The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-12-31
SOCIETY WOMAN
JOINS UNION
Mrs. Chaf|eId- Taylor Binds
Books as a Pastime.
GUT SHE TAKES OUT A CARD"
Vas Established ShOu In Which She Works
Eight Hours Gay Doesn't Like
Former Butterfly Existence.
BUT SHE TAKES OUT A CARD" "

Chicago. Dec, S.-Mrs. II. c. chatneld-
Taylor, former Western amateur golf
champion, the most daring horsewoman
In the West, brilliant leader OF society.
has Joined the Chicago Bookbinders'
union. firing of the frivoities OF butter
ny life. Mrs. Chatheld-Taylor has taken
UP the useful and strenuous. Zachndorf,
Golden sa anderson and william Morris are
her ideals. She is not binding for money.
The dreams which she executes in half
levant, morocco and yellum are for her
own library. IL Is not passing fancy'
she has taken up the work In all serious
ness.
Il propose to perfect myself In the art,
said she Miss Starr the best binder In
the west and Marjorie Streeter. her pu-
pill. have taken me under their wings, ana
my progress has been satisfactory 10
them
The Arts and Crafts Society IL the
name Mrs Chatfeld- Taylor selected for
her workshop I'm the Masonic Temple u
could do the work just as well at home.
she said. ''only there is no working AZ
home. Too many callers, too much gos-
sip We buried ourselves I'm this building
and here we have been as snug as mice
for two months until the union labor men
discovered US They were very nice about
It,
"'Do you belong 10 the union7 one OF
them asked. | confessed did not. TO
stop all disputes he said. i advise YOU
10 get a union card have applied for a
card and | am told l will receive one az
ter the next meeting OF the union. am
here from a. m. until D. m, and as 1
bring my luncheon with me l suppose |
will have 10 take card out In the
Waitress union
s6at AAlA IT. xyin
prenticeship OF several weeks under Miss
Starr I'm the Hull House Social Settle
ment district before she opened work
shop of her own. Several OF her society
friends. observing that she had almost
given up Lake Shore Drive gayety, dis-
covered the reason. and have been won
over to the true and the beautiful. so far
as to ask permission to join and learn
the trade.
II expect two OF my friends TO join
me-" said the fair worker. but the un-
derstanding is that no books shall be
sold. have more than one hundred
valuable books that require rebinding
beautiful old editions on fine paper, with
steel plates that will look just lovely In
n new dress IL is loves labor and II
won't he lost.
The report submitted TO the Federation
OF Labor on Mrs. Chatheld-Taylor's book
shop was moderate in tone, yet its enect
was volcanic. =,
.Say. I want 70 know about this.
shouted member of the Bookbinders'
union. You say Mrs. Taylor and other
society women are binding books? Have
they got union eArds?"
Il don't know" answered the chair
man.
.'Well. they can't bind any books In
this city unless they carry cards, re-
torted the disgruntled one. "lf ] And any
firm has learned them the trade without
ioinng the union I'm going TO make
trouble. The work OF binding books be-
longs to the union. and We won't permit
eny one 10 do II unless they join"
''If these women get cards will II be
ALI right7" some one asked.
"AIl right? or course II will be al
right. That Is all we ask.
And so IL is that Mrs. Chatheld-Taylo'
is a union worker. Her dues will bf
about 25 cents a month. She may be ap
polnted on one of the various commit
tees, She has already visited sewers
binderies and exhibited much interest il
the work cf the girls who show talent
Mrs. Chatfield Taylor 10 daughter o.
ex-ITnited States Senator G. p. Farwell
she IN the wife OF Hobart Chatfield
Tsylor, author of several efforts in ligh
literature.