Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-18
WORLDS W.C,T,u,
Delegates From All Parts
Of the Globe Assemble
For the TfienniaI Worlds Con-
vention Of Order at Boston.
Mrs. |. NJ. n. Stevens Presides---ReaI
Business Will Begin Today.

| Boston, oct. 17.-From far away
Japan and Australia and from more
than 80 other countries in both the
Eastern and the Western hemispheres.
| thousands of women Interested in
REMEMBRANCE reform have come to this
city TO participate in the triennial
worlds convention of the WUmen'S
| Christian Temperance Union which
opens here today. The convention will
| continue through the remainder of
this week ana the following Sunday,
| coming to Il close on Sunday night In
addition to the business sessions many
public meetings have been arranged, at
| which prominent women temperance
workers from this country and abroad
will deliver addresses.
| The convention proper and the plin-
cipal additional meetings Will be held
| III fremont Temple, while there viii
be- devotional services at the Park
Street church and Faneuil hall. The
committee on arrangements, Of which
Mrs. Katherine Lent Stevenson, pres
idcnt Of tile massachusetts W. {. Il.
L., is general chairman, has made elab-
crate preparations for the cntertain-
nent Of the delegation, to whom nu-
merous receptions will BE- rendered.
one of the features of the convention
will be "a welcome" banquet to be held
in fremont Temple this evening In
the absence of the president of the
Worlds Union, Lady Henry Somerset
of England the presiding officer at the
business sessions will be Mrs. Lillian
NJ. y. Stevens, president Of the Ma
tional w. c. Il. IT, and vice president
at-large of the worlds body There
will be meetings devoted to the Young
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
the Loyal Temperance Legion ana the
white Ribbon" Missionaries.
Among the foreign delegates who
will speak at the various sessions will
be Miss Agnes E. Stack, honorary sec
rotary Of the National British Woman's
| Temperance Associations; Mrs. Kali
| YAKIMA, president of the japanese w.
lc. T. T.; Lady Dorothy Howard Of
| England: Mrs Julie kasSowitZ Of Aus
tria; Miss Annie Lille of London: Mrs.
Allie Trygg Helenius of Finland; Mrs.
| SevaSti Callisperi of Athens, Greece;
| Miss Amy Swankie- Cameron Of Lon
don and the Earl Of Carlisle Of Eng
| land
| 1t was arranged that today should
| be observed as devotional day" be-
! ginning with a series at $50 A. NJ. at
the Park Street church. conducted by
Miss Elizabeth w. Greenwood of
| Brooklyn. y. Y, superintendent of the
Department Of Evangelistical work for
| the Worlds w. G. 4. l.. This was fol-
| lowed by a noontide prayer service in
| tancuil hall. after which an informal
| reception was held by the Suffolk
| county w. c. T. L. Another service
at the Park Street church was held
this afternoon.
The convention proper will open to-
morrow morning when the delegates
will be welcomed by Gov. Guild and
Mayor Fitzgerald and will commerce
their business.
The delegates We're welcomed to the
Park Street church by the pastor. Rev.
a. Z. Conrad, who in expressing his
sympathy with the aims of the union,
said:
we are on the winning side in this
great battle. License is consent; con-
sent is participation; participation IS
responsibility for all the consequences
of the liquor traffic"
The church was well filled many
men being noted among those present.
The opening service was given up to
very brief addresses. to one sentence
prayers ana to singing Among those
who spoke at the Park Street church
meetings We're Miss Ellen Stone mis-
nj, a,.i., ,.r
Edinburg. Scotland; Baroness Won
CouttS Of Germany; Mrs. Lillian NJ. n.
Stevens, Miss Anna A. Gordon of
Evanston, ILL.,, and Miss Agnes +. Slack
of England
The executive committee Of the
Worlds Union met during the day and
completed arrangements for the bus
mess of the convention.
fremont Temple was occupied this
evening by large number Of the del
egates. who attended the welcome BAN
quet. Mrs. l.. NJ. n. Stevens. president
of the National W. c. T. L.. was pres
ent To extend the welcome Of that body,
ana Mrs. Katherine Lent Stevenson.
president Of the Massachusetts w. c.
/. T.. represented the State Union.
Former Secretary of the Navy John
-. Long was present.
rags of many nations intertwined
were f"stooned from the balconies. while
over the platform was a banner bearing
the inscription: Now, therefore, you are
no more strangers or foreigners The
hall was crowded. Mrs. Stevenson in well |
coming the delegates on behalf of the
state W. c. T. L.. said:
You are welcome as representatives
of the great organizations which are be- |
hind You at home" Prolonged applause |
followed her Introduction of Former Sec
rotary Long. who is president of the |
Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society |
as postmaster. He said in part:
The President of the United States, |
with that unfailng interest in all good |
things which is his signal characteristic |
writes me to express here and now his |
assurance that the head of the nation |
Continued on Page Two.)