Christian Temperance Union. to be held
from June % to June 90. The worlds secretary
in that city has secured greatly reduced railroad
rates from different stations in England to Edin-
burgh and return. American delegates have been
notified that certificates for this purpose will be
sent receipt of their names and English ad-
dresses 1t will be truly a worlds convention,
so remote place as Madagascar being represented.
The union has been obliged to reinauish its in
tention TO have pavilion at the Paris Exposition,
not merely because of the difficulty of finding
space. but also because the Paris authorities will
insist on the unions paying a heavy tax temper
ance drinks 1t has been proposed to have
worlds exhibit in connection with the Inter-
national Temperance Congress. to be held In Lon
don from June to IS.
A long list of Americans will attend the n
vention. First in Importance. naturally. is the
president Of the National Womans Christian Tenn
perance Union, Mrs. Lillian NJ. N. Stevens. Mrs,
Stevens born IN Dover Me. and her married
life has been passed near Portland Her husband
great practical help Their house. which has been
been true home not only to their one ehild but
to many others Within the last fifteen years
cared for by her with .unsehsh devotion
in 1875 the Maine, woman's Christian Temperance
Union. and was its first treasurer; and afterward
tweny-one years. and in that time only one ballot
s any sasg ss
n lime r to be inserted in the State Consttu
| regarded as the head of the Prohibition forces.
T shs not been @ M to
promoters of the State Industrial School for Girls
Of Women was Maines choice for the Board
of 06s hady M ss in the Worlds Columbian Ex
Mrs Stevens viii sail for England May 80 on the
planned, as the Worlds Woman's Christian Tenn
nSs an Its co
! gress in London, beginning June g.
Miss Anna Adams Gordon, Vice president OF the
| National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
| is also a delegate. Her name is household
word among the temperance workers in nearly
! as great degree that of Frances Willard her
self. Her capacity for detail is said be marvel
| lous, and through all the twenty-one years in
| which she Miss Wizards constant companion
at home or abroad it was upon her that the detail
finances and sheeTed Miss Wizard from loT
| cares and troublesome routine work
named as her literary executors by Miss Willard.
at e rs Of he nO
Mrs. Mary ]. Annabe, CT Brooklyn. president of
| the Kings County Union, Is one of the Woman s
| Christian Temperance Union delegates. and is
| delegate also from the Brooklyn Christian En-
| deavor Union to the Worlds Convention of Chris
tian Endeavorers, to be held in London from July
Mrs. Annable has been interested in the temper
| ance movement since 1881 and has taken active
| part in the Womans Christian Temperance Union
| work. She is equally well known for her rescue
| work. for girls, and Is State superintendent of
| that branch 1t due largely to her efforts that
Sheriff Walton, of Brooklyn, recently appointed
seventy-two special officers to suppress gambling
and other forms of vice among children.
delegate from Rochester n. Y, is Mrs
| Phoebe J. Adams. She president Of the Cayuga
| County Woman's Christian Temperance Union for
eight years, but removed to Rochester last fall
| She has long been regarded a valuable worker
| in the temperance cause being ready writer and
| a fluent speaker.
| Mrs. Ella Woolsey Wood, Of Cornwall N. Y
| has been member Of the Womans Organization
| for twenty years. and has been secretary of the
Cornwall branch of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union for large part Of that time. She
has represented the Union frequently in both State
| and county conventions. Mrs. Wood is sister OF
| c. NJ. Woolsey, lawyer. and prominent official
| in the Grand Army of the Republic.
Mrs Ella Alexander Boole. president Of the New
| York State Womans Christian Temperance Union
| born in Van Vert, Ohio, and is graduate of
the University of Wooster. in that State She mar
| ried the Rev Dr. William II. Boole pastor of
| South Second Street Methodist Church. Brooklyn