New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-21
Plans for General Fedora
ton Convention Which
Will Be Held i'm New
York Next Year.

The Iowa New Workers. Mrs. James
:. Clarksou, president, held a meeting
at the home OF Mrs. George Botsford
ON Friday afternoon. March II. Mrs
botsford was assisted in receiving by
Mrs. Henry Ludlam and Mrs. Frank
Noelbcr Among the subjects dis
cussed were The election to take place
IN April, the increase in membership
the dinner-dancc that is being planned
for some time after Easter and the
work OF the Red Bag Association. The
Iowa New Workers are helping this
work along by cutting. making and
filling $50 bags. In the absence Of
Mrs. George +. Watcher, Mrs. Roscoe
Roney Is chairman of the committee IN
'harGe of the work. The Society for
'iucal Study and the Daughters Of
Empire State are also interested
each Of these associations is going
B! a hundred bags.
ne Empire State League Of the New
York County Woman Suffrage Associa-
uon, Inc, Mrs. Frank |. Cohen, presi-
dent, gave q reception TO the presidents
and members of the league comprising
the county association in honor of is
newly elected president. Mrs Nellie b
Van SlinEerland, and TO meet Mrs. Jean
II. Norris. its honorary president.
Mrs. Norris spoke on the importance
TO women of carrying out the club
motto. Women judges, lawyers. proba-
tion officers. clerks, pohcewomen. etc,
for women's and children's courts
She also urged that all pledge them
selves TO write their Senators and As
scmblymen at Albany to support the
bill for this purpose. Miss Annie :.
Peck spoke OF the desirability of
mixed Jury. Il was reported that our
women straw hat braid workers were
being deprived of their work by the
Austrian men. who are not permitted,
in their own country, TO take this work
from their women, but are allowed to
do so in the United States. Mrs. Van
Slingerland appointed as a committee
20 investigate Nine. Beatrice Goldle,
Mrs. Frank I. Cohen and DR.. A. Joseph
inc Sherman.
The Rising Sun Suffrage League will
entertain the other leagues at the home
of the president, Nine. Frabasilis, q
West SiXty-frst Street, on April e, at
$3.50 p. m.
The speaker tomorrow evening at
the headquarters of the Political
Equality Association, Is East Forty
first Street. will be Miss Doris Stevens
Of the Congressional Union, and her
subject, Working for the Federal
Amendment" The meeting will begin
at $3.50. The public is cordially in
vited.
At the meeting Of the New York
Theatre Club, Inc. held Tuesday, the
10th, at the Aston, Mrs. Gordon Richie,
chairman of the day, presented the
Ho
To-day" 1t opened with a greeting
from the president. Mrs. Belle de Ri
vera. after which Roi Cooper Megrue,
author of "Under Cover" and at Pays
to Advertise" spoke on Drama" and
J. Stuart Blackton, president of the
Vitagraph Company of America, told
Of the adventures of the Vitagraph.
The vocal numbers were given by Mar
garet Mckinney and Blanche Arral, or
the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie,
Bruxelles; David Bispham read poem
by Turgenieff. with musical accountant
ment. and Elizabeth Beckett, Of the
Concert Company, gave interpretstlve
readings Of Mother" adapted from
Mrs. Browning's poem. and "The But
terfv." by Francois Coppee. Minnie
Marshall Smith gave three Rotations,
with musical accompaniment by Frank
J. Smith. Mr.. Smollens was the &C
companist for the other members.
A feature for the afternoon was the
presentation to the president, Mrs. de
Rivera, of a birthday gift Of watch
and chain. Mrs. Thomas Slack made
the presentation speech. The club viii
attend the matinee performance OF
"Polygamy" on March oath. There
will he the usual two scheduled meet
ings in April
As men have been admitted to as.
sociate membership in the National
California Club this year, some OF the
meetings arc being held in the even
ing. in order that they may attend.
The first of these took place last Tues
dav. the 18th, at o'clock, at tho. Wal
dorf-Astoria. Mrs. Wallace Munro,
chairman. opened the programme with
a foreword on the subject, which was