Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1902-05-08
CLUB WOMEN'S WORK
Massachusetts, Pet Plans Knocked
Down at the Convention.
mrs. FOXS PARLIAMENTARY MANUAL
It IL Adopted BY the Convention In Pref
erence to . Msn's-Afternoon Bee.
sions ON the Value Of SuboFdl.
nate declarations.

Los Angeles, Cal, May 7.-Yester-
day may be chronicled as the day
when Massachusetts club women saw
all their pet plans, for which they
have been fighting for two years, 60
down before the vote of the conven-
ton. The final protest was given
to the admission Of colored women's
clubs, the effort to down the indi-
vidual club as step toward reor-
ganization, through state fedora
tons only, failed and the plan to
reduce the per capita tax from ten
to five cents was showed under. The
dispatch with which the three issues
were defeated, in the midst Of in
tense excitement on both sides, il Q
matter of surprise, even to the dele
gates who aided in the result. While
Massachusetts, is sorrowful, there is
no element Of bitterness in the de-
feat, and the union of the south and
the north, as far as the women's
clubs are concerned, promises to stay
cemented for some time.
The decision to adopt the parlia-
mentary manual Of Mrs. Emma Fox,
the present recording secretary, as
authority for the federation, led Mrs.
Urquhard Lee to urge the acceptance
Of some manual written by a man.
Consolation came to Mrs. Fox in the
ultimate support of the convention.
Then came a friendly contest for
the entertainment of the next bien-
NAL. Mrs. Williams, who spoke for
Minneapolis, said the Commercial
club had pledged the money and
promised to do all the work and
tried to impress the delegates that
there would be taxation without rep
resentation. Mrs. Shields, Of Mis-
souri,, backed with invitations from
men in high positions, extended a
similar courtesy from St. Louis.
At the suggestion Of Mrs. Lowe .
telegram was ordered sent to Mrs.
Potter Palmer in her bereavement.
One of the afternoon sessions on
"Value of Subordinate Federations'
was in charge Of Mrs. A. f. Thomp-
son, Of Kansas. Mrs. w. N. Patiloe,
of Georgia, led off with a speech
on "Work of Local declarations in
Philanthropy and Reform" followed
by Mrs. Virginia McClurg, of Colo
RADIO Springs. The subject, "What
Local Federations May Accomplish
in Civic Work." was handled by Mrs.
Lillian Duncanson, of Illinois.
simultaneously another session on
civil service reform was in charge Of
Miss Perkins, of Massachusetts.
Among the leading speakers were
Mrs. Sarah Platt-Decker, who pre-
scented the subject as it relates to
public institutions Of charity and
correction, and Mrs. Thaddeus STAN
wood, Of Illinois, who handled "Civil
Service Reform in Our Public
Schools"
Last nights programme was Of a
musical character. Mrs. Charles
Rhodes gave an Illustrated address
on "Recollections of Wagner Festi'
walls at Bayreuth."
VIII Complete an Extension at Once
Guthrie, Ok, May Tt is an
nounced that the Santa Fe will COM
plete Immediately the extension from
Mill Creek, I. T., to Coalgate, l. L,
the Denver & Northern out of Den
ison, Tex, which was purchased re-
Gently by the Santa Fe. 1t will be
operated as a portion of the eastern
Oklahoma lines. The surveyors OF
the Santa Fe on another extension
in the Indian territory have arrived