Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-09-22

personally remembered for her clever
reading of Cyrano de Bergerac In the
CONGREGATIONAL church last winter
Miss Bridewen Is the sister Of Mrs
Kate Brldewell Anderson.
No longer do club women sit around
and wait for city fathers 20 promote
improvements only when the municipal
spirit moves. They promptly appoint
a committee. who put on their pretticst
bonnets and proceed TO ask the mascu-
line authorities for their souls desire,
and, presto there is the desired
change. In Atlanta. Tor instance club
women who are housewives have for
some time longed for a town market
but this domestic convenience was not
forthcoming. The merchants were
equally sollcnous Thereupon mem.
bers OF the Atlanta Woman's club
waited on the city council and made
captivating seches In conse-
quencc Atlanta is 10 have town
market right of
The Womnn's auylliary % the
New York Society Tor The Pres
crvatlon OF Scenic and Historic
Places and Objects have Trained
petition TO- the city and state
authorities which they vim earnestly
ondaayor % have granted This autumn.
ID b. 100 save three New YORK buildings
Faunces Tavern. corner uf Broad and
pparl streets In whose long room
Washington bade farewell to thg gene
erals and officers OF the Revolution.
tho Morris or Jumel mansion, in north
west New York. which was Washing
TOMS Headquarters In lI76Withu which
Nathan Hale received his commission.
and the tiny cottage Of Fordhlm I'm.
northeast New York which was the
home OF Edgar Allan Poe. The presi-
dent and trustees of the parent society
are In full sympathy with this petition.
and have promised, the auxiliary says.
no. do AN in their power 90 forward its
success. The authorities are peJitionod
90 designate small park around
Frances Tavern a. PatrIutOs. Park
that around the Morris mansion as
Hero Park and that around the
Poe cottage as Poets Park aad TO
commit the three memorial buildings
90 the care OF the Society for the Pres
cryatlon Of Historic Places and OBJ
iects The petition says. among other
things:
Whereas. Since 1857 many small
parks some of them costing over 81 600
600 have been created throughout the
city. and sixteen others are now petit
toned for. hardly one of which has
been chosen with view 90 rs historic
on other American association. and
Whereas the recent creation, at an
expense OF s. 600 600. OF "a speedway Tor
fast trotting. the authorization Of
rauld-transit tunnel which VIII cost
S3j 900 900. the condemnation Of proper
~ I'm the Borough OF the Bronx for a
concourse which win cost 10000 On
and the recommendation OF the gov
ernor Of the state OF New York FOR the
expenditure Of 100000 000 on the Erie
Canal. prove the resources Of the city
and state OF New York for the eXecu-
ton Of great projects for the use and
enjoyment Of the people, and
Whereas. The women % New York
have never before asked any costly
gift from the state and city authori-
ties: therefore. be II
Resolved. That the honorable legisla-
tive bodies and committees. executive
bodies and determining boards are.
earnestly petitioned 20 exercise their
respective powers for the purchase boy
the city by special enactment Of
Frances Tavern. the Morris mansion,
and the Poe cottage.
Resolved That any other disposition
Of these several properties viii be q
dissertation OF their sacred association,
grievous to the national mind and
heart and inexcusable In the great
and enormously opulent State and city
Of New York.
Speaking for the women Of New
York a member Of the auxiliary says;
"Nearly twenty-five years ago the
women Of Boston united TO save the
Old South Church % Revolutionary
memory; within two years the women
Of PHILADELPHIA have restored lnde-
pendence Hall of that city; after the
death Of the Poet Lowell. Cambridge
woman started the movement owing to