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WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 



World's Congress Auxiliary. Beginning 

 on May 15, there were held a series of congresses 

 at the Memorial Art Palace in Chicago, under the 

 direction of a committee consisting of Charles C. 

 Bonney, president ; Thomas B. Bryan, vice-presi- 

 dent ; Lyman J. Gage, treasurer ; and Benjamin 

 Butterworth and Clarence E. Young, secretaries. 

 The woman's branch was under the manage- 

 ment of Mrs. Potter Palmer, president, and Mrs. 

 Charles Henrotin, vice-president. The purpose 

 of these congresses was to bring together the 

 leaders of human progress from the various coun- 

 tries of the world during the season of the World's 

 Columbian Exposition* in order to review the 

 achievements that have already been made in the 

 various departments of enlightened life, and sum 

 up in each the progress of the world in the de- 

 partment involved to the date of the Congress : 

 to make a clear statement of the living questions 

 of the day that still demand attention, and to re- 

 ceive from eminent representatives of all inter- 

 ests, classes, and peoples suggestions of the prac- 

 tical means by which further progress may be 

 made and the prosperity and peace of the world 

 advanced. 



The congresses were as follow : 1. Department 



Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Inter- 

 national Kindergarten Union, Women's National 

 Indian Association, National Association of Loyal 

 Women of American Liberty, National Ameri- 

 can Woman Suffrage Association, Women's Bap- 

 tist Home Mission Society, General Federation 

 of Women's Clubs, American Protective Society 

 of Authors, Women's Centenary Association, 

 Catholic Women's Department Congress, Na- 

 tional Alliance of Unitarian and other Liberal 

 Christian Women, Women's Western Unitarian 

 Conference and Women's Unitarian Conference 

 of the Pacific Coast, National Women's Belief 

 Society, Young Ladies' National Mutual Im- 



B-ovement Association, National Society of the 

 aughters of the American Revolution, Women's 

 Trades Unions, National Columbian Household 

 Economic Association, and Association of Col- 

 legiate Alumnae. 



2. Department of Public Press, under the 

 presidency of William P. Nixon, during the week 

 May 22-28. It included the following depart- 

 ment congresses : Daily and General Newspapers, 

 Press Women of the World, American News- 

 paper Publishers' Association, Religious Press, 

 Trade Press Congress. 



MAINE STATE BUILDING. 



of Woman's Progress, under the presidency of 

 May Wright Sewell, during the week May 15-21. 

 It included the following department congresses : 

 National Council of Women of the United States, 

 International Council of Women, Order of the 

 Eastern Star, International Committee of Young 

 Women's Christian Associations, National Chris- 

 tian League for the Promotion of Social Purity, 



3. Department of Medicine, including con- 

 gresses of Eclectic Physicians and Surgeons, un- 

 der the presidency of Dr. Milton Jay; Homoa- 

 opathic Physicians and Surgeons, under the 

 presidency of Dr. J. S. Mitchell : and Medico- 

 Climatology, under the presidency of Dr. T. C. 

 Duncan, during May 29 to June 3. 



4. Department of Temperance, under the presi- 



