Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-19
WONAN'S CLUBS MEMORIAL
Hall Of Philanthropy to Be Erected at St.
Louis Worlds Fair,
PERMANENT BUILDING is CONTEMPLATED
Circular Letter from the Memorial
Committee Apprises Women OF
Plan and Its
A~dvantaEes

Under date Of April Is a circular letter
has been issued to the club women OF
America by the Missouri Federation Of
Woman's Clubs.
At the Milwaukee biennial 1t was de-
cided that federated clubs Of the Louisiana
Purchase states should erect a permanent
memorial to the purchase some place in
the included district. To decide upon such
a memorial a conference was called in
Kansas City last spring, when a number Of
projects were offered to be presented to
the declarations Of the purchase states for
their consideration, they to return a definite
reply at a subsequent meeting. This meet
ing was held in st. Louis January 20, 21
and 22 OF this year. all the states being
represented, with two exceptions, Nebraska
being one of these.
At this meeting the various projects pre-
scented by the states were discussed, the
hall OF philanthropy seeming to be the
most popular. 1t was then estimated that
1t would cost about $150, 00O, the raising
Of which sum was considered by many a
rather heavy tax upon the states Of the
district. No definite decision was reached
and it was decided to. refer the matter
to the Los Angeles biennial and invite the
cooperation of other club women in the
establishment of the memorial.
The women OF the Missouri federation
have been urging the scheme for the
Hall Of Philanthropy, and as the necessity
Of some place for keeping the general fed
Grafton records is generally recognized, this
plan will doubtless receive strong support.
Text of the Circular.
Following is the text of the circular re-
ferred to.
To tho CIV,I. 49, 80 r,,rt,a t. 1rIgr
to. answer some of the practical questions
which have been asked, we submit the fol-
lowing Information concerning the use, cost
of erection and maintenance of the Hall
of Philanthropy:
An ordinance just passed by the NUM-
cipal assembly OF the city OF st. Louis
grants a permanent site on the Worlds
fair grounds in Forest park for a building
to be erected by the General Federation of
Woman's Clubs. 1t Is to contain Sn audi
torium and other necessary rooms, and be
used as a Woman's building during the
verted into a Hall OF Philanthropy, where
we hope to place the large sociological ex-
hihit which will be collected from all parts
of. the world at the time of the Worlds
fair.
The ordinance also provides that the Hall
Of Philanthropy shall be a permanent meet.
Woman's Clubs and for the directors of
the Missouri federation. AS General FEEDER
deposit for the club archives. Organized
as a central bureau of Information for the
use Of charitable and reformatory %institu-
IL will serve the same purpose for
the Federated Clubs. The same building.
the same equipment, the same management
be inscribed: HAL Of Philanthropy, Elected
by the General Federation of Woman's
Advantage of the Oner.
Not only has a site been, secured free
of charge and exempt from taxation for
the Hall of Philanthropy. but In considera-
ton of It's use as a woman's building dur
ing the Worlds fair, the directors of the
exposition will give to the Federated Clubs
such a building for the purpose
in the ordinance. a building
fund of Fo.pQp, TO be added to the sum to
be raised by#the club women for the same
purpose. 4 THIS additional sum appropriated
by the worlds fair directors will enable
us to build a handsomer and more COM
modlous structure than we could otherwise
erect, to which our successors can point
with just pride: Its beauty. its prominence,
II one of the noblest permanent me-
MORALS of the Louisiana Purchase EXPOSE
ton.
The ordinance provides that the Hall of
Philanthropy shall be managed by a board
of directors consisting of nine women, six
of whom shall be nominated by the General
of Woman's Clubs and three by
the Missouri Federation of Woman's Clubs,
with three city officials as members ex-
oficio. Appointments will be made upon
recommendation of the women of the Cen
eral Federation of Woman's Clubs and of
the Missouri Federation. After the appoint
ment of the first year the term of office will
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be for six years.
The Hall Of Philanthropy as planned will
be a library and museum of everything
pertaining to the improved methods con-
stantly being adopted all over the world
in the interests of the defective, dependent
and delinquent classes. Here will be readily
available information which can be pro-
cured only through a long, tedious GORE;
spondence, II at all. 1t will fill a national
want which is more and more keenly felt
and emphatically voiced by earnest work.
ers. 1t will be the only institution of its
kind in the world. The building erected by
the united efforts of the club women Of
America will have the effect Of bringing
women into closer touch with each other
for the interchange of ideas on all sub
jects in which they have a common inter-
est.
Committee Is Unanimous.
After careful consideration, the commit
tee unanimously recommends this project,
believing that IL will commend itself, in
that It embraces so many of the varied
activities of woman's work, offers a site
free of cost and exempt from taxation and
insures a generous gift from the Worlds
fair.
BY the Worlds fair. committee: Chair
man. Mrs. Edwin Harrison; secretary, Mrs.
7. b. Waters; treasurer, Mrs. s. II. Wood
stock; Mesdames George II. Shields, Henry
Eliot. Mary Perry, Il. D.. Kimban, A. j.