Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-09
GREAT BIENNIAL OPENS
Special Trains Bearing Thousands OF
Women Reach chieaso-Texas Dele
CATION Arrives, With Bob Lee, Pom.
eranian Dog, az Mascot, For Suffrage
Plank.

CATION Arrives, With Bob Leo, Pom .
eranian Dog, az Mascot, For Suffrage
Plank.
Chicago, June e-Everything "all set
for the greatest gathering OF women
the world has ever known. Last night
Mrs. Percq v. Pennybacker the presi-
dent Of the General Federation Of Wo-
mems Clubs and Mrs. George Bass.
chairman Of the local biennial COM
mittee. announced that the final de-
tails of the arrangement for the mon
ster biennial gathering to be held IN
the Audftorium theeter from today tu
the 18th have been completed. Three
general sessions q day will be held for
eight days, beginning tomorrow and
! innun1erable smaller departmental
meetings.
Miss Kate O'Connor, chairman Of the
biennial transportation committee. es-
timated that some 1000 Of the 10000
delegates expected at the convention
arrived in the city yesterday on special
trains and in small delegations, and as
this is the last day before the regular
business sessions of the convention, it
is expected that 5000 more delegates
will arrive during the day.
Yesterday morning the. Texas special
discharged hundred or more women,
all stanch supporters of Mrs. Penny
packer, and determined to put her in
the presidents chair for second term.
Mrs. Henry 3. Ball, president of the
Texas Federation Of Women's clubs,
headed the delegation. Whether Mrs.
Pennybacker will favor suffrage res
olution. the Texas women refused to
say.
The Lake Shore special. which bore
the hundred or more club women from
New York state to the Chicago meeting
due to arrive here at o'clock, was
more than half hour late, but the
eastern women. armed with umbrellas,
interesting packages that bulged at
queer angles. and knobby luggage, did
not let that fact ruffle their tempers.
ooh, we're so warm" declared Miss
Mary Garrett Hay, chairman Of the
woman's suffrage party Of New York,
wiping the Precipitation from her face,
which beamed good nature and kindli-
ness.
Where are your Lake Michigan
breezes that we have been hearing so
much about? Icame to Chicago to cool
off. We were practically promised
summer resort weather, and find a
smoldering furnace. But I've no time
to worry about the weather. Where is
my trunk? I'll have to locate that the
first thing"
And off she scurried.
well, Bob Lee, you never were SO
nI1 q,
sympathetically asked tall, handsome
| woman as sheetook a handsome Pomer-
anian dog from the arms of the grim
ming porter.
Bob is months old" she explained.
Hes won many blue ribbons. but this
is the first travelling he has done. and
1t is absolutely his first club experience.
However, he is a good mascot for the
suffrage resolution at the convention.
am going to take hin to the sessions as
soon as the weather coois of. It's too
warm for anything but human being
| to go to club meeting now.
II shall make my headquarters at the
Congress hotel, and Bob and shall re-
tire to our room there whenever the
discussions or the weather get too hot
for us"
Bob Lee stretched himself out lazily
on the station platform. He was not
inclined to enthuse over suffrage or
anything else. Mrs. T. Ashley Dent, his
owner, is delegate here from the
Cameo club Of New York City.
The leading cfubwomen Of New York
state have come to be present at the
J convention Mrs. Frank Shuler. presi-
dent Of the New York Federation Of
! Women's Clubs; Miss Florence Guern-
sey, president Of the New York City
| Federation Of Women's Clubs: and Mrs.
William Tod Helmuth. a leader among
the pioneers In New York state. were
comfortably installed in the Congress
hotel, the headquarters Of the New York