The Washington herald., 1913-03-02
5000 WOMEN PRAYING
FOR GOOD WEATHER
Organization Composed Of Both Suf.
fragists and Ants Has Sandwiches
Prepared for 10000.

The 5000 women who's comprise the
District of Columbia Federation of WON.
| ems Clubs, are praying Tor clear skie.
Tomorrow. when they hope by the sale
of sandwiches and coffee on the stree,
| and a hot lunch in the big tent adjoin.
ms D. A. r. Hall, in Seventeenth Street
to make several thousand dollars fol
their building fund.
A modern clubhouse is the desire OF
the federation, now composed of twenty.
two separate organizations as follows:
Aid Association for the Blind. Cafitol
Hill History Club. Chapter B. P. E. O.;
| Columbia Heights Art Club. Congress oi
Mothers, Woman's Christian Temperance
Union. District of Columbia Woman's
Suffrage Association. Evermay Club, Ex.
celsior Literary Club. Georgetown Indus.
trial Center, Housekeepers' Alliance. La
dies Union Veteran Legion. Legion OF
Loyal Women, Philo-Classics, PROBE.
Nata. Washington Alliance Of Jewish
Women. Washington City kindergarten
Club. Woman's Bindery Union, Woman's
| Clinic, Woman's League of the National
| Association. Woman's National Rivers
and Harbors Congress (Washington Sec
tion).
Temporary headquarters of the Dis
trict OF Columbia Federation is on the
eleventh floor OF the Woodward Building.
Fifteenth and H Streets, where all visit.
Ing clubwomen and others will be well
come during the week Of the inaugura-
tion, to rest, to attend to their corre-
spondence. or Just to visit Mrs. Ed
ward Olney. Miss Hill. and Miss Ford, OF
the ways and means committee, are host
esses at headquarters, and will serve tea
each afternoon. Tuesday evening from 8
to 10. the ways and means committee. in
vites all members of the Federation, with
their friends. and all other clubwomen
who may be in Washington. to a recep-
ton to meet Mrs William f. Andrews.
the president of the District OF Columbia
Federation of women's Clubs
The women of the various committees
are busy. not only with preparations for
the lunch on Monday and the. reception
on Tuesday. but In explaining to many
persons each day that the District of
Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs
IS not a suffrage organization. that the
headquarters in the Woodward Building
is not a suffrage stronghold. and that the
money realized from the lunch on Mon
day is not for the suffrage cause. but
for nucleus Of a building fund to build
a big clubhouse for Washington clubwom-
en-, to be used by all the federated clubs.
only one of which is a suffrage organi-
zation.
There are many individuals in the
federation who are ardent sufragists,
notably Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley. president
of the Housekeepers' Alliance, but also
many others who are just as ardent anti
suffragists.
Yesterday the managers who have the
sandwich sale movement in charge. pur-
chased 5000 loaves Of bread OF Hav-
enner's bakery, and Mrs. W. D. Bigelow,
who is looking after the making OF the
sandwiches. stated to representative
of The Washington Herald last night
that a hundred members of the clubs. and
their husbands. too. would begin at 10
o'clock this morning the sandwich max
ing, in a large bread room at Haven
ners bakery. specially assigned them for
this purpose by the courtesy Of f. Charl-
ton Graves, of Havenner's. Great guam
titles of ham and cheese will be used.
and the work of assembling and wrap
ping this unique sandwich supply will
continue all day.