The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-02

eHE climax OF the busy
month was reached Iues-
dav morning in the embarka-
ton of the Kansas clup women
for st. Paul Beginning to the
west the delegation gained Ia
strength as the miles rolled by A.
Kansas CITY The delegates were met DS
Mrs. Lila Day Monroe and MI LIN
coin. the agent of the Maple Leaf 20
which station they were quieklN trans
ferred. The Kansas Pullman as Wen
as those for the Oklahoma and Mis-
souri, delegates was waiting, and the
party, with its numerous and 1neVitaple
suit cases umbrellas, and the usual
para aphernalia from which even cruz
women could not be emanelpdteG,
were slowed aboard. berths were alot-
ted. and housekeeping began
A stop at Leaveuworth for delegates,
another at st. Joseph for belated trav-
elers from Indian Territory and MIS-
souri, and then on through the night
and the rain. for st Paul, o4f alies
away, as the Great Western travels
A afoE for breakfast at OetWeln az
6.15 necessitated early rising, but 1t
vas worth ii to see the sun come up
over the rolling fields and the wooded
prairies of northern Iowa. Then q
series of calls and conferences from
car to car consumed the morning, un-
I'll 12.4O found US with the inevita Bile
shoulder, receiving the welcome OF
St Paul club women, who in mastery
fashion, passed US on from sentinel to
sentinel until carriages we're reached
and we were safely landed at the Eu-
cid. where Kansas headquarters have
been established.
The majority of the delegation regis
ters here although a number have
scattered among friends in the Twin
cities.
The roster here shows the following
names. Mrs. May Belleyille Brown.
salina. Miss Edith Brown. Salina: Mrs.
Lila Day Monroe. Topeka; Miss Daisy
Monroe. Topeka Mrs. W. A. Johnston,
Topeka; Mrs Eli 6. Foster. Topeka.
Mrs N I. Mcdowell Salina; Mrs T
B. Wheeler, Pittsburg. Miss Estelle
Dalton. Winfield; Mrs A. ID. Neale,
Chetopa; Mrs. C. c. Goddard. Leaven-
worth. Mrs T. s. Lemon. Leaven-
worth; Mrs. Kate Arlington, Council
Grove; Mrs Frank Bartlett, Kansas
City, Mrs c.. B. Hoffman, Enterprise
Mrs. J. B. T. Gates. Cshanute; Mrs. \.
c. Stick. independence.
The Euclid is the most ideal in situae
tion of any of the hotels of st. Paul.
being one block from the Armorv and
three from the old capitol. where head
quarters are esta ablished for the stateA
The great delegation from Illinois
came II just before midnight on the . g.
four hours late. but not too late To.
find a committee waiting to welcome
them. One after another the trains
rolled In until Boston. New York. In
diana. Ohio Nebraska, Maryland and
Colorado, state after state and city af~
ter city had reported and passed in
review before the groups Of women
waiting on the third floor of the Ar
noFy to receive credentials and deliver
tickets, invitations and badges.
All the steel roads of the country
we're leading to St Paul. with an army
Of women convargfng on the capitol
of the North Star State ana never
was an army better managed thar
this one, nor was an army ever more
amenable to the discipline of the pow
ers that be.
An idea of the welcome bestowed
upon the club women may be obtained
by the attitude of the papers of The.
city. The St Paul Dispatch of NAV
80. says editorially.
ITO THE WOMEN WELCOME.
st Paul and the Northwest wei
come the General Federation OF. Wora-
ems clubs: wishing to give Of tfeir best
TO these thousands of women the slim