Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-08-01
FAMOUS EASTERN
LECTURER SPEAKS
HERE NEXT FRIDAY
Rev. Caroline Bartlett Crane, San
itary Expert, Will Spend
One Day Here.
FREE ADDRESS IN EVENING.
Chamber of Commerce and Wom-
ans Club Luncheon Sched-
uled for Noon.

Rev. Caroline Bartlett Crane, noted
Eastern lecturer and crusader on gen.
eral sanitary and civic conditions, will
spend next Friday in Olympia, in
specting conditions here and address
ing the people of the city and county
on civic and health matters, under the
auspices of the Olympia Woman's club
and the Chamber of Commerce.
Mrs. Crane, who is on tour of the
state under the direction of the State
Board of Health and the State Fedora.
ton of Women's Clubs, will arrive in
Olympia from Aberdeen at II o'clock
in the morning and will be met by a
representative of the city administra-
ton, the Woman's club and the Cham
ber of Commerce and will be taken on
a short tour of the city.
At 1915 she will be the guest at a
luncheon at the Mitchell hotel for
members of the Chamber of Commerce
and Woman's club, when she will make
her first address. She will make an
other and more complete inspection
tour of the city in the afternoon, and
in the evening will give free public
address to the people of the city and
county in the house of representatives
hall in the capitol.
The officers of the Womans club and
Chamber of Commerce feel very much
gratified that they were able to ar
range for Mrs. Cranes appearance here
and are urgently inviting the people of
the city and county to hear her. She
is close friend of Mrs. Overton G..
Ellis, chairman of the state fedora
tion's committee on public health, be-
ing associated with her on a national
health committee. Mrs. Ellis is &C.
companying Mrs. Crane on her tour of
the state and arranged for her visit
here.
Mrs. Cranes lectures touch on differ
ent phases of public sanitation and
liant efforts throughout the East have
won her the title of expert municipal
housekeeper." Her lecture tour Is COW
ering 10 cities of the state, Olympia,
Spokane, Ellensburg, North Yakima,
Seattle. Bellingham, Snohomish, Ev-
eerett, Aberdeen and Tacoma.
Concerning Mrs. Cranes visit to. this
state, the Western Womans Outlook,
the official publication of the State
Federation of Women's Clubs, said in
the current issue:
1T Is well to state that Mrs. Crane
is the sanitarian who took up with the
Taft administration the inefficiency OF
the department of agriculture In prop
erly protecting certain food supplies,
more particularly the great meat in
dustry Of this country, and it was this
investigation as made by Mrs. Crane
which stirred up much favorable and
unfavorable criticism of the methods
which had been in vogue
Mrs. Cranes work along sanitary
lines Is done thoroughly and fearless
ly. with full understanding of condi-
tions. ordinances and city and town re-
quirements. She criticises frankly,
but kindly, and the publicity given her
findings is of the greatest value to any
community. She has the faculty OF
rousing the public conscience, exciting
desire of citizens to know conditions
IN every part of the city in which they
live and in every institution supported
by the taxes which they pay"