The Alaska citizen., 1916-08-07
NOTED WOMAN
 WILL SPEAK ON
 TUESDAY NIGHT
MISS MILDRED H. LANE WILL LECTURE TO WOMEN
 OF THE CITY.

Miss Mildred II Lane who is among the tourists who are stil. in Fairbanks. has consented to lee ture to the women of Fairbanks Tuesday night in the district court room Her subject will be The Place of a Womans Club in a Com munity" The lecture will start at o'clock sharp.
 Miss Lane consented to lecture at the request of the program com mittee of the Woman's Civic club of Fairbanks The lecture, how ever. is not for the members of the club alone, but for all women. Therefore all who are interested are invited to be present,
 Miss Lane and her travelling com panion. Miss Denniston, arrived in Fairbanks Thursday on the steamer Yukon and are stopping at the Shaw House during their visit in Fairbanks
 When interviewed as to her work in the past, Miss Lanes story was indeed an interesting one Immedi- ately after graduating from college Miss Lane entered into the field Of Industrial Investigation, paying es pecial attention to the conditions of women and children, and she has been engaged in this line of work ever since Most of her work in the past has been carried on in eastern Pennsylvania but this spring she spent most of her time in the State of Delaware investigat
 ing the conditions of the laboring women in that district, with the idea of getting information to draft a bill to be presented to the state legislature This bill was to i'm prove the condition of women in the factories of the state and to provide for a vocational education for children, and the establishment of trade schools in various cities.
 Miss Lane has spent the past five years talking before women s clubs and other social organizations in the east, trying to better labor conditions in every way possible. start for Alaska she stopped in Cincinnati and spoke there, with the idea of increasing the member ship of the Consumers League of Ohio. Miss Lane is the eX-secretary of the Consumers League of Penn sylvania
 Miss Lane is not making her visit to Alaska with the plan of speaking in every town she visits, but is here on a vacation tour She states that Alaska is one of the most interesting places she has ever visited during her many trav- els. She did not come in as mem Der of the Grand Belt Tour, or of any other tourist party, as it is her opinion that no one is able to get the real spirit of a country by seeing it from the deck of a steam boat
 Miss Lane endeavors to make a several days stop in each place she visits, and tries to get at condi- tins as they really are. She in tends to visit the creeks in the vi cinity of Fairbanks, and wants to see how the different industries of the camp are carried on. When she has seen enough of this region, Miss Lane intends to go out over the trail on one of the auto stages.
 Miss Lane and Miss Denniston have already paid an extensive visit to some of the regions along the southeastern coast. They had the opportunity of visiting the Porcu- pine and Rainy Hollow mining coun- try along the coast, and stayed l there for nearly three weeks.
 The way in which Miss Lane hap pened to visit Alaska is an inter esting one. On returning from a trip to Europe in 1912 she told her travelling companion that the next | place she would visit would be Alaska This spring she had a va cation for a while and concluded to carry out her promise, and so began to make preparations for the trip. She tried to get information | in the east as to travelling facili 1 ties in the north and could find out absolutely nothing about conditions here Finally while in Washington to consult with the Congressional Union of Women's Suffrage, she wis ited every department that had anything to do with Alaska, and at last appealed to Delegate Wicker sham for information, and he told her of the interesting trip over the trail to the coast, and she decided at once that this trip was the one she wanted to take
 Autoists Opposing