The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-26
WOES MULTIPLY AT
WOMEN'S COUNCIL
Delegates Can't Hear Speak.
ers I'm Armory, but Rene
dies Fail.
FOOD SUPPLY SHORT TOO

Sever ask a New York clubwoman II
thirteen Is an unlucky number. She'll
tel you yes with a great big ~
After spending IS, 900 to decorate the
seventh Regiment Armory for the
thirteenth Biennial convention Of the
General Federation Of women's Clubs
III. local board nnds that the women
can't hear II they are sitting more thar
-,e rows back from the platform.
An effort therefore was made to hire
Carnegie Hall for the morning meetings
@. the convention. After Mrs. william
Gran, Brown. chairman OF the local
board. thought that she had IL all ar
ranged the club women were informed
ina, the hall could not be placed at their
disposal. SO now they will W. TO get
along as best they can with the accom-
modations afforded by the armory and
the Hotel ,lstor.
What Mrs. Elmer Black. chairman Of
the decorations committee. thought of the
,tiera'ion for thus letting her spend two
useks on n hall acoustically impossible
can't be sad. for she was not to he found
yesterday. BY nightfall there was Just
onc sweet smile left among all that ag-
g-egation OF women. and this WAS the one
NAT Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, the
president, continued 10 wear.
Biiiy sunday Causes Woe.
Taken all in all yesterday was a hard
4ay for the poor clubwomcn. The first
hllv was the discovery that Billy Sun
LAY had put one over or them" Billy
sunday. as advertised sons days ago.
'old the federation that he'd lend them
rs sounding board. and they took II for
/, anted II would he the famous one he
SGD IN the Paterson Tabernacle. 'the
neg, sounding board in the world" With
great pride Mn. Black had it mounted
Over the platform in the armory.
", inosday night a Paterson woman sat
IN the front row.
That's not Billy Sundays best sound
'rs board" she said to Mrs. Blake.
That's just a CASTOR one he had
Sorrowfully admitting that no one but
',cv. whitman could be heard on the
opening night. and he not very we'll.
though IN the excitement of the riot. AT
the entrance no one noticed particularly.
ne decorations committee got another
sounding board. ami yesterdays meet
he~ WV Nbl' VI NN6Nilk ~ u II
had 70 more effect than the toadstool, to
when Mrs. Penny hacker likened IL.
would have mad
Madam President" cried a woman on
me left, jumping up in the midst Of a
sveech she was trying to make, "half a
thousand women around me here have
raid good money 20 travel across the
continent ia his biennial and they
cant hear one word"
Delegates Grow Indisnaut,
Everybody Was cross a. wet hens be-
fore they got in anyhow because so
many bars were put In their way The
srenes Of the night before when hun
ireds tried TO crowd through four foot
doors all at once were repeated in a
smaller way. Local club women on
guard lost their heads and tried TO shut
cut lawful delegates. who held ipdiyna-
lion meetings on the outskirts.
RS shameful" cried Mrs. William
flrstein, who had had the doors shut
on her nose as she expressed 1t. 81
haze TO think what the Western papers
will say about us
Representatives OF the press also had
q hard fight TO get IN, and were driven
10 orawl through a secret entrance with
: in-ee foot high door that one OF them
fund y woman delegate broke in
through = window. to the great indigna-
lion o. he ushers on guard.
Mrs Brown began the day by giving
me New York women a good scoldinG
FOR TIER lack OF courtesy.' charging
them with grabbing the best seats away
rom the visitors. Miss Mary Garrett
Hay followed with a warning to New
WORKERS and 1crseyites to keep to the
galleries IN Carnegie Hall and let the
: es's haze the floor seats. She thought
p the time that the convention could
meet In carnegie Hall.
Mrs. P~ennybncker Experiments.
Then Mrs. Penny hacker tried to read
fel biennial report. and finding no one
con'i hear it amour ed that she would
!e''er II At Carnegie Hail to-day at
. \ ", thinking that Carnegie Hall had
been secured. and devoted herself 10 ex.
""TNnoutng with the acoustics of the
sruorl.
can The people At my left hear me-"
al inquired.
So >nrilled 500 voices.
IAN he people at my right hear"
S#@ demanded. raising her voice several
'o'rhes.
II Alla't do any good. Blocks Of the
'i4"oce Mere moved to vacant seats in
y" gallery on the theory that they
'"Ila hear a few words there. but this
'1 ~ help matters. At last. in de-
SPAR, they went on with the business.
Hi Ill over tho armory women. for
"9tcn :" protest audibly. ~wigwagged
.Hp'"rlhs hands, signalling that the con- |
"h'i"n they had come so far 10 hear
w." rs = song without words to them.
!N'I when the ventilating fans. hum
ming Ike huge bees overhead. were shu; |
'' 10 one could hear the speakers.