New-York tribune., 1921-02-05
Mrs. Chapman
Is Chosen Head
OF ClubwO1r1e1l
Brooklyn Wins Over Man
haitian i'm All-Day Elections
of Federation Members;
Mrs. Wood Is Defeated
Vote Stands 3O4 to 24O
New Leader Will Stick to
Conservative Program;
Noted for Philanthropy

Brooklyn triumphed over Manhattan
and the tradition that there should be
enc politics in the City Fetl was
strengthened in the victory of Mrs.
Richard M. Chapman for the presi-
dcncy of the New York City Federation
Of Women's Clubs yesterday at the
Hotel Astor
The opposing candidate was Miss
Mary Wood, of Manhattan, chairman
of the legislative committee of the city
and state federations. The vote
stood: Mrs. Chapman, 9o4; Miss Wood,
240.
Equal rights for Brooklyn" was the
watchword that carried the day. The
fear that Brooklyn women would secede
from the federation and form rival
union of their own, and the promise
made by many prominent clubwomen
early in the campaign that Brooklyn
should be given the presidency were
responsible for the victory of Mrs.
Chapman.
Mrs. Chapman Conservative
Mrs. Chapman, Immediately after her
election was assured, made it plain
that she would continue the work of
the federation along the old conserva-
tive lines.
~ have always been most interested
in the philanthropic, social, civic and
aesthetic work of the federation" she
said. ~ believe in political clubs and
want them to belong to the fedora
tion, because they have much to con-
tribute, but believe this election
means that the women do not wish to
have politics developed at the expense
of these other activities of the fedora
ton"
Mrs. Chapman is secretary of the
League of Women Voters, of Brook
lyn, and has been connected with the
Daughters of the American Revolution,
lyn Women's Club and Long Island
Council of Women's Clubs.
The process Of counting the ballots
lasted long into the night. At 8
o'clock the women were thrust out
of the grand ballroom on the first
floor to make room for dinner of
mere men, and, taking their furs in one
hand and their bundles of campaign
documents and programs in the other,
they were rushed upstairs to the MINI
rod Room. This chamber has seats for
about one hundred. There were one
thousand clubwomen.
The upper corridors seethed with the
indignant delegates until harassed
I 80 ha
house by ushering them into the larg-
est room on the eighth floor.
i Here they held forth until o'clock,
when the hotel mana cement inform d
them that they must again take up
| their wanderings. However, by this
time many of the delegates had heard
the call Of their starving husbands, at
home, and anyway everybody knew that
i Mrs. Chapman was elected (although
nobody could tell anybody else, of
course, until it was officially an
q few faithful dozens and the housing
problem was less complicated.
The federation passed resolutions de-
manding that the laws restricting the
night work of women printers be re-
pealed, and that the Law School of
Columbia University open its doors to
women. A resolution asking that ex-
soldiers be given preference on civil
service appointments was referred to
the executive committee.
Judge Thomas c. Grain, DR.. Frank
Moore, of the New Jersey State Re-
formatory; Mrs. Helen Louise johnson
Mrs. Helen Morrison Howie, Miss Rose
Mannus. of Holland, and Mrs. H. S
Prentlss Nichols were among the
speakers
The complete ticket elected with Mrs
Chapman was Mrs. Stanley Lyman Otis
first vice-president; Mrs. Charles D
Hirst, second president; Mrs
Helen w. Ritchie, third vice-president;
Mrs. James McCullagh, recording secre.
tary; Mrs. William Whitaker, corre-
spending secretary; Mrs. Fred Hixon
Baldwin, treasurer, and Mrs. Otto
Kempner, historian.