The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-18

The program outlined for the confer
ence of the Louisiana Purchase Memorial
committee next week in st. Louis is
very attractive one socially and the bring
ing together of leading club women from
the purchase states will undoubtedly in
huence other matters connected with the
celebration and exposition besides the
memorial whose discussion will occupy
the working hours of the delegates.
On Monday morning after a welcome
from Missouri and the president of the
hostess club, the Wednesday club of St.
Louis, general outline Of the proposed
celebration and of the memorial will be
given by the committe appointed last
year in Kansas City. Luncheon will be
memorial will be discussed in executive
session in the afternoon. In the evening
the, visitors will be the guests Of the
Contemporary club, club of men and
women, at one Of its meetings, which con-
sist of a dinner and lecture. =
A luncheon will be served on Tuesday
to all the federated clubs Of the city in
honor of the visiting club women by the
Country club and drive will be given In
all other points of interest connected with
it. * ..a
The work of the conference will be COM
pleted Wednesday morning and in the aft
ernoon the delegates will be invited to an
open meeting of the Wednesday club.
This club will also entertain all OF the
delegates to the conference.
1t is especially fitting that Minnesota
should be represented at the conference
by Mrs. 70. W. Wells, with whom the idea
of the club women providing memorial
Of this great historical event originated.
Mrs. Wells leaves this evening for st.
| Louis and will probably be the sole repre-
sentative Of the state. She is one OF the
leading club women of the state and the
founder of the Tourist club, to which she
first submitted her idea. 1t was Endorsed
by the club and later by the delegates OF
the state at the Milwaukee biennial OF the
General Federation Of Women's Clubs.
The general federation added it's lndorse-
ment and the idea was taken up with en-
thusiasm by the Missouri federation. 800.
The first step taken In actualizing the
memorial idea was the calling OF con-
ference Of representatives Of the purchase
states year ago at Kansas City. The
work accomplished by that meeting is
shown in the following extract from the
report of. the Minnesota delegate. MIS-.
H. A. futile:
The conferences was attended by delegates
from seven states and two territories. 1t was
decided that the form Of celebration and
the program should be referred to commit
tees. and the larger portion OF the time OF
the conference was spent in discussion upon
memorial to commemorate the event. sew
eral plans were suggested, nearly all ut1iltar-
ian and philanthropic. Mrs. Ritchey OF 81.
Louis favored a model tenement to pc built
In st. Louis for the benefit Of poor families
Mrs. Bouslog of Springfield, Mo-, proposed
normal manual and industrial training
school for teachers. with scholarships for
every state aud territory in the purchase.
Miss Mary F. Perry OF st. Louis advocated
bureau Of corrections and charities similar
to the one In New York. Mrs. Gage OF Kan
sas City wanted clubhouse and hotel COM
bined built in st. Louis, which should al
ways be open to visiting clubwomen, its cost
to be 1000, 000., Another suggestion was 9
clubhouse for the women Of st. Louis. An
other, museum where historical relics OF
! the Louisiana purchase could be preserved.
Mrs. Hale of Kansas proposed O. triumphal
arch to be built in stan on the fair grounds
at st. Louis and reproduced in stone later.
The Minnesota plan. which was suggested
| by Mrs. G. w. Wells of the Tourist Club of
! Minneapolis, is monument which shall en-
body the statues of the three men who made
and completed the negotiations for the Louis
I lana purchase-Napoleon, Robert Livingstone
land Thomas Jefferson. Mrs. Wells would also
include the racial types-the Indian and the
negro Then, in bas relief, she would com
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fitting emblems for further decorations would
use the corn, the cotton and the wheat
products that have brought wealth and civ.
| lization to this vast stretch Of country, which
| includes all that tract whose waters are tri
butary to the Mississippi river.
I Minnesota pleaded for the purely artistic
as the philanthropic and unitarian viii
never be lost sight of. Mrs. Thompson O.
Kansas favored the Minnesota plan, blu
wished the addition Of fountain, and thu
artistic idea was warmly seconded by man.
others.
These plans have been submitted to tn
several state. declarations and so far
possible the delegates to the conference
next week will report the wishes OF thel
| states
1 The difficulty of arriving at any pla
upon which all of the states could agree
has pushed the celebration idea into tn
background in the discussion which ma
been going on merrily for several weeks
but this part Of the plan has not bee
neglected Perhaps. this will be the onl
portion that will be conspicuous next yeal
! for it is quite certain that several OF u