New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-18
HAPPENINGS IN THE RANKS OF THE WOMENS CLUBS

The Elmira College Club OF New
York Mrs. George NJ. Robinson, presi-
dent, will hold it's twenty-seventh an
nual luncheon on Saturday, April "a,
in the ballroom of the Hotel Plaza.
The principal speaker will be DR.. John
Finley, State Commissioner of Educa-
ton. The Rev DR.. George Alexander.
of the University Place Presbyterian
Church, and others will also speak.
The luncheon is in charge of the enter
tainment committee, Mrs. Frederick
Hamlin Mills, chairman, Mrs. George
A. Page, Miss Amelia Davis, Mrs.
Byron A. Kilbourne, Mrs. Julia Roe
Davis, Mrs. George NJ. Sicard, Mrs.
Charles Douglas Shrady, Miss Maria
b. Cantwell, Miss Edna b. milford,
Mrs. Harold A. Earle and Miss Fanny
NJ. Sweet.
The first annual breakfast OF the
Beethoven Society Mrs. James Daniel
Mortimer, PRESIDENT will take place
next Saturday in the grand ballroom
of the Waldorf-Astoria. The reception
will be held at II o'clock, followed by
the breakfast, which, in turn, will be
followed by dancing. A programme
will be rendered by the Eugene Cowles
Quartet and Mrs. Charles d. Lithgow,
soprano.
The guests of honor will be Mrs
William Tod Helmuth, Miss Florence
Guernsey, Miss Helen Varick Boswell,
Mrs. Eugene Grant, Percy, Rector
Stephens. Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Osborn
Smith, DR.. Simon Baruch, James D.
Mortimer and Clark NJ. Rosecranz.
New York County Woman Suffrage
Association, Inc. Mrs. Nellie B. Van
Slingerland. PRESIDENT, with its affili-
ated leagues. held protest meeting
against the Bewley-Thompson cannery
bill. which heightened the hours of
women and children to twelve a day.
The following resolution was sent to
Governor Whitman by this associa-
ton:
ave. the New York County Woman
Suffrage Association, Inc, have unanl-
mously voted to appeal to your excel
lency to veto the vicious Bewley-
Thompson bill, which permits women
and children TO work seventy-two hours
a week, instead Of fifty-four hours, as
provided by the labor laws in other in
dustries.
Grace betterment is our argument. II
women are to produce better genera
ton we must at once conserve their
forces and, at the same time, those
of the children who will be the fathers
and mothers of the next generation.
Criminals and degenerates are lncreas-
ing. and TO prevent this we must re-
move the cause. That a farmers wife
can work twelve hours a day and live
is no argument in favor OF twelve
hours a day for women and children IN
the canneries. The farmers wife plans
her own work, conserves her forces,
has no one to speed her up, and eats
wholesome food. The cannery woman
is under the speed up impetus, and
the results have TO be checked on in
cashable figures every night with a
starving family gnawing at her heart
strings and long idle months IN pros
pect. ~
being coined into cash in their part OF
tho desperate struggle TO make the
most of their time are being moulded
into detectives and criminals, unit for
parenthood.
eve therefore pray you, Governor
Whitman, that you will not sign this
bill.
New York County Woman Suffrage
Association, Inc.
"NELLIE b. VAN SUNDERLAND"
The Governor has replied that he
has taken the letter under his consld-
Grafton.
The Eclectic Club, Mrs. Florence
Guernsey, president, held meeting
Wednesday at the Waldorf-Astoria.