Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-21
Plans Are Made for Convention
of General Federation of
Clubs in New York.
SESSIONS TO BE IN ARMORY
Governor Whitman and Mayor
Mitchell to Address Delegates.
Many Social Events.

%.'''."h" NNenbtrst OF american OrEuni-
cations. hesdcs delegates from Canada
cuba and England. will gather 10 talk
over great questions % the day 1t
| is tho biennial convention OF tho Gen
"rai Federation Of womcn's Clubs. born
| In this city twenty-six years ago.
! The 400 clubwomen OF New York
| City have made preparations to re-
ceive the visitors and look out for
| their welfare while here. The great
seventh Regiment Armory has been
! fitted Up cozly. y big electric sign
on the front will beckon the delegates
from afar. Roomy, comfortable seats
have been placed on the immense
parade door. These have been ar
| ranged TO insure safety, under the
direction of Lieutenant Waldron, Of tho
New York city fire department First
! aid stations TO take charge of women
! falling ill suddenly have been estab-
| lishcd at several points.
Despite the immense numbers If the
visitors and Of their hosts, everything
is expected to run like clockwork un-
der tho efficient direction Of Mrs. Will
liam Grant Brown, chairman Of the
biennial board Of the federation
Special parties will he AT railroad sta
tons and ferries 20 welcome the vls,-
tors. literally with open arms, and
escort them to their quarters An in
genious system has becn devised by
which any member wanting something
can find one of the committee assigned
t" the work III question. All the visi-
tors will wear blue badges and all the
h"stcsscs who arc not assienod to a
special committee. yellow badges.
C0LORS or TIE: BADGES
TO DESIGNATE COMMITTEES
Members of badve will
wear red ribbon; art. golden: advisory
lavender: budget. orange: bureau of
information. the New York colors vel
low and blue: decorations. turquoise
blue: distribution OF literature. sand:
drama, bright green: emergency. physi-
Clans green: excursions. rose; finance
sage green; furnishings. silver gray:
halls and headquarters. cerisc: hospi-
tality, purple: hotels Alice blue; house
| light green: local tickets of admission
hoard canary yellow: luncheons, palc
pink: music. American Beauty rose:
platform courtosics, old gold; state
headquarters, olive green: supplies,
orchid: transportation, button with yell
low Strcamers: ushers. pale blue; utili-
ties. raspberry; visiting clubwomen,
black and white; press, navy blue with
white letters.
Bands OF intelligent and gentle
manly Boy Scouts will be used TO guide
tho visitors {" the greatest sky
scrapers. Grants Tomb. the Metropolis
tan Museum Of Art and other points OF
interest.
In the five days the convention will
continue. almost every important topic
of interest 10 women will be discussed
! The federation is not a political orEani-
cation. but most of it's members are
enthusiastically for woman suffrage.
The great war, Mexico and the presi-
Dental election will be discussed
Other subjects will be: art, civics. home
economics, conservation, industrial and
social questions. literature and library
extension. public health the press and
music
Mayor John T. Mitchell and Governor
Charles $. Whitman will speak to the
delegates on Wednesday evening
There Will he numerous receptions
lunchcous. music recitals and other So
cial features.
The New Jersey Federation Of
womcns clubs will entertain 500 Of
the visitors. and on the day of this
jaunt Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas a. Edison
Will receive them at their home. The
Congressional Union will give Il gar
den party at the country home Of Mrs
Coleman du Pont, at Great Neck. l.. l.
The steamer Mandalay will take the
delegates from Battery Park to the
dock AT Great Neck. temporary
stage will he erected on the lawn
Speakers of prominence will discuss the
present status of the Federal suffrage
amendment.
MRS. JOHN HAYS HAMMOND
WILL GIVE RECEPTION
Mrs. John Hays Hammond has ar
ranged for a reception to the visitors
at the Metropolitan Museum, and also
Will entertain the presidents OF all the
State clubs at IL luncheon.
Miss Margaret Wilson. daughter of
the President. will be the guest of
honor At an evening session Of the
convention. The Colonial Danes Of
New York will give reception To the
visiting DANES. There will be be-
twccnsessiOn excursions to Concy
Island and one after the convention to
Canada.
An interesting but not exciting fea-
ture Of the convention will be the
election of new officers. Mrs. Percy V.
Pennybacker, the president, has an
nounced she is not candidate for re-
election. She has served two terms
and is remarkable parliamentarian
and diplomat. whose place will he hard
to fill. II is thought her position will
go to the efficient vice president of the
federation. Mrs. S. r. Sheath.
Severe black suits will not be the
Earb Of the clubwomcn. That idea
of the woman who does things is gone
The delegates to the great convention
are avowedly Interested I'm styles, and
many of them Will combine shopping
trips with their work for the fedora
tion here.
For the benefit OF the convention, a
special fashion show has been ar
ranged in Madison Square Garden. Re
sides thousands Of specimens Of the
most modern and up-to date modes, and
moving pictures to illustrate them,
there will he unique exhibition of
wax figures dressed in The styles of
long ago.