y,
secretary. No one who was present can ever forget this meeting in the
most fascinating of countries, with every detail of its six days'
sessions carefully planned and nothing left undone for the comfort and
entertainment of the visitors who had come from most of the countries
of Europe, from Canada, the United States and far-away Australia and
New Zealand. The following account is condensed from the very full
report of the recording secretary, Miss Martina G. Kramers:

The arrangements for the congress were made by a Central Committee, of
which Dr. Aletta Jacobs, president of the Vereeniging voor
Vrouwenkiesrecht, the organization which had invited the Alliance to
Amsterdam, was chairman. Mrs. W. Drucker was chairman of the Finance
Committee, Mrs. Van Buuren Huys, secretary, and Miss Rosa Manus gave
much assistance. The Press Committee, Miss Johanna W. A. Naber,
chairman, did excellent work in conjunction with a committee from the
Amsterdam press association.... That the accounts throughout the world
were so complete is due to this painstaking, able committee's
assistance to the correspondents from far and wide.

The Committee on Local Arrangements, Mrs. van Loenen de Bordes,
chairman, performed well many duties, issued a dainty booklet, bound
in green and gold, which contained the program interspersed with views
of Amsterdam, and provided handsome silk flags to mark the seats of
each delegation, which were presented to the Alliance. A Bureau of
Information was presided over by young women who were able to answer
all questions in many languages. The back of the great stage was
draped with the flags of the twenty nations represented, those of
Norway, Finland and Australia being conspicuously placed in the
center, that especial honor might be done the full suffrage countries.
The front of the stage was a mass of flowers and plants, a magnificent
bust of Queen Wilhelmina occupying a conspicuous place.

The Committee on Reception, chairman, Mrs. Gompertz Jitta, and that on
Entertainments, chairman, Mrs. Schoeffer-Bunge, provided many
pleasures. Chief among these was the musical reception on the first
afternoon. A grand welcome song with a military band playing the
accompaniment was sung by four hundred voices; a variety of children's
songs followed and the program was closed by a cantata called Old
Holland's New Time, which had been prepared especially for the
congress. All the music had been composed by Catherine Van