Bisbee daily review., 1913-10-24
White Ribbons
 WaUe Ouer Big
 W, C. T. U. Host
Delegates from Many Lands Meet in Brooklyn at Ninth Triennial Convention

NEW YORK, Oct 25.-Nhite rib bons fluttered in Brooklyn today. Wom- en of every creed and station, wearing the snowy badge of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union attached to emblems from every land and from every State in the Union and every Province of Canada, gathered in the City of Churches" in readiness for the opening fthe ninth triennial con. yention of the Wolld's w. c. T. U.
 The arrival of the foreign delegates started the wheels of the convention activities. A glance at the register maintained at the convention head quarters gave evidence of the tact that the gathering is destined to be the most representative in character in the history of the worldwide organi zation.
 Great Britain and her colonies have crossed the seas. The delegation is headed by Lady Aurea Howard. daugh- ter of the worlds president, the Count
 
 impossible to come to the convention on account of ill-ealth and in her ab- sence the sessions will be presided over by her daughter Other promin ent delegates from England are Lady Hope, the leader of the movement for the establishment of coffee houses in England; Miss Agnes Slack. an hon. orary secretary of the worlds body, and Miss Annie Strinkie Cameron. who is worlds secretary of the Young Peo- ples Branch.
 Miss EHen NJ. Stone. the famous missionary who was captured and held for ransom by brigands in Macedonia, will sit in the convention as the rep resentative of Bulgaria. The Austra- Han delegation is headed by Lady Holder, the president of the organi- zation in that part of the world. Scotland and South Africa have sent good-sized delegations. and far-away China, Japan, India. Argentine and Uruguay will have their representa-. tiyes; also, many other countries.
 Historic Plymouth Church, the pull pit (which was occupied for many years by Henry Ward Beecher. was well filled at the preliminary devotion al services today, many men being present. The time was given up to brief addresses by many delegates. to one sentence prayers and to singing. Miss Elizabeth Greenwood led the ser vices.
 This morning the executive com mittee of the world'5uniOn met at the Hotel Brossert and completed final arrangements for the business of the convention. The sessions proper will begin in the Brooklyn Academy of Mu- sic tomorrow morning, when the dele gates will be welcomed by Mayor Adolphe L. Kline, Borough President Lewis H. Pounds of Brooklyn. and William 4. Marble, president of the Merchants association of New York. The sessions will continue until next Tuesday. Sunday will be the big day of the convention. On the morning O. that day the pulpits of many of the leading churches in Brooklyn and Man hattan will be occupied by prominent speakers attending the convention. In the afternoon a great mass meeting will be held in the Academy of Music in Brooklyn.
 The present year marks the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Woman's Christian Tempe-ance Union, which had it's origin in a gres. temperance movement which swept the United States in 1873 It was rot until some years later, however, that the worlds organization was formed under the leadership Of Miss Frances Willard. The first general convention of the Worlds ". C. T. r. was held in Boston in 1891 and ! the second in Chicago during the Worlds Columbian Exposition. Lon. don had the convention next in 1895, time Toronto in 1897, Edinburgh in 1900. and Geneva in 1863. It returned to Boston again in 1906, went to Glas- gov in 1910 and Brooklyn was SC lected for 1913.