The San Francisco call., 1905-03-13
Berkeley Office San Francisco Call,
214S Center street March IL, r

214S Center street. March IL,
Arrangements were made to-day for
conference between Mrs. Benjamin
Ide Wheeler, wife of tn president of
the university. and Mervyn J. Samuels,
manager of the Prytanean Society's S
production of the "Mikado," to take
place at Mrs Wheeler's home at 10
o'clock tomorrow morning, when the
vexed question of the eo-eds' trip to
Sacramento will be discussed, and per-
haps settled
Mrs. Wheeler voiced her opposition
yesterday to the proposed journey of
the ',Mikado'' cast to Miss Ethel Rich
ardson and Miss Florence Fortson, who
are respectively president of the As
sociated Women Students of the uni
versity and president of the Prytanean
Society. Her disapproval was couched
in the form of a question. contained
substantially in the following words:
do you young ladies think it well
for women students of the university
tc travel about the country, away from
the university, to give operatic per-
formances, such as you contemplate
giving at Sacramento?
That question, tentative though 1T
W
on, regarding the co-eds' trip TO the
capital city, and the agitation prom
ises to erhbroil pretty nearly every
section of the university.
1t is largely a question of chaperon-
age, apparently, though Mrs. Wheeler
declines to commit herself on that
point. She said to-day:
Please see the women students to whom 1
spoke about this matter for any information
desired. 1 refer TO Miss Richardson and Miss
Fortson. / dislike publicity notoriety and
do not wish to see my name In print have
nothing to say. ! merely asked the young
women who represent the women students and
the Prytanean Society whether they thought
It well for the girl students TO journey about
the country giving theatrical performances. 1t
can be guessed, | suppose, what my own
thought is about the matter.
The wife of the university president
told the women students to whom she
talked that chaperons would be desir-
able in event of their journey to Sacra-
mento, and the proper number of
chaperons. supposedly were not in
{ scluded on the list of those billed to go
tc Sacramento To other persons Mrs.
Wheeler has said: If | were formally
asked my opinion Of the proceeding |
should say that the proposed expedition
to Sacramento required chaperoning to
make 1t proper"
Mervyn j. Samuels, who conducted
the business details OF the MlKado
production by the Prytaneans at the
Macdonough Theater in Oakland, said
to-day:
Miss Fortson and Miss Richardson informed
me of Mrs Wheeler's attitude in this matter
and delegated TO me the responsibility of act
ing for the Prytanean Society. l strongly
favor the proposed trip to Sacramento and
shall explain to Mrs Wheeler tomorrow my
reasons for thinking the trip proper. There
will te plenty of chaperons on the journey.
Mr. and Mrs. Magee and other married per-
sons will accompany the party. We shall sing
under the auspices Of prominent social club
and those who go will nay their own railroad
fare / think that one will find that there
the conduct of any person connected with the
party.
It is proposed to take about seventy
Journey from the university There is
a chorus of sixty, dozen principals.
the coach, Mrs. Janet Edmondson
Walker; the chorus director, Clinton E..
Morse, and others.
SACRAMENTO. March 12,-Members
and officers of the Sacramento Tuesday
Club declare that they do not know
what construction to place on the re-
port that the Prytanean Society of
Berkeley is debating the propriety of
visiting this city as the guest of the
Tuesday Club The officers declare that
the club had never extended an invita-
ton to the sPrytanean Society In any
form There must be some misappre-
heHsion," said the president of the
Tuesday Club tonight.