New Britain herald., 1915-08-04
Women of New York Start to
 Organize Their Own City Club
Positively the Only Way That the Weaker Sex Can Make Themselves Heard in Civic Matters, Says
 Member of Organizing Committee

' l ant city official, of course. If she l Were not woman we should hear I little of her.
 The plans of the woman's City 1 Club were briefly outlined by another
 committee member Miss Alice Car penter
 I We're starting out with the idea
 that city affairs can be assisted by i us, Women have worked separately Tor reform measures, but now we're going; to work together. We shall !, handle precisely the same sort of thing that the present City Club does. but be in no sense competitive. l. Relaxation Without Men, It seems to me rather better to nave two separate organizations, but my reason is on the side of club life, not in connection with the real pur- poses of the club. But in clubrooms where both men and women were permitted both would feel the res- traint, I'm afraid, and the reiaxa- ton sosenjoyabie in club would be missing.
 The City Club plans to do big things. We shall discuss and con- duct campaigns for big civic reforms puUilC ncdlCH, school affairs. We're going to have just really valuable people though we are not going to be at all aristo- cratic; we shall have a democracy of women who are doing things-one thousand such women. Our member ship will be limited and upon invita- tion, though applications will be con- sidered.
 ho tl,,h whole clubs, I believe, but we shall make for individuals. We're not go- ing to be expensive or de luxe, but we are going to do things for this city. A great group of big minded active, public spirited women can ac- complish wonders and our hopes are cry high for true serice.'
 The point has been pretty generally raised that now, at the very time when women are making their fight for the disestablishment of sex dis tinction in politics, they themselves instead of joining the men in the mems City Club, segregate them selves.
 But the men in the mems City Club definitely do not want us in," admits one member of the commit tee.
 And that's all right, too," says Miss Rose Young, for if we worked together, the women, following the old order, would be too likely to sit in silence. All segregated clubs train to self-expression. We can, perhaps, as women indicate our peculiar con- tributions if we work separately. In 3 collective group of twenty bright men and twenty bright women the women fall into the old habit of sil- ence in public affairs. and only the brave and trained women like Char lotte Perkins Gilman actually present their views
 Need Club for Social Ends.
 We definitely need a social club,' says Miss Frances Perkins, another one for women--social. just as the mems City Club is-and under those circumstances segregated club happens to suit our needs better We can run it ourselves, boss it. No club for both men and women (witness the National Arts Club can help be- ing more comfortable for the men concerned than for the women mem bers, whereas a segregated club for women, like the Cosmopolitan or the Colony, does produce the comfort wanted.'
 Mrs. Henry Bruere said: Of course we want a separate one. large democratic organization like the City Club would be unwieldly if both men and women of the city belonged to the same one. We are only following the example or Chi cago, Cincinnati and Boston in hav- ing two. I am particularly hoping that the new club will hold the great class of professional and busi- ness women who are the backbone of the women's movement