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" The Arst public nsesing Of the womans
League Of New York state was held yeater-
day in the grand ballroom Of the Waldorf.
the object Of the organization being sto
supply th6 fooiessd power OF an enormous
wen governed, wsii directed force which
shall sbsin& 10 bear q potent wide spreading,
far reaching influences upon any one given
legislatiys reform from oil parts OF The STATE
ut one time, h was expected chat the big
room would bc too small TO accommodate
the thf0nse of wdrnsh who would be eeagerto 70
know the particAlar reform bn which the
power vas TO focus II was also thought
necessary 70 reserve tho palm room and the
one adjoining FOR tho midday luncheon Of
tho membern.
Az II turned out, however, the audience
wouldn't have Allied the myrtle room. and a
few tables lra the main dining room sufiloed
for the lesg,1ers who ate between the morn
ing and afsernoon sessions.
These details did not, however, serve to
diminish In ths sliShtest degree the effect
upon tho out of town members of Mrs.
Belle dc RivsrA's white crepe de chine
frocls trimmed With yards and yards Of
point do VSnis3 lace. her white picture
hat. With its ostrich plumes. and her i'm
posing gavei. ~ so t.Ea
Mrs. DCrS Lyon, who ID ono Of the Vice
presidents and who came all the way from
her chicken farm in Esopus just to attend
the function, wore q creation In pale biege
that made II hard tor the up-Staters present
to look at anything else. Mira. Lydia K.
Commander was attifed In white Lace and
gold eause., and Mrs. Sophia Loebinger
used black leoe As 4 setting for her famous
turquoiss earrings and nochaace.
There was IN Official timekeeper, who
every one agreed wat the most conscientious
officer that ever ofllcisted at a lwoman's
club. II didn't make bit Of difference
how eloquent an orator was. when. ha had
been taking for "A minutes and 50 seconds
she shouted ',fimsls II the man didn't
take the hint With reasonable promptness
the time call was repeated at intervals of
half a minute until he sat down.. 4
Herbert Casson, who is the husband of
Mrs. Commander, won the hearts OF his
hearers when he said that women had
the reward for the labor.
Women have always been practical, he
continued. Men have done the hunting
and the lighting and the Dragging. Perhaps
you do not know that half of the single
women in New York city support them
same and ons-half OF the divorcees. There
are in the United States 10000 women
One-half Of the girls under 20 are obliged
in New York to work for their living and
80 600 Of them are tho sole support of entire
l4yO0O women OVER o. years old who work
for living We make great fuss over
the workhorse parade and we drop tears
over the hafdahips OF the poor horses.
How would we regard a parade of these
grandmothersr
:. Mr.. cas.on !, went ,,, On TO say that although
there were 10000 Unemployed women in
New York city no one seemed to be doing
anything about It. A man out of work had,
he said, q great advantage over women
because he could go in the saloons, which
were graphically bureaus Of information
on all subjects OF interest, The woman
had only the church, and church people
hardly ever could tell any one where to go
for job. Women ought to be allowed TO
take some OF the better places in the in
dustrial world; he continued, and they
should have the first whack at Government
positions.
when the applause which followed these
remarks had died away Mrs. Julia Goldsier
rose and said that as q suffregette and O
single taxer she couldn't indorse what
some Of the other speakers had said, but
that she thought Mr.. Casson's speech had
been perfectly lovely.
Casson would vote for n woman for Presi-
dent Mr.. Casson hesitated for moment
and cast pleading glance at Mrs. Com
mander. who was regarding him with q
smile Of expectancy. Then he shrugged
HE shoulders and conhded to. the questioner
that he and many other voters had often
wished that Il was Mrs. Roosevelt who
was the power In the white House and that
he was perfectly SURE that there were at
least twenty wotneu right on Manhattan
Island who were more capable Of filing
the highest executive office than were any
Of the csindfdAtes who were now being
talked about
The timekeeper had to call halt on the
wild demonstration OF enthusiasm evoked
by these sentimsnts, OF II. would have been
impossible for the chair to get In word.
Az Jle hlC6fnOOn b9B8kOn MIS- Emil hluOh-
ling. vioe-presldent Of the Mechanics In
stitute Of Rochester. urged the league to
assist in the great work of the industrial
training Of girls, and speakers from the
Manhattan Trade School and the Hebrew
Technical School for Girls supplemented
her arguments. @l
The yivisection discussion was the most
exciting Of the convention. because there
were speakers on both sides. DR.. Victor q.
Peterson, DR.. Simon Flexner of the kooke-
feller Institute, and Or. Rosalie 8. Morton
argued In favor OF the practice, and Mr.
and Mrs. David .Belais and Bolton Hall con-
demned it utterly.
DIR. William Park Of the Health Board.
said in reply to some remarks Of the antis
concerning unnecessary cruelty. that the
Of tho Health Board were
always open TO. the public. and that he
had sent epeoial invitations to Mr.. and MIRA.
Belais and to the members Of the Woman's
Club to viMt the operating rooms.
but that they had not appeared.
Mr.. B4lais then came forward In great
excitement and explained that the reason
he and his wife had not accepted the in
vitation was that they would have no faith
that what they were permitted to see would
be the real thihRs that were going on. A
storm Of hisses followed this gtatennent.
but Mr., BelAie wab not at an disoonoerted.
Il will back up what / sly by q direct
charge,s be announced, and then added.
-The e4traction OF antitoxin from horses
3 not dome by the physicans. but 10 left to
n. t<nA L.