The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-17

to have stenographer at the club quar- ters for the convenience of the visiting women. Stationery and telephone and other conveniences will be provided. There was some discussion in regard to proYid- ing a looking glass. an after thought of the club. and while no vote was taken, there was general acqniescence.
 The club quarters will be the general rendezvous for the visiting women. There they will assemble before and after the business sessions of the league. hold there the special committee meetings. and be received informally by the Writers club. meeting socially the many bright and in teresting women from all parts of the country Each member of the club Is expected to do the honors there and Miss Walker has been made chairman of this local reception committee.
 As chairman of the reception at the Country club Mrs. E. T. Taliaferro has been asked to take charge of the details. assisting :rSr to be each member of the club and the wives or Birmingham news paper men.
 Miss Henrietta Wilcox has been asked to represent the Writers club on the evening of the press banquet.
 Mrs. Frank A Burrell of New York City will be among the distinguished women who will visit Birmingham dur ing the meeting Of the International League of Press clubs. She will travel south with the New York party. Her husband is vice president of the league and is one of the best known newspaper men in the country. Both MT. and Mrs. Burrell have attended the meeting of the league for several years and the executive position of MT Burrell In this large organization has, it Is said, been. of no less prominence than is the distin- guished social position of his wife, who is considered one of the greatest favorites in the league
 Mir and Mrs. Burrell have recently re- turned from Europe, where they passed the summer Last winter the Burrels spent most of their time cruising in south ern waters They own a handsome yacht and Mrs Burrell is extremely fond of yachting.
 Mrs. Ellen S. Cromwell of Washington, president of the Woman's National Press association, will attend the meeting of the league. She has been president of the league for four years and beside her newspaper work she takes an active in terest in club work, holding executive position in the general Federation of Women's clubs and also being a charter member of the Daughter of the Amer ican Revolution. A recent sketch of Mrs. Cromwell, which appeared In these columns. recalled the interesting and inn portant features of her journalistic work, beginning with her first work on the De- trot Free Press, then under the manage ment of MT. William B. Quimby who was afterward United States minister to the Netherlands Her connection with news papers and her public work generally made her a prominent figure at stirring periods of the country in the seventies, and she is still prominently connected with public enterprises today, her recent activities directed towards the Jamestown exposition resulting in one of the most interesting features there. the setting aside of a day for the Woman's National Press association which was participated in by writers and authors of distinction.
 Mrs. Josephine Arnold Rich is also an- other Washington woman who will visit Birmingham during the meeting of the league. sketch of Mrs. Rich was pub lished in these columns a short time ago in which her work as a member of the forestry committee of the general feder- ation was dwelt upon and also her con nection with leading newspapers. Mrs. Rich holds a government position with the department of Commerce and Labor.
 Coming south with the Washington party will be Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, whose long public career was recently recalled in this paper. She has written to the local committee on arrangements and If one read no further than the let ter heads a fair idea of her ambitions could be eralized. She writse a nice, old fashioned style and has printed on her stationery: "BelVa A. Lockwood attor- ney and solicitor 619 F street. Washing ton, D. c. Practices in United States supreme court of claims. Pensions. Chero- kee claims and general law business, which seems in striking contrast to her feminine Dpnmanshp.