The Washington herald., 1913-06-15
women GATHER
TO AID cause
Sufragists from All Over the
World in Congress at Buda-
pest to Discuss Plans.
u. S. WELL REPRESENTED
Congress Will Open with Religious
Service Conducted by DR.. Anna
Howard Shaw.

tons, distinguished in many walks of
life, crowd Budapest today, preparatory
to the opening of the International wom-
an Suffrage Congress tomorrow. The
delegates from China and India are at
tracing much attention from the natives
Of Budapest, but these delegates, who
are attending their first congress, do not
seem to resent the attention they attract.
French, English, and German are to be
the official languages of the convention.
For the benefit of those who do not
speak any one of those languages the
Budapest woman suffrage committee has
supplied number of young women
linguists, who are conversant with all
known tongues. For months these young
women studied industriously that they
might guide the visiting delegates about
and interpret for them.
American women are to take a leading
part in the congress. The Rev. Dr. Anna
Howard Shaw, of New York. will open
the convention tomorrow morning with a
religious service held especially for the
delegates. In the afternoon the Congress
will be formally opened and in the even
ing a reception will be held. Monday
morning the business meeting will occupy
the delegates followed by carriage drive,
through Budapest in the afternoon and a
reception in the evening.
Congress Ends Saturday.
A public meeting is to be held on Wed
nesday evening, at which several Ameri-
can women representing States in which
the vote has been won, will speak. The
convention will come TO an end on Satur-
day. After the business of the congress
has been ended the delegates, before their
departure, will enjoy several excursions
to interesting points about Budapest
Among da1apafaS MrS
Carrie Chapman Gait, president of the
Equal Suffrage Alliance; DR.. Anna How
ard Shaw, Mrs O. H. =. Belmont, Mrs.
Maude Nathan. Mrs William Tod Hell
muth, and Mrs Henry Willard. of New
York; Jane Adams and Mrs Bowen. OF
Chicago: Mrs. Stanley Sweet, of Roch-
ester. n. Y: Miss Runtz Reese. of
Greenwich, Conn; Mrs. Crystal Eastman
Benedict. of Milwaukee. Wis. and Miss
Anna Maxwell Jones, of Texas.
Official State delegates are Mrs. Fran
els H. Munds, Arizona; Miss Elizabeth
Barnes, Oregon; Mrs. W. D. Wright.
Idaho: Mrs. B. F. Perkins, Wyoming,
and Miss Laura Grover Smith, Cali
fornia.
Among other prominent persons to at
tend the congress are the Comtesse
Emilia de Pardon Bazan, Of Spain, one
of the most famous women novelists of
writer; Lawrence Housman, the English
writer; the Marchesa Elena Lucifero,
enc of Italy's most famous orators; An
ME Flora Steele. president of the
Women Writer'S Suffrage League: Kier
Hardie, the English labor leader; Mrs.
Charles Lees, Mayor of Oldham, Eng
land; Catharina Won Rennes, the Dutch
composer: Mia Hla Dung. a leader of
the Buddhist women of Burmah, and
scores of others. The Chinese women
have presented the congress with a BAN
ner. bearing the inscription:
Chinese woman's Slogan.
Let US hold together for We are work
ing for the same ideals
Officials of this city have taken great
interest in the congress. The city coun-
cilors gave 5000 crowns toward enter
:ainment of the visitors. The Board o.
Trade gave 800 crowns and the board
of agriculture 1000 crowns. The post
master general has arranged to give al
of the women employed by his depart
ment holiday on Monday that they may
attend, and the department of education
has done likewise with the teachers.
While the congress is in session the
International Mems League for Woman
Suffrage will be in convention, the sec
ond which it has held. Sir John Cock
burn, Prime Minister of Australia, who
was elected 10 the Cnalr at the last
convention, will preside.
The event of the year 1913" is the
way a Hungarian newspaper writer re-
ferred TO the congress. Certainly it is
the most remarkable demonstration of
the spread of the suffrage movement.
Among the countries represented by dele
gates are: China, India, Persia (these
three for the first time), Australia, Aus
tria. Belgium, Bohemia, Finland, Dem
mark. Great Britain, Holland, Norway,
Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland,
Servia, Bulgaria, Germany, Turkey, the
Argentine Republic, Hungary, Brazil,
Spain. France, Canada. and the United
States
Delegates Meet in Berlin.
The convention opens in the great
halls of the Redoute, a building beau
tifully situated on the banks of the
Danube. Budapest has been trying for
some time to win the congress. but
had failed until recently. The cities
i'll which congresses have already been
held include Washington. Berlin. Lon
don, Copenha gen, and Stockholm.
All of the delegates and visitors to
the congress meet in Berlin on June /
3 by invitation of the German Woman
Suffrage Association, the Prussian
Woman Suffrage Association, and the
Woman Suffrage Association of Berlin.
Receptions were given the visitors
after which all left for Budapest, stop
ping in Dresden, where the party was
entertained by the Saxony Woman Suf-
frage Association; at Prague. b.
hemia. where the Bohemian Woman
Suffrage Committee entertained, and
at Vienna, where the Austrian Woman