The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-02-18

SYRACUSE. N. Y, Feb. 1S.-Club wo-
men throughout the State are busy watch
ing legislation at Albany. There are a
half dozen bills. each affecting women's
and club interests. to be disposed of. and
the women propose to have hand in it.
Under the leadership of Mrs William
Tod Helmuth. of New York. the fedora ed
club women are to push bill providing
an appropriation Tor a State Industrial
School for Girls. Mrs Helmuth is a for
uler President of the State Federation of
Women's Clubs and at present Chairman
of the Industrial School Committee ap-
pointed by that body.
The women want school not for ref
ormatiOn purposes such as the industrial
school in Rochester. but purely eduaa-
JionaI institution where girls may be
taught Homework and trades free of
charge Their argument is that such a
school would be a preventive of crime and
that 1t is an instant need. as the figures
and facts they have collected go to snow.
A similar bill was introduced IN Ine
Legislature two years ago. 1t got INTO
committee and the women's influence
stopped just short of getting it out again.
The project has been the cause OF many
dlssensiCns among the Federation women.
and at last Mrs Clarence Burns, Of New
York. the author, and for a long time the
only worker for the .11usI trial school bill,
resigned as chairman OF tie commit &c at
the annual meeting Of the Federation last
November. In resigning she pointed out
to the women that their own chickering's
and jealoUsies had defeated the bill. winch
had been the only definite and practical
measure ever undertaken by the State
Federation This raised a commotion in
the Federation and the Craftsmanship was
given 10 Mrs Helmuth.
The General Federation Of Clubs. which
IS the women's national body, is turning
It's attention 20 Industrial work among
women and children of the United States,
and under the leadership Of Mrs. COrine S.
Brown. OF Chicago, chairman of the indus
trial department. it expects TO accomplish
practical things during the next two years
Mrs. Helmu5h was disappointed in not re-
ceiying the nomination for president at
the Milwaukee biennial Of the liberation
last June II, therefore, she can point to
an industrial school for girls in New York
State as the work Of her committee. at the
next biennial in June 1902 Mrs Helmuth
viii be strong figure IN the next presi-
Dental race.
Aside from club ambitions. the school is
pronounced by the women who know the
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Of New York city, who would benefit by Il
chiefly, as a practical and necessary step
II these young women are to be rescued
from ignorant and vicious lives. Mrs
Theodore Roosevelt is interested in the |
success Of the bill The amount asked for |
is SO 0G0.
Governor OdelI's project Of abollshirg
the State Board Of Charities and The sub /
stiJution OF a single-headed commission
meets with an emphatic protest en- the
part of club women. Most Of the chart /
table homes and asylums in the State are /
under the management Of women. and they I
object to any change in the State board /
The general public said Mrs. Fred /
erick r. Hazard Of Syracuse, VINO heads /
the opposing women lis still in the dark
as 10 the meaning Of the proposed change, !
and ii IS perfectly safe TO say that not 7
one IL twenty Of our voters know that II /
the bill providing for this reorganization /
becomes a Law q step backward in the /
State government viii have been taken
and another chance given 10 partisan poll /
ties to miSmanage matters. The men and |
women on the present board serve without /
salary and with the interests of the COM /
munity as their sole object. There are
twelve members, representing the differ !
ent localities Of the State and they are /
thus able by their familiarity with local /
conditions to direct the charities in a /
manner which must be more efficient tbaa /
is possible for any individual whose term |
of office is limited by the administrative /
term"
The women sufragfsts are out in force /
al over the State getting influence at !
work in favor of the Women Taxpayers |
bill A flood Of letters, petitions. and res |
olutions is pouring IN upon Senator's and |
Assemblymen from their women consti.u-