Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-05
NAWLEAGUE ROLL
HAS $4,000 WOMEN
Membership Includes Leaders
in a Great Variety of
Other Movements.
SUFFRAGISTS AND "ANTIS"
FIND 1T COMMON GROUND
Heads Of Many Patriotic Societies
Have Enlisted for Work of
the League.

The membership of the woman's
section OF the Navy League has in
creased to $1,000. hundreds of the
members being women Of national
prominence In all lines Of endeavor.
according to q report read at the meet
ing of the executive committee, held
at the national headquarters of the
section in the Southern building yes
terday
The committee considers that the best
possible proof Of the appeal Of the
woman's section Is to be found in a
list selected from the sections mem
bers. Among the members of the
woman's section are twelve presidents
Of women's national organizations,
with a combined membership of sew
eral millions. including Mrs. William
Gerry Slade, New York, president gen.
eral of the Daughters of 1872; Mrs. T.
Reynold Hall. Philadelphia, president
Of the Society of Sponsors; Mrs. o. H.
p. Belmont, New York and Newport.
president IT,, OF the ro1itioai Equality Equality
president general Of the United Daugh-
tiers of the Confederacy; Mrs. William
Cumming Story, president general OF
the D. A r.: Mrs. Cara Rogers
Daughters Of the Revolution; Mrs. E.
B. Sherman. Chicago. president of the
Danes of the Loyal Legion; Mrs. A.
NJ Dodge, New York, president of the
National Woman's Association Opposed
to Woman Suffrage: Mrs. Charles H.
Masury, Danvers. Mass, president Of
the Daughters Of the Union; Mrs.
Sarah E. Fulton. Rochester, n. Y.
president of the Womans Relief
dent of the Ladies of the Grand Army
of the Republic. Marine City, Mich;
Miss Frances Whitaker Baker, daugh-
ter of Representative J. Thompson
Baker. Wildwood. N. j., national presi-
dent of the Children's Auxiliary of the
Woman.s National Made in U. S. A.
League
Otner Names on Roll.
Among the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution who have signed the
membership pledge are Mrs. Matthew
T. Scott, former president general and
now honorary president of that organ
ization; Mrs. George Thatcher Guern-
sey, state regent of Kansas, who was
q candidate FOR president at the last
election: Mrs. Charles Warren Lippitt,
Mrs. Henry NJ Bowen Of New York,
Mrs. John A. Logan, widow of the IA
nous civil war general; Mrs. Mary S.
Lockwood, chaplain general. who was
Mrs. George Gedney, state regent of
New Jersey: Mrs. Emma Crowell. state
regent Of Pennsylvania: Mrs. John w.
Swift. vice president general from CAL
ffornia, and Mrs. w. w. Wallis, state
regent of Louisiana.
From woman suffrage ranks, the
wonan's section has as mem bers, Mrs
Medill Mccormick Of Chicago, chair
man Of the congressional committee of
the National Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton: Miss Lucy Burns, vice president
Of the Congressional Union for Woman
Suffrage: Miss Katharine Baker of New
Jersey; Mrs: Genevieve Clark Thomson.
daughter OF Speaker Clark. and Miss
Hill, daughter Of Representative E J.
Hill Of Connecticut, member Of the
executive committee Of the Congressional
Union.
From Ranks Of the "Antis."
From the ranks of the "antis" are
Mrs. A. NJ. Dodge Of New York, the ma
tional president Of the opponents Of
suffrage; Miss Alice Hill Chittenden,
state president Of New York; Mrs. A.
]. George. Brookline. Mass. field sec
rotary Of the Woman's Anti Suffrage
John Balch, president of the Massa-
chusetts Anti Suffrage Association.
Among the woman authors who are
members are Mrs. Larz Anderson. Mrs.
Gertrude Atherton, who is great
Rrandniace of Benjamin Franklin; Miss
Molly Eliot Seawell. Miss Natalie Lin
coin, editor of the D. A. r. Magazine,
and Miss Marion A. Longfellow, grand
daughter of the poet.