The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-21
IOWA FEDERATION
DELEGATES GOING
Women's CLUB VIII Send Representa-.
ties to Meeting Which Will
be Held In New
York.
TO START ON MAY %
Call for Meeting Was Issued In No
venber and Organizations
Members Arc Ready
For Session.
TO START ON MAY %

Member Of tho Iowa Federation of
Women's clubs are making prepara-
tons to send number of state off,
GERS and elected delegates to tho
biennial to be held from May 23 to
June inclusive, in New York City
and which will be one of the largest
gatherings of club women ever held
by the federation.
When the 1914 convention Of tho
General Federation OF Women's Clubs
was held in Chicago, New York sent
the joint invitation Of the New York
City Federation Of Women's Clubs
the New York State Federation OF
Women's Clubs and Sorosis, endorsed
by the mayor, borough presidents,
and the Merchants association, for
the 1916 convention to be held in tho
Empire city. This met happily with
the result of New York being chosen
the biennial city for 1916.
The November following, call was
sent out by Miss Florence Guernsey,
then president of the New York, City
Federation. to representatives Of the
hostess organization for a meeting ito
discuss matters pertaining to the con-
vention Of 1916" The meeting re-
suited in the formation of the New
York biennial board, whose officers
are: Mrs. Philip Carpenter, first vice
chairman; Miss Guernsey, second
vice chairman; Mrs. Benjamin Prince,
third vice chairman; Mrs. North Nc
Lean, fourth vice chairman; Mrs.
Thomas Slack, recording secretary;
Mrs. Albert C. Boge, corresponding
secretary; Mrs. John H. Griesel, treas
urer; Miss Eliza Macdonald, auditor;
directors: Mrs Eugene j. Grant, presi-
dent OF the New York City Federation
of Women's Clubs; Mrs. A. M. Palm
er, president Of Rainy Day Club Of
America; Mrs. John Francis Yawger,
president of New York colony, Ma
tional Society Of New England Wom-
en-; Mrs. Ralph. Trautman, president
Of the Health Protective league; Mrs.
Cornelius ]. Zabriski; Mrs. William
Einstein, president of the Widowed
Mothers fund; Mrs. Edward Balbach,
Mrs. Walter S. Comfy. president of
the Daughters of Pennsylvania in
New York; and Mrs. Thomas J. Vivi
an, president of the National Call
fornia club. Mrs. VIM. Tod Helmuth
was elected honorary chairman of the
board, with Mrs. Belle de Rivera hon
orary vice chairman; and by virtue OF
their respective Offices, Miss May Gar
rett Hay, General Federation director,
MIS-. AlD0rC II. ttll0reCu, PRESIDENT OF
the New York State Federation, and
Mrs. s. W. Sherwood, general fedora
ton secretary, are also membrs Of the
board.
Directors Arc Interested.
Never was a board Of directors
composed of more serious-minded and
capable women, and no matter what
the other demands may be, a call for
a meeting brings everyone to the bden-
NAL headquarters eager to do her part
in preparation for the reception OF
her expected 10000 sisters. The head
quarters Of the biennial are splendid
ly equipped rooms on tho mezzanine
floor at the Hotel Astor, where tho
office corps, headed by Mrs. William
Grant Brown, may be found from 9 q.
m. to p. m. daily. The board has
formed thfrty-four committees to car
ry on the work for ultimate Success,
each chairman being well-known
woman in clubdom, as wen as a spe-
cialist in the work Of the committee
to which she is assigned. All of these
committees, whether of ten or three
hundred members, are doing splendid
work
The art committee with Miss Anna
Maxwell Jones as chairman, who has
been long identified with such work
will hold daily conferences at Hotel
Astor and will guide its guests to mu-
seums, private galleries, and other