New-York tribune., 1908-01-12
NOTES OF CLUBS AND CHARITIES.

Invitations are out for an Elmira College Club
tea Hotel Majestic Saturday. January 1s
from to p. m. Mrs. William R. Bross, the club
president, will receive assisted by Mrs. Albert
Bogert, chairman entertainment committee; Mrs.
Hiram IfOrsberg Bice and Mrs John Loveland.
There will be music and readings by Mrs, John
Shotwell.
There are few other womens college clubs in the
city which show a more steady and healthful
growth. In the year book just coming from the
press the following names appear: Mrs. G. Nj.
Sicard Mrs Simon Reudell. Miss Isabel Merchant,
!, Mrs. Byron A. Kilburn, Mrs j. c. Fender, Miss
MAY EimOre Mrs. Joseph Mcdonald, Miss Adelaide
Dexter, Miss May Dwight, Miss Sylvia Chatfeld
Bates Miss Emily Dexter. Mrs. Emerson II. Lis
cum. Miss Rena Rockwell. Mrs. George Byram,
Miss Nina Preston Mrs. Roderick Byington, Mrs
Willis Anderson. Miss Lucy Green, Miss G. Allen.
Mrs Timothy Fowler. Miss Florence Blades, Miss
Anna Cummins Miss Clara Germansen, Mrs Charles
r Murray Miss Julia Willets Williams, Mrs
Minnie Cowles Rice Miss Alice Adams, Mrs Lewis
Reed, Mrs. G. \. Tfdd, the Misses Helen and Mar
gerry Dow. Miss Frances Mcdowell and Miss Eliza
beth VI. Bryan.
The National Society of New England Women.
Mrs Charles Gilmore Kerley, president, will hald
it's second literary meeting CT the season at Del
monico's, 4ith street and Fifth avenue next
Wednesday, at 2:9O p. Mrs. Homer Irwin Os-
from chairman. has invited Miss Kathryn Leavitt
Bisseu to deliver her lecture recital on Thomas
Bailey Aldrich. Miss Helen Niebuhr will sing one
accompanist will be Mrs. Adams. Miss Marguerite
Moore will give several selections the violin.
accompanied by Miss Harriet Hay.
The Manhattan Study Club met Monday at the
home of the president, Mrs. George A. Coe, and
was entertained by a programme of special inter
est. Papers read by Mrs. Whitney Conant,
D. L. Hubbard A P. Ordway and Graham Wood
ward on Great Salt Lake City" irrigation
Denver and Its Surroundings" and Colorado and
Its Attractions" A collection of views was shown,
followed by a general discussion of the subjects
named and current events. The clubs programme
for the year is America and Her Possessions
In honor of the woman's Press Club. of which
Madam Won Klenner is president, Madam Alma
Webster Powell gave d concert and dinner at her
home No 9l5 President street, Brooklyn, last
Tuesday evening. The consisted of vocal
and instrumental music. and an address on The
Materials of Music by Professor Leonard B. Nc
Who'd, of Columbia University. About three hun
dred persons sat down to the dinner which fol-
lowed
An interesting meeting in behalf of the McAll
mission to France was held at the Hotel Marie
Antoinette on January S, with Mrs. Frank Trunl-
bell as hostess There large and enthusiastic
attendance After devotional exercises led by Mrs.
Henry E. Babcock, president of the New York
McAII Auxiliary. DR.. Charles E. Jefferson, of the
Broadway Tabernacle, spoke upon FRANCE fast
and Present
The McAll Mission founded in Paris by DR..
Robert AlcAn and is engaged in underwent national
work among the poorer classes IT supports. be-
sides the halls two boats, which fitted up for
gospel meetings, with an audience room. singers
and harmonium Miss Helen NJ. Gould, .'Eho was
present at the meeting, gave most Interesting
account of a visit to of these boats Ander the
guidance Of the Rev Merle DAubi9a, one of the |
active workers Of the A".h Mission in Paris Miss
.;,,ad alse c5sJae cf ;he need of central build
ing to be used as headquarters for this work in
Paris
Among others present weres Mrs. Charles E JEFF
ferson Mrs. John c. Bliss. Mrs. A. n. keigwin
Mrs George p Hepburn, Miss Margaret p. Pascal |
Mrs Gilbert Colgate, Miss Cornelia Cady Mrs Al
bert r. Iedoux, Mrs. George T. Berry, Mrs VIII |
lam II. Humphrey, DR.. Lozier, Mrs. EDWARD w |
Peet Mrs NJ Washington Larendon, Mrs. VIII |
lam Ives Washburn, Mrs. c. l.. Goodell, Mrs. John
C. Coleman. Tea served after the meeting by |
Mrs. Trumbull.
On January IS a meeting will be held in the |
broadway Tabernacle to celebrate the twenty-hfth |
anniversary OF the founding of the auxiliary.
The New Workers will celebrate their first birth
day with a dinner the Hotel Astor. to which |
their men friends will be bidden on the night of
February 4.
This club. less than year old. numbers about |
s45 women, with Mrs. Edyth Totten McGrath
president. The dinner committee is working inde-
faugabIy to make this. the first annual" A
brilliant The favors to be unique, the
music will be Neapoltan and among the after din
ner speakers well known
The dinner committee consists of Mrs. j. {. |
Davis chairman. assisted by Mrs. Sears. wife of
Commander Sears. of the navy, Mrs. Charles B.
Reed Mrs. w H. Portor Mrs. Clifton Clark.
Mrs Horace C. Rounds Mrs. Earl s King. Mrs.
Leila Tholens Mrs. Fl. II. Russell and Mrs. S. B.
The members of the West Side Assemblies are
not superstitious. The club, organized for ex-
cellent purpose of supporting nurse in the lower
tenemtnt districts OF New York and giving cloth
Ing food games, etc, TO the poor. has its thirteenth
anniversary this winter, but instead of regarding
1t as an unlucky number is preparing have
rather entertainments than usual. The first
dance will be given the evening of January II
at tho Leslie. Broadway and $50 street On Monday
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