The San Francisco call., 1910-03-17
CLUBWOMEN PLAN
FOR BIG MEETING
Discuss Entertainment of Dele
gates TO Federation Gath
ering This Fail
Great Auditorium at Twelfth
and Market Streets to Be
Ready in Time

Ways and means were discussed al
the California club yesterday for the
entertainment of the federation OF
women's clubs. TO be held here in the
fall, should the present plans hold
good. The proposition 10 extend the
invitation at the biennial which meets
in Cincinnati May IL, is to be pre-
sented at the state convention scheduled
10 take place in the near future in
santa Barbara. A resolution was also
passed TO invite the state convention to
meet here in the fall. and arrange
ments were made for the sending OF
local club representatives to Cincinnati
in May to formally present the invita-
tion TO the coast
Portland has promised her aid in the
event of the federation agreeing to
come here in the fall. and the hotels
have also pledged their help.
Kirk Harris briefly addressed yester-
days meeting, over which Mrs. A j.
Orr presided The only objection to
the move so far has been the lack Of
2 sufficiently large auditorium to enter
tain a convention. This matter was
solved by Harris yesterday. who stated
that the building on the Van Bergen
property, at Twelfth and Market
streets. will be finished in August. The
auditorium, besides having all of the
other cOnVeniences necessary, in the
form Of committee rooms, etc, has a
seating capacity of $4,000, with room
for 5000 in the theater part alone.
Ha iris discussed the matter with Jim
COffroth and the convention viii be
able 10 secure it.
municipal auditorium is also TO be
built, according TO Henry Dutton, presi-
dent OF the Firemen's Fund. on the site
Of the old st. Ignatius college, so that
san Francisco will be admirably
equipped in future for conventions of
any kind.
Lecture on Fairgrounds
Laurel Hall club listened TO a lecture
yesterday afternoon by Thomas f.
Hayden on The Child, Schools and
Fairgrounds" in which he advocated
more room for play and open air school
rooms as well.
Other reforms along the line of more
practical teaching We're advocated by
the speaker.
Mms. Lueders sang a number of Ger
man songs, accompanied by Miss
Wilcox.
Little Miss Marguerite Edwards,
whose physical development has made
her well known, gave ar exhibition of
the methods of physical culture under
which she has been trained from baby
hood, her mother. who was her teacher,
explaining the various movements.
Irwin Advocates Suffrage
VIII Irwin. a magazine writer who
Is reVisiting San Francisco, explained
why he believes in woman's suffrage
at special meeting of the Votes for
Women club yesterday morning.
He said that he had never heard more
than one respectable argument against
woman's suffrage, and that was that 1t
was not worth while. This was the
reason given by Ida NJ TarbeIl for
being on the other side. Irwin dwelt
on affairs in Colorado. from which state
he said both parties had gained much.
He had studied conditions there with
care and acknowledged that the po-
litical aspect OF affairs IN Denver was
but slightly changed.
The gang still rules Denver" he
said, Just as the gang generally rules
san Francisco"
The fact that the laws affecting
women in Colorado are far ahead of
those of other states proved conclu-
siNely TO him. he said, that suffrage
was worth while there. The women of
the middle and upper middle classes in
that state he found as a general thing
rather bored at suffrage discussions,
plL ln6 WDrkfmR women, those who
were up against" the world, he found
keenly interested.
The greatest benefit to be gained. he
declared, from the immediate passage
of suffrage bill would be that it
would ''pitchfork the conservative
women. who think of little save dress
and babies. into the world"
They must learn some sense" he
said, learn to drop conservatism and
20 beyond those women who want ev-
erything as il was yesterday" He ex-
pressed his firm conviction that the
feminine mind would expand and
strengthen with the exercise now per-
Initted II, and voiced other cheering
thoughts as to the future of woman-
kind.