Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-01
EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING
LEAGUE OF WOMEN WORKERS
TO HOLD SESSION.
Membership Of Six Hundred, With
Twenty-Five to Plan Business.
Delegates Sightseeing.

Twenty-Five earnest. intelligent and
philanthropic. yet withal weary. women
| assembled In the F street reception room
of the New Willard Hotel last evening
and for nearly three hours listened to re-
ports from their officers and workers and
discussed methods of helping the work
ing girls Of America to see the brighter
side of life. It was meeting of the ex-
ecutive board of the National League OF
Women Workers. holding its first session
of the present convention of that organi-
cation, which will continue in this city
until Sunday evening. In attendance at
the convention there are said to be 6OO
young girls and women. members of the
various clubs. who are spending their time
chiefly in visiting the various points of
interest and gathering such Information
as they can of the National capital.
The organization is composed of working
women's clubs from seven states in the
east and numbers in its membership ap
proximately 10000 women. 1t is governed
by an executive board Of twenty-five
members and composed of five state
groups. namely, those Of Massachusetts.
Rhode Island, Connecticut New York and
Pennsylvania. Clubs in the state of Yer
mont, New Jersey and Maryland are aff1li-
ateo with the larger groups.
Wage Farmers as Members.
The membership comprises all classes
of wage-earning women and meet in the
evening for the purposes of education and
social recreation. The movement was
started twenty-five years ago in New
York city. The pioneer club. the Irene,
Miss Grace Dodge founder, is still in ex-
istence. The National League was or
ganized ten years ago this spring to stand,
first, as a central bureau of information
for club work, and secondly, flor the Or
ganization of new clubs in districts most
needing that form of social enterprise.
The executive board will hold its meet
ings at the New Willard Hotel today from
10 to IL am. tomorrow from 10 am. to IL
pm, and Sunday from 4:30 to pm.
Entertainment Program.
The delegates last evening visited the
Congressional Library, this morning the
Capitol and this afternoon at 2:3O the
Pre- sident and Mrs. Roosevelt gave a
special reception. to the party at the
White House. Later in the afternoon an
automobile ride about the city will be
taken. Tomorrow morning the White
House will again be visited and likewise
the State. War and Navy and the Treasu-
ry buildings and the Washington Monu
ment
Tomorrow afternoon will be spent in a
trip to Mount Vernon. by boat: Sunday
morning the delegates will visit Airing
ton, and in the afternoon they will visit
the Corcoran Art Gallery.
There will be two public sessions of the
league. one tonight at Carroll Hall on G
street near 10th street northwest, and one
tomorrow night in the ballroom at the
New Willard Hotel.
This evening at Carroll Hall. Father
William T. Russell of St. Patricks
Church will speak on the topic.
THE True Lady" and Oscar s.
Dor. on Government Investigation" while
his excellency WI Ting-fang. the Chi
nese minister, will speak on THE Chinese
View of the American Woman"
Music will be provided by the student
choir of Howard University.
Of Interest to Clubs.
The meeting Of the executive COM
mittee last night was devoted largely to
the discussion of several subjects of spe-
cial interest to the clubs themselves.
among them the cultivation and develop
ment Of social intercourse between the
members Of the clubs and their male
friends in a way that will be pleasant
and free from objection. and the question
whether, in factory centers, clubs shall
be formed limiting their membership to
one factory, to the exclusion of the girls
at other kinds of employment. A COM
mittee of five was appointed to formulate
general requirements adherence to which
will make club eligible to membership
in the league.
The clubs themselves are self-govern-
ing, although as rule they are under
the guidance and supervision Of COM
petent person who sees that they do not
depart from the fundamental principles
laid down by the league for club men,
bership. The clubs are. in turn. either
members Of central group, or associa-
ton. or independent in their character. but
all are expected to be members of the
league itself. The meeting of the execu-
tive committee today was private, the
stated by the secretary, ito the budget"
The delegates to the convention and
their friends who accompany them are
| CHARTERED at the National, the Metro
headquarters are maintained by the off,
GERS of the league at the New Willard
Hotel, where most of the officers and
members of the executive committee are
The officers Of the league are very
| anxious to have it thoroughly understood
that the purposes Of the league and
Serious and o se
Of the condition of the working girls and
women Of the country. both in a social
and an educational way. There is no dis
position or attempt made at any time
to direct religious training, but ethics as
applied to the social side of the life of
these woman workers are ever kept fore
most in every part of the leagues work.
Officers Of Association.
The officers of the association are:
President. Mrs. Henry Ollesheimer, New
York city: treasurer, Mrs. Harriet M.
Laughlin, Brookline Mass; secretary,
Miss Jean Hamilton. Oswego. N. Y; local
secretary for New York and Pennsyl-
vania. Miss Elsie La Grange Cole, AL
bany, n. Y: business manager Of the
Club Worker, Miss Florence Sibley, Phil
adelphia, Pa.
Executive board, Mrs. Henry Ollesheim-
er. New York city: Miss Edith NJ. Howes,
Boston. Mass; Miss Laura NJ Plat, Phil.
adelphia, Pa: Miss Virginia Potter, New
York city; Miss Jessie V. Budlong, Provi-
dence. r. l.: Miss Helen Dawson, New
Britain. Conn: Miss Anna L. Ward,
Waterbury, Conn: Mrs. E. c. Henderson,
New York city: Miss r. Elizabeth Arens,
Baltimore, Md: Miss o. NJ E. Rowe,
Boston. Mass; Miss Louise Congdon,
Providence, r. l.: Miss Elizabeth Wilson
Fisher Philadelphia. Pa: Miss Emeline
Street. East Haven, Conn.,; Miss Agnes
u ILL.,