New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-03-30
WOMEN TALK MISSIONS
Nearly 5000 at Luncheon in
Various Hotels in City.
MRS. MORGAN ENTERTAINS
Following Conferences at the
Colony Club, Jubilee Spreads
All Over Town.

The Mission Jubilee spread Al over NV
city Yesterday. lr the morning there were
conferences at tho Colony club, at inc
home Of Mrs. James Tolman Pyle. No SO
Firth avenue. and at hhc Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian Church and thc Calvary Nap-
fist Church. ~ O'Clock SIX thousand
women sat down 10 missionary lunches. ~"
ono establishment was able 20 accommo-
date them. 50 they divcded th"mscivcs into
i've luncheon parties. AZ tho rlazs, the
Waldorf-Astoria and the Hotel Aston II
was estimated that nearly six thousand
women had luncheon AT the various places.
At the Aston they monopozcd the Bel
vidcro. the Laurel Room and the grand
ballroom.
"Ycs'm. Zoo IN all" assorted the mead
waiter. proudly. tho largest luncheon t"e
Hotel Aston over served
Mrs j. Picrpont Morgan with guests
was at ono table, and Miss Helen Gould
had a party near her There were jonGul'S
on all the tables and later ice-cr"am an
peared in souvenir baskets Of yellow. tho
Jubilee color. and forGct-me-rots. choir
of forty bows from 50. Thomas's Church
was grouped around an organ IN the bal
cony. and sang several times during the
programme
They were the only masculine features
allowed IN tho rooms Except tho Walters.
It was said that il Mrs j. perpont Nor
gan had wanted TO bring her husband she
would have been refused permission though
he might have been allowed in one Of the
boxes to hear the speeches after the lunch
cen. along with tho missionaries husbands
and ono reporter.
Although the monu was an elaborate and
complicated affair. il was simplicity itself
compared 10 tho schedule which had 10 he
arranged so that all the prominent women
orators in tho jubilee could make after
luncheon speeches at ell the various lunch
con parties
Mrs Helen Barrett Montgomery. the
dynamo OF tho Jubilee" started in at the
Italian Garden Of the Hotel Plaza with
six-minutc speech Then She went TO the
main dining room. where she came second
on tho programme, having hcon preceded
by Mrs. Howard Taylor.
Mrs. Montgomcry's Tour.
Thence She flow down Fifth avenue -
Tie Waldorf-Astoria whore sixteen hun
dred women had already listened TO threo
other speaker who were then on their
way TO the other gathering.
From tic Waldorf-Astoria she jumped
ia the Hotel Aston. whore Sic arrived
hreathess after the gathering had sung
only ono verso Of the hymn. They had
started 10 kill time while waiting for her.
The speakers who had been first Al tho
Aston came last on the flaza s FRO
gramme. and Mis- Florence Miller. VINO
had been third on tho Astor's programme.
VAS third from the end Al the Plaza. not
having had 10 stop in tho middle Of hor
journey A. the Wsldorf-Astoria.
Miss Grace H. Dodge vas presiding At
tie tstor. and the first speaker had been
China. Or. MARY ~ Noble. from India,
Miss Florence Miller. from China, pea-
cones. stewart. vino has been in America
only one month ON her return from china.
and Mrs Wallace Radcliffe, who ia not
missionary. but lives in Washington.
They had all tod of tho great need FOR
money and service ~ foreign lande, and
described details ~ their work Then
cano Nre. montgomery. who had 10 mount
. chair I'm order that all might hear her
for by this tNne both caileric- overlooking
&c ballroom werc crowded. She made a
speech which broueh; MISSIONARY work
right into tho AROMA of the modern
vomap.e" much-ialkcd- of vorationS
"Ner York IS wonderful she began
..',,, ono " ite most wonderful 'hinGs IS
the precious memory of our Ms. Dorcmus.
Who started the miss iorary work Of voni-
on. What is thcro IN Nov York that means
more IN tho womanhood ~ &c world than
this inheritance Of woman Who IN 'he
dav= Of little things caught vision If the
u.holo vide world