The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-08
WOMEN'S LAST DAY
TICKET OF OFFICERS MADE OUT
AT Los ANGELES.
TO-DAY MAY BE LIVELY ONE.
MRS. DENIsON OF NEW YORK
HEADS TICKET.

Charter Matter VIII He Considered
and Louisiana Purchase EXPOSE
ton Committee Will Report-Thc
Plan to Be Present Il Calls for a
$2OO,OO9 Memorial building at ST.
Louis TO Be Afterwards ms a Fed
Grafton NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
of Catholic Women's Clubs Receiv-
educational Irrigation Movement
Endorsed.
Los Angeles, Cal, May THE nomi-
mating committee of the National Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs has COM
pleted its list Of officers, which is to be
voted upon by the federation to-mor-
row. The ticket follows:
President, Mrs. Dimies r. S. Denison,
New York; first vice president, Mrs.
Robert Burdette, California;; second
vice president, Mrs. Emma Fox, Michi-
gan; recording secretary. Mrs. William
f. Coad. South Dakota; corresponding
secretary, Miss Louise Pappenheim,
South Carolina; treasurer, Mrs. Emma
VanVechten, Iowa; auditor, Mrs.
Noyes, Wisconsin.
The nominations made for the board
of directors include several old mem
bers and these new ones: Mrs. w. A.
Nelden, Utah; Mrs. ]. c. Carroll, Tex;
Mrs. Humphreys, Kansas.
There continues to be much Decker
talk tonight, but it is stated on good
authority that the Colorado woman
will not accept a nomination for the
presidency from the floor. There is
also talk of a second ticket, but IL
is believed the official ticket, in the
main, will be accepted by the conven-
ton.
AS tomorrow will be the last day of
the convention, the business session in
the morning, aside from the election
of officers, promises otherwise to be
exciting. The charter, which caused
much talk at previous session, is to
be considered.
The report of the Louisiana Pur-
chase Committee is also to be present
ed for consideration. Mrs. Philip Moore
of St. Louis, heads a committee which
for six months has worked on a plan
for a 100000 memorial to be erected
by the club women at the St. Louis
exposition.
This memorial is to take the form
of a building to be used as a womens
building during the fair and after
wards converted into Federation head
quarters. as we'll as a half of philan-
thropy for societies engaged in this
work. Mrs. Moore will ask the fedora
ton to raise 100000, the remainder
being largely covered by donation of
$4,000 from the worlds fair commit
tee, $4,000 from private sources and
$4,000 from the Wednesday Club, the
leading woman's club in ST Louis,
which has led in this movement.
Catholic Women Fedcrate.
An organization of national impor-
lance received its credentials to-day.
1t is the newly organized Federation of
Catholic Womens Clubs, of which Mrs
j. E. Thorndyke of Chicago is presi-
| dent and which has already thirty
| three clubs in seven states.
BY the passage of a resolution en-
dorsing the national irrigation move
ment, the general federation of wo-
mems clubs has formally undertaken
to support the irrigation scheme.
Tomorrow will be a busy day. In
the afternoon an industrial ses-
sion under Mrs. Florence Kelly
of New York will be followed
by memorial service in remembrance
of Mrs. Jennie Croly, the mother Of
women's clubs. In the evening Mrs
Lowe Will give her biennial address,
which will be followed with talks by
Mrs. Robert Burdette of California.
Miss Mabel Loomis Todd of Massachu-
sets, Miss Sarah Hagan of Georgia
and others.