The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-05-25
omen TO PLAY CITY
laI Government Scheme Of
'sioaoo Social Economic Club.
DETAIL TO BE OVERLOOKED

Fuayor, VINO WIN NSSSO
q Thirty-fivs Aldermen 70 BS
r,.e,sd-couneil Will Meet Tuesday |
LANNON'S Following "Rsal" Needing.
p.ving had a mayor de factO, a
Tror de jure, a nonresident assistant
.ror a deputy assistant mayor, good
,rors and bad mayors, fat and lean
rors and mayors who weren't may
at all, Chicago Is to be treated to
rare experience of having a femi-
10 near mayor, says the Chicago
I5bune 1t is also to have a city
Incl OF feminine near-aldermen.
y convenience they will be called
ierwomen.
.Buryiug the despair that followed
u defeat Of every effort to secure mu-
Scipa suffrage for women, the Social
.conomic club, composed Of advanced
mixers, settlement workers, public
llrited women, feminine physicians
Iii lawyers and a handful Of single
xers and socialists, has voted to or
hnize itself into a model municipal
byernment Systematization Of the
ktorm philanthropic and civic work
hrried on by the club is the chief pur-
Dse of the plan TO organize the club
TO miniature city government.
n No detail of municipal government IN
be neglected by the clubwomen. Not
nly are they to have a near-mayor
nd near-aldermen called alderwom-
b. but they are to have a corporation
bunsel, a city attorney, a commission
of public works, chief of police, a
Ommlssioner of health, a city treas
rer and all the other big and little
Ulcers set down on the city's payroll
furthermore, they are to have a board
education, a drainage board, a II.
rary board, a street cleaning depart
hent, a finance committee. a local
ransportation committee, committees
h streets and alleys north, west and
Outh and every other kind of q com
nittee
The "woman's city council will hold
IS meetings Tuesday afternoons fol-
owing the Monday night meetings Of
be real city council, and If the real
body does anything which the near
sOuncil does not like the near-couACil
Till make its opinions known with ht.
lie ado.
As the membership Of the Social
Economics club is not large enough tr
hermit of seventy alderwomen and al
u the other city officers besides, it has
been decided to have only thirty-AvC
aldermen, one from each ward. Mrs
Ohm F. Thompson, president Of thG
lub and a conservative, motherly wo
ban. has been intrusted with the tasl
y appointing the various aldermen
he will make her appointments during
be summer, and they will be announc
q in the Forthcoming year book o.
be club. At the first meeting OF tn
Tub in October the Office Of mayo
md the other elective offices will b,
lied, the mayor win name her cabi
Jet, and the steering committee Of Ch
Ouncil will make up the various com
pittees. Already several women hav
een mentioned as likely mayoralt
iHber, and the campaigning has bee
egun in a quiet way. Mrs. Thompso
as been urged to run for mayor. b
he says she does not want the once.
A tentative slate has been made q
Is follows:
Mayor Mrs. Corinne Brown, Socia
ST, or Mrs. Claribel Schmitt, indepent
knt.
City Treasurer-Mrs. John F. ThomI
bon
Comptroller-Mrs. Albert johnson.
Corporation Counsel-One of the W
nen lawyers Of the club.
Commissioner Of HeaIth-Dr. Franc,
Dickinson.
Beyond the foregoing Offices the slat
nakers have not gone, but 1t is e
pected that before October two ticke
pm be In the feld-a Socialist and q
dependent ticket. 1t Is conceded tn
Miss Louie L. Kilbourn. former pre-
ient Of the Teachers federation, VI
BE- made president of the board OF ed
eation