Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-04-03
NAMED TO HANDLE
SUFFRAG|ST PLANS
Chairmen of Committees to
Arrange for Celebration
Here Are Numerous.
CONGRESSIONAL UNION
MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT
Workers Who Will Have Charge of
Various State Delegations
Also Picked

Chairmen Of committees in charge of
the various departments of preparations
for the suffrage congress and parade
here May 3, when delegates from every
state in the Union are to bring the
resolutions adopted at the state celebra-
uons May 2. and present them at
jubilee meeting in the Belasco Theater,
were announced this morning at Con-
gressional Union headquarters as fol-
lows:
Actresses, Fola La Toilette. daughter of
Senator La Toilette, and Mrs Mary Keal-
ty Clasett- advertising Miss Anna B.
Detweiler; artists. Miss Aline Solomons;
automobiles. Mrs. Frank Hiram Smell.
army-navy, Mrs. S. NJ. b. Young. chair
man. and Mrs Richard Wainwright. vice
chairman; bands. Mrs. William Kent, wife
or Representative Kent: banners, Miss
Lena Hitchcock: Belasco Theater meet
ing, Miss Mary Winsow, I'LL 18th street;
boxes, Mrs. Fay; business women. Mrs.
Barrett Rublee; children. Mrs. Carleton
Z. Williams: clergy. Rev. Olympia
Browne: clergymen preach sermons. Miss
Alice Lowe: closing stores. Mrs. John Jay
White: club women, Miss Flora Wilson
chairman, and DR.. Edith Cole. zoos Co
lumbia road vice chairman: college wom-
en-, Miss Eliza Hardy Lord. formerly dean
OF Western Reserve University.
Decorating stores. Mrs. Arvilla Mac
Donald: decorating theater. Mrs. John
Jay White; democrats, Mrs. George
Armes. wife of Col. Armes; dentists, DR..
Centenella Smith, chairman: DR.. Rosalind
Moore Balm. vice chairman: domestic
science teachers, Miss Emma Jacobs,
chairman: Miss Florence Espey, vice
chairman; farmers. Mrs. Emma Steed,
Rosslyn, Va; flowers. Mrs. Andrews;
friends. Miss Janet Miller; high school
girls. Mary Decker, 1898 Irving street:
home makers, Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley,
chairman: Mrs. Conner. 2114 Bancroft
place; hospitality, Mrs. Randolph Keith
Forrest; journalists, Mrs. Rachel Ton
gate Beck, the Portner.
kindergarteners, Miss Emily Car;
laundresses, Mrs. Marguerite Lincoln.
40 Sd street northwest; lawyers, Miss
Sheldon Jackson, graduate of Washing
Vance Cheney. 1884 Columbia road:
librarians. Miss Harriet Hilton, chair
man. and Mrs. Helen Frances Shedd.
vice chairman: mems section. DR.. Har
Wheeler; osteopaths. DR.. Helen F. Per
kins; paper box factory, Miss Elizabeth
Fairall; pioneers. Mrs. T. C Holmes,
1a4$ 8 street; posters, Mrs. Dorothy
Laura Graddick. 1897 !. street; progress
sives, Miss Dorothy Kerchey; regalia.
Miss Ruth Noyes, and registration, Mrs.
Walter w. Carter. the Dewey.
at Capitol, Miss Louise Puffer: sales
women. Miss Ina E. Courtney Gar
finkle's>; Sewing women, Mrs. Sisson, 643
street southwest; socialists, Miss Julia
Parks, 2463 9th street; social workers,
Mrs. J. P. S. Neigh; Miss Sophonisba
Breckenridge; slide in movies, Miss Louise
Stephenson, 2114 o street; taxpayers,
Mrs. John Jay White; teachers, Miss Vir-
GINA Arnold; transportation, Mrs. Susan
W. Boughton: woman voters, DR.. Cora
Smith King, treasurer National Council
of Woman Voters; writer's, Mrs. Marie
Manning Gasch: W. c. T. u, DR.. Corinne
Mccarthy.
Heads of Delegations.
Those who are in charge of state dele
cations are:
Alabama-Mrs. Lulu Francis.
California-Mrs. Charles w Bell
Connecticut-Mrs. George Wilcox.
District of Columbia-Mrs. Allender,
president District of Columbia Suffrage
Association.
Illinois-Mrs George Odell.
kansas-Miss Yoder.
Louisiana - Mrs. Estelle Willoughby
Ions.
Michigan-Mrs Dorothy Earle, 141o 21st
street.
Observation-Disclosures. Mary Emerson
Jackson.
Maryland-Mrs, Edna Latimer. the
Rochambeau.
Nebraska-Miss Joy Webster.
North Carolina-Mrs. E. st. Clair
Thompson.
New Hampshire-Mrs. Austin Kautz,
wife of Commodore Kautz.
New Jersey-Mrs. Albert Norton
Wood
New Mexico-Dr. Laura Hawkins.
North Dakota-Miss Cornelia Grams
South Carolina-Mrs. Kate Trenham
Abrahams.
SANDY spring-AIiss stabler, spen-
Tennessee-Mrs. Philander P. Clax-
ton.
Texas-Miss Violet Foster.
Wisconsin-Mrs. Carol Bird
Wyoming-Miss Estelle Hellman.
Plan for Conventions.
Denver convention, which will be called
Immediately after Congress adjourns.
and in the San Francisco convention,
when the main auditorium of the Pan
ama-Pacifc exposition will be turned
over to the National Council of Woman
Voters for three days, were made at
meeting of the District branch in the
home of Mrs. Frederick W. Clemens. in
the Albemarle last evening
A resolution was unanimously passed
to have the Bristow suffrage resolution
reported out at once by the Senate COM
mittee and instructing the legislative
committee to urge this action
The council passed a vote of thanks to
Senator Jones Of Washington for intro
d1cing the resolution in the Senate pro-
viding for memorial to women near
the Union station
Plans will also be made for the sup
port to be given during the four state
campaigns covering constitutional
amendment and three covering the ini-
tiative and referendum this fall
Mrs. Nina Allener was the speaker last
night at a meeting at s o'clock In the
home Of Mrs. j. C. Yoder 1925 Euclid
street. Mrs. Frank H. Smell and Miss
Eliza Lord are scheduled to speak to-
night in the home Of Mrs. Stella Nc
Duffie. 1914 Belmont street northwest,
at o'clock.
Activities of suffragists.
Miss Alice Paul. CHAPMAN of the Con-
gressionaI Union, who returned yesterday
from the Mississippi valley conference,
has received glowing accounts of the
preparations for suffrage day. May ., as
follows:
In Chicago a monster parade Is being
organized by Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout,
president Of the Illinois Suffrage Associa-