Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-09

proxy; District of Columbia, Mrs. Carrie E.
Kent: Illinois, proxy for president; Iowa,
Mrs Mary ]. Coggeshall. Rev. Mary A.
Kentucky. Laura Clay, Mrs Mary
c. Roark: Louisiana, Mrs. Elizabeth
Logan Mcconnell, proxy; poems, Mrs. Char
lotte Perkins Gilman; Maine, Mrs. Lucy
Hobart Day; Maryland, MRS. Mary bentley
Thomas; Massachusetts, Mrs. Mary Hutche-
son Page, proxy; Michigan, Mrs. G. II. Bar
num- Minnesota, Mrs. Maud c. Stockwell.
The evening session will open at 8
o'clock with prayer by Kew. U. 3. U. b.
Pierce pastor of All Souls Church. The
subjects of the addresses will be Municipal
Campaign in New York" by Katharine
Day; "Woman's Vote in Australia, A.
Watson-Lister; an address by Harrfet stan
ton Beatch; "A New Light on the Woman
Question" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
The Saturday Sessions.
The sessions of Saturday will convene at
1880 am. with prayer by Lucy HOBART
Day. and will be largely devoted to reports
of standing committees as follows En-
rollment," Priscilla D. Hackstaff, chair
man; Work Conference" Mary Bentley
Thomas presiding; Libraries, Ida Porter
Boyer, chairman; Literature" Carrie
Chapman Gait, chairman: Work Confer
ence," Hala Hammond Butt, presiding.
Reports of the following special commit
tees will follow: Industrial Problems,
Florence Kelley, chairman; discussion Ella
H. Crossett presiding; Legislation for Civil
Rights" Ida Porter Boyer, chairman, to
be followed by general discussion; Church
Work" Laura A. De Merritte, chairman
Increased Membership Laura Clay
chairman.
In the afternoon, at 2:30 O'Clock, Rev.
Anna Garlin Spencer will open the session
with prayer and reports or addresses of
state presidents will be continued, as fol-
lows: Mississippi, Mrs. Hala Hammond
Butt; Missouri, Mrs. Alice Mulkey; Nebraska.
Miss Laura A. Gregg, proxy; New Hamp-
shire, Miss Mary N. Chase: New Jersey,
Mrs. Minola Graham Sexton: New York.
Mrs Ella Hawley Crossett, Mrs. Anna c.
Etz, Miss Harriet May Mills; Ohio, Mrs.
Marie Jenny Howe; Oregon, DIR. Annie
Blankenburg; Rhode Island, Mrs Charlotte
Wilbour; poems, Mrs. Charlotte Perkins
Gilman; Texas Miss Annette Finngan
Utah. Mrs. Emily S. Richards; Vermont
Mrs Eliza S: Eaton: West Virginia, Mrs.
Beulah Boyd Richie; Wisconsin, Rev
Olympia Brown.
The evening session, open at 8 o'clock,
will be called IAN Evening With Phil
anthropists." Addresses will be made as
follows: New Professions in Philan-
thropic Work for Women" Anna Garlin
Spencer. director New York Winter School
of Philanthropy; Women and Prison Re-
iorm, Dr. S. J. Barrows, secretary
Wage Garner and the Ballet" Maud
Nathan, president National Consumers
League; Woman's Work for Peace" Lucia
Ames Mead, president Massachusetts
Woman Suffrage Association.
On Sunday. February IA, at $50 O'Clock.
National Rifles Armory. services will be
conducted by Rev. Mary A. Stafford as
sisted by Rev Marie Jenny Howe, The
sermon will be delivered by Rev. Mary A
Stafford of Des Moines, Iowa
Mondays Proceedings.
Monday morning. February 15 at 1890
O'Clock, will be opened by prayer by Rev.
Edward Everett Hale. DID,, chaplain U. S.
Senate. There will be a general discussion
of Adoption and Plan of Work" and
consideration of business nropesed nv
states. Amendments to the constitution
Will then be considered and invita- tiops for
the convention of 1905 entertained. Greet
ings from National Council of Women will
De presented by Mary Wood Swift, presi-
dent, and from fraternal delegates
The afternoon will be given over to fhe
reception at the White House and Glen
Echo. home Of Clara Barton.
In the evening at O'clock Colorado will
mold the floor: The session will be opened
with prayer by Rev J. L. Couden chan
lain, United States House of Representa-
tives. Mrs Katharine Cook will speak of
Ihe Ideals We Cherish Mrs. Ellis Mere
dith OF Women and legislation Alva
Adams of woman Suffrage From the Col
orado Point of View" and Mrs. Mary G. G.
Bradford. president of the State Federation
Of Woman's Clubs, Of Our Message to
Garcia" ~
Tuesday morning the meeting will omen at
10; at Il o'clock there will be a congress
sional hearing before the judiciary commit
tee or the House and the woman suffrage
committee of the Senate
The afternoon session will ba devoted tn
the electlon or officers and miscellaneous
business.
In the evening at o'clock Colorado will
speak for itself"
Other addresses will be: "How Woman
Suffrage Affects Women" Mrs Isabelle
churchill; The Young Woman in Politics."
Mrs. Helen Belford, chairman of the dem
ocratlc woman's state central committee;
How Campaigns Are Conducted Mrs Ina
Thompson, chairman of the republican wo-
mans state central committee: Education
In Colorado" Helen Loring Grenfeu state
superintendent of schools; After Ten
Years" l. K. Stevens.
The Closing Day.
The last session of the convention will be
held Wednesday. February II. and will he
largely given over to conferences and dis
cussion of plans of work. In the afternoon
at 230 O'Clock addresses will be made by
Harriet May Mills New York: Mary N.
Chase, New Hampshire: Priscilla D. Hack
stan New YORK: Laura A. Gregg, Nebraska.
Inc report of committee on resolutions
will be presented at this session and there
Will be an address by Rudolph Blanken-
burg, Philadelphia, and the opening of the
colorado question Box" by Ellis Mere
dith.
In the evening at O'clock the session
Will be opened with prayer by Rev. John
Van Schaick, jr., pastor of the Church of
Our Father, The addresses of the evening
will be made by Mrs L. Annis Pound on
the Problem of the Individual" and the
Women Without a Country by Rev.
AnT-l II. Shaw.