New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-16
CITY FED" MEETS.
First Contention of Organization a
Success IN Numbers and Interest.

aIf Theodore Roosevelt is the man think he is,
said Mrs. Margaret Dye Ellis. at the first conven-
ZION Of the New-Yor4z City FelAration Of Women's
Clubs. held In the waldorf-Astoria yesterday he
VIII stand by women and his authority for the
protection OF girls landing at our ports
He isl He ISL declared several voices from the
back OF the hall, and resolution was unanimously
passed thanking the President for the appoint
rnent OF women inspectors of immigration, and ask
ing for their retention at the port Of Newly rk
and their appointment at other ports.
Mrs Ellis who is superintendent OF the legls-
iative work Of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union. began her remarks concerning the women
inspectors by asserting that the President was
man who did things" When she asked him TO
appoint women inspectors Of immigration he ASKED
Are there women whose business IL Is 10 pro
tect women innngrants?" Mrs. Ellis replied that
there Were but their services were confined to the
steerage passengers and the President had the
women inspectors for cabin passengers appointed
Immediately on a probation Of ninety days
When IL was runored that the women inspectors
were to be dismissed Mrs. Ellis again went to the
President and told him that the Commissioner OF
Immigration at NewYork considered the inspectors
miserable failures. She begged that they might be
given longer time, and the President dictated q
letter saying that the inspectors must not be dis
charged until his return from his western TOUR,
when II was his intention TO look into the matter
Abiding TO the objections taken against the en-
ulovrnent Of women in this capacity, Mrs Ellis
said she had climbed the ladder which had been 50
much talked Of and that any woman who could
hang a picture or wash q WINDOW or clllnp inuo d
tally-ho could do the In regard TO the com
plant that the women inspectors made female pas
sengers unpeasautly conspicuous by talking to
them. Mrs. Ellis said that. inasmuch as they
talked 10 all this impossible And in reference
20 their making too much Of little things she re-
lated a large number Of things that they had seen
The other speakers Of the convention were JACOB
A Cantor, William H. Maxwell. J., G. Phelps
Stokes. Mrs Tunis G. Bergen. Mrs: s X Weed
Mrs Clarence Burns Thaddeus D. KenneSon, Mrs.
n / Pettus. Senator Charles L Guy, Mrs. R. 7.
Fitzgerald. Justice Julius NJ Mayer Robert Hunter.
Frederick A. King, Miss amy Fay. Miss Laura
SedgN1ck Collins. Miss Sadie American, John w
Keller John Quincy Adams and Walter Seth
There was a large attendance OF cubwomen, and
the president Mrs Dore Lyon received many con-
gratrations on the success of the first convention
ii vas objected against the programme. however,
that there too many men speakers ana tIlat
no time left for discussion.
Only minutes was arranged Tor, Sald MIS-
CorneIia Stewart Robinson, and in nearly every
case the speakers occupied that, leaving no time
for discussion by the audience.
At the afternoon session the federation voted 70
affiliate with the State federation, Mrs Sarah NC
Donald the Press Club. being the only obJector
Mrs. Mcdonald thought that the step was useless,
as the city had State interests