Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-24

of the State is being represented
by Miss Mary e. Bakewen. Miss
Bakewell is vice-chairman of the
Pennsylvania branch of the National
Woman's Party and was one of
those who helped organize the State
for suffrage in 1911, 1912 and 1918.
Miss Bakewell was the second presi-
dent of the Pittsburgh suffrage or
ganization and the first woman to
convention in 1912, on which occa-
sion the Republican party of the
State came out for suffrage. The
Democratic convention also invited
Miss Bakewell to speak a fortnight
later and endorsed votes for women.
She is one of the presidents of the
Mothers Pension Fund of Allegheny
county, is a member of the Execu-
tive Committee of the Urban
League, a member of the Twentieth
Century Club. the Civic Club. the
Peoples Association of Penra"lva-
mia, the National American :. ON
ems Trade Union League and other
associations. Miss Bakewell is the
great granddaughter of Benjamin
Ba.kewell, whose Pittsburgh glass
factory was the first one west of the
Allegheny Mountains. and grand
daughter of the Rev. Henry A
Bordman. long a noted Presbyterian
divine of Philadelphia.
Hard Campaigncrs
Miss Kate Heffelfnger. of Shamo-
kin. is descended from the Harrises
of Harrisburg and has been working
for many days in the city. She has
had charge of the table in the Penn
Harris Hotel lobby. and has con-
tributed valuable work toward the
parade to-day. In addition to her
work in Pennsylvania she has or
ganiZed in Virginia, and has assisted
on many occasions in the Wash
ington work.
Miss Julia Emory, of Baltimore,
Maryland, a national organizer, ar
rived in Harrisburg Monday after
noon and began Immediately to as
sist Mrs. Lawrence Lewis. She or
ganized in Maine in the fall of 1918
during the Republican and Demo-
cratic state conventions. Also she
organized a prison special meet
ing in San Antonio, Texas, in 1919.
She has lead various deputations to
Congressman ard cabinet members,
and went with the women munition
workers to ask President Wilson
to use his influence with United
States senators in having a favor
able vote on the Susan b. Anthony
amendment.
Miss Caroline Katzenstein is exc
cutive secretary of the Pennsylvania
branch of the National Womars
Party, and opened the first suffrage
headquarters in the State in 1910.
Since that date she has devoted her
entire time to State and national
as far as the Pacific coast.
Miss Mary II. Ingham, State chair
man of the Woman's Party, has been
actively identified with various suf-
frage organizations, and is a leader
in the civic and social life of Phila-
delphia. She is the granddaughter
of the Secretary of the Treasury un-
der President Jackson, and for sew
eral years was head of the woman's
at the banking firm of
William P. Bonbright and Company
in Philadelphia. Miss Ingham came
to Harrisburg the latter part of
May, ten days before the Congress
of the United States had finally pass
ed the Susan B. Anthony amend
ment.
lees Granddaughter
Mrs. Archibald r. Harmon, of
who is the grand
of General Robert E. Lee,
is chairman of the Sixth Congress
sional district of the National Wo-
mans Party. For many years she
has been an officer in the w. G. L. U.
and for weeks past has been assist
ing in the ratification campaign at
Harrisburg.
One of the features of to-day's
parade will be a replica of the Lib
erty Bell which was moulded in
1915 and used extensively in the
campaign that year.
Mrs. Charles Wister Ruschenberger,
of Strafford, bore the entire expense
of making the bell, and has lent 1t
on various occasions in suffrage
campaigns. The clapper is bound.
and will not be loosened until the
women of the nation are enfranchis-
ed.
Among prominent suffragists who
motored from Philadelphia is Mary
A. Burnham, whose beautiful car
was decorated with purple, white
and gold pennants
The committee in charge of the
parade are two Harrisburg women,
Mrs Mabel Cronise Jones, president
of the Central Pennsylvania Woman
Suffrage Association, an organization
affiliated with the Woman's Party,
and Mrs. J. Sharon Macdonald.
chairman of the lobby committee OF
the Womars Party. The Central
PENNSYLVANIA Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation, which was founded in 1911
with Miss Mira Dock as its first pres
ident, now numbers about six hum
dred members and has kept alive
suffrage sentiment in Harrisburg ard
nearby places since the date of his
birth.
800 at Jubilee
With nearly three hundred of its
active workers from all over the
State as its guests, the Pennsylvania
Woman Suffrage Association cele-
brated the ratification of the national
suffrage amendment by the Legisla-
ture with a victory luncheon this
afternoon in the ballroom of the
Penn Harris hotel.
The room was profusely decorated