Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-28
CLUBWOMEN TO AID
WILSON MEMORIAL
Federation Ind0rses Proposed
Tribute to Deceased Mis-
tress of White House.
APPLIES TO CONGRESS
FOR FEDERAL CHARTER
Mrs. Archibald Hopkins Suggestion
of Block of Model Tenement
Houses Is Approved.

determination 10 WORK earnestly loi
the early erection of a block of model
tenement houses in Washington as a
memorial for Mrs. Ellen Wilson. as
proposed by Mrs. Archibald Hopkins.
chairman OF the District of Columbia
section of the woman's department of
the National Civic Federation. was an
nounced last evening by the District
Federation of Women's Clubs.
Efforts to obtain a federal charter for
this memorial are now being made. Mrs.
Hopkins has the assurance of Senator
James of Kentucky, who has introduced
a bill for federal charter, that he will
bring the matter up in the Senate at the
earliest possible moment and Representa-
tive Underwood has promised to take
charge OF the same resolution in the
House
Clubwomen of the District heard the
plans for the memorial explained and
were shown the architects drawings at
two meetings yesterday by Mrs. Hop
kins. At the lecture meeting held in
the auditorium of the Public Library
yesterday morning the wide scope of the
social and civic center in this proposed
model block was described.
Other Details Outlined.
Further details of the architects ar
rangement of the numerous branches OF
the memorial. such as the day nursery.
the municipal wash house, the library
and clubrooms. the emergency hospital
and lecture hall, were explained. as we'll
as the scheme by which funds are to be
raised. at a meeting of the executive
board of the District federation at the
Raleigh in the afternoon.
Mrs. Ellis Logan. president OF the
federation, presided at both sessions.
The executive board voted unanimously
to indorse the project and to pledge the
organization to active work in sup
port of the effort. as well as to con-
election. Mrs. Logan said after the
meeting that it is the determination
of the clubwomen to push the project
to the utmost of their ability The
federation represents more than ..soo
clubw omen in thirty-f1ve organizations.
In the course of her address Mrs. Hop
kins stated that she is a lifelong resi-
dent of Washington and that during
all her life she has never seen first
lady of the land who gave herself In
personal active service for the poor
and suffering of Washington as did
Mrs. Wilson, and 1t Is as a monument
to this service that the memorial Is
to be erected.
Per Capita Contribution Proposed.
1t is proposed that the District Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs shall make
a per capita contribution to the memo
rial fund, and an entertainment is soon
to be given for the fund as an express
sion of appreciation by the clubwomen
of Washington for Mrs. Wilson's CO.
operation and example.
BY the action taken yesterday the
District federation has taken the lead
among the clubwomen OF the whole
United States in support of the Mrs.
Wilson memorial project Other fed
erat1ons have expressed their inten-
lions OF supporting the work, but
Washington women were the first to
take definite action.
Mrs. Hopkins pointed out last night
tndt the two young women who are
architects for the Wilson Memorial are
now In Chicago explaining the memo
rial plans at a conference of civic
and social settlement workers. These
young women have just won the COM
petition for designs for the Neighbor-
hood Center in Chicago.
Mrs. Hopkins Makes Statement.
There is a mistaken belief in the
city that we want to do away with the
alleys and throw the inhabitants of
them into the streets unprovided for"
declared Mrs. Hopkins before the meet
ing yesterday afternoon. What we
want to do is to convert all the alleys
INTO minor streets of about forty feet
In width, and to have them lighted
and made clean and decent. Some peo-
PIE also have theory that the poor
dont care; but the poor do not live in
alleys by preference, but because they
have to-"
TWO new women's clubs. the Stanton
POLITICAL Study Club and the Takoma
Park Civic Study Club. were unani-
mousiy admitted to the federation at
the meeting yesterday afternoon.
Nine Lydia Mountford of Jerusalem
gave talk on her museum of articles
from the Holy Land