MRS. DAVID FRANCIS, FRESIDENT OF
WOMAN'S CLUB, ST. LOUIS.
t T.nt'is M:iw 12. (Special Cor-
S respondencc.) May 17 will be a
I memorable day for women at the
World's fair, for upon that day
the General Federation of
Women's Clubs, an influential body with
an enormous membership throughout tho
country, convenes In annual session at the
World's fair. Thousands of representative
women leaders In society, literature, clvio
Improvement work, temperance and other
lines of endeavor for the elevation of the
race are expected, and the rest of the
week will be devoted to their meetings and
the elaborate social functions arranged in
their honor by the World's Fair Board of
Lady Managers and by St. Louis society
women.
The ceremonies are to be held In Festival
hall, the pictorial heart of the exposition.
On May 19, when Mrs. Dlmlcs T. Dennlson,
president of the federation, will unveil a
beautiful bronzo tablet commemorative of
the acquisition of the Louisiana territory
and will present it to the exposition in be
half of the Federation of Women's Clubs.
The tablet Is In tho permanent section of
the Palace of Fine Arts. The response
will be given by Prof. Halsey C. Ives, chief
of the fine arts department of the World's
fair. President Francis of the exposition
will deliver an address of welcome In Fes
tival hall. Among the distinguished women
announced to speak at the session ure Miss .
Jane Addams of Hull house fame, Mrs.,
W. E. Flschel of the Wednesday club at
Bt. Louis and Mrs. May Alden Ward.
Lady managers will tender a luncheon to
the delegates of the General .Federation,
and. In the evening there will be a special
electric display .in honor of the guests of
tho exposition. Between 4 and 6 o'clock the
members of the clubs belonging to the
Louisiana purchase states will be at home
In their respective state buildings.
The rooms in the Board of Lady
Managers' building are eminently adapted
for purposes of hospitality. There Is a
pretty little tea room daintily appointed. ,
Tho grand salon Is furnished in the ornate
style of tho Louis Qulnze period, with gilt
sofas and chairs upholstered in splendid
tapestry. The walls are hung with silk
damask of a soft, yet vivid, green, and are
ornamented with mirrors which aro real
antiques, as Is much of the handsome
furniture. It Is In this apartment of
spacious proportions that ceremonious re
ceptions will be held.
The Board of Iady Managers have
planned many notable functions. Not only
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fares each, or $100,000 $166,000, all told, for
the railroads. The returns to the hotel
and other entertainment purveyors will be
much larger, even if the convention lasts
only three days. This will be its minimum
length, no matter bow peaceful Its delib
erations. Figuring the hotel and other expenses of
the 24,400 people who will run, rrport and
attend the convention at $10 a day each,
the total will be $732,000, and the grnnd
total of money paid to the railroads and
the city will be $8'J8,000. Accepting this total
which is under the probability, even
Should the convention bo a short one us
correct. It will be seen that the money put
tip by the city and the railrouds to run
the convention proper Is less than 10 per
cent of the returns. In this light the la
Vestment doesn't seem foolish.
It la not possible to estimate the probable
cost of reporting the convention so simply.
These figures, kindly furnished by General
Manager Melville E. Stone, show how much
tt cost the Associated Press to report the
various conventions of 1896:
Republican 8.200 83
cmocratlo 12.6D0 74
opullst and silver 6.600 00
Gold democrat J, 820 15
Total .$31,221 r?
Aa there will probably be only two big
eoventloua this yejur, and toe republican
Women's Clubs
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MRS. ROBERT J. BURDETTE, VICE
PRESIDENT OF THIS O. F. W. C.
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MRS. DANIEL MANNING. PRESIDENT
BOARD OF TADY MANAGERS, ST.
LOUIS WORLD'S FAIR.
will they entertain the federation, but the
Daughters of the Revolution, the Colonial
Dames, the Daughters of the Confederacy
and other societies. Twelve beaut ful
entertainments will be tendered the visiting
clubwomen by prominent society wome.n of
St. Louis. One of the most artistic will be
a garden party In Shaw's Garden, which is
an ideal place for an open air function.
This is the famous horticultural garden of
St. Louis, which for many years has been
tho city's most notable point of interest.
Mrs. Robert J. Burdette of Pasadena,
Cat., is vice president of the General
Federation of Women's club and Is a
woman of unusual force of character. On
the evening of May 17 she will preside at
the meeting. As Mrs. Dennlson waa an
nounced her Intention of declining to be a
candidate for re-election, Mrs. Burdette Is
a strong candidate for the presidency of
the federation. She has a powerful rival
in Mrs. Sarah Piatt Decker of Colorado.
The New York federation represents
thirty-five women's societies and has for
Its president Mrs. Dore Lyon, who Is editor
of "Tho Clubwoman," the magazine dedi
cated to the Interests of women's clubs.
She is permanently connected with the
convention, at leant, will be a short one,
the Associated Pres.i will probably be culled
upon to expend not more than $20,000 In
convention reporting. It takes about ten
stenographic reporters and fifteen corre
spondents and editors to cover a conven
tion for the Associated Tress, and, as the
figures given above show, the cost of con
vention reporting la in direct ratio to the
length and strenuousness of the gathering.
Nearly all the big dally newspapers of
the country depend upon the Aassuclated
Press for their routine convention reports,
though some receive them through other
sources, and there are at least 100 that
send from one to ten or fifteen people of
their own to the convention city to do
special stunts of one sort and another. At
a low estimate these papers will upend
$100,000 for special reports, telegraph tolls,
photographs, etc. Besides, there will be
special expenditures, extra wires, private
messages and the like along telegraphic
lines, quite outside the newspaper service,
of at least $10,000.
To recapitulate, the Itemized cost of a
three-day nutional convention will be about
as follows, at the least:
Convention expenses proper, paid for
by the railroads and the convent Ion
city 75,000
Railroad fare uf delegates, alur
nates, Hergeanl-iil-:irms' "ui. "i
tlon stuff," news -in i,, uHlii :.!
Committeemen him tiers in :!.
miscellaneous das-- c MoO people
In all) at $15 e-ich ,'no
Railroad fare of iio.ooo "visiting at
tendants" at $5 each 10(
p" 0--.
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MRS. MARY WOOD SWIFT. PRESIDENT
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN.
MTSS FLORENCE IIAYWARD, CHAIR
MAN OF 1'llhSS COMMITTEE:, G. F.
W. C.
exposition, being the assistant secretary of
the New York commission.
Mrs. May Alden Ward Is one of the best
known of New England women. For thiee
years she was president of the New Eng
land Woman's Press association and ths
Cantnhriga club, and is now president of
tho Massachusetts Statu federation. As a
lecturer and author Mrs. Ward stands pre
eminent. She is also one of the Mas
sachusetts commissioners to lha World's
fair.
Many women's clubs will meet at the ex
position during the season. Among these is
the Woman's Press club, one of the prom
inent organizations of New York, with
Mrs. Phoebe A. Ilunford as president.
Many well known writers are members of
this club.
The National Council of Women has ar
ranged to have headquarters In the Wom
an's building, which Is located near one of
the main entrances of tho exposition.
The convention proper of the National
Council will not bo held until October 24.
Mrs. May Wright Sewall, who is president
of tho international society, goes to Berlin
In June to preside over the qulntennlal
In that city.
Hotel and other expenses of 24.400
persons, Including all visitors, those
who run and those who report the
convention, three days, at $10 a
day each 732,000
Cost of reporting the convention;
$10,000 for Associated Press: $10,000
for rival news associations, and
$100,000 for individual newspaper.. 120,000
Extra commercial telegraphing and
sundries 10,000
Total $1,103,000
This grand total of $1,103,000 for a tlireo
day convention is at tho rate of $.,ti7,333 a
day, or about one-third as much as it
"cost to carry on the war with Spain.
It was different in the early days of the
republic. Only the cxponses of opening
the polls and counting the votes were
necessary In the election of George Wash
ington, which was unanimous; none at all
for bis nomination, for there was no other
candi late; and next to nothing In the
campaign which had to do with the candi
dates for vice president only, of whom there
wore eleven. But with the birth of po
litical parties the cost of nominations,
campaigns and elections began to grow.
The cost of nominations took a big jump
when the older, simpler ways gave place
to the modern method of nomination by
convention.
The first national convention to nominate
a successful candidate for the presidency
was held by the democrats seventy-two
years ago, after seven chief executives had
been placed in the presidential chair.
Washington, John Adams and Jefferson
were recognized "by common consent" as
appropriate candidates. Madison and Moo-
Fair
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MUS. LII.IAV IIOLL1STER, crTAimrAH
NATIONAL COUNCIL Ol' WOMEN.
Mrn. Mary Wood Swift of San Fran
Cisco, president of the National Council
Is distinguished for her tact and abllltjf
to handle large liodies of women. MrtV
Lillian llollister, the chairman, has an Ina
ternatlonal reputation as a platform
Speaker and Is possessed of marked execu
tlve ability. Mrs. llolllrter Is one of tha
finest parliamentarians in the United
Btates.
On June 14 tiie Daughters of the Amer
ican Revolution will attend the exposition
and will make their headquarters In tho
Woman's building. Mrs. Charles K. Fair
banks, the wife of Senator Fairbanks,
is the president. She is an elegant and
lntolleetu.il woman and is a well known
authority on parliamentary law, In tha
Study of which she wns greatly aided by
her husband. Mrs. Fairbanks shines in
tho drawing room or on the platform, being
equally at homo in earli sphere.
Another woman prominent In the Daugh
ters of the American Revolution Is Miss
Marion Brazier of Boston, who founded
tho Paul Jones and the Bunker Hill so
cieties. Miss Brazier Is a member of six
teen organiz itlons, mostly patriotic, and
the editor of "The Patriotic Review."
The United States Daughters of 1812 IS
another patriotic association which has
a large following. It was founded by
Mrs. Flora Adams Darling, who was also
Instrumental In the organization of tha
Daughters of the American Revolution,
and Inherits her patriotic proclivities, being
a llneul deseendent of Samuel Adams. Mrs.
Darling appointed Mrs. William Gerry
Slude as president of the Daughters of
1811 and later on she was confirmed by tha
society. Mrs. Hlade Is a woman of great
personal magnctlHm, Is a power In club
dom and a member of fifty societies, mostly
patriotic.
The Colonial Dames, with" Mrs. Claiborne
as president, are scheduled to arrive Oc
tober 14. They nre a lino body of women
and the dtscondenls of tho men who hold
official positions under tho king, George
III, prior to tho revolution.
Although the Woman's club of St. Louis
Is a local and social organization, It Is
a power among the women of the city, and
will do much entertaining. The representa
tive women of St. Louis are members,
Tho president Is Mrs. D. It. Francis, wlfa
of the exposition president. Mrs. Francis
fills the position with grace and dignity,
la quiet ond-reposeful and quite at home In
a society environment.
COUNTESS DE MONTAGUPJ.
roc were nominated by tho "congressional
caucus" method. In W2, though there was
only one party, there wero six candidates
John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson,
Henry Clay, William A. Crawford, John
C. Calhoun and Do Witt Clinton. All of
these were nominated by their home legis
latures, and Crawford, whoso very nam
has now been almost forgotten, was en
dorsed by the "congrefisiouul caucus," but
John Quincy Adams wus the winner at
tho polls. In 1828 Andrew Jackson was
nominated, flrn by the Tennesseo leglslaa
tura and later by the legislature of Ken
tucky, while John Quincy Adams was made
tho opposing candidate "by common con
sent" and the endorsement of various
bodies, none of which were national In
character.
Strictly speaking, the first national po
litical convention was held in 1830 by tha
anti-Masonic party. Delegates from only
ten states attended, however, but In 1831
tho party held a second convention and
nominated William Wirt. In the sanio
year the national republicans, afterward
known as whlgs, held a national conven
tion and named Henry Clay. The first
really efficient and well-organized national
nominating convention was held by ths
democrats In 1832, and it nominated An
drew Jackson for his second term.
It 'adopted the two-thirds rule, which
lias been followed by the democratic party,
In Its conventions ever since.
Though this rule has never been adoptad
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