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X The Omaha PAST TWO WOMAN'S SECTION PAGES ONE TO TEN unday TART TWO EDITORIAL SECTION PAGES ONE TO TEN VOL. XLI NO. 9. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 1911. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. BOOM DAYS jNJEW CANADA Northwest Just Now Undergoing an Women Who Lead the Activities of the Gentler Sex in Ontaha Amazing Material Growth, , MANY NEBRASKANS ARE THERE Frank Crawford Write from Strata cons Concerning; What Bo lias V Witnessed Dnrtns a Long; Anto Rtde. Bee WHO'S WHO IN WOMEN'S CLUBS Kme. President of the Various Omaha Organizations Introduced. BUSY WOMEN WORK FOR OTHERS Well Kaowa Leaden la Sociology, Cnltsrre, Philanthropy, Pntrtottlo aad He'orm Endeavor and Other Activities. Th worn on' club will begin to meet to September. The members of th differ ent temtnm organisations will throw aside their vacation lassitude and pick up the thread of their activities where they dropped them laet June. Madam President will take up her gavel, Mrs. Secretary will get out her not book, each member will take her place In the doings of her partic ular chib and all will settle down to the serious business of carrying on club meet ings. Many kinds of clubs are starting up this fall etudy clubs; societies which give their time to social work, to temperance work, to patrlotlo Interests, and to philanthropic activities; organisations which are carried on to promote the interests of business women, secret societies and last but not least, the newly-pledged suffrage society clamoring for the ballot. The womsn's club movement In Omaha has assumed huge proportions. Truly, enough to make the masculine portion of the community stand aside and take off its hat. The women's clubs form a big army numbering several thousands of women. And If you wish to know who's who among them Just run your eye down the line of presidents which the different contingents have chosen to lead them for the coming year. Leader of tho Host. In the vanguard of the club movement Is Mrs. M. D. Cameron, president of the Omaha Women's club the most active, the most versatile, and ons of the largest of the women's organizations, which has since its beginning eighteen years ago dared anything and stopped at nothing In the Interests of the betterment of the life of the community. Mrs. Cameron, who is entering her second year as president, ' manages with, a marked dsgroe of tact the many Interests of ths club whlota are car ried on in the different departments house hold economics, literature, oratory, art, current topics, music, philosophy and social science. Another club which carries on interests in a number of educational lines is the Wo men's club of the Railway Mail Service, headed by Mrs. J. K. Blttlngor and com- ' posed of wives of members of the Bervlce. This club is entering Its thirteenth year. The oldest and most serious-minded of the study clubs is Mu Sigma which means "Little Learned." This club devotes Its time to the study of history and will enter its nineteenth year of work under the leadership of Miss May Rials. Another study club larger and younger than Mu Sigma and Interested In another line of work Is the Society of Fins Arts which will be headed next season by Mrs. Warren 8. Blackwell. Thin club meets In the publio library to study art, and Is so popular that the waiting list Is almost as long as ths membership. In addition to the study clubs there are several classes under the tutelage of Mrs. Ida Hanchett of Council Bluffs. On of . these classes studies French history; an other studies Persian history. For the Children. Miss Jennie Redfleld heads a study club which has a different object than self culture. This Is the Story Tellers' league, which for three years has studied methods for getting the right kind of reading mat ter into the hands of children. Miss Red field Is especially fitted to lead the league slnoa she has been teacher and principal In the public schools for many years. At the head of an organisation whose Interest Is In sociological problems of the day Is Mrs. Stephen E. Davies, president of ths Association of Collegiate Alumna, numbering half a hundred women college graduates. Mrs. Davies herself la an alumnae of the University of Chicago. The plaoe of local social work which the As sociation of Collegiate Alumnae Is speci ally Interested In is the social settlement on South Thirteenth which It started. The American Woman's league, which has been quietly getting a large member- L ship for the last three years. Is planning to do things under the, leadership of Mrs. W. B. Howard, president this season. This society la educational In aim, carrying on studies of many kinds by correspondence. Mrs. Howard Is secretary of the Esperanto society, correspondent of the V. 8. Grant post. Women's Relief Corps, and president of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, alumnae chapter. Business Womea's League. The business and professional women are beginning to organise. Mrs. Elizabeth Sears, who has had considerable experience In newspaper work and other lines of busi ness, heads the Business Women's league, started a year aco for the nurDOse or Dureu Mi correspondence study for the benefit of Us members. I. Abby Virginia Holmes U the president of the Professional Women's league started two years ago. The temperance unions take up much space In the army of club women. Mrs. I. 8. Leavttt heads the largest and oldest of the local bands of white rlbboners the Omaha Women's Christian Temperance union, which started thirty-five years ago. Mrs. Leavttt became Interested In temper anoe work when a school girl. She gives a share of her time to Installing mission ary societies throughout the state, for she is secretary of the north Nebraska con ference of the Women's Foreign Mission ary society. Four years ago some of the members branched, off from the mother union and formed the Frances Willard union, of which the new president is Mrs. C. J. Roberts. Ths youngest union is the West iftde. headed by Mrs. T. E. Brady. It is entering Its second year. Another of the younger organisations is the Woman Suffrage society, of which the head is Mrs. Charles I. VolLmer. This bsnd of suffragettes, whose slogan Is "Votes for Women." has already one of the largest societies In the state and is beginning to show that It is In earnest. Mrs. stabba' Record. Mrs. J. J. Slubbs Is regent of the largest of ths patriotio organizations th Daugh ters of the American Revolution. She Is amply able to stand at the head, for shs comas from a line of ancestors who took an active part In . getting this nation started. Her membership in ths Daughters of the American Revolution she holds from ths deeds of her ancestor, Mlcajah How, who was a Judge In Trenton, N. J., during the revolution. Through another forebear, Joseph Weld of Massachusetts, she is priv ileged to belong to the National Society of Coloutal Dames; through on John How, who settled In America early In th sev en leant century, she belong to th Na tional Boclety of Daughters of Founders rRcs.ir.'W.cjL. and Patriots; through Captain Isaao John son, killed at Narragansett fort In 1GT5, she Is member of the Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth century; through her grand father, Thomas Yardley How, who v.a3 military secretary to Alexander Hamilton during the trouble with France in 17 Ji, she Is a Daughter of 1S12. Mrs. Biubbs Is state registrar of both the Daughters of the American Revolution and Colonial Dames of Nebraska. Mrs. Kussell McKelvey is regent of the newly organized Major Isaac Sadler chapter of the Daughters of the American Revo lution and Mrs. George B. Darr heads tho Daughters of 1812. having been appointed to complete the unfinished term of Mrs. Her bert E. Gates, who began with the state society several years ago. The society al ready numbers six "real" daughters. Head of a ilocict Order, Mrs. Darr also heads the P. E. O. sUter- hood, one of the secret societies for women started in 1S89. Mrs. Darr s historian of the Daughters of the American Revolution and assistant leader In both the literature and the art departments of th Woman's club. Mrs. George Covell Is president of the Daughters of tho Confederacy, started six years ago, which has for its object the welfare of confederate soldiers and their families. Mrs. Covell is also an ardent tempsrance worker. She Is an organiser In th stat Woman's Christian Temperance union, state superintendent of temperance work and vice president of th Frances Willard union. The relief corps auxiliary to the army posts and having th welfare of the union soldiers as thetr Interest, number about 200 women. Th largest local corps Is that of Custr post, organised twenty-four years ago. Mrs. Ella Tasks Is president Mrs. R S. Wilcox heads the V. 8. Grant post oorps and Mrs. Mary McKay the Crook post corps. The head of the entire state organ ization Is Mrs. George B. Eddy of Omaha. Mrs. George Tlldcn will continue to be president of the Women's Christian asso ciation, which manages the affairs of the Old People's home. She has headed this organization so long that she cannot re member when she first became president. It was organised In 18X3. Mrs. TUden Is also president of the Toung Women's Chris tian association. She Is chairman of the educational committee of the Woman's club and Is president of Brownell hall alumnae. Jewish Women's Work. Mrs. J. Sonnenberg will enter her tenth year as president of the Jewish Women's Sewing society, which is one of the oldest charity organizations. Mrs. Sonnenberg, in addition to her activities at Wise Mermor lal hospital. Is a director of the Visiting Nurse association. Mrs. J. H. Harris will become president of the Jewish Ladies' Re lief society for ths fourth year. This so ciety was started seven years ago and numbers 200 members. The Needlework Guild will be headed next season by Mrs. F. A. Collins. . The VlMtlng Nurse association will have Miss Louis McPherson as Its president ths coming year. Sh has been secretary and treasurer In th association for many years. She Is also Interested In th Nurses' Guild, of which shs is an associated mem ber and takes part In th activities of the Fin Arts society and the Tuesday Morn ing Musicals. The Social Settlement as sociation will be headed again next season by Mrs. W. C. Shsnnon, who does not al low her interest In the Fin Arts society Tuesday Morning Musical and even In the Visiting Nurse association to interfere with her work for the Settlement. Headquarters for Grain Men Chosen Committee Alto Makes Plana for the Visitors in Omaha Next Octoher. The committee appointed by th advisory board of the Omaha Grain exchange to make arrangements for th convention of the National Grain Dealers' association has selected the Rom hotel for th head quarters, and has roughly mapped out a program for the convention that will need to be altered but slightly. The convention opens Monday, October t, snd lasts through Wednesday. The fore part of Monday morning will be spent In receiving registrations from the delegates, and in the afternoon a business session will be held. In the evening there will b some sort of amusement for the visitors, and on Tuesday morning the unfinished busi ness of the day before will probably be completed. Tuesday afternoon will either be spent in a tour of the city or an inspec tion of the grain elevators, and In th evening a banquet Is being planned. Ths program Wednesday will consist of th election of officers and the selection of the convention city for 1912. Thee plans are only a rough outline of th reception th visitors will reeeiva, and a th committee puts more effort Into Its task, th program will shape Itself Into on of th best ever offered th grain man In any city where they have over mat. Beo retary Manchester of th Oram exchange Is th chairman of th oommittoa. ,f- , i v i , 4 . , I . -- fCXASS' COLteoATZ AWHUAZ 2ZEe5.J.eJ.a5IOBB5 PRISON CONFERENCE PROGRAM Tentative Plans Are Hade for the Big Sleeting: to Be Held Here. WICKERSHAM IS TO SPEAK Will Represent President Taft on tho Program Governor Aldrlch to Welcome the Delesrates to the Convention. A tentative program for the convention of the American Prison association has been arranged. Arrangements . are. being made to secure more speakers and more accommodation for the visitors. While the convention of the American Prison asso ciation Is being held, a number of auxiliary societies will also hold their meetings. The convention will last five days, October 14, 15, 1. 17, 18. Tentative program of the American Prison association: Opening; Sosnton. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 14. 8 p. m. Presiding officer to be furnished by local committee. Invocation. Addresses of Welcome Hon. C. H. Aid rich, governor of Nebraska; J. C. Dahi man, mayor of Omaha. President's Address T. B. Patton, gen eral superintendent Pennsylvania State Reformatory, Hnntincton. Pa. SUNDAY. 10:30 a. m. Annual sermon. 3 p. m. Mass meeting, ten-minute ad dresses. SUNDAY EVENING. 8 p. m. Local pulpit to be supplied by delegates. 8:30 p. m. The Wardens' association will hold special session at Hotel Rome; ojn to wardens and superintendents. MONDAY. OCTOHER IS. 9:i a. m. The Natlonsl Wardens' asso ciation: Josp.ph P. Scot', superintendent of pr.sons or tne state or New yorK, Albany, to preside. Annual address of the pres ident, Mr. Scott. Discussion. 11 a. m. Report of the standing commit tee on prison discipline bv the chairman. t Henry K. W. Scott, warden New Hamp- shire state prison. Concord, N. H. Dis cussion. 2 p. m. The National Chaplains' associa tion: Rev. Charles M. Miller, chaplain Western penitentiary of Pennsylvania, Al legheny, Pa. President to preside. Auto ride about city, to be arranged by local committee. 8 D. m. Mr. Patton. Dresident. vresidino:. Report of standing committee on preven tion ano probation by the chairman. Prof Franklin H. BrlKgs. superintendent of the aiaie Agricultural and industrial school. Industry, N. Y. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 17. a. m The Prison Physicians' asso ciation: Dr. Theodore Cooke. Jr., Balti more, Md., president, to preside. Psper "The Prison Physician," by Dr. Theodore Cooke, Jr., Baltimore, Md. Dis cussion. 11 a. m. Paper: "The Prevention of Crime and Insanity." by Dr. Daniel Fris ian, surgeon Dominion penitentiary, To ronto, Canada. i p. ra. Mr. Patton. president, presiding. Address, "The Psychology of the Crim inal," by Dr. William Healy. Chicago. Ad dress, "Physical Defects as a Factor In the Making of Criminals." by Dr. Wllllasn Martin Richards. New York City. 8 p. m. Mr. Patton, president, presiding. Report of the standing committee on criminal law reform by the chairman, Judge C. A. DeCourcy. Justice of the superior court of Massachusetts. Law rence. Mass. Address. Hon. George W. Wlckersham, attorney general of th United- States, Washington, D. C. Dis cussion. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18. :90 a. m. Report of special committee on Jails, lockups and police stations, by ths chairman. Hon. W. H. Elchhorn. mem ber Indiana Hoard of State Charities. Bluff ton, Ind. "The Jails of Florida," by Hon. A. W. Gilchrist, governor of Florida. I p. m. Report of the standing commit tee on reformatory work and parole by the chairman. Frank L. Randall, superin tendent Minnesota State reformatory, St. Cloud. Minn. 8 p. m. Report of the special committee on statistics of crime bv the chairman, Hon. Eugene Smith, president Prison asso ciation of New York. New York City. Ad dress, "The Resolutions of the 1010 Inter national Prison Congress in Their Applica tion to the United States." by Prof. Chsrles Richmond Henderson. University of Chicago, international prison commis sioner of th United States and president of th comrress. Chloago. Address. Mrs. Imogens Oakley, president National Feder ation of Woman's Clubs. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 19. t:S0 a. ra Mr. Patton, president, presid ing. Paper, "Results of a Recent Innutry on the Subject of Tuberculosis In Pris ons,' " by Rev. Thomas W. Houston, chap lain of the Kansas Stat penitentiary. Lansing. Kan. Discussion. II a. m. Th Association of Governing Boards; Address of the president. "How (r r r!" SnV! ""'! '" ' -" "' . I U ViW mmr l .ii ..... .., ,fl,.,i.. v,J WS". JU W V tl- , ' 'J, W . , , I mmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 1 ?7" imommmmmmmm mmmtmmmmmmm pwes, uawmt port twwcN Ktutr cots. PRCs. fRAfica WIU.MD wcxtr. PRES. OMAHA w.cr.a. Far Should a Governing Board Govern?" Hon. Guy H. Humphreys, president Board of Control of the Indiana Boys' school, Bloomfleld, Ind. DUcusslon. 2 p. m. Mr. Patton, president, presiding. Paper, "Compensation to the Families oi Prisoners," by Hon. William H. De Lacy, Judge of the Juvenile court of the District of Columbia. Washington. D. C. Paper, "Payments to Prisoners and Their Families in Michigan," by William H. Venn, parole officer for Michigan, Detroit. Discussion, opened by Rev. F. Emory Logan, superin tendent the Central Howard association, Chicago, and Frank L. Randall, superin tendent Minnesota State reformatory, St. Cloud, Minn. 8 p. m. Report of standing committee on discharged prisoners hy the chairman. Commissioner Eva Booth, of the Salvation Army; report covers: (a) Tho man In prison who wants to reform; t Caring of his fam ily during the perior of rehabilitation: (c) Meeting him at the prison gate: (d) Personal study of the man in order to select con genial occupation; (e) His spiritual cul ture; (f) Keeping In touch. Address, "The Work of Prisoners' Aid Association." bv T. F. Garver. ex-Judge Kansas court of appeals, Tcpeka, Kan. Lockwood Returns to Shanghai, China Former Secretary of the Omaha Young Men's Christian Association Now Labors in the Orient. W. W. Lockwood, secretary of the Young Men's Christian association In Shanghai. China, who has been vixltlng In Omaha for the last few days, will leave during the coming week for San Francisco, where he will set sail September 1 for the orient. Mr. Lockwood was secretary of the Omaha association in 1i0. In 13 .-3 he was trans ferred to China. Upon his arrival In Shanghai Mr. Loclc wood found the association in a very bad condition. The membership numbered less than ot and the quarters were In a wretched part of the town. In three years he had the association quartered In a new five-story building, containing the only modern equipped gymnasium In China, and the membership of the association up to SOO.000 in China. Mr. Lockwood stated the Chinese show as much, if not more enthusiasm In the work than Is manifested over here. Since the beginning of the work the association over there ten years ago the Interest shown by the Chinese In athletics have Increased ten fold. During -the last few years annual athletic meets have been held by the na tives. In which all the high officials have entered with great Interest. In company with Y. Y. Tsu, secretary of th Young Men's Christian association here for Chinese college students, Mr. Lockwood will meet fifty-nine young Chinese students being sent over here by the government to attend th large colleges In th east. They will coma through Omaha September 4. In charge of Mr. Tsu. and a stop of a few day will b mad at th local association. PRCS, VliHING NVfiStS AS3'Af '.; : Cifl2mmm& - : : nilrV f T1TTT fRS. VOAylS Ci-OJO ' rVCMA Election on Bonds Not Invalidated County Attorney Informs Commission ers that They Ccn Proceed with the Issue. County Attorney James P. English and Deputy County Attorney George A. Magney notified lha election canvassing board and the county commissioners Saturday that the discrepancies in the bond election re turns will not invalidate the election, and the commissioners will ba absolutely safe in going ahead with the issuance and sale of the. bonds. The commissioners ordered County Clerk Haverly to take the neces sary steps to have the bonds printed and placed on the market. Details of this work will be taken up next week. The attorney's office holds that the ma jority for the bonds is sj great that the discrepancies would make no difference in the result, no matter how considered. In preparing the abstract of the vole the can vassing board was instructed to give the total vote cast as Indicated by the poll Usui, the total vote actually cast, and th total votes for and against tbe proposition. The final report of th board to th com missioners Is as follows. Total number of names on th poll books, lO.&W; total vote actually cast, .16i; total vote for th bonds, i.OA; total vote against th bonds, S,i00. Persistant Advertising la th Road to Big Return. , t?:..:-mJ. ,mmmi. V1v LV . :i -it,,:..'.. V - ? ' . .7". : 'VA V--- a:.. .SJ. - t.y.'. -:- ' :' ' J I 2ZE3. 2?. OAKS, ts. tAOGH7tS Of & - .0 SlSTtfiffOOD JZJ m ii ii s A .n i .,i ,.., rWft - MiSS CONQUEST TO MARRY SON OF AN ITALIAN ADMIRAL NEW YORK, Aug. IS. Miss Ida Con Quest, the actress, will be married in Oc tober to Rlccsrdo Bertelli, oldest son of th 1st Admiral Lulgl Bertelli ot Genoa, Italy. It 1 said that after her marriage that Miss Conquest wUI retire permanently from th stag. Mr. BertelU cam to this country ten yean ago to establish an art brons works of which he is president. Frank Crawford, at present travertin- in Canada Northwest, write from Strathcona, under date of August 1L a follows. I was glad yesterday to get hold of Bee which I found on sal at Edmonton, across the liver. Since leaving Omaha X have been all over Canada west of Win nipeg. I have been nearly 1,000 miles In an auto with the president of the Canadian Elevator company and Mr. En gen of Sas- kfttoon and we found Immense crops every where. Barring frost, there will be a bumper crop. Mr. Engen has one farm of 2..VK) acre all In flax. It Is said to "be as fine a crop as ever grew and Is "worth $100,000. I meet Nebraskans everywhere. I run across them In hordes looking over the country. I mt one party of thirty-four tho other day from Lancaster and Douglas counties. Many old settlers, so-called, are from Nebraska. In fact, I think that Ne braska has become a generlo name for a good farmer and often Include Settlers from our whole middle west. I will testify that our emigrants have at least done us credit. "I am Impressed with the extent of tha loss to our state In losing these useful and often wealthy citizens. I think It Is up ta our bond houses and mortgage brokers to teach our farmers to Invest In something besides lands. It Is land investments which takes them out of the state. "I have met many Omahans also who are engaged or employed In some capacity In the building of the railroads. Peterson A Lamereaux have headquarter at Mooso Jaw. I ran across several of these men whom I knew. They have two largo con tracts with the Canadian Pacific I met Ed Phelan at Saskatoon. He and his partner. Mr. Shirley, have, an extensive contract on the Grand Trunk. Here at Strathdnna Uvea an old Omaha lawyer whom I remember very weU, John G. Tipton. He was the first man from the United States who was ever admitted to the bar of Canada. Judge Tipton Is one of the old settlers here. He has abandoned for some time the practice with its small fees and out of the real estate and loaning business has amassed a fortune. I have been loafing a little around his office lately and can assure his old Omaha friends that there is no evidence of his ceasing to make money. "This is a beautiful country. It Is mixed farming country where timothy springs tip as land is cleared, a land of dew and freshness. The soil Is very fertile and the climate matchless, but I have a notion that excessive freight rates make net re turns from the land only ordinary. I was out on the Grand Trunk to the end of steel at the gateway of the Rookies. It Is a land of rivers and lakes and muskeg which con tractors have always represented as about worthless, but it is not so. It 1 a beautiful land needing only settlers to let In the sun and drain It. Tbe settlers are coming, too, in throngs bound for the Grande Prairie and the Perce river. "Saskatoon and Edmonton are lively cities. They are In the throes of a terrific boom. Doctors, dentists, lawyers, stenog raphers, are all selling lots and getting top notch prices. When I say selling, I speuk advisedly.' Everything in Canada sells at present. When the price gets so high that no one else will buy, along comes a friendly Englishman who keeps the ball rolling once. A lot on Jasper avenue In Edmonton, rather small in dimension and th counter part of 100 others, with a brick church on It sold for $196,000. I could not help com paring It with Judge Neville's purchase at Sixteenth and Harney strti." ' High Praise for Ft. Omaha and Ft. Crook from Col. Hatfield Annual Report Shows Both Places to Be in Fine Condition at the Time of Inspection. Fort Omaha and Fort Crook are com mented on very flatteringly In the annual report of Colonel Charles A. P. Hatfield of the Thirteenth cavalry, who commanded the Department of the Missouri during tha time General Frederick A. Smith was on the Mexican frontier, and to whose lot It fill to make the annual Inspection of the posts of the department Speaking of the inspection of Fort Omaha, which Colonel Hatfield made on May 1911, in company with Major Daniel H. Devore, the report says: "All publio buildings at the post were In good repair, and all affairs connected with It were ap parently well administered. The com manding officer was endeavoring to reduco office work to the minimum and was ap parently giving close and continuous at tention to the affairs of his command." Captain W. L. Clarke was In command at the time. Fort Crook was Inspected on May S3. In company with Major Harry C. Haie, and Colonel Hatfield uses superlatives freely In describing the things which he saw at the pout. The two battalions and machine gun platoon of the Fourth Infantry, which he found located there under Major Ben jamin W. Atkinson, were put through a number of practice exercises, and on tho 25th a practice march was made to Fort Omaha, returning the next day. Ail this work is highly pralned. "All public buildings at Fort Crook," says the report, "appeared to be. in excel lent condition. The commanding officer attempts by every means to reduce tho amount of paper and office work, and I be lieve from the results obtained that bo continuously and personally supervises tha theoretical and practical instruction of tho comnutnd." v "In my opinion," th report continues, "the command is ready or would be ready In a very short time to take the field under war oondi lions." LADS WHO STEAL GROCERY WAGON SENT TO KEARNEY- Judge Kennedy Holds They Are In corrigible and Bend Them to Industrial School. Burt and Evelyn McDonald, tha two boyn who stole a grocery wagon and horn and held up and robbed a popcorn stand, were committed to th detention home, and broke out to steal another horse, were sent to the state Industrial school at Kearney by Judge Kennedy In Juvenile court Sat urday. l"h lad ar hold to ba iuoorrlglU.