Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-05-18
Associated Press)

NIL w OANAAJ A'A@ T he club women of the coun- try, two and a half millions of whom are represented in the General Federation of Wom- ems Clubs, have perfected a plan for the greatest conVen- ton in the history of the fed eration in New York this month.
 The dates are May g, to June 8,
 During those seventeen days it is expected that fully 10000 women representing
 clubs in every state in the Union, as we'll as some from Alaska, Japan, England, Ha- waii and South America, will attend many of the innumer- able meetings and social functions that have been ar ranged.
 New York City this year is said to nave more than 800 different conven- tions on it's calendar but from all in ,dcations none will equal in attend ance the gathering of women. Special sentiment is attached to the women's convention by the fact that although the Federation was founded here 26 years ago, it is the first time since then that the women have met in New York
 It was Jennie June" Croly, one of
 he founders of the Sorosis, the pio neer woman's club in this country, who initiated the idea of a general convention of women's clubs in lS89 and the outcome of this was the hold
 ng of the first convention of the gen eral federation in New York in the following year when 63 clubs were rep resented by 126 delegates and the So rosis was hostess.
 Chicago, Philadelphia, Louisville, Denver. Milwaukee, Los Angeles, St. Louis, St. Paul. Boston, Cincinnati, San Francisco and Chicago again, have been the convention cities in the order named. The forthcoming convention, he thirteenth, will have SOrosis again as it's hostess, in conjunction with the New York State and City Federations which are working their hardest to make the gathering nota ble one in every direction.
 The main drill hall of the Armony of the Seventh Regiment of the New York National Guard, which will ac- commodate upwards of 5000 women, will be the principal meeting place. | The Colonel's room and other officers quarters will be turned over to the for headquarters. The Armory S located at 66th St., occupying an | entire block between Lexington and | Park avenue.
 The chief executive is Mrs. Percy V. | Pennypacker, the president of the fed | eration, whose home is in Austin, | Tex, but who for the past two years las been travelling throughout the country keeping in personal contact with the activities of women's clubs. She will not be candidate for re- election this year, however, and the question of her successor will be one of the most important items of busi- less during the convention. The two for the offices are Mrs. Samuel B. Sheath, of Tiffin, O., and Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowles, of Los An 5eles. The Ohio candidate is at pres 9nt first vice-president of the federa- ion, and is club woman of wide ex- )erience. Mrs. Cowles, whose name las been put forward by the California has also been prominently identified with the federation several ears as director, treasurer and chair nan of various committees.
 In the words of Miss Lutie E.. 'tearns, one of the directors of the "the business of being a Tub woman is big business and is ,etting to be bigger business every lay" This is apparent from the laborate program that has been ar anged for the convention. The top