Woman's Press Club of New York City

[3] The mission of the club, according to its constitution, was to gain advantages for women arising from unity, fellowship, and co-operation with those engaged in similar pursuits.

[5] The Women's Press Club was incorporated in New York in 1919, with Kate M. Bostwick, Julia Linthicum, Cynthia M. Westover, Haryot H. Cahoon and Anna Warren Story trustees.

[5] Not all of the club members belonged to the metropolitan press, but all of them had attained some recognition in the field of literature, or a similar profession, which entitled them to membership.

Prominent members in the early years of the club were Eliza Archard Conner, of the American Press Association, Eleanor Maria Easterbrook Ames (pseud.

Countess Annie de Montaigu), Elita Proctor Otis, Kate M. Bostwick of the Brooklyn Eagle, Hester Martha Poole, Mrs. Jennie Holtzmeyer Posenfeld, wife of Sydney Rosenfeld, Mary Foot Seymour, editor of The Business Woman's Journal, Miriam Leslie, Eliza J. Nicholson of the New Orleans Picayune, and Emma Beckwith, Brooklyn's former candidate for mayor.

[4] A cherry mantel with tiling of tawny brown was on one side of the room, and against the opposite wall was the president's chair with a long oak table in front of it.

In the large back room the walls were grayish blue, with a frieze of old gold and gilt, while the mantel was of oak with olive tiling.