Women's Patriotic Association for Diminishing the Use of Imported Luxuries

16 [From the New York Times, May 20.*] WOMEN’S PATRIOTIC ASSOCIATION FOR DIMINISHING THE USE OF IMPORTED LUXURIES. The above Association, so successfully inaugurated last Monday, May 16, by a mass meeting at the Cooper Union of over 2,500 women, held an adjourned meeting on the following day at No. 2. Great Jones Street. Various committees were appointed, upon manufactures, correspondence throughout the State, &c. The pledge, as finally adopted, reads as follows: “We, the undersigned, during the continuance of this war of rebellion, pledge ourselves to refrain from the purchase of imported articles of luxury for which those of home manufacture or production can be substituted.” To this the following names, taken at random from among? several hundred, have been attached, and we publish them to show the interest with which the movement is regarded in this city: Mrs. Mary Vanden Heuvel, Mrs. David Lane, Mrs. John Jay, Mrs. Morris Ketchum, Mrs. R. M. Hunt, Mrs. T. F. Meagher, Mrs. A. V. Stout, Mrs. Gurdon Buck, Mrs. A. Schermerhorn, Mrs. Marshall 0. Roberts^ Mrs. F. Billings, Mrs. Laura W. Gibbs, Mrs. Geo. J. Cornell, Miss Mary Morris Hamilton, Miss A. K. Nevins, Miss Gardener, Mrs. Gen. de Trobriand, Mrs. Moses H. Grinnell, Mrs. George S. Bowdoin, Mrs. R. M. Blatchford, Mrs. Frederick G. Foster, Mrs. Drake Mills, Mrs. S. B. Scheffelin, Mrs. S. G. Courtney, Mrs. Francis Lieber, Mrs. Alex. Hamilton, Jr. Mrs. Daniel Le Roy, Mrs. James B. Colgate, Mrs. Benj. Nathan, Mrs. Henry A. Coit, Mrs. William E. Dodge, Miss K. Hone, Miss Nash, Miss A. P. Cary, Mrs. W. P. Griffin, Mrs. T. d’Oremieulx, Miss Ellen Collins, Miss Louisa Lee Schuyler, Mrs. S. Wier Roosevelt, Miss Henrietta D. Haines, Miss Harriet R. Woolsey, Mrs. J. A. Dickinson, . Mrs. James A. Ruthven, Mrs. Nathaniel Robinson, Mrs. Joseph Inslee, Mrs. Com. Eagle, U. S. N. Mrs, Wm. A. Bloodgood, Mrs. Wm. B. Allen, Mrs. John W. Chauncey, Mrs. Wm. B. Moffat.

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