NAWSA Subject File CONN. WOMAN SUFFRAGE Assoc. EQUAL FRANCHISE LEAGUE BIRTHDAY Address by the State President An Interesting Program Presented The Putnam Equal Franchise League celebrated its first anniversary at a meeting in Odd Fellows hall on the evening or March 13th. A large and representative audience gathered to hear Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn of Hartford, the president of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. Several member of the Danielson league were present, and also others from Dayville and Woodstock. Mrs. Walter J. Bartlett, president of the league was in the chair. The program was as follows: Piano solo H. E. Hayden Vocal solo Mrs. H. E. Hayden Our Anniversary Mrs. W. L. Beard The School Vote Mrs. J. E. Shepard Address Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn Refreshments America Congregational Church Choir The musical numbers by Mr. and Mrs. Hayden were enthusiastically received, and both responded to encores. Mrs. Beard spoke of the fact that a little over a year ago the league was organized with a comparatively small membership. The society has grown steadily, and now numbers over forty members. Mrs. Sheppard pointed out the need for women to use the school vote which they already have, and exert their influence for the best possible management of the public schools. Mrs. Hepburn spoke earnestly and convincingly, with great enthusiasm for her subject. Her unassuming manner, her perfect sincerity, and her clear logic help the attention of the audience throughout her address. Mrs. Hepburn said in part: One morning two years ago my little boy went to school carrying a great message. As soon as he sat down he raised his hand and the teacher said, "What is it, Tom? Unless it is very important don't speak now," and Tom said, "Very important." "Well, then what is it?" the teacher said, and Tom replied in joyful [?tones], "The women of California have got the vote." Now why do you suppose that little boy was interested in the fact that the women of California had got the vote? It was because he had heard his father and his mother talking about it. He knew that we were both vitally interested in it and that was why he cared so much. That little story shows one of the direct results of women's taking an interest in public questions. It brings them into the home. It makes the home a centre for the discussion of the great public questions of the day. And never until that is done shall we be able to rescue politics from the low standards and ideals that surround politics in our cities today. Children must be brought up in an atmosphere filled with a vital interest in public questions. Then when they grow up we shall have our cities governed by statesmen instead of by political bosses and ward heelers. Just as long as the average boy gets his first knowledge of politics from the ward heeler politics will be a "dirty business" and just as long as men have for mother, wife, sister, sweetheart or daughter a human being who does not count politically we shall have indifferent voters leaving the affairs of all of us to a small company of grafting politician. It is a well known fact that in the places where women vote the votes of men have been greatly increased and the general interest in public questions has been greatly simulated. It has always seemed to me that one of the strongest reasons for giving women the vote was to bring the discussion of public questions into the home. If you make the mother responsible, if you make it her duty to go and vote at election time then you give her a good practical reason for learning somewhat legislation for the benefit of women and children they would try to forward if elected office. When politicians are dependent on the votes of women for election to office they naturally think about what the women care for in making up their platforms. They see to it that their platforms contain some of the things that interest woman. They have to if they wish to be elected. It used to be asked "Who will mind the baby while the mother goes to vote?" and the answer was "The candidate for office will do that." As a matter of fact in the equal suffrage states it is quite customary to have trained nurses at the polls have been placed in schools, grocery stores, churches or private houses instead of in saloons as in the old days. Going to vote has become quite as easy as matter as going to shop, to church or to the theatre and surely it should be when you think what voting means. The result is that 75 to 85 percent of the women in equal suffrage states go to the polls on election day. Political platforms contains some of the things that women eare about and politicians have to measure up to the women's standards as well as the men's. There is an excellent article in the Century for March and in the Providence Sunday Journal for March 8, telling what women have accomplished in the ten stated in this country where women vote. It makes one realize what it means to any community to have the point of view of women count in public affairs. It is a pretty serious thing for a state not to have the point of view of women count in public affairs. We have had some striking examples of it here in Connecticut. The politicians here in Connecticut do not waste their time considering what women want and talking to women's clubs. You cannot blame them for it does not matter what the women think here on election day. Men are elected to office entirely regardless of them and their point of view. Let me give you an example of just why women in Connecticut need votes now - not ten years hence but now - and why every man and every woman who has the best interests of our state of heart should do everything possible to arouse the public conscience and give women some control over the men who make our laws, spend our taxes and govern our cities. About two years ago a public trial brought to light the fact that in Hartford, a stone'e throw from the police station, was the market for one of the biggest White Slave traders in the east. We learned that 135 girls, little young girls from 17 years old up, had been shipped to our city in about eighteen months. Fusco, the keeper of the resort, said that although it was difficult now to get girls from New York that he could get all the girls that he wanted from the small cities of Connecticut. The policy of our city toward the social evil had made possible this terrible condition. Moreover, the policy of our city was one that had been condemned by all the Vice Commissions that had reported during the past twenty years, as one that facilitated the traffic in women and gave public sanction to the debauching of our boys. Just before the election of the mayor a number of women held a great public meeting. It was in the biggest theatre in town and there were at least fifteen hundred women present and a few men. It was obvious that the women were the ones who felt most strongly about the matter. We passed resolutions calling upon the candidates for mayor to tell what policy they would adopt in dealing with the social evil if elected to office. Neither one of them even replied. It seemed to us that there had never been a more striking demonstration of the need of women's having votes. If we had been voters would they have replied? Of course they would. They would have to. They could not have afforded to ignore us if they had been trying to get us to vote for them. As it was they could ignore our request and the mayor of our city was elected without giving any assurance as to what his policy toward this evil would be, not even that the old policy had proved so disastrous to the lives of women not be returned to. Is it surprising that thousands of men and women in Connecticut are working for woman suffrage in dead earnest? There was a social hour after the speaking when the members of the league and their friends enjoyed meeting Mrs. Hepburn and discussing with her the various questions relating to equal suffrage. Under the direction of Miss Katherine Byrne, Miss A. McKenna, Mrs. W. Whitney, and: Miss Gertrude Jones, of the entertainment committeed, abundant refreshments were served, consisting of dainty sandwiches and delicious cakes of every... MRS. HEPBURN The musical numbers by Mr. and Mrs. Hayden were enthusiastically received, and both responded to encores. Mrs. Beard spoke of the fact that a little over a year ago the league was organized with a comparatively small membership. The society has grown steadily, and now numbers over forty members. Mrs. Sheppard pointed out the need for women to use the school vote which they already have, and exert their influence for the best possible management of the public schools. Mrs. Hepburn spoke earnestly and convincingly, with great enthusiasm for her subject. Her unassuming manner, her perfect sincerity, and her clear logic held the attention of the audience throughout her address. Mrs. Hepburn said in part: One morning two years ago my little boy went to school carrying a message. As soon as he sat down he raised his hand and the teacher said, "What is it, Tom? Unless it is very important don't speak now," and Tom said, "Very important." "Well, then what is it?" the teacher said, and Tom replied in joyful tones, "The women of California have got the vote." Now why do you suppose that little boy was interested in the fact that the women of California had got the vote? It was because he had heard his father and his mother talking about it. He knew that we were both vitally interested in it and that was why he cared so much. That little story shows one of the direct results of women's taking an interest in public questions. It brings them into the home. It makes the home a centre for the discussion of the great public questions of the day. And never until that is done shall we be able to rescue politics from the low standards and ideals that surround politics in our cities today. Children must be brought up in an atmosphere filled with a vital interest in public questions. Then when they grow up we shall have our cities governed by statesmen instead of by political bosses and ward heelers. Just as long as the average boy gets his first knowledge of politics from the ward heeler politics will be a "dirty business" and just as long as men have for mother, wife, sister, sweetheart or daughter a human being who does not count politically we shall have indifferent voters leaving the affairs of all of us to a small company of grafting politicians. It is a well known fact that in the places where women vote the votes of men have been greatly increased and the general interest in public questions has been greatly stimulated. It has always seemed to me that one of the strongest reasons for giving women the vote was to bring the discussion of public questions into the home. If you make the mother responsible, if you make it her duty to go and vote at election time then you give her a good practical reason for learning something about public men and measures. You give the husband, too, a good practical reason for taking the trouble to take to his wife about the questions of the day. Suppose one of you men here tonight was interested in the election of a certain man and your wife was a voter - wouldn't you take more trouble to talk to her about this man and his platform than you do today? The politicians, too, begin to take a great interest in the education of women in regard to public questions shop, to church or to the theatre and surely it should be when you think what voting means. The result is that from 75 to 85 per cent of the women in the equal suffrage states go to the polls on election day. Political platforms contain some of the things that women eare about and politicians have to measure up to the women's standards as well as the men's. There is an excellent article in the Century for March and in the Providence Sunday Journal for March 8, telling what women have accomplished in the ten states in this country where women vote. It makes one realize what it means to any community to have the point of view of women count in public affairs. It is a pretty serious thing for a state not to have the point of view of women count in public affairs. We have had some striking examples of it here in Connecticut. The politicians here in Connecticut do not waste their time considering what women want and talking to women's clubs. You cannot blame them for it does not matter what the women think here on election day. en are elected to office entirely regardless of them and their point of view. Let me give you an example of just why women in Connecticut need votes now- not ten years hence but now- and why every man and every woman who has the best interests of our state at heart should do everything possible to arouse the public conscience and give women some control over the men who make our laws, spend our taxes and govern our cities. About two years ago a public trial brought to light the fact that in Hartford, a stone'e throw from the police station, was the market for one of the biggest White Slave traders in the east. We learned that 135 girls, little young girls from 17 years old up, had been shipped to our city in about eighteen months. Fusco, the keeper of the resort, said that although it was difficult now to get girls from New York that he could get all the girls he wanted from the small cities of Connecticut. The policy of our city toward the social evil had made possible this terrible condition. Moreover, the policy of our city was one that had been condemned by all the Vice Commissions that had reported during the past twenty years, as one that facilitated the traffic in women and gave public sanction to the debauching of our boys. Just before the election of the mayor a number of women held a great public meeting. It was in the biggest theatre in town and there were at least fifteen hundred women present and a few men. It was obvious that the women were the ones who felt most strongly about the matter. We passed resolutions calling upon the candidates for mayor to tell what policy they would adopt in dealing with the social evil if elected to office. Neither one of them even replied. It seemed to us that there had never been a more striking demonstration of the need of women's having votes. If we had been voters would they have replied? Of course they would. They would have had to. They could not have afforded to ignore us if they had been trying to get us to vote for them. As it was they could ignore our request and the mayor of our city was elected without giving any assurance as to what policy toward this evil would be, not even that the old policy that had proved so disastrous to the lives women not be returned to. Is it surprising that thousands of men and women in Connecticut are working for woman suffrage in dead earnest? There was a social hour after the speaking when the members of the league and their friends enjoyed meeting Mrs. Hepburn and discussing with her the various questions relating to equal suffrage. Under the direction of Miss Katherine Byrne, Miss A. McKenna, Mrs. W. Whitney, and Miss Gertrude Jones, of the entertainment committeed, abundant refreshments were served, consisting of dainty sandwiches and delicious cakes of every sort, olives, candy, and fragrant coffee, all contributed by members of the league, who in their eagerness for political rights have not forgotten their housewifely accomplishments. MRS. PANKHURST "The Women's Revolution in England" Parsons Theatre, Hartford, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13 at 8 P. M. Only Appearance in Connecticut Boxes $25.00 Seats $2.00 to 25c. Now on sale at Sedgwick & Casey's. At Parsons' Box Office beginning November 11th. Mail orders received. 000602 NEWS BULLETIN. April 30th, 1914. All the preparations for the Suffrage parade are now nearing completion, and suffragists all over the State are hoping and praying for fair weather in order that the demonstration may be a complete success. Suffrage Headquarters in Hartford is a scene of incessant activity; and Mrs Ernest Thompson Seton has spent three days in Hartford putting the final touches to her work as chairman of the Art Committee. Miss Pierson and Miss Gregory are also hard at work. Miss Gregory is giving invaluable assistance with the decoration of the floats; and Miss Pierson has had in hand the work of preparing the beautifully illustrated programme which is to be sold on the streets and which will form an excellent memento of the pageant and parade. The work that has been done by Mrs Seton, as chairman of the Art Committee has included the designing of over forty banners, which are intended to be carried at the head of each group of women-- women doctors, women lawyers, milliners, factory workers etc. --These banners are in different colors and the marchers will wear the capes and caps which accord in color with the banner of their group. The whole has been arranged in a great color scheme-- a scheme which will make the parade the most beautiful street spectacle that this State has ever beheld. After the parade there will be a mass meeting in the Park Casino at which resolutions will be offered calling upon Congress to pass the amendment to the United States constitution sweeping away all disqualification of sex. This resolution is to be carried to Washington by Mrs Seton, who is chairman of the Connecticut delegation that is to join in the great national suffrage parade and demonstration in Washington next Saturday. Along with the representative women from all the other States Mrs Seton will march from the Belasco Theater to the Capitol and there deliver the resolutions to members of the Connecticut Congressional delegation. As soon as the parade is over Miss Emily Pierson will turn again to her plans for a campaign through Windham and Tolland Counties which has been determined upon by the Executive Board of the C.W.S.A. This campaign is to start on June 15th and to last two months. Miss Pierson has already secured the services of five suffrage workers-- all college graduates or to be college graduates before the campaign opens. With herself and Miss Gregory this will make a force of seven workers, and it is Miss Pierson's intention to bring the number up to nine before the 15th of June. There are already two suffrage leagues in Windham County, and members of these leagues will be ready with help when the campaign is in their neighborhoods. These leagues are the Putnam Equal Franchise League and the Danielson Equal Franchise League. In Tolland County there is as yet no suffrage league although there are many enrolled members of the S.W.S.A. in Rockville, Stafford Springs and other of the Tolland County townships. It is this backward condition as regards suffrage organization that has fixed the choice of locality for the campaigns of the coming summer. Both these counties have many towns that are remote and difficult of access and it is only possible to carry out a campaign in such territory during the summer when automobiles are available. The Stamford Equal Franchise League held its regular meeting last Tuesday. The speakers were Mr. Albert Phillips, the Secretary of State for Connecticut, and Miss Caroline Ruutz Rees who spoke on the parade and also on the Junior Suffrage Corps. The league also held a rummage sale this week for the raising of money for suffrage work. The Waterbury Equal Franchise League held its annual meeting a few days ago, -- its second anniversary. In its report the League makes an excellent showing of the work done during the year. Since its last annual meeting it has gone into headquarters, and the premises first taken proving too small, it removed into larger ones-- in the Lilley Block. It has held regular weekly meetings and in addition one large mass meeting. It has done excellent work in canvassing the wards, and it sent a representative to Washington in February to join the working women's deputation that interviewed President Wilson. Miss Alethea Puffer, who undertook this mission, is serving now on the parade committee, and she has done much to interest the working women of Waterbury in woman suffrage. CONSTITUTION OF CONNECTICUT WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION 55-57 PRATT STREET, HARTFORD, CONN. ARTICLE I. This organization shall be called the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. ARTICLE II. The object of this association shall be to secure to the women of Connecticut the right to vote on equal terms with men. ARTICLE III. Section 1. The officers of this association shall be a president, one vice-president, eight chairmen of counties, a recording secretary, a corresponding secretary, a treasurer, and two auditors, and a member for Connecticut on the executive committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. These officers shall be elected by ballot and together with ex-presidents of the association shall constitute the executive committee. Sec. 2. There may be ten or more honorary vice-presidents and an advisory council of indefinite number for purposes of consultation, these officers to be chosen by the executive committee. Sec. 3. The executive committee may be convened at the call of the president or by the written request of five members. Sec. 4. The executive committee shall have general supervision of the business of the association and shall have power to fill all vacancies occasioned by death or by resignation. ARTICLE IV. This constitution may be amended at any annual convention or at any meeting of the association called especially for the purpose, by a two-thirds vote of all members present, previous notice having been given at least one month prior to the meeting by the corresponding secretary. BY-LAWS BY-LAW 1. Section 1. It shall be the duty of the president, or in her absence, of the vice-president, to preside at all the meetings of the association. Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the county chairmen to prepare the way for organization in their respective counties. Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the recording secretary to keep accurate minutes of the transactions of the association. Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the corresponding secretary to conduct all correspondence. Sec. 5. The treasurer shall have charge of the funds of the association and shall pay out the same only upon an order signed by the president and vice-president. Sec. 6. The duty of the auditors shall be to examine the books of the treasurer and to report their condition to the society. Sec. 7. All officers shall report to the annual convention of the association. BY-LAW II. Section 1. Local societies may become auxiliary to the State Association by paying annually into its treasury the sum of 25 cents for each paid-up membership of such society. Sec. 2. Each local society affiliated with the State Association shall be entitled to the following number of delegates in the State Convention; five delegates by virtue of auxiliaryship and one additional delegate for every 10 members, and major fraction thereof. BY-LAW III. Section 1. Persons may become members of the State Association by paying to the treasurer the annual fee of one dollar. Any person may become a life-member of the association by contribution of $25.00. Sec. 2 Individual members of the State Association not connected with a local society, shall be entitled to one delegate for every ten State members. BY-LAW IV. Section 1. Persons may become enrolled members of the State Association by signing a statement saying that they believe in equal suffrage of men and women. Sec. 2. Enrolled members of the State Association from each county shall be entitled to one delegate for every hundred enrolled members in that county, provided that said hundred members pay into the state treasury ten dollars annually - the method of collection of said assessment and the selection of said delegates to be under the direction of the local county chairman. BY-LAW V. The annual meeting of the association shall be held sometime during the month of October in each year. The date and place of meeting shall be determined by the executive committee. The annual State dues shall be paid on or before the first of October. BY-LAW VI. At any regular meeting of the executive committee five members present shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. BY-LAW VII. The usual parliamentary rules and regulations governing deliberate assemblies shall, as far as practicable, obtain in this association. The Woman's Manual of Parliamentary Law, by Mrs. Shattuck, will be recognized as authority. BY-LAW VIII. These By-Laws may be amended at any annual meeting by a majority vote of all delegates present. The Hartford Daily EQUAL RIGHTS WOMEN ARE HERE Annual Convention Opens in Unity Hall With Reports LUNCH TODAY FOR RETIRING OFFICERS - Miss Pierson Regards Outlook As Promising -- The forty-fourth annual convention of the Connecticut Woman's Suffrage Association began yesterday noon in Unity Hall, the president, Mrs. William T. Hincks, presiding. More than 100 delegates were present at the opening any many more arrived later in the day. Mrs. Hincks said that it was fitting that the convention should be held in Hartford in view of the fact that the movement had its birth in this city. Mrs. Thomas N Hepburn, president of the Hartford League, welcomed the convention to Hartford and said that in a few years Connecticut would be among those states which sanction votes for women. It was voted to thank Miss Elizabeth Hooker of New Haven, Mrs. George H. Day of Hartford and Mrs. Wood of Simsbury for their generous contributions to the cause. These three made it possible for a headquarters to be maintained in Hartford. The resolution was then amended to include the name of Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn who assisted materially in making the headquarters a certainty. Besides the chairman, those seated on the platform were: Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, vice-president of the association; Mrs. Ruutz-Rees of Greenwich, secretary; Mrs. Herbert H. Knox of New Canaan, chairman of Fairfield county; Mrs. A. E. Scranton- Taylor of Norfolk, chairman of Litchfield county, Mrs. Mary J. Rogers, of Meriden, treasurer, and Mrs. E. D. Bacon, president of the Hartford Equal Rights Club. Unity Hall was appropriately decorated with the purple, white and green colors of suffrage. A large banner in the colors of the association, was hung at the rear of the platform and bore the inscription, "Votes for Woman." The front of the platform was decorated with the three colors and with a Connecticut flag on either side. Palms were arranged about the platform and banners hung around the balcony showing the states which already have equal suffrage. After the luncheon held in the hall at 1 p. m., Mrs. Mary J. Rogers, the treasurer, said that $16,000 had passed through her hands this year, showing a steady increase over previous years, and that, owing to frequent and generous contributions, the finances of the association were in a healthy condition. Various reports were then given by the organizations throughout the state; Mrs. Julius Maltby and MIss Frances Osborne on the report of the auditors; Mr. M. Toscan Bennett the report on the Legislature in regard to its actions and also the progress of enrolments--in place of Mrs. George H. Day who was unable to be present; Miss Emily Pierson the state organizer, and Miss Alyce Gregory the second state organizer. Miss Pierson spoke of the nineteen weeks' campaign which she said was regarded favorably by an average of one out of every five men she approached, and said that the work had been carried on assiduously and thoroughly. The gist of the report follows:-- "The plan of the executive board was to carry on a campaign in ten cities, Wallingford, Rockville, Putnam, Willimantic, Middletown, Bristol, Derby, Naugatuck, Torrington and Winsted. In none of these was there any suffrage organization and $3,000 was appropriated, any excess to be raised in the towns which were visited. At the close of this campaign, which was very successful, a week was spent in Hartford in connection with the Legislature. The unfavorable action then came, but it was decided not to cease work and through the generosity of Miss Elizabeth Hooker, five more weeks, costing $1,500, were decided upon. These were spent in Norwich, New London, Danbury, South Norwalk and Stamford. Ansonia was lated included through the kindness of Miss Frances Osborne of Derby. Headquarters were established in each town and meetings held afternoon and evening. At the end of the week a big mass-meeting was held and in addition, between fifty and seventy-five personal calls were made in each town and daily factory and street meetings held. Five-minute talks were given at fifteen moving picture shows with audiences averaging 600. In the evening stereopticon slides were shown on the streets with accompanying lecture and this method proved very successful. The results of such a campaign cannot be estimated. The most valuable result of the campaign was _______ eon will be given in the Hotel Bond in honor of the retiring officers. Between forty and fifty persons are expected to be present and speeches will be made by Mrs. John Winters Brannan of the Woman's Political Union of New York, Mrs. Caroline Ruutz- Rees, national delegate to the International Woman's Suffrage Congress at Buda-Pesth, Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, Mrs. Mary J Rogers of Meriden, and by Mrs. William P. Hick of Bridgeport, the retiring state president. Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn of Hartford will preside. 14 OVER $8,000 PLEDGED BY SUFFRAGISTS Much Enthusiasm in Closing Hours of Convention - Mrs. Hincks Makes a Speech. ------------------- MRS. HEPBURN OF THIS CITY IS PRESIDENT. --------------- Reports and Resolutions---Dinner to Retiring Officers at Hotel Bond. ------ There was much enthusiasm at the session to-day of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage association in Unity hall, so much so that pledges to the amount of $8,501 were subscribed. These pledges were made by leagues in the state, individuals, in honor of departed relatives, in honor of living relatives, in honor of friends, etc., etc. For nearly two hours these contributions, and others for various historic events that have had a bearing on suffrage were made. Some will be raised by subscribers from the sale of jams, jellies and the like. Some will carry old umbrellas and go without new ones, others without new clothing that they may fulfill their pledges by lending financial assistance to the cause. Still others will give up giving Christmas presents this year, send postal cards instead, and contribute the money which would be spent thus for the association's work the coming year. Mrs. Hepburn Chosen President. In the election of a president a vote by ballot was taken. The nominating committee brought in the name of Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn of Hartford who, when the tellers had completed their work, it was announced by the retiring president that Mrs. Hepburn had secured 109 of the 116 votes cast. The remaining seven votes went to three other candidates. In a few well chosen words Mrs. Hepburn accepted the presidency, and the gavel formerly owned by Isabell Beadie Kooker was handed over to her. These officers were elected: President - Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, Hartford. Vice President-Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, Greenwich. Recording Secretary-Miss Ruutz-Rees, Greenwich. Corresponding Secretary-Miss Mabel Washburn, Hartford. Treasurer-Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett, Hartford. Chairman by Counties-Fairfield, Mrs. Herbert H. Knox of New Canaan; Hartford, Miss Elizabeth Hubbard, West Hartford; Windham, Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam; New Haven, Mrs. Carlos F. Stoddard, New Haven; Middletown, Mrs. E. C. Acheson, Middletown; Litchfield, Mrs. Scranton Taylor, Norfolk; New London, Dr. Esther Woodward, Norwich. Auditors-Mrs. Mary J. Rogers, Meriden; Mrs. F.A. DeLoss, Bridgeport. State Organizer-Miss Emily Pierson of Cromwell. A number of resolutions were read and adopted by the association. Thanks to President Wilson. Among the resolutions adopted was the following: "Whereas, Connecticut sent many of the thousands of telegrams appealing to President Wilson to give special consideration to the detention by the immigration bureau of a political leader from England, therefore be it resolved that the Connecticut Women Suffrage association hereby thank him for admitting her in accordance with the best traditions of our country, which has ever extended welcome and refuge to political revolutionaries from all lands." The Dinner. The convention closed this afternoon with a dinner in the Hotel Bond, given in honor of the retiring officers. Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett served as toastmaster. Covers were laid for fifty. A number of informal speeches were made. ------------------- Mrs. CATT AND DEAN SUMNER ARE HEARD ------------------- Address a Large Audience in Unity Hall, Discussing Varying Phases of Suffrage Problem. ------------------ An audience that filled nearly every seat in Unity Hall. Tuesday evening, heard addresses in support of woman suffrage by Dean W. T. Sumner of Chicago and Mrs. Chapman Catt, who was introduced as a "woman of the world and a lover of humanity." Dean Sumner decried the exploitation of women in commercialized vice, enlightened the women as to what their duties to the city, state and nation would be if given the franchise, and elicited a round of applause when he said, "Women can never make a worse mess of government than have men." His subject -Mrs. Danielson and Miss Rosamond Danielson entertained at tea for Barnard college girls who are taking part in the Women's Suffrage campaign. The guests of honor were Miss Freda Kirchway, Miss Nan Kuttner, and Miss Ethel Lee Rankin. Among the other guests were Miss Mary Weaver, Miss Barbara Weaver, and Mr. Danielson. The women of Illinois at the recent town and city elections have exercised the new privilege of the ballot with enthusiasm and effect. Their votes were largely directed against the saloon. In the city of Jacksonville out of 7242 voters 3635 were women and 3607 men. The men's vote gave a majority of seventy-seven for no-license, but the women increased this meagre margin to 2404. In fact, only 654 of them favored license. Eighty per cent of all their votes in the State were in favor of abolishing the saloon. In many places their votes turned the scale. Without knowing the circumstances we cannot say whether in all cases they voted wisely or otherwise; but they can at least point to the result as a contradiction of the statements that they would not use the ballot if they had it. 000604 said that in a few years Connecticut would be among those states which sanction votes for women. It was voted to thank Miss Elizabeth Hooker of New Haven, Mrs. George H. Day of Hartford and Mrs. Wood of Simsbury for their generous contributions to the cause. These three made it possible for a headquarters to be maintained in Hartford. The resolution was then amended to include the name of Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn who asisted materially in making the headquarters a certainty. Besides the chairman, those seated on the platform were: Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, vice-president of the association; Mrs. Ruutz-Rees of Greenwich, secretary; Mrs. Herbert H. Knox of New Canaan, chairman of Fairfield county; Mrs. A. E. Scranton-Taylor of Norfolk chairman of Litchfield county, Mrs. Mary J. Rogers, of Meriden, treasurer, and Mrs. E. D. Bacon, president of the Hartford Equal Rights Club. Unity Hall was appropriately decorated with the purple, white, and green colors of suffrage. A large banner in the colors of the association, was hung at the rear of the platform and bore the inscription, "Votes for Women." The front of the platform was decorated with the three colors and with a Connecticut flag on either side. Palms were arranged about the platform and banners hung around the balcony showing the states which already have equal suffrage. After the luncheon held in the hall at 1 p.m., Mrs. Mary J. Rogers, the treasurer, said that $16,000 had passed through her hands this year, showing a steady increase over previous years, and that, owing to frequent and generous contributions, the finances of the association were in a healthy condition. Various reports were then given by the organizations throughout the state; Mrs. Julius Maltby and Miss Frances Osborne on the report of the auditors; Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett the report on the Legislature in regard to its actions and also the progress of enrolments - in place of Mrs. George H. Day who was unable to be present; Miss Emily Pierson the state organizer, and Miss Alyce Gregory the second state organizer. Miss Pierson spoke of the nineteen weeks' campaign which she said was regarded favorably by an average of one out of every five men she approached, and said that the work had been carried on assiduously and thoroughly. The gist of the report follows: "The plan of the executive board was to carry on a campaign in ten cities, Wallingford, Rockville, Putnam, Wilimantic, Middletown, Bristol, Derby, Naugatuck, Torrington and Winsted. In none of these was there any suffrage organization and $3,000 was appropriated, any excess to be raised in the towns which were visited. At the close of this campaign, which was very successful, a week was spent in Hartford in connection with the Legislature. The unfavorable action then came, but it was decided not to cease work and through the generosity of Miss Elizabeth Hooker, five more weeks, costing $1,500, were decided upon. These were spent in Norwich, New London, Danbury, South Norwalk and Stamford. Ansonia was lated included through the kindness of Miss Frances Osborne of Derby. Headquarters were established in each town and meetings held afternoon and evening. At the end of the week a big mass-meeting was held and in addition, between fifty and seventy-five personal calls were made in each town and daily factory and street meetings held. Five-minute talks were given at fifteen moving picture shows with audiences averaging 600. In the evening stereopticon slides were shown on the streets with accompanying lecture and this method proved very successful. The results of such a campaign cannot even be estimated. The most valuable result of the campaign was the organizing of six new leagues, at Wallingford, Putnam, Danielson, Middletown, Meriden and Torrington. The total expense of this was $7,606.51 and the total receipts were $4,038.42. In all the cities, firms and individuals co-operated in every way to make the campaign a success and in every place the spirit was friendly. Much of this last month has been devoted to fair-work and the results were very satisfactory. To my mind this year has been the most successful of any year since I have been connected with the organization. Our work has been a logical development from preceding years and has, at the same time, been radical and aggressive. Mrs. Elizabeth D. Bacon of this city reported for the Equal Rights Club of Hartford. She said that there were 15,576 adherents in the state and gave a general description of the work accomplished by the club. One statement which occasioned much laughter was made by Mrs. Herbert H. Knox when speaking of the Danbury fair. She illustrated the ignorance of some women in regard to the movement on foot by telling how she offered a pamphlet to a passing woman at the fair saying "Votes for Women." The woman replied, "Why I don't vote." Considerable space was given to discussing the recent action of the Legislature when it was voted by that body not to grant woman suffrage in the state. Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett declared that the only way to succeed in their object was to make it more of a personal campaign and to govern each member's vote by enlisting the support of his constituency. She also told of its being said in regard to the help of a certain male supporter that he was a good fellow in bad company. She also criticised a statement that all suffrage workers were women of means by saying that it was not said that the others were poor in this world's goods. At 2 o'clock this afternoon, a luncheon will be given in the Hotel Bond in honor of the retiring officers. Between forty and fifty persons are expected to be present and speeches will be made by Mrs. John Winters Brannan of the Woman's Political Union of New York, Mrs. Caroline Ruutz-Rees, national delegate to the International Woman's Suffrage Congress at Buda-Pesth, Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, Mrs. Mary J. Rogers of Meriden, and by Mrs. William P. Hick of Bridgeport, the retiring state president. Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn of Hartford will preside. Hours of Convention—Mrs. Hincks Makes a Speech. MRS. HEPBURN OF THIS CITY IS PRESIDENT. Reports and Resolutions--Dinner to Retiring Officers at Hotel Bond. There was much enthusiasm at the session to-day of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage association in Unity hall, so much so that pledges to the amount of $8,501 were subscribed. These pledges were made by leagues in the state, individuals, in honor of departed relatives, in honor of living relatives, in honor of friends, etc. For nearly two hours these contributions, and others for various historic events that have had a bearing on suffrage were made. Some will be raised by subscribers from the sale of jams, jellies and the like. Some will carry old umbrellas and go wIthout new ones, others without new clothing that they may fulfill their pledges by lending financial assistance to the cause. Still others will give up giving Christmas presents this year, send postal cards instead, and contribute the money which would be spent thus for the association's work the coming year. Mrs. Hepburn Chosen President. In the election of a president a vote by ballot was taken. The nominating committee brought in the name of Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn of Hartford who, when the tellers had completed their work, it was announced by the retiring president that Mrs. Hepburn had secured 109 of the 116 votes cast. The remaining seven votes went to three other candidates. In a few well chosen words` Mrs. Hepburn accepted the presidency, and the gavel formerly owned by Isabella Beadie Kooker was handed over to her. These officers were elected: President—Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, Hartford. Vice - President — Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, Greenwich. Recording Secretary—Miss Ruutz-Rees, Greenwich. Corresponding Secretary — Miss Mabel Washburn, Hartford. Treasurer—Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett, Hartford. Chairmen by Counties—Fairfield, Mrs. Herbert H. Knox of New Canaan; Hartford, Miss Elizabeth Hubbard, West Hartford; Windham, Mins Rosamond Danielson, Putnam; New Haven, Mrs. Carlos F. Stoddard, New Haven; Middletown, Mrs. E. C. Acheson, Middletown: Litchfield, Mrs. Scranton Taylor, Norfolk; New London, Dr. Esther Woodward, Norwich. Auditors—Mrs. Mary J. Rogers, Meriden; Mrs. F. A. DeLoss, Bridgeport. State Organizer—Miss Emily Pierson of Cromwell. A number of resolutions were read and adopted by the association. Thanks to President Wilson. Among the resolutions adopted was the following: "Whereas, Connecticut sent many of the thousands of telegrams appealing to President Wilson to give special consideration to the detention by the immigration bureau of a political leader form England, therefore be it resolved that the Connecticut Women Suffrage association hereby thank him for admitting her in accordance with the best traditions of our country, which has ever extended welcome and refuge to political revolutionaries from all lands." The Dinner. The convention closed this afternoon with a dinner in the Hotel Bond, given in honor of the retiring officers. Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett served as toastmaster. Covers were laid for fifty. A number of informal speeches were made. MRS. CATT AND DEAN SUMNER ARE HEARD. Address a Large Audience In Unity Hall, Discussing Varying Phases of Suffrage Problem. An audience that filled nearly every seat in Unity hall, Tuesday evening, heard addresses in support of woman suffrage by Dean W. T. Sumner of Chicago and Mrs. Chapman Catt, who was introduced as a "woman of the world and a lover of humanity." Dean Sumner decried the exploitation of women in commercialized vice, enlightened the women as to what their duties to the city, state and nation would be if given the franchise, and elicited a round of applause when he said. "Women can never make a worse mess of government than have men." His subject was, "Woman's Sex Loyalty." Mrs. Catt, a circumnavigator of the globe, fired a charge into her hearers by asking them, "What is the matter with Connecticut?" The state and nation are behind in civilised advancement, she maintained. "The World's Women" was her subject. - Mrs. Danielson and Miss Rosamond Danielson entertained at tea for Barnard college girls who are taking part in the Woman's Suffrage campaign. The guests of honor were Miss Freda Kirchway, Miss Nan Kuttner, and Miss Ethel Lee Rankin. Among the other guests were Miss Mary Weaver, Miss Barbara Weaver, and Mr. Danielson. [illegible] of Illinois at the recent town and city elections have exercised their new privilege of the ballot with enthusiasm and effect. Their votes were largely directed against the saloon. In the city of Jacksonville out of 7242 voters 3635 were women and 3607 men. The men's vote gave a majority of seventy-seven for no-license, but the women increased this meagre margin to 2404. In fact, only 654 of them favored license. Eighty per cent of all their votes in the State were in favor of abolishing the saloon. In many places their votes turned the scale. Without knowing the circumstances we cannot say whether in all cases they voted wisely or otherwise; but they can at least point to the result as a contradiction of the statements that they would not use the ballot if they had it. 000605 NEED OF WOMEN ON SCHOOL BOARDS IT MUST have occurred to many thinking people recently that a good purpose would be sub-served by bringing the American home closer to the American school. There are indisputable evidences of a tendency in the other direction--of a disposition on the part of those directly and indirectly responsible for the administration of the schools to separate these institutions as widely as possible from home influences and to place them under the control and domination of doctrinaires and experimentalists. But this is abnormal, freakish, offensive to parents, dangerous to society and cannot long be tolerated. The innocence of childhood being at stake, motherhood must be allowed and encouraged to assert itself. Women are needed on the school boards. The woman's sense, the motherly sense, of children's needs is worth more to the community and the race than all the theories put forward by all the doctrinaires and experimentalists through all the ages. Men on school boards who should know better are permitting themselves to be influenced by persons who insist upon filling the child consciousness with impressions, beliefs, superstitions and fears against which it should rather be jealously guarded, against which it is jealously guarded by good and sensible mothers. In exhibiting this weakness, men have displayed their unfitness in many instances for so sacred a trust. The school boards, at all events, need at this time, in a peculiar and an extraordinary degree, the balance that women are capable of giving them. Neither state nor locality is a matter of consideration here. The need for a change in the attitude of school boards toward a certain class of advisers, and especially toward the children committed to their care, is not merely local; it is national, and it is urgent. Public decency as well as public morality calls for it. Women-- mothers --see this need clearly, appreciate it keenly. They should be encouraged to take an active part in meeting it. WOMEN HELEN TODD IN ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL MAKES STRONG PLEA FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE MISS Helen Todd, San Francisco, spoke at a disadvantage in English high school last night. Her theme was woman suffrage. She is a speaker who could convince almost anybody, in certain surroundings, but the hall was noisy with changing classes in the night schools, at intervals. Miss Todd spoke low, haven given two other lectures yesterday, and her speech was too long, as the audience had waited for her delayed train from Boston nearly half an hour. With all this against her, she showed pluck and gave her arguments logically, the principal one being:-- "Women go down to the gates of death to create life. Should man withhold from women the ballot to protect that life?" Miss Todd was in Worcester to speak in factories at noon. She went to Boston in the afternoon to speak and returned to Worcester for the night lecture. The Equal franchise club secured her for the Elementary teachers association, but others were also invited. Mrs. Emile Landry, treasurer of the Equal franchise club, introduced Miss Todd. The woman from California has a fine record as Illinois factory inspector, slum worker and leader in the fight that won the votes for women in California. She is tall, thin and dark. She wore a dark blue suit with light blouse and cherry tie. She said in part:-- "It's perfectly natural in the West that women should vote. They went out there and stood side by side with the men. They don't have to marshal facts as you do in the East. It's taken for granted that women should vote. "The United States stands at the foot of all other countries in the world in the child labor conditions. If there is an anti here let her send 20 cents and get the report of women and children in industry. Read it and if that book does not convince you that there is something to do beside use of indirect influence, nothing else will. "You pick up a paper and read about a child 10 years old working 12 hours a day in Georgia. We can't get our bill passed to change these conditions because of the lobby of mill men. "We women are trying to get a federal child labor law. Women are supposed to know only enough to suffer and go down to the gates of death to create life. They aren't supposed to know enough to vote to prevent men selling the children into industry when they are mere babies. "I feel as if the vote for women is the primary thing. I don't think you'll ever solve any great economic problem in settlement work. That's why I gave it up. What people want is justice. They want you to work with them instead of for them. "The one great thing that the settlement does is to tear away the veil and show the suffering, the anguish of the world. You get down in the slums and see. You find the horror of the life that makes little white-faced broken-spirited children." Miss Todd told of the child workers of 1902 in Illinois glass factories, children running all night long from furnace to furnace with the bottles. "Only children did the work, because the furnace doors were low. I could not go near these doors. I saw these things when I was a factory inspector. There was a commission appointed that really did things and the report of those child labor conditions would shame Siberia." Miss Todd told how these and other things caused women to desire to vote. "Women had to fight the sentiment against women's clubs. You would have thought that you'd have to get a policeman to drag them away from the clubs if once they got into them. The Chicago womans club made a stand against being organized only for the Browning study and such things as learning how to make piano out of a sideboard. "The club fought the child labor laws to a finish and stopped the evils of it. That's why I want women to vote. "We were told that we had this wonderful nebulous thing called indirect influence, that men would go all to pieces under this influence. But we found what this indirect influence meant when we went to Springfield with one child labor bill. When we got up against the big interests with their votes and we had only our indirect influence, we saw just how much it meant. "Women will stand firm against everything, for the right. They would not even listen to the big interests, to the plea for the glass factories and the danger to business if the bill went through-- women simply stood together against all, for child life. The same tenderness that a woman puts into her home she puts into the state. "Twenty thousand ladies' names don't amount to anything, but get a tramp, get any man with a vote to sign and you'll see the difference. How I'd like to make those people who say the place for women is in the home go and sit in some of the homes I've seen. "I'd like to put them into the homes where babies are dying from poisoned milk." Miss Todd told of homes she has seen where frightful conditions prevail, and of the awful labors of children as she seen all these things, and she said again: "That's why I want to vote." She told how she went to California to help get votes for women there by recounting the fearful conditions she had seen in Illinois. She begged the California men not to wait till the Panama canal was open and industries increased, but to give the women the vote at once, before the prostitution, the slum life, the other deplorable conditions began. "The California women cared so much for the vote that they did not care what Mrs. So and So said about them. That's how they got the vote. We learned that the very rich voted against us. "The illiterate poor also are against us. I don't know from what place they bring over their idea of women. I am half foreign myself. My father was Scotch. But I don't know where the idea of women's place as beside a hot stove in the kitchen half full of flies, came from. Always from the saloon emanated a tremendous fight against giving women the vote, in California." Miss Todd explained how the final returns showed that votes for women had won in California, and she told a vivid tale in a dramatic manner. MRS. LA FOLLETTE DISCUSSES AWAKENING OF WOMEN TO THEIR OPPORTUNITIES "The conventional woman of today needs more freedom; the emancipated woman more poise." Thus epigrammatically spoke Mrs. Robert La Follette, wife of Senator from Wisconsin, in discussing her views of present-day affairs and conditions, with a Washington correspondent. She spoke alertly and enthusiastically of widely varied subjects, in which she is interested, and she expressed the salient point uppermost in her mind, regarding various phases of modern thought, with the effectiveness of the person who knows what she thinks about what she knows. "We must get away from these old conventions," she said, "that govern and restrain our lives. So many of them now are dead that we find ourselves sometimes tacitly following laws for which the object has long since passed away. The fuller and freer life is the one to work for. Adjustment to conditions that will ever be ameliorated by the broadening scope of increasing knowledge is our endeavor. "The new awakening among women will be one of the strongest factors to bring about this condition. "Why, this old idea that woman should remain in the home has not the foundation that existed for it in our grandmothers' day. Think of the work manufacturers of today are taking from our minds and hands. Women do not have to spend time making candles or soap. These things and countless others are already done for them, and their attention should be directed to more enlightening pursuits. "But we still cling to these old ideas, even in regard to housekeeping. Why cannot we see immediately the effectiveness of cooperative buying? I do not go so far as to say cooperative housekeeping. No, we continue to think that a good housewife should go to market and finger over everything before she buys it; whereas if we would but spend a little time working out a practical plan for buying directly from the producer much of our expense and trouble would be eliminated, and, what is more important, time for more interesting things saved. Mrs. La Follette is the editress of the woman's department of her husband's magazine. She says that when she began work, she was told to adhere to the general lines upon which such articles were always run, if she wanted success. But she thought that material of that sort was not, in many cases, what the women really wanted, but what the man editors thought they wanted. So she decided to give her readers more than mere recipes and fashion hints. She endeavored to acquaint them with the abstract principles underlying their work and interests. Articles along lines of new discoveries in nutrition, or what was being done to increase domestic efficiency, were the sort she favored. She was among the first of the publications to blaze the way for the fly campaign. Graduating from a co-educational school, she broke away early from the stereotyped conceptions of proper education for young ladies and went to the university, to march shoulder to shoulder, as it were, with the men of the State, and she succeeded in keeping abreast of them, which was a more complete conquest for her since it wee proof of the strength of her mental caliber. When she married she began to study law so as to fit herself for intelligent discussions of cases with Mr. La Follette in the evenings. Then her children came and swerved her attention from the law; to which, by the way, she never again returned as diligently, because of her husband's entrance into politics. The children were growing up and she was confronted with the problem of their education. Her instinctive love of freedom rebelled against sending them to school, to he shut in for hours at a time and restrained. So she decided to keep them at home and wait until they were old enough to have developed strong bodies before sending them to high school. "It is against the laws of nature," Mrs. La Follette asserted, "to keep little children closely confined indoors when they should be out in the air running, Jumping, playing and building up a reserve of physical strength. The real centre of their mental development should be the home. They will gain and not lose if they are kept there. Of course, I am not criticising the entire public school system, for it is indeed strong. But, at the same time, new ideas most creep in if our schools are to be totally efficient. "I do not think," she said. "that anything we do matters so much as the spirit in which we do it. I know that every one considers himself and what he does important. But, after all, one individual can really accomplish so little that it is the spirit always which should be judged. I do not feel that we each have a particular bent in life which, if it could only be found, would be filled with superior efficiency. One should do everything he attempted well and be deeply interested in all phases of life with which he comes in contact. That will make for a more comprehensive outlook and breadth of viewpoint. "Children should be allowed to follow the pursuit in which they feel they can make the most powerful contributions to humanity." Mrs. La Follette was speaking here from experience. Her words rang true. "If a boy of mine were to say that he wanted to help his father in his work, and would be satisfied in the background of life, more than in the thick of affairs, then I should not urge him to change his views. Neither, if a girl were to feel the call of life out among men and women, and express a desire to go away and branch out independently, would I restrain her. One would be serving as well as the other. The difference would lie only in their methods. "My daughter Fola, who is on the stage, had feelings of this sort. I rather think, however, that she came by her desire naturally. Mr. La Follette had tendencies in that line before he was caught in the net of politics. He has always been a student of Shakespeare, even if, long since, he gave up his idea of the theatre. "Did I hesitate about allowing Fola to take up the stage as a profession? No, never for an instant. I knew that she would be happier there than in any ether profession, so her choice was final. "My younger daughter, Mary, is too young yet—she is only 14—to have definitely formed an idea of what she wants to do. At present she likes drawing, but it is so difficult to prophesy how her tastes may change that I cannot say what she will finally do. I shall, however, aid her when the time comes to choose what she really thinks is best." When the interviewer remarked that she had expected to meet a tall woman, Mrs. La Follette laughed and said: "Yes, so many people think I am tall before they see me, because Mr. La Follette is short. But we are both alike. "I am always interested in the people who are doing things, for, then, I know that they are thinkers. The thinker is always in the fore, breaking down the barriers to progress. When we get away from the yoke of worn-out conventions, we will get the primitive point of view, and life will be forceful and worth while. "In women lies the hope of mankind. Think of how she has forged her way out from absolute servitude, and then one can get an idea of the wonderful influence she will exert. Girls and women are groping for still more freedom, and they will get it. But they must not revert to the other extreme. They must strive also for the poise that will be their crowning glory. "What must their liberty lead to? What curbing influence must that poise effect? There is one fundamental factor in life that we must not lose sight of and that is the home and its value. To the highest place must that institution be raised. All objects should help to accomplish this elevation. I feel that women will bring this about completely, with their enlightened viewpoint." [image] [copyright symbol] HARRIS & EWING, WASHINGTON, D.C. Mrs. Robert La Follette NOTABLE WOMEN. An Author and Others Who Have Achieved. MARIA THOMPSON DAVIES, author of "Miss Selina Lue" and other books, has lived a life of varied experiences. She has found time to study art abroad, exhibit miniatures in the Paris salon, design and make beautiful arts and crafts jewelry for herself and friends, conduct a studio, supervise a Tennessee farm which produced prize-winning cattle and chickens, perform the duties of a social leader, organize woman suffrage societies and campaign vigorously for the "cause," frequently visit friends in different parts of two continents, where she plays as hard as she works hard, and always, to carry with her, her powers of keen observation and warm sympathetic feeling. Since her latest book, "The Tinder Box," appeared she has removed from Nashville, Tenn., to a New York apartment, where, it is said, she dispenses mint julep, fried chicken and other Southern dainties with a hospitable hand. • • • Helen L. Sumner, a special agent of the Children's Bureau, has been appointed chief statistician of that bureau, and thus becomes one of the highest paid and highest-ranking women in the civil service. Miss Sumner, who is a native of Wisconsin, is well known as an economist, a writer on labor and an original investigator. It is the feeling of those In Washington who are acquainted with her work that her choice is an admirable one. Miss Sumner is a graduate of Wellesley College. At the University of Wisconsin she was for two years an honorary fellow in political economy and a correspondence instructor. In 1908 she received the degree of Ph. D. With Professor John R. Commons of Wisconsin she has been a collaborator in research work for the American Bureau of Industrial Research. In 1907 and 1908 she made a special investigation of equal suffrage in Colorado for the New York Collegiate Equal Suffrage League. She is the author of "The White Slave," "Labor Problems" (written with Thomas A. Adams, formerly secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission), "History of Women in Industry" and "Industrial Courts in Europe." She is associate editor of the "Documentary History of American Industrial Society." • • • As chief of the Division of Child Hygiene of the New York city health department. Dr. S. Josephine Baker is concerned with the well-being of over 825,000 children. Her bureau, with its 630 employes, systematically guards the health of all the children of the city from birth to legal working age, sending out district nurses to babies, inspecting schools, supervising the 55 public milk stations and investigating all outbreaks of disease and increases of infant mortality, and correcting the causes thereof when discovered. There are 135,000 babies born in New York city each year; and during the four years of Dr. Baker's administration infant mortality has been reduced by thousands annually, says the Woman's Home Companion. In addition to carrying on her work In her department and her private practice Dr. Baker, during the last three years, has conducted at Columbia University a course on public health nursing. • • • Miss Gertrude Beeks is a woman of achievement. Her success in bettering working and living conditions at Panama, in stores and factories, and among many other large bodies of men and women in industry, has placed her among the foremost welfare workers of the world. She was sent by President Roosevelt and Secretary of War Taft to Panama in 1907 to make investigation and give expert advice upon the social life, food and housing of American employes there. In 1913 she was chosen by the New York University's school of commerce to organize and head the first systematic course in welfare work ever given in the history of education. She organized and developed the employers' welfare department of the national civic federation. • • • Dr. Anna Dwyer was appointed recently by Governor Dunne of Illinois a member of the State Charities Commission, to succeed Dr. John F. McAnnally, who resigned. Dr. Dwyer had the indorsement of many Chicago people, men and women. He said eh would prefer to appoint a woman to the position, and the choice of the Chicago people fell on Mrs. Dwyer, who has been connected with the Morals Court for four months. She became attached to the court through the appeal of Dr. Young, health commissioner of Chicago, for a woman physician there. The appointment was made in April, and since then Dr. Dwyer has been in the courtroom several hours each day. eation Wrap A Gown must have Splendor to be Noticeable at the Horseshow The Black Hat Much Fancied with Spotless Ermine evitable jostling and dodging that ensue. What They Wear in the Boxes. There are certain interested folk who go to the Horse Show mainly to note what is being worn in the boxes. They regard fashion only from a style standpoint. These are the merchants, the manufacturers, the dressmakers and the newspaper reporters, but all are attired like lilies of the field - or in other words, like the elite of fashiondom, and only by their concentrated and appraising gaze upon frocks rather than faces do they betray themselves. Others, there are, who go to the Horse Show to see what the folk in the boxes are doing. They absorb the fine clothes as a brilliant part of the ensemble, but they are chiefly interested in the movements and actions of the people who wear the clothes. They pore over the official programmes which print a list of boxholders, and one can see that they are speculating constantly, whether that is indeed the noted Mrs. -------- in box No. so and so; or merely an occupant of another box come to make her a visit. Meanwhile the occupants of the charmed circle - or one should say, ellipse -are apparently quite oblivious of any spectators below their lifted range of vision. They gaze languidly across the heads of the promenaders at the events in the ring, or chat in low tones, with reservation of gesture, to each other. If a visit to another box makes necessary a short trip down the promenade, the don their wraps as though they were going out-of-doors. It is all very amusing to the student of human nature, but it is New York - and a New York that hundreds came far, at this season, to see. One cannot but feel a good deal of sympathy, also, for society in the boxes. The Horse Show - a purely sportsmanlike and amateur event - is theirs. If the populace is admitted because its dollar-per-capita entrance fee is helpful in maintaining the expensive event, why should not its dollar's worth of interest and curiosity per capita be suffered and rewarded? The populace really bothers nobody - in the boxes. A cat may look at a king. And if the king acquit himself in a disappointingly reserved and restrained manner, well - one might make this answer to the little woman from Spokane who came all the way to Manhattan to visit the Horse Show and exclaimed protestingly: "Well, for all the wooden images I ever saw! They don't do a single interesting thing; and here I've been reading in the Sunday newspapers for years of the goings on of the smart set!" which bring prancing thoroughbreds always make the crowd on the promenade gather as thick as bees against the railing around the ring. Each rider has a white card bearing her particular number slung across her back, at the shoulders, but the white card in now way spoils the effect of the flawlessly fitting habit or the lines of the graceful young figure in the saddle. No cross-saddle riding is permitted at the Horse Show, which is a most formal and conventional affair. And riding togs must subscribe in every detail to this formality and conventionality. Black cloth riding habits are demanded, with silk riding hats, black boots and white gloves. Illustrated is a correct riding habit for Horse Show wear. The side-saddle skirt and smartly cut coat are of black broadcloth and this beautifully made and expensive habit is accompanied by a white linen stock, a white pique vest faintly lined with black, white dogskin gloves, a high, black silk riding hat, black calf riding boots and a gold mounted crop of black leather. The riding habit is covered, during the ride in a limousine or taxi to the show by a paddock coat of rough tweed or tan covert, having the bell cut at the bottom which distinguishes this type of coat. Debutante Box Parties. For every maid who rides in the ring there is apt to be a box full of interested maids in the ellipse of boxes across the promenade. These little parties are well chaperoned, and usually follow a lively luncheon partaken of in one or another of the exclusive restaurants. Sometimes the little groups go on to afternoon tea after the show, joined by the lucky winner of a blue, a scarlet or a yellow ribbon. The charming white costume, accompanied by ermine furs, pictured, will be worn at such a box party during the coming week. The frock is of white lansdowne with a braided design done with white silk soutache, the draped skirt being lifted a bit at the back, in the new fashion, to show the high heels of new Frenchy button-strap slippers of gray suede, worn with gray silk stockings. The bodice is all-over St. Gall embroidery veiled with shadow lace and me, of many colors, over which is arranged a hood-like scarf of the skirt material. This striking tailleur if built of taupe matelasse crepe, the coat under the crepe scarf being of Roman striped faille in shades of blue, tan, taupe, and flame. The picturesque hat of taupe velvet with a chenille tassel at the back carries out the lines of the costume which has the true "debutante slouch" as the new line of the silhouette is called in New York. Buttoned walking boots of patent leather with tops of taupe kid, fitch furs, and cream white embroidered silk gloves complete the costume for afternoon wear. Evening Gowns and Wraps. The woman of society reserves her brilliant costumes for the opera and for private balls, wearing at the Horse Show a gown of indisputable elegance and distinction, but one none the less of rather unstriking character. At the Horse Show, moreover, most of these handsome gowns, which will be work "on" to some other entertainment of a supper-and-dance nature, are kept partly hidden under the evening wraps. It is upon the superb wraps the that promenaders may feast their eyes to full satisfaction. The beautiful wrap of draped mink pictured is typical of the wraps worn by well dressed women at the Horse Show in the afternoon. Beneath the edge of this wrap may be seen the afternoon gown of brocaded crepe, draped at the front to reveal dainty buttoned boots with tops of contrasting leather. More striking is an evening wrap worn over a minaret gown of black lansdowne and flesh tinted chiffon. Only the inner side of this wrap , however, is gay, the outer side being of velour in dark coloring with collar and cuffs of skunk. The lining is brilliantly vivid, being made of silk designed after an Oriental pottery effect. In seductive tones of amethyst and pansy purple is the rich gown, just sent home for Horse Show wear. The skirt, gracefully draped, is of tapestry panne velvet in blurred gray and lavender tones. The tunic is of lavender chiffon beaded with amethysts and is underlaid with lace. At the girdle is a deep-toned velvet pansy and in the hair is a smart fillet of black tulle with rhinestone-edged wings. they may spoil or enhance the beauty of the gown. Charming frocks for young girls are fashioned of crepe de chine, soft brocades and charmeuse. The new corset presents a straight, boxlike appearance and is longer than ever below the waist. Some of the smartest afternoon frocks have bolero overdraperies, edged with skunk, sable, and mink. The newest gowns show draping at the waist line, being drawn up in front and tucked under the wide girdle. Afternoon frocks have girdles which assume the lines for a vest, and they are often fastened with a jewelled button. For the women who must economize, the three-piece suit is best. It is suitable for indoors, dressy affairs and for street wear. If one cannot afford fur trimmings on a jacket it matters little, as some of the great French designers are using fur cloth instead. The new high boots that are worn with the slit skirt have uppers of cloth or velvet matching the toilette, and are finished around the top with fur. The out-of-doors girl wears a colored crepe de chine handkerchief tucked into the breast pocket of her coat or sweater and a bow to match at her throat. The variety of uses for net is steadily increasing, from boudoir caps to petti- more durable and less expensive than those made of silk. Black suede and patent leather shoes for afternoon wear demand much attention for their buckles. Some of their buckles are sewed on, backed with a pan-shaped arrangement of black-and-white feathers behind them. There is quite a departure from the commonplace handkerchief this season. They are trimmed with footing; black-and-white handkerchiefs are quite the thing; colored handkerchiefs are very fashionable, the handkerchief proper being the color and the border of white. Girl's Hat. A charming little girl's hat is a white beaver, edged about the brim with tiny blue flowers made of baby ribbon. The crown is circled with the little flowers about the top, and from each drops a strand of ribbon, knotted at the end. On the right side of the hate is a huge bow of blue satin. This hat is worn with a white chinchilla coat. New Handbags. Some new handbags are made of silk embroidered with beads. The designs are taken from those on Persian rugs or hangings, and are worked out with faithful attention to color and line with beads. It must have been difficult for the manufacturers to get beads that would so well reproduce the colors used in Persian embroidery and weaving, for the reproduction is excellent. The Butterfly. The butterfly is still dominant. It is utilized to decorate a charming black and white blouse. The blouse is made of white satin, with undersleeves of white chiffon covered with black net. Across the front there is a big butterfly formed of black lace, with jet beads embroidered on it to form the body. The lace is put on in two strips, five or six inches wide, and the ends of the strips are held out to form the wings. China Buttons. Big china buttons of really garish colors are used with good effect on some of the white silk and satin waists. One, with a vest of white net, edged at the top with a band of brown fur, is buttoned from the bottom of the vest, which reaches to within six inches of the waist, to the waistline, with three big yellow china ball buttons, each painted with a bright red flower. These buttons give the only color on the waist- excepting the little brand of brown fur- and are a good finish. Vogue of Yellow. Yellow is much seen in these days. Last spring yellow was first extensively used in lingerie. Ribbons of yellow were run into all sorts of underwear and negligees. The yellow chiffon and crepe de chine were used for the making of rest robes and petticoats and chemises and nightgowns. Yellow waists of chiffon and crepe de chine were next worn. And then evening frocks and afternoon frocks of yellow appeared. There are even some yellow tweed street suits. Yellow is a usually becoming color, if it is skillfully handled. But there are not many skins that are improved by coming into direct contact with yellow. This fact is now understood by most dressmakers. In almost all of the gowns and blouses of yellow there is a generous use of cream or white tulle at the throat. There is usually a touch of black somewhere on these yellow garments. A little black velvet at the wrist or elbow or belt, or a knot of black in the drapery of the skirt, gives character to the color that might otherwise seem monotonous. NEW EVENING GOWNS SINCE even the older women have become infatuated with the new dances, the short skirt is by no means confined to the debutantes and young married women. Of course, on formal dinner gowns a train of some kind, though of meagre dimensions, is always used. The new evening gowns are decidedly Eastern looking. The skirts are very full at the waist and over the hips and are brought in so abruptly at the feet that they have much the effect of Turkish trousers. The oriental note is carried still farther by the flaring overskirt or peplum that is part of almost every new evening gown. In some cases the skirt itself is caught up into a very short pannier, which holds out the tunic almost as if it were wired. They are very picturesque and interesting, and quite in line with the eastward trend of fashions. Poiret's little mannequins, with their yielding, uncorseted figures, slanting eyes and beturbaned heads, in these Aladdin dresses look like one of Dulac's "Arabian Nights" illustrations come to life, says the Delineator. There is a great variety in the skirts of evening dresses, for while there are practically only three types in use, the draped skirt, the peplum and the peplum and the draped, there are so many new and surprising combinations, so many odd little offshoots in the way of trains and tunics, that one is never conscious of having seen the same skirt twice. With evening waists, however, there is a greater degree of similarity. There is so little to the present evening waists and they follow the lines of the figure so closely that after you have said a good word for their materials and trimmings there is very little left to talk about. The decolletage is very low, especially in back. The lower part of the waist is almost always a bib or deep girdle of the skirt material; the upper part a transparent bodice of tulle or chiffon cut in one with a very short sleeve. The square of V-shaped next outline is used almost altogether. The evening slipper is usually the cothurne in white or black satin, with a high French heel and satin ribbons that lace over the instep and ankle. It is worn with a plain self-colored stocking, with a fine line of hemstitching up the ankle. The glove is always white kid. In the daytime the long glove has ceased to figure to any extent, for most dresses are made with the sleeve to the wrist. The deep kimono sleeve is proving very popular, and everyone is watching the development of the raglan with great interest. The bolero is one of the most promising of the new styles, and one expects great things of it this spring. It is very pretty with the new two or three-tier skirts and with the peg-top. With the draped skirt the waistcoat blouse or the Tuxedo blouse is the usual combination. PROVIDENCE JOURNAL, FRIDAY, DECE E ISALND. e, ss.: aniels, Circulation Providence Journal eby solemnly swear average number of vidence Journal printed he month of November, day, after deducting all copies spoilt in print- to or remaining day by the office, as well as ex- rs used by employers, cor- and advertisers, was as ,319 COPIES CHARLES M. STANIELS. ed and sworn to before me ay of December, A. D. 1913. ROBERT W. WARREN. Notary Public. m the office, exchanges and all uded from the above figures. ANTI-SUFFRAGISTS HEARD AT CAPITOL ---------------------------- Women Opposed to Franchise Appear at Hearing. ----------------------------- HEARD BY RULES COMMITTEE ------------------------------ "Clenched Fists Mean Fight," Says Man Who Speaks Against Proposed Committee on Suffrage Referring to Attitude of Dr. Anna Howard Shaw Previous Day. [By the Associated Press.] Washington, Dec. 4.---Women opposed to equal suffrage had their inning today before the House committee on rules, to protest against the resolution championed by the women suffragists which would create a suffrage standing committee in the House of Representatives. Scores of women from various parts of the country, marshaled by Mrs. Arthur Dodge of New York, appealed to the committee not to grant the suffragists' plea. To-morrow the suffragists will be given an opportunity to answer the attack, Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch of Chicago having been chosen to sum up the case. Though the anti-suffrage women occupied most of the day, their argument was closed by a man, Everett P. Wheeler of New York, representing the Man Suffrage Association, who sounded a battle cry to the suffragists. Holding aloft a picture of Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, President of the National American Association for Woman Suffrage, Mr. Wheeler said: "When I was this person here yesterday shake her clenched fist and declare 'we demand our rights' I said to myself 'clenched fists mean fight.' The manhood of this nation has been trained to respect and revere womanhood, and I claim that for American manhood today, but if we are challenged to fight this movement there will be blows to give as well as blows to take." Mr. Wheeler paid a tribute to Miss Jane Addams, who addressed the committee yesterday on behalf of equal suffrage, and declared that it was "an ill-day for the nation when Jane Addams divided her attention to philanthropy for suffrage." Mrs. A. J. George of Massachusetts characterized the proponents of equal franchise rights as "suffrage feminists." Chares J. Underhill of Massachusetts, representing a men's league, declared that the suffragists were seeking the suffrage committee for the political influence it ould give them in their campaign. Mr. Undwehill declared the suffrage movement had aroused "contempt, familiarity, and ridicule" for women. He asserted that when the suffrage advocates began their work about the legislative halls they were invariably addressed as "Mrs." and "Miss." "Now," said Mr. Underhill, "the men champions of suffrage speak of the suffrage workers as 'Mag' or 'Your old Mrs. So and So,' or 'Sweet Alice,' or 'Dear Susan,' and the like." Miss Anna Bok of California, a former suffrage worker in that state asserted equal suffrage was a failure. NEW CONSTITUTION ADOPTED BY SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION Election of Officers held by National Organization. [by the Associated Press.] Washington, Dec. 4 - Adoption of a new constitution and election of officers occupied to-day's session of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, now in its 45th annual convention here. Many hours of discussion preceded the final vote on the constitution. While the new system of government does not place the finances of the association entirely on a budget basis, to which there has been vigorous objection, a large portion of the money needed will be raised in accordance with a budget adopted in advance each year. When it was announced at the afternoon session taht $11,850 would have to be provided in pledges to complete the total of $33,625 previously adopted for the budget, it took less than an hour cago; Second Vice President - Mrs. Desha Breckinridge, Lexington, Ky.; Third Vice President - Mrs. Caroline Ruutz-Rees, Greenwich, Conn.; Recording Secretary - Mrs. Susan Fitzgerald, Boston; Corresponding Secretary - Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett, Boston; Treasurer - Mrs. Kathering Dexter McCormich, Boston; First Auditor - Harriet Barton Laidlaw, New York; Second Auditor - Louis DeKoven Bowen, Chicago. Walsh Predicts Vote for Women Governor-elect Walsh, at a complimentary dinner given by Frank C. Hall, manager of the Hotel Somerset, predicted that it will not be long before women are given the ballot. He further said: "I want to be Governor of this Commonwealth, not only in the name of my own party, but for all of the people of Massachuset." New York, Dec. 12. - Members of the Women's Political Union praise loudly the generous action of Mrs. C. Tiffany Dyer in giving $2,200 to the "referendum fund" of the Union. The Union planned to have a fund of $50,000 complete by December 26, and they say the example and encouragement of Mrs. Dyer goes far toward the attainment of that result. The Union is positive that the question of woman suffrage will come before the voters of New York State in 1915 on a referendum. It is their purpose to raise each year a "referendum fund" of $50,000 for the necessary expenses of their campaign before 1915. Mrs. Dyer's contribution was announced at a meeting at the Hotel St. Regis when gifts totalling $14,000 were announced. Many of them were small and showed the spirit of the women. The women in charge of receiving the contributions announced that the women were so eager to give that many contributions were offered to the committee by telephone before breakfast. Mr. Bryan Parries. Let us trust that Mr. Bryan is not becoming testy. He manifested unmistakable impatience when a lady from California, in the exercise of her right of free speech, asked, "how about the popular Government for women, Mr. Secretary?" In open meeting the paramount preach of popular rule had just laid down the proposition that "it is a fallacy to believe that you can fit a people for self-governance when you deny them the right to try." Quick as a flash, according to the report of the colloquy, he turned on the lady from California with: "Madame, in your own work you have doubtless followed your judgement and conscience, as in my work I have followed mine." The retort may have been distinguished for quickness, but, manifestly, it did not answer the question. Is it possible, as the matter stands, to discover the views of Mr. Secretary on the living issue of letting women have "the right to try"? Is there one subject under the sun on which Mr. Bryan has not made up his mind? And why should he have shown annoyance? 22 FARM JOURNAL JANUARY, 1914. WE are in receipt of the following letter: TO THE EDITOR FARM JOURNAL: Replying to those western Senators who speak in favor of woman suffrage, I will say that they represent woman suffrage states and want a reelection, and advocate woman suffrage for the same reason that some politicians favor the saloon men. Their states are large as to territory, but have about as many people in the whole state as the county of Cuyahoga. Such states are no criterion for great states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Illinois and others, with their millions of people, mammoth manufactories, and millions of foreign-bred citizens. Local conditions in each state should be considered; and what effect woman suffrage would have in any state should decide the propriety of extending the right of franchise to women. I will discuss in this article woman suffrage as it would work in Ohio ; and it would work in the same way in all the older states, and in time will work in the name manner in all the other states. I oppose woman suffrage in Ohio for the following reasons : First, it would double the corrupt vote. By the corrupt vote I an the immoral vote--the vote which would oppose Sabbath laws, liquor laws, regulation of vice, punishment of certain crimes, good morals, needed reforms; and which would support some forms of vice. This corrupt vote would change the standard of morals, and also what constitutes crimes, when it acquired sufficient strength. It has much of that strength now, in Ohio, and is already exercising its power for the worse. It has made Ohio a license state. This vote is mainly in the cities, and is strong enough now to control the whole state through the operation of the referendum (which in now adopted by Ohio), to the great injury of the seventy-five rural counties of the state. Keep clear of the referendum if you want to keep good morals. This corrupt vote is now so strong that we can not control it, even with all the help the good women of the state can exert, and they are working as hard as they could work were they voters. Under these circumstances, would it be wise to double this corrupt vote? I think not. To prove this statement, let me say that there are eighty-eight counties in Ohio. Thirteen of these counties control the state. The other seventy-five are at the mercy of these thirteen. There are more than sixty cities in the state. In these cities congregate the greater part of the corrupt vote of the state. Already these cities have changed Ohio from an anti-license state to a license state. The seventy-five rural counties were not able to overcome the corrupt vote of the thirteen counties with their large cities. Now, if we would add to the political and voting power of these thirteen counties, it would be wise to inquire first: "What would be the character of this additional vote ?" No one, knowing these cities, would claim that a majority of the women's vote in them would favor good moral legislation. Consider what women would vote with the corrupt party. The following classes would do so : The wives of foreigners- -and the foreign population of the cities is very large ; the women who carry poodle dogs, play whist, bridge and poker ; those who visit beer gardens and saloons on the Sabbath, or on any other day, to take a social glass ; the club women ; those serving wine and brandy on their tables ; those going on Sabbath excursions ; those who do not go to any church, and reject the Bible and scoff at Christianity, and who attend dances on the Sabbath ; those girls who keep the company of fast young men; those who attend infidel lectures on the Sabbath, and this includes some of the leaders in this women's movement in this country. When all these are summed up, it is safe to say they will constitute a majority of the city women's vote. Good men had better weigh these conditions before favoring woman suffrage. Second, it would double the corrupt rate in a class of voters which neither good men or good women could approach. I know this from the experience of my wife. She, with other good Indies, was engaged in the women's crusade in 1876. They were driven from many homes, had the dogs set on them, and had profanity and unpleasant epithets hurled at them by the very class of women who would now constitute a large per cent. of the women's vote of the city. These women good men dare not approach. Good women would consider nothing more repulsive. Is it wise to double the corrupt vote in a class of voters whom neither good men or good women could approach ? I think not. Third, it would cause a great increase in the number of births of unfortunate children. Coming mothers, which include many women between the ages of seventeen and fifty, could not go through the rancor of a bitter campaign without, in multitudes of instances, impressing their offspring very unfavorably. It could not be otherwise than the cause of a large increase in the number of nervous, imbecile, undesirable, insane, epileptic, helpless, deformed and otherwise unfortunate children. Birthmarks would be far more common than now. Fourth, the good mothers, who would make the best voters and city officeholders. would to a large extent be debarred from voting and holding office. The result would be that those women who are guilty of race suicide and who avoid maternity, would do the voting and the holding of office. Could there be a more offensive class of officeholders ? I think not. Fifth, the claim that women would purify politics and carry all reforms, is mythical — a happy fancy. They would reform matters as, are doing in California, where out of thirty-seven cities which the men voted dry, they have voted twenty-eight of them wet; and where not a single election has gone dry since they got the vote. They would reform matters as they are reforming theaters, dance halls, saloons and red-light districts, and no better. With the ballot, women would have more power to continue these nuisances and make them worse. It is foolish to say that the good women would break up these things. Else why do they not do it ? If all women were good, they would do it. But there is the trouble—all women are not good, nor will they soon be. Sixth, it would have an unhappy effect upon woman herself. She would lose much of her loveliness and attractiveness, and her power of moral and sympathetic suasion. The suffragettes of England, who have been guilty of arson, murder, bomb throwing, wrecking of property, and anarchy, prove this. So, too, do those women who are now heading and controlling the woman movement in this country. Enough of them are infidels to override the wish of the Christian ladies connected with the movement. At their National Convention in Philadelphia in 1912, they held a banquet Sabbath evening, against the protest of the Christian ladies of the convention. Do we want these women to teach other women in this country ? No. Seventh, to impose political duties upon women, which the good mothers can not perform and which to a very great extent they do not want, is of most doubtful propriety. To correct the corrupt female vote would be a most unwelcome and Herculean task to impose upon the busy others. The others could not be depended on to do much of this work, especially in the great cities, where the bulk of the corrupt vote, both of men and women, exists. A man never gets so low that a good woman can not approach him ; but a woman does. And this class of women are very numerous in all our great cities. It is no answer to the foregoing to cite those western states (or the Senators from them) which have adopted woman suffrage. Those states, excepting California, where the thing Is working badly, have not so many people in the whole state as has the county in Ohio in which the city of Cleveland is located. Neither has New Zealand, which is so often quoted as a worthy example for us to imitate. They have no very large cities, and few great manufactories. And their Senators are wanting reelection. What is true of Ohio is now true of all the older states, and in time will be true of all. Woman suffrage could not work otherwise than badly in Ohio, and would work as badly, or worse in some other states. Ohio, A. G. EAGLESON. KANSAS has 275,000 women voters. Cleveland housemaids have formed a union. Pennsylvania has 10.000 feeble-minded women. Philadelphia has three women mill owners Michigan has 100,000 women taxpayers. There are 3,167,232 widows in the United States. In Persia carpet weaving is done exclusively by women. Housewives purchase $225,000,000 worth of food each year. A woman can jump 62 per cent. of the distance a man can jump. Princess Mary of England is making a collection of Pagan idols. The ancient town of Cambridge, England, is soon to have women police. Three hundred women have made application for police jobs in Chicago. Mrs. Francis Bowes Savre, who was Jessie Woodrow Wilson, has eight hats. Women form about 35 per cent. of the total immigration into the United States. The National Suffrage Association has doubled its membership In the past year. Of the 90,000 trades union women in New York city, 80 per cent. are foreigners. In Oregon the law fixes a minimum wage of $9.25 a week for adult women clerks. Miss Elaine Golding has gone to Panana, where she expects to swim the Panama Canal. Miss H. Barleet has been nominated for a seat In the Birmingham, England, City Council. Kansas women are asking that they have equal property rights with their husbands. New York storekeepers will employ over 50,000 extra girls during the holiday season. From 1901 to 1911 the mortality due to cancer among women has increased 22 per cent. Ninety per cent. of the members of the Shirtwaist Makers' Union In New York are young girls. Women in Switzerland who graduate in theology will hereafter be entitled to the status of the clergy. Mrs. Hetty Green, who to-day is worth many millions of dollars, started a bank account when she was eight years of age. Mrs. Pankhurat, the suffragist leader, took $20,000 back to England with her, as a result of [?] tour in this county commissioners. The official board of the National Woman Suffrage association issued a call Wednesday to the suffragists of the country to rally at an open air mass meeting Saturday, May 2, in every city, village and hamlet from the Atlantic to the Pacific. [?race] Johnson - A meeting of the Putnam Equal Franchise League will be held at the home of Mrs. W. J. Barlett, Elm street, on Friday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m. Mrs. John Evans Sheppard will speak. 000609 Women Opposed to Franchise Appear at Hearing. HEARD BY RULES COMMITTEE "Clenched Fists Mean Fight," Says Man Who Speaks Against Proposed Committee on Suffrage, Referring to Attitude of Dr. Anna Howard Shaw Previous Day. [By the Associated Press.] Washington, Dec. 4.-Women opposed to equal suffrage had their inning today before the House committee on rules, to protest against the resolution championed by the women suffragists which would create a suffrage standing committee in the House of Representatives. Scores of women from various parts of the country, marshaled by Mrs. Arthur Dodge of New York, appealed to the committee not to grant the suffragists' plea. To-morrow the suffragists will be given an opportunity to answer the attack, Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch of Chicago having been chosen to sum up the case. Though the anti-suffrage women occupied most of the day, their argument was closed by a man, Everett P. Wheeler of New York, representing the Man Suffrage Association, who sounded a battle cry to the suffragists. Holding aloft a picture of Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, President of the National American Association for Woman Suffrage, Mr. Wheeler said: "When I saw this person here yesterday shake her clenched fist and declare 'we demand our rights' I said to myself 'clenched fists mean fight.' The manhood of this nation has been trained to respect and revere womanhood, and I claim that for American manhood today, but if we are challenged to fight this movement there will be blows to give as well as blows to take." Mr. Wheeler paid a tribute to Miss Jane Addams, who addressed the committee yesterday in behalf of equal suffrage, and declared that it was "an ill-day for the nation when Jane Addams divided her attention to philanthropy for suffrage." Mrs. A. J. George of Massachusetts characterized the proponents of equal franchise rights as "suffrage feminists." Charles J. Underhill of Massachusetts, representing a men's league, declared that the suffragists were seeking the suffrage committee for the political influence it would give them in their campaign. Mr. Underhill declared the suffrage movement had aroused "contempt, familiarity and ridicule" for women. He asserted that when the suffrage advocates began their work about legislative halls they were invariably addressed as "Mrs." and "Miss." "Now," said Mr. Underhill, "the men champions of suffrage speak of the suffrage workers as 'Mag' or 'Your old Mrs. So and So,' or 'Sweet Alice,' or 'Dear Susan,' and the like." Miss Anna Bok of California, a former suffrage worker in that State, asserted equal suffrage was a failure. NEW CONSTITUTION ADOPTED BY SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION Election of Officers Held by National Organization. [by the Associated Press.] Washington, Dec. 4.-Adoption of a new constitution and election of officers occupied to-day's session of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, now in its 45th annual convention here. Many hours of discussion preceded the final vote on the constitution. While the new system of government does not place the finances of the association entirely on a budget basis, to which there has been vigorous objection, a large portion of the money needed will be raised in accordance with a budget adopted in advance each year. When it was announced at the afternoon session that $11,850 would have to be provided in pledges to complete the total of $23,625 preciously adopted for the budget, it took less than an hour to secure the sum. Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont of New York made an effort to have the headquarters of the association moved from New York to this city. The motion was tabled by a large majority without discussion. Some of the delegates declared later that Mrs. Belmont desired to see the organization assume a more militant attitude and that she believed this might be done if headquarters were moved to Washington, where the Congressional Union is located. The union was organized principally to fight for a Federal constitutional amendment giving women suffrage, and in its ranks are many of the suffragists whose ideas are less conservative than are those of the majority in the National Association. Mrs. Champ Clark told the convention to-day that when she was a young girl she had heard Susan B. Anthony speak on woman suffrage and that she had "remained a convert to the cause ever since." The sending of a committee to urge President Wilson to send a message to Congress asking immediate consideration of a woman suffrage amendment, was a feature of the day. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw of New York, President of the National American Women Suffrage Association, was re-elected for the eighth consecutive term at the annual balloting for officers at to-day's session. Dr. Shaw was opposed by Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton of Warren, O. Other officers elected were: First Vice President-Miss Jane Addams, Chi- Walsh Predicts Vote for Women Governor Walsh, at a complimentary dinner given by Frank C. Hall, manager of the Hotel Somerset, predicted that it will not be long before women are given the ballot. He further said: "I want to be Governor of this Commonwealth, not only in the name of my own party, but for all of the people of Massachuset." NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Members of the Women's Political Union praise loudly the generous action of Mrs. C. Tiffany Dyer in giving $2,200 to the "referendum fund" of the Union. The Union planned to have a fund of $50,000 complete by December 26, and they say the example and encouragement of Mrs. Dyer goes far toward the attainment of that result. The union is positive that the question of woman suffrage will come before the voters of New York State in 1915 on a referendum. It is their purpose to raise each year a "referendum fund" of $50,000 for the necessary expenses of their campaign before 1915. Mrs. Dyer's contribution was announced at a meeting at the Hotel St. Regis when gifts totaling $14,000 were announced. Many of them were small and showed the spirit of the women. The women in charge of receiving the contributions announced that the women were so eager to give that many contributions were offered to the committee by telephone before breakfast. Mr. Bryan Parries. Let us trust that Mr. Bryan is not becoming testy. He manifested unmistakable impatience when a lady from California, in the exercise of her right of free speech, asked, "how about popular Government for women, Mr. Secretary?" In open meeting the paramount preacher of popular rule had just laid down the proposition that " it is a fallacy to believe that you can fit a people for self-government when you deny them the right to try." Quick as a flash, according to the report of the colloquy, he turned on the lady from California with: "Madame, in your own work you have doubtless followed your judgment and conscience, as in my work I have followed mine." The retort may have been distinguished for quickness, but, manifestly, it did not answer the question. Is it possible, as the matter stands, to discover the views of Mr. Secretary on the living issue of letting women have the "right to try"? Is there one subject under the sun on which Mr. Bryan has not made up his mind? And why should he have shown annoyance? 22 FARM JOURNAL FORUM We are in receipt of the following letter: TO THE EDITOR FARM JOURNAL: Replying to those western Senators who speak in favor of woman suffrage, I will say that they represent woman suffrage states and want a reelection, and advocate woman suffrage for the same reason that some politicians favor the saloon men. Their states are large as to territory, but have about as many people in the whole state as the county of Cuyahoga. Such states are no criterion for great states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Illinois and others, with their millions of people, mammoth manufactories, and millions of foreign-bred citizens. Local conditions in each state should be considered; and what effect woman suffrage would have in any state should decide the propriety of extending the right of franchise to women. I will discuss in this article woman suffrage as it would work in Ohio; and it would work in the same way in all the older states, and in time will work in the same manner in all the other states. I oppose woman suffrage in Ohio for the following reasons: First, it would double the corrupt vote. By the corrupt vote I mean the immoral vote-the vote which would oppose Sabbath laws, liquor laws, regulation of vice, punishment of certain crimes, good morals, needed reforms; and which would support some forms of vice. This corrupt vote would change the standard of morals, and also what constitutes crimes, when it acquired sufficient strength. It has much of that strength now, in Ohio and is already exercising its power for the worse. It has made Ohio a license state. This vote is mainly in the cities, and is strong enough now to control the whole state through the operation of the referendum (which is now adopted by Ohio), to the great injury of the seventy-five rural counties of the state. Keep clear of the referendum if you want to keep good morals. This corrupt vote is now so strong that we can not control it, even with all the help the good women of the state can exert, and they are working as hard as they could work were they voters. Under these circumstances, would it be wise to double this corrupt vote? I think not. To prove this statement, let me say that there are eighty-eight counties in Ohio. Thirteen of these counties control the state. The other seventy-five are at the mercy of these thirteen. There are more than sixty cities in the state. In these cities congregate the greater part of the corrupt vote of the state. Already these cities have changed Ohio from an anti-license state to a license state. The seventy-five rural counties were not able to overcome the corrupt vote of the thirteen counties with their large cities. Now, if we would add to the political and voting power of these thirteen counties, it would be wise to inquire first: "What would be the character of this additional vote?" No one, knowing these cities, would claim that a majority of the women's vote in them would favor good moral legislation. Consider what women would vote with the corrupt party. The following classes would do so: The wives of foreigners-and the foreign population of the cities is very large; the women who carry poodle dogs, play whist, bridge and poker; those who visit beer gardens and saloons on the Sabbath, or any other day, to take a social glass; the club women; those serving wine and brandy on their tables; those going on Sabbath excursions; those who do not go to any church, and reject the Bible and scoff at Christianity, and who attend dances on the Sabbath: those girls who keep the company of fast young men; those who attend infidel lectures on the Sabbath, and this includes some of the FARM JOURNAL leaders in this women's movement in this country. When all these are summed up, it is safe to say they will constitute a majority of the city women's vote. Good men had better weigh these conditions before favoring woman suffrage. Second, it would double the corrupt rate in a class of voters which neither good men nor good women could approach. I know this from the experience of my wife. She, with other good ladies, was engaged in the women's crusade in 1876. They were driven from many homes, had the dogs set on them, and had profanity and unpleasant epithets hurled at them by the very class of women who would now constitute a large per cent. of the women's vote of the city. These women good men dare not approach. Good women would consider nothing more repulsive. Is it wise to double the corrupt vote in a class of voters whom neither good men nor good women could approach? I think not. Third, it would cause a great increase in the number of births of unfortunate children. Coming mothers, which include many women between the ages of seventeen and fifty, could not go through the rancor of a bitter campaign without, in multitudes of instances, impressing their offspring very unfavorably. It could not be otherwise than the cause of a large increase in the number of nervous, imbecile, undesirable, insane, epileptic, helpless, deformed and otherwise unfortunate children. Birthmarks would be far more common than now. Fourth, the good mothers, who would make the best voters and city officeholders, would to a large extent be debarred from voting and holding office. The result would be that those women who are guilty of race suicide and who avoid maternity would do the voting and the holding of office. Could there be a more offensive class of officeholders? I think not. Fifth, the claim that women would purify politics and carry all reforms, is mythical -- a happy fancy. They would reform matters as they are doing in California, where out of thirty-seven cities which the men voted dry, they have voted twenty-eight of them wet; and where not a single election has gone dry since they got the vote. They would reform matters as they are reforming theaters, dance halls, saloons and red-light districts, and no better. With the ballot, women would January, 1914. have more power to continue these nuisances and make them worse. It is foolish to say that the good women would break up these things. Else why do they not do it? If all women were good, they would do it. But there is the trouble-all women are not good, nor will they soon be. Sixth, it would have an unhappy effect upon woman herself. She would lose much of her loveliness and attractiveness, and her power of moral and sympathetic suasion. The suffragettes of England, who have been guilty of arson, murder, bomb throwing, wrecking of property, and anarchy, prove this. So, too, do those women who are now heading and controlling the woman movement in this country. Enough of them are infidels to override the wish of the Christian ladies connected with the movement. At their National Convention in Philadelphia in 1912, they held a banquet Sabbath evening, against the protest of the Christian ladies of the convention. Do we want these women to teach other woman in this country? No. Seventh, to impose political duties upon women, which the good mothers can not perform and which to a very great extent they do not want, is of most doubtful propriety. To correct the corrupt female vote would be a most unwelcome and Herculean task to impose upon the busy mothers. The others could not be depended on to do much of this work, especially in the great cities, where the bulk of the corrupt vote, both of men and women, exists. A man never gets so low that a good woman can not approach him; but a woman does. And this class of women are very numerous in all our great cities. It is no answer to the foregoing to cite those western states (or the Senators from them) which have adopted woman suffrage. Those states, excepting California, where the thing is working badly, have not so many people in the whole state as has the county in Ohio in which the city of Cleveland is located. Neither has New Zealand, which is so often quoted as a worthy example for us to imitate. They have no very large cities, and few great manufactories. And their Senators are wanting reelection. What is true of Ohio is now true of all the older states, and in time will be true of all. Woman suffrage could not work otherwise than badly in Ohio, and would work as badly, or worse, in some other states. Ohio. A. G. Eagleson. KANSAS has 275,000 women voters. Cleveland housemaids have formed a union. Pennsylvania has 10,000 feeble-minded women. Philadelphia has three women mill owners. Michigan has 100,000 women taxpayers. There are 3,167,232 widows in the United States. In Persia carpet weaving is done exclusively by women. Housewives purchase $225,000,000 worth of food each year. A woman can jump 62 per cent. of the distance a man can jump. Princess Mary of England is making a collection of Pagan idols. The ancient town of Cambridge, England, is soon to have women police. Three hundred women have made application for police jobs in Chicago. Mrs. Francis Bowes Savre, who was Jessie Woodrow Wilson, has eight hats. Women form about 35 per cent. of the total immigration into the United States. The National Suffrage Association has doubled its membership in the past year. Of the 90,000 trades union women in New York city, 80 per cent. are foreigners. In Oregon the law fixes a minimum wage of $9.25 a week for adult women clerks. Miss Elaine Golding has gone to Panama, where she expects to swim the Panama Canal. Miss H. Barleet has been nominated for a seat in the Birmingham, England, City Council. Kansas women are asking that they have equal property rights with their husbands. New York storekeepers will employ over 50,000 extra girls during the holiday season. From 1901 to 1911 the mortality due to cancer among women has increased 22 per cent. Ninety per cent. of the members of the Shirtwaist Makers' Union in New York are young girls. Women in Switzerland who graduate in theology will hereafter be entitled to the status of the clergy. Mrs. Hetty Green, who to-day is worth many millions of dollars, started a bank account when she was eight years of age. Mrs. Pankhurst, the suffragist leader, took $20,000 back to England with her, as a result of her lecture tour in this country. [?] [?] county commissioners. The official board of the National Woman Suffrage association issued a call Wednesday to the suffragists of the country to rally at an open air mass meeting Saturday, May 2, in every city, village and hamlet from the Atlantic to the Pacific. [?race] Johnson [??] --A meeting of the Putnam Equal Franchise League will be held at the home of Mrs. W. J. Bartlett, Elm st reet, on Friday, Oct. 17, at 7.30 p. m. Mrs. John Evans Sheppard will speak. [??] SUFFRAGISTS LOSE CONGRESS BATTLE House Rules Committee Will Not Grant Demands. DECLARES TIME NOT RIPE Refuses to Report Rule Creating Standing Committees on Woman Suffrage in House.--President Declined to Give Aid in Campaign Conducted at Capital. [By the Associated Press.] Washington, Jan. 17--Democrats of the House rules committee today refused to report a rule to create a standing committee on woman suffrage in the House. After a long discussion the Democratic majority concluded that the time was not ripe for creation of a separate committee on the subject. The action comes after a long campaign of the woman suffragists, in which the anti-suffrage organization made a spirited fight. Woman suffragists from every part of the country appeared at the recent hearings and later, led by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, visited President Wilson and urged him to ask Congress in a message to create a suffrage committee. The President declined to do so, saying he had no authority to represent the Democratic party in such a matter and could not transmit his own views in a message, whatever they might be. Suffrage leaders here were shocked at the news of their defeat. The committee announced its action soon after a delegation from the Fels Fund for Single Tax had called and urged creation of a separate committee. In the delegation today were Herbert Bigelow of Cincinnati, Mayor Newton D. Baker of Cleveland, Frank Garrison of Boston and Lincoln Steffens and Frederick Howe of New York. Both the congressional committee of the National American Women Suffrage Association and the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage have been pressing the matter, but a radical difference of opinion between the organizations was indicated by the comments tonight. The Congressional Union, at a meeting hurriedly called, adopted resolutions unanimously declaring that the meeting "regarded with indignation" the action of the Democratic members of the rules committee in refusing to create a committee to consider "the justice and expediency of extending self-governing institutions to women." Mrs. Antoinette Funk, lobby member of the suffrage association, took exception to the attitude of the Congressional Union. "I am fearful lest the avowed policy of the union to strike at the Democratic party as a whole," she said, "and to make war on Democratic members regardless of the friendliness or unfriendliness or their willingness to vote for or against suffrage legislation, may have contributed to this most regrettable situation. "It is the intention of our committee to remain entirely non-partisan and to support at primaries and elections such national officers as show a friendly disposition toward us, and never to oppose any candidate unless he has ignored a well-defined sentiment for suffrage among his constituents." Kansas has 15,000 widows. England has 347 women carmen and wagoners. Philadelphia has 4255 female school teachers. New South Wales will have a widows' colony. More women attempt suicide than men. Great Britain has a woman railway director. Miss Frances Davis is State Librarian of Wyoming. The Mexican Federal army has women flag bearers. Several Kansas and Wyoming towns have women Mayors. Uruguay has appointed a woman to its diplomatic corps. A French village has six sisters whose ages total 457 years. London women are now buying frocks to match their furniture. Miss Vera Maxwell, the dancer, has her feet insured for $20,000. Mrs. Clarke W. Kelley of Devil's Lake, N. D., runs a 1000-acre farm. More than 42,000 births were recorded in Philadelphia during 1913. The international Olympic games will hereafter be open to women. During the past year 16,122 marriage licenses were issued in Philadelphia. Miss Anna Florence Yerger is the only woman practicing lawyer in Philadelphia. Eleanor Gates, the authoress, was brought up on a Dakota cattle ranch. The best-looking girls and young women in Germany live along the Rhine. Selma Lagerlof is the only woman who ever received the Nobel prize for literature. Kansas is to have two women on the Democratic State ticket at the next election. The average salary paid to Philadelphia women school teachers is $80 per month. Divorces are more difficult to obtain in England than in any other civilized country. New York has a club where women may leave their children while they go to a matinee or shopping. Two women are serving on the Advisory Council for Medical Research, appointed by the English Government. The proportion of suicides during the past year remains about the same, being 8602 males and 4504 females. Portsmouth, N. H., after experimenting with a woman police officer has decided that she is a failure. Oregon has a wife's compensation bill calling for compensation by saloonkeepers where husbands die from alcoholism. Society women, lured by the delights of flying, are now becoming serious rivals of men for aviation honors. There are 29,734 women school teachers in Pennsylvania, who receive an average salary of $48.69 a month. The Progressive party in Pennsylvania has just appointed nine women as an auxiliary to the State committee. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, the pure food advocate, claims that American women are worse cooks than those of any other nation. Mrs. Ellen Grangrow of Pendleton, Or., has succeeded in buying off her ninth husband by giving him $2000 as alimony. Miss Alice Martin of St. Louis, inventor of the "hesitation waltz," has been awarded a gold medal by the Paris dancing teachers. For assisting a constable in difficulty Miss Eveline Mullins of Swansea, England, has received a bracelet from the police department. New York has 13 perfect telephone girls, they having recently passed a civil service examination with an average of 100. Seventeen widows whose combined ages totaled 1033 years were recently given a dinner by J. Whitaker, a wealthy land owner of North Carolina. One of the first duties of the newly created Industrial Relations Commission will be to investigate the public school conditions throughout the country. Mothers generally are agreed that it is necessary to begin spanking boy babies at the age of 1 year and girl babies at the age of 16 months. Miss Margaret B. Connell, deputy clerk of the United States Court, is slated for the position of receiver of the United States Land Office for Utah. Miss Ida O. Tillman, Postmistress at Geneva, Ala., has refused to surrender her office to the Government and says she will not be forced out without making a fight. Miss Minnie Bronson, a former employee of the State Labor Department in New York, has been engaged by the anti-suffragists to argue against the ballot for working women. The wearing of hatpins with exposed points in the tube railways, trams, omnibuses, theatres and all public places in Paris is prohibited by the police. Miss Kathryn Puncheon, recently elected principal of the Philadelphia high school for girls, will receive a salary of $4500 a year, the same as that paid her male predecessor. Eleven-year-old Aleen Fell of Mercer, Pa., has been crowned "Queen of Pennsylvania Corn Growers" as the result of defeating 80 boys in her home county in a sweepstakes corn-growing contest. Probably the first woman to loop the loop in an aeroplane is Miss Mary T. Davies, who accompanied Gustave Hamel, the English aviator, who recently made several successful loops in his machine. The women of the Lutheran churches of Nebraska pledged all the money from the eggs laid by their hens for six successive Sundays for the purpose of building a private school at Hebron. In all $13,000 was earned by the hens. Following the example set by Russia, America, Germany and England, France has established an agricultural school for girls. The course includes studies in botany, zoology, chemical and physical horticulture and agriculture. Suffragists to Parade in White Miss Louie R. Stanwood announces that the many suffragists who will march in the suffrage parade here next May will all wear white dresses. White has been chosen because it is impressive, and it is also suitable to the weather. The parade will be well managed and dignified. Many professional and working women will take part. Suffrage Gains in Bay State. [By the Associated Press.] Boston, Feb. 26.--A bill providing for a constitutional amendment, giving the vote to women, was favorably reported to the Senate by the committee on constitutional amendments today. It is the first time such a report on a Suffrage bill has been made in this State. The committee's vote stood nine to two, the dissenting members being Frederick W. Hurlburt of Worcester and Clifford B. Sanborn of Norwood. VOTES FOR WOMEN Program Forty-Fourth Annual Convention Of The Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association "This is the true joy of life: the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one . . . . . the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy." -Anna Howard Shaw. Unity Hall, Hartford October 21-22, 1913 Press of Meyer & Noll, Hartford, Conn. The Virginia Inn 24 Lewis Street Near the Heublein Hotel For the convenience of delegates to the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association Convention, Breakfast will be served from 8 to 10. Luncheon from 11 to 3. Afternoon Tea from 3 to 6. Dinner from 6 to 8. Flowers For All Occasions Coombs Leading Florist 752 Main Street Our Flowers Are From Our Own Greenhouses Oriental Rugs 9x12 and 10x14 Feet In these Room Sizes we are displaying some wonderful values. Harmonious colorings are SAMDORUCO brown, blue, rose, and cream effects, while each Persian floral design is executed with truly artistic elegance. This is by far the largest selection in Connecticut - our price range is wide and attractive. 9x12 Oriental Carpets, $85, $95, $105, $115, $125, $135, $145 up. 10x14 Persian Rugs commence at $135, $155, $185, and $215. THE SAMUEL DONCHIAN RUG COMPANY 205 Pearl St., Hartford, Conn. Tuesday, October 21 12:00 NOON Convention opened by the President, Mrs. William T. Hincks. Welcome to Hartford - Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn. Response - Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton. Appointment of Committees on Courtesies, Credentials and Resolutions. Minutes of last Annual Meeting - Miss Ruutz-Rees, Recording Secretary. 1:00 P. M. Luncheon at Lower Unity Hall (Twenty-five and fifty cents) 2:00 P. M. REPORTS: Treasurer - Mrs. Mary J. Rogers. Auditors - Mrs Julius Maltby, Miss Frances Osborn. Press Secretary - Mrs. Edward Porritt. Chairman of Legislative Committee - Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett. Chairman of Enrollments - Mrs. George H. Day. State Organizer - Miss Emily Pierson. Second State Organizer - Miss Alyce Gregory. COUNTY CHAIRMEN. Fairfield - Mrs. Herbert H. Knox. Hartford - Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett. Litchfield - Mrs. A. E. Scranton Taylor. New Haven - Mrs. Carlos F. Stoddard. Windham - Miss Rosamond Danielson. Compliments of SPEAR & McMANUS Florists Little Crafts Shop 27 Lewis Street WEDDING AND CHRISTMAS GIFTS Compliments of THE Eagle Dye Works 9-11 Wells St., Hartford, CONN. DELEGATES Fraternal Delegates form Men's League for Woman Suffrage. Connecticut Leagues Presidents Barkhamsted E. F. L., Mrs. Frank Driggs Bridgeport E. F. L., Mrs. Samuel C. Shaw Canaan E. F. L., Mrs. Frank Hitchcock Clinton Women Electors, Mrs. Sarah H. Lewis Colebrook E. F. L., Mrs. Jerome Alexandre Cornwall E. F. L., Mrs. M. B. Miner Danbury E. F. L., Mrs. T. Clark Hull Danielson E. F. L., Mrs. Rienzi Robinson - Derby, Ansonia and Shelton Woman Suffrage Party, Mrs. Walter E. Andrews Enfield E. F. L., Mrs. J. K. Bissland Fairfield E. F. L., Mrs. Samuel H. Wheeler Fair Haven Equality Club Mrs. S. Devlin Farmington E. F. L., Mrs. Charles Brandegee Greenwich E. F. L., Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton - Goshen E. F. L., Mrs. Dalton Ostrom Guiford E. F. L., Mrs. Wm. Andrews Hartford E. F. L., Mrs. T. N. Hepburn - Hartford Equal Rights Club, Mrs. E. D. Bacon - Harwinton E. F. L., Mrs. Jessie A. Bartholomew Lime Rock E. F. L., Miss Julia E. Goodwin Litchfield E. F. L., Miss Frances Hickox Madison E. F. L., Mrs. George Wilcox Meriden Political Equality Club, Mrs. M. J. Rogers - Meriden E. F. L., Mrs. W. B. Church Middletown E. F. L., Mrs. Charles E. Cameron New Britain E. F. L., Mrs. B. B. Bassette New Canaan E. F. L., Mrs. Herbert H. Knox - New Haven E. F. L., Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers New Haven Political Equality Club, Mrs. T. S. McDermott - New Haven Women's Political Union, Mrs. W. S. Murray - New London E. F. L., Mrs. H. C. Bunner New Milford E. F. L., Mrs. George H. Wright Norfolk E. F. L., Mrs. A. E. S. Taylor - Norwalk E. F. L., Mrs. F. S. Lyon - Norwich E. F. L., Mrs. Wm. Norton Putnam E. F. L., Mrs. W. J. Bartlett - Redding Bridge E. F. L., Miss Lucy Sanford Ridgefield E. F. L., Mrs. H. H. Keeler Riverton E. F. L., Mrs. Trescott Barnes Salisbury E. F. L., Mrs. George D. Harrison Sharon E. F. L., Mrs. Chas. Kerley South Manchester E. F. L., Mrs. Hannah Gartland Stamford E. F. L., Miss E. L. Plumley - Stratford E. F. L., Mrs. David Winton Stratford Woman Suffrage Association, Miss Lillian Snowdon Torrington Mrs. Mackenzie Wallingford E. F. L., Mrs. Arthur Greenleaf Washington E. F. L., Mrs. W. G. Brinsmade Waterbury E. F. L., Mrs. Julius Maltby West Hartford E. F. L., Mrs. F. E. Duffy Westport E. F. L., Mrs. Neil Mitchell Wilton E. F. L., Mrs. E. G. H. Schenck Woodbury E. F. L., Mrs. Alice G. Traver MRS. ADA M. ROBERTS, DEALER IN Antiques HAVING CLOSED HER SUMMER SHOP "The Copper Kettle" at Washington, New Hampshire WILL HOLD A Christmas Sale of Antique Jewelry, Rare Old China, Old Russian Silver and Various Small Articles Suitable for Christmas Gifts AT 699 ASYLUM AVENUE, HARTFORD, CONN. Three Weeks Before Christmas. Mail orders filled promptly and with care. Prices moderate. Tuesday Evening 8:00 P. M. UNITY HALL PRATT STREET MASS MEETING Chairman, MRS. WILLIAM T. HINCKS Address: Mrs. Chapman Catt "THE WORLD'S WOMEN" Address: Dean W. T. Sumner "WOMAN'S SEX-LOYALTY" Wednesday, October 22 9:00 A. M. BUSINESS MEETING Informal Talk by the President. Work of the Probation Officer in Hartford - Miss Carrie A. Gauthier. A Striking Example of the Need for Woman's Votes - Mrs. E. O. Parker, Probation Officer of Greenwich, Conn. Outlines of New Work - Miss Emily Pierson. Our Next Petition - Mrs. Carlos F. Stoddard. Report of Committee on Resolutions. Report of Committee on Credentials. Election of Officers. Convention adjourned. A luncheon in honor of the retiring officers will be held at Hotel Bond, 320 Asylum St., at the end of the Convention. Tickets, $1.50. A FIRST CLASS Dinner and Supper For 50 cents SERVED AT Caterer Habenstein's 111 Pearl St., Hartford, Conn. The Sign of the Green Kettle Next Door to Unity Hall WILL SERVE Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Supper Tables may be reserved if desired Miss E. F. Purtell MAKES A SPECIALTY OF Ready-to-Wear Dresses 69 Pratt Street, Hartford, Conn. MRS. SILL'S The place to BROWSE AROUND for Books, Periodicals, Post Cards and Novelties. 209-211 TRUMBULL ST. OPP. PRATT STREET. VOTES FOR WOMEN PAGEANT AND PARADE HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT SATURDAY, MAY 2ND, 1914, 3 P. M. RAIN OR SHINE MASS MEETING, PARK CASINO, 5 P. M. ALL SEATS FREE Map Showing Plan of Formation and Line of March [map] The Dotted Line - - - - Shows Line of March. Place of Formation Capital Avenue, south of State Capitol CONNECTICUT WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION HEADQUARTERS, 55-57 PRATT STREET HARTFORD, CONN. [seal illegible] HOWARD STREET Herald with banner - "Appeal to Justice" Joan of Arc Mounted Heralds ARMORY Band (Bag Pipes) Connecticut Banner Executive Board Representatives of Leagues with Banners Float - "Justice" Banner - "Isabella Beecher Hooker" Pioneers Banner - "Taxation Without Representation is Tyranny" Taxpayers Ushers HUNGERFORD STREET Band Herald - "Progress of Women" Float - "Red School House" (Schools) High School Girls (Schools alphabetically by towns) CAPITOL DRIVE I COLLEGES Float - "Mary Lyon" College Women (Colleges by date of foundation) PROFESSIONS Float - "Florence Nightingale" Doctors Lawyers Ministers Opticians Nurses Teachers OAK STREET FINE ARTS Float - "The Arts" Painters Sculptors Musicians Actresses Elocutionists Writers Journalists Arts and Crafts Photographers CAPITOL DRIVE II TRADES Float - "Colonial Kitchen" Dressmakers Milliners Office Workers Telephone Operators Retail Clerks Factory Workers Florists Farmers Cooks and Waitresses Laundresses Band CAPITOL DRIVE III HOMEMAKERS Herald - "Needs of the World Calling Women" Mothers All children under High School age Homemakers Grandmothers All Unclassified Women WASHINGTON STREET Herald - "Enfranchised Helping the Unenfranchised" Float - "Men's League" Men Sympathizers CAPITOL AVENUE Band CAPITOL DRIVE IV Herald - "Women Free to Serve" United States Flag Float - "Betsy Ross" Banner - "Votes of Women" carried by 40 girls in white Banner - "Countries Where Women Vote" Representatives of Equal Suffrage Countries in order of date of enfranchisement Banner - "States and Territories Where Women Vote" 11 Automobiles Wyoming Colorado Idaho Utah Washington California Oregon Arizona Kansas Alaska Illinois Banner - "Campaign in 1914" 5 automobiles Nevada North Dakota South Dakota Montana Nebraska Banner - "Campaign in 1915" 6 automobiles Missouri Ohio New York New Jersey Massachusetts Pennsylvania ELM STREET Ox Cart Float - "Vision of the Future" Band Litchfield County Automobile Contingent Unclassified Automobiles FORMATION If you have not yet sent in your name and the group with which you wish to march, it will be easier for us and for you if you will do so at once. If you decide to come at the last minute, you can join your group at place of formation. DRESS All marchers please dress in white. College women in cap and gown and hood. These may be rented for $1.50 at Cox, Vining & Co., 72 Madison Ave., New York City. Special cape and hood in colors for all except college women. Deposit $2.00 required. These are to be obtained at 55 Pratt Street, Hartford. Any marchers who shall have failed to obtain costumes may procure same by deposit of $2.00 at supply automobile head of each street. Money will be refunded on return of costume. Hats may be checked at automobiles. High School girls and forty girls carrying Votes for Women banner wear white middy blouses. Arm regalias may be obtained, 10 cents each, at supply automobile. Riders should wear black habit and three cornered black hat with tri-color cockade. These may be bought through Hartford Headquarters. College women may march with their trade or profession if they prefer. Undergraduates and college women without occupation march in college section. All those entitled to it should wear academic costume in whatever group they march. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS Seats in automobiles may be secured at Headquarters for $1.25 each. Horses for expert horsewomen may be engaged at Headquarters for $2.25 for the afternoon. If you wish entertainment send in your name to Headquarters with the request before April 30th. 6 RECALLED OFFICIAL WINS; WOMEN VOTE Result in Seattle Big Factor in Suffrage Agitation. WIDE-OPEN TOWN AN ISSUE Gill Deposed as Mayor by Male Voters Because of Legalized Vice, and Restored to Office by Unusual Majority After Suffrage is Extended. From the Washington Bureau of the Providence Journal, 723 Fifteenth Street. Washington, March 8.-- The recent elections in Seattle, whereby a former Mayor of that city who was recalled from office three years ago by a large vote, finds himself again at the head of the city's Government by a majority of unusual size, not only throw an interesting light upon the operations of the recall law but have led to ta spirited discussion in Washington of the part played in the election by another of the progressive lases now being urged upon the entire country--woman suffrage. The women have the privilege of voting on every public question in the State of Washington, and of designating their choice of candidates for every public office, from the presidency of the United States down to the municipal offices. The fact that is most interesting to students of this new movement, just now at its height at the national capital, and especially in Congress, is that when Hiram Gill was recalled from office for running a "wide-open" town, the women of the State were not voters, and that when he was re-elected to office by an overwhelming vote, three years later, they had the privilege of the franchise and, to a large extent, it is understood, made use of it. ACTIVE IN CAMPAIGN. There is not attempt, it appears, in any quarter, to make it appear that the women, en masse, rushed in and made possible the re-election of a recalled Mayor, who at one time was openly in favor of legalized vice of all kinds. Indeed, the women voters of Seattle were very active in the recent campaign, which closed on March 3 last, in opposing Mr. Gill's re-election -- that is, there was a large force of women engaged in making public speeches in opposition to his re-election. But the fact remains that with a very sizeable increase in the voting poser of the city-composed of the female vote and a certain number of newly arrived voters of both sexes-- Mr. Gill is back in office with a majority vote behind him that amazed the entire State. This situation, naturally, has already been seized upon by the opponents of the suffrage movement as an illustration of what can happen, even where the women, and as an argument in opposition to the plea that woman suffrage means clean government. CLAIMED HE HAD REFORMED. On the other hand, it is pointed out that Mr. Gill, all through his second campaign, claimed that he no longer stood for vice, but that he had reformed and wanted vindication, and the advocates of woman suffrage are resorting to the argument that the Seattle election proves that the women use their brains when they vote-- that they are not driven to the polls by mere sentiment, and herded this way and that, "whenever the cry of vice is raised." They say that while many of the Seattle women who voted--perhaps a large majority of them--voted against Mr. Gill, the percentage that voted for him is a vindication of the suffragists' declaration that the women can be depended upon to form their own opinions and to vote as independently as the men. THE HARTFORD DAILY FIVE BANDS FOR SUFFRAGE PAGEANT (Continued from Page 1.) Foot Guard, Colt's, Hatch's, Columbian and the Bagpipes of Bridgeport. Formation at 2. The formation of the parade will begin at 2 o'clock. The line of march will be from Capitol avenue to Trinity street, to Ford, to High, to Main, to Elm, to Park Casino, where a mass meeting will be held. The following will be the formation of sections as issued by the marshal, Miss Emily Pierson: - Section 1. A. - Twelve mounted heralds, led by Joan of Arc, impersonated by Miss Ethel Murray of Guilford. MRS. E. O. PARKER OF GREENWICH. Marshal in the Doctors' Division. B. - Connecticut banner carried by women in white with children. This is the well known Connecticut State Suffrage banner which has been carried by Connecticut women in every suffrage parade ever held in this country. C. - Executive board, of which the following women are members: Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, Hartford; Mrs. Grace Gallatin Seton, Greenwich; Miss Ruutz-Rees, Greenwich; Miss Mabel C. Washburn, Hartford; Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett, Hartford; Mrs. Mary J. Rogers, Meriden; Mrs. H. H. DeLoss, Bridgeport; Mrs. Elizabeth D. Bacon, Hartford; Mrs. Edward Porritt, Hartford; Mrs. George H. Day, Hartford; Mrs. Carlos F. Stoddard, New Haven; Mrs. A. E. Scranton Taylor, Norfolk; Mrs. William T. Hincks, Bridgeport; Mrs. H. A. Taylor, New Britain; Mrs. Herbert H. Knox, New Canaan; Dr. Esther S. B. Woodward, Norwich; Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam; Miss Emily Pierson, Cromwell. D—Presidents of the suffrage leagues, each with a banner of its league. E—Float of Justice. The Progress of Women. Section 2. A—Entrance into the public schools. A float representing a little red school house; boys inside, girls on the steps, followed by high school girls (300). MRS. ELIZABETH D. BACON Ex-President of Connecticut Woman's Suffrage Association. B - Entrance into the colleges. A float representing Mary Lyon teaching the first four Mt Holyoke College pupils, followed by 400 college women, each in cap and gown and each col- float representing an old fashioned kitchen with a woman at a spinning wheel before a huge fireplace, followed by dressmakers, milliners, bookkeepers, stenographers, etc. Eection 3 - The wrongs of the world calling women. A- Mother's float representing a home. B- Home-Makers, grandmothers and all of the unclassified paraders. Section 4 - The enfranchised aiding the unenfranchised. A - The political parties, a humorous float decorated by the Men's League, followed by representatives of the Men's League and men's colleges. A Trinity College group will be included in this section. Section 5 - The Pioneers. Automobiles decorated by the Hartford Equal Rights club, the oldest suffrage club in the state, with banners bearing the names of Isabella Beecher Hooker, Emily F. Collins and others. Section 6 - Women free to serve. A - The United States flag. B - The Votes for Women Banner, a banner with ten stars carried flat by forty young girls in white, wearing regalia. ANNIE G. PORRITT. Press Agent and Member of Executive Board. C - Banner, countries where women vote, followed by representatives of different countries where women vote, in national costumes with flags. D - States where women vote, followed by eleven automobiles, each with a banner of a suffrage state or territory. E - Banner, campaign in 1914, followed by four automobiles, each with a banner of a referendum state. F - Banner, campaign of 1915, followed by four automobiles, each with a banner of a referendum state. G - Connecticut, ox-cart with sign, "Connecticut Trying to Catch Up." H - Vision of the future, float with liberty and forty-eight children. The bands will be at the head of the sections. Joan of Arc. Miss Ethel Murray of Guilford, who is to lead the parade as Joan of Arc, is one of four daughter of Rev. H. H. Murray, who was formerly pastor of the Park Street Congregational Church of Boston. Mr. Murray was well known in the latter part of the last century for his books about the Adirondacks, which he made known to the American people and he became known as "Adirondack" Murray. MRS. ELLA B. KENDRICK. Member of Suffrage Parade Committee. Prior to his death in 1904 he took personal charge of the education of all four daughters, giving them a most liberal education both physically and mentally. One of the daughers is a trained nurse, another is studying [illegible] and Miss Ethel England, but the pioneer club prefers the peaceful yellow which signifies "intelligence and wisdom". The Marshals. The marshals of the various sections will be as follows:- Teachers-- Miss Katherine M. Mullen. New Haven. Executive board—Mrs. Grace Gallatin Seton, New York. College women—Mrs. Helena M. Weed, Greenich. Nurses—Miss P. Webster, Putnam. Lawyers—Miss Susan O'Neil, Waterbury. Social workers—Miss Grace D. Upham, Bridgeport. Librarians--Miss Anna- G. Rockwell, New Britain Institute, New Britain. Photographers—Miss Mary E. Robinson, Greenwich. Milliners—Miss Juliette Greenberg, New Britain. Dressmakers--Mrs. W. Miner, Greenwich. Representatives of Countries where women vote—Mrs. H. A. Taylor, New Britain. Writers—Miss Rosina H. Emmett, Salisbury. Actresses--Mrs. Carlos F. Stoddard, New Haven. Elocutionists. readers and lecturers —Mrs. Edna Chaffee Noble, Middletown. Sculptors and architects—Miss Theodate Pope, Farmington. Heralds—Miss Mary Bulkley, Hartford. Ushers—Mrs. Harry V. Richards, Hartford. Arts and Crafts—Mrs. Solon H Borglum, Norwalk. State and Municipal Officers—Miss Elsie Tiemann, Greenwich. Office Workers—Miss Elise M. Casey, Bridgeport. Factory Workers — Miss Abbie O'Connor, Willimantic. Journalists—Miss Sarah W. Joyner, New Haven. Automobiles—Mrs. George H. Day, Hartford. Homemakers and Mothers—Mrs. C. M. Gallup, West Hartford. Retail Clerks—Mrs. Cecil Byles. Manicurists and Chiropodists--Miss L. B. Pease, Hartford. Traveling Saleswomen—Mrs. Hulda L. Johnson, Hartford. At Park Casino. One of the features of the parade will be the appearance of Miss Rose Winslow, one of the youngest suffragist speakers in the country. She will speak at the mass meeting, which will be held at the Park Casino immediately following the parade. Miss Winslow is a factory girl, who believed that she was capable of doing something worth while. She is now 26 years old but, from the time when she was 13 years of age, she began to show great aptitude in the speaking line. The mass meeting will begin about 4 o'clock, and several of the most able speakers in the cause of suffrage will be heard. Admission will be free, and it is expected that several thousands of people will try to crowd into the hall. A short concert will be given, and refreshments will be served to the paraders. 00 6 Recalled Official Wins; Women Vote Result in Seattle Big Factor in Suffrage Agitation. Wide-Open Town an Issue Gill Deposed as Mayor by Male Voters Because of Legalized Vice, and Restored to Office by Unusual Majority After Suffrage is Extended. From the Washington Bureau of The Providence Journal, 723 Fifteenth Street. Washington, March 8- The recent elections in Seattle, whereby a former Mayor of that city who was recalled from office three years ago by a large vote, finds himself again at the head of the city's Government by a majority of unusual size, not only throw an interesting light upon the operations of the recall law but have led to a spirited discussion in Washington of the part played in the election by another of the progressive laws now being urged upon the entire country- woman suffrage. The women have the privilege of voting on every public question in the State of Washington, and of designating their choice of candidates for every public office, from the presidency of the United States down to the municipal offices. The fact that is most interesting to students of this new movement, just now at its height at the national capital, and especially in Congress, is that when Hiram Gill was recalled from office for running a "wide-open" town, the women of the State were not voters, and that when he was re-elected to office by an overwhelming vote, three years later, they had the privilege of the franchise and, to a large extent, it is understood, made use of it. ACTIVE IN CAMPAIGN. There is no attempt, it appears, in any quarter, to make it appear that the women, en masse, rushed in and made possible the re-election of a recalled Mayor, who at one time was openly in favor of legalized vice of all kinds. nIndeed, the women voters of Seattle were very active in the recent campaign, which closed on March 3 last, in opposing Mr. Gill's re-election - that is, there was a large force of women engaged in making public speeches in opposition to his re-election. But the fact remains that with a very sizable increase in the voting power of the city - composed of the female vote and a certain number of newly arrived voters of both sexes - Mr. Gill is back in office with a majority vote behind him that amazed the entire State. This situation, naturally, has already been seized upon by the opponents of the suffrage movement as an illustration of what can happen, even where the women are voters, and as an argument in opposition to the plea that woman suffrage means clean government. CLAIMED HE HAD REFORMED. On the other hand, it is pointed out that Mr. Gill, all through his second campaign, claimed that he no longer stood for vice, but that he had reformed and wanted vindication, and the advocates of woman suffrage are resorting to the argument that the Seattle election proves that the women use their brains when they vote - that they are not driven to the polls by mere sentiment, and herded this way and that, "whenever the cry of vice is raised." They say that while many of the Seattle women who voted - perhaps a large majority of them - voted against Mr. Gill, the percentage that voted for him is a vindication of the suffragists' declaration that the women can be depended upon to form their own opinions and to vote as independently as the men. Mrs. E. O. Parker of Greenwich Marshal in the Doctors' Division Joan of Arc, impersonated by Miss Ethel Murray of Guilford. B.- Connecticut banner carried by women in white with children. This is the well known Connecticut State Suffrage banner which has been carried by Connecticut women in every suffrage parade ever held in this country. C- Executive board, of which the following women are members: Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, Hartford; Mrs. Grace Gallatin Seton, Greenwich; Miss Ruutz-Rees, Greenwich; Miss Mabel C. Washburn, Hartford; Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett, Hartford; Mrs. Mary J. Rogers, Meriden; Mrs. H. H. DeLoss, Bridgeport; Mrs. Elizabeth D. Bacon, Hartford; Mrs. Edward Porritt, Hartford; Mrs. George H. Day, Hartford; Mrs. Carlos F. Stoddard, New Haven; Mrs. A. E. Scranton Taylor, Norfolk; Mrs. William T. Hincks, Bridgeport; Mrs. H. A. Taylor, New Britain; Mrs. Herbert H. Knox, New Canaan; Dr. Esther S. B. Woodward, Norwich; Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam; Miss Emily Pierson, Cromwell. D - Presidents of the suffrage leagues, each with a banner of its league. E - Float of Justice. The Progress of Women. Section 2. A - Entrance into the public schools. A float representing a little red school MRS. ELIZABETH D. BACON. Ex-President of Connecticut Woman's Suffrage Association. house; boys inside, girls on the steps, followed by high school girls (300). B - Entrance into the colleges. A float representing Mary Lyon teaching the first four Mt Holyoke pupils, followed by 400 college women, each in cap and gown and each college represented by a banner. C - Entrance into the professions. MISS ABBIE O'CONNOR To Lead the Factory Workers. A float representing an English hospital scene during the Crimean War; Florence Nightingale with a lamp, followed by nurses in white cap and uniform, doctors, lawyers, ministers in cap, gown, and hood, and teachers in white. D - Entrance into the arts. A float representing Le Bonheur in a studio. E - Entrance into the trades. A ANNIE G. PORRITT Press Agent and Member of Executive Board. forty young girls in white, wearing regalia. C - Banner, countries where women vote, followed by representatives of different countries where women vote, in national costumes with flags. D - States where women vote, followed by eleven automobiles, each with a banner of a suffrage state or territory. E - Banner, campaign in 1914, followed by four automobiles, each with a banner of a referendum state. F - Banner, campaign of 1915, followed by four automobiles, each with a banner of a referendum state. G - Connecticut, ox-cart with sign, "Connecticut Trying to Catch Up." H - Vision of the future, float with liberty and forty-eight children. The bands will be at the head of the sections. Joan of Arc. Miss Ethel Murray of Guilford, who is to lead the parade as Joan of Arc, is one of four daughters of Rev. H. H. Murray, who was formerly pastor of the Park Street Congregational Church of Boston. Mr. Murray was well known in the latter part of the last century for his books about the Adirondacks, which he made known to the American people and he became known as "Adirondack" Murray. MRS. ELLA B. KENDRICK. Member of Suffrage Parade Committee. Prior to his death in 1904 he took personal charge of the education of all four daughters, giving them a most liberal education both physically and mentally. One of the daughters is a trained nurse, another is studying elocution, and Miss Ethel Murray, who has just graduated from high school expects to continue her studies at Mt. Holyoke, where her sisters have already distinguished themselves. Miss Murray is a thorough out-of-door girl and has ridden horseback ever since she was 5 years old. Leaders in Movement. The women who have been most active in planning the parade are Mrs. T. N. Hepburn, president of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, Mrs. M. T. Bennett, president of the Hartford Equal Franchise League; Mrs. George H. Day, who is in charge of the automobile section of the parade; Miss Emily Pierson and Miss Alyse Gregory , state organizers. Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton of Greenwich and New York has also taken a large and active share in the work of preparation. She is chairman of the art committee of the parade. Passing in Review. The reviewing stand in front of City Hall will be in position this morning, and Mayor J. H. Lawler and many other prominent city officials and private citizens, will review the parade as it passes down Main street about 3:30 o'clock. Special salutes will be given by several sections of the parade as they pass the reviewing stand. An escort of police will lead the parade, and the whole course along the line of march will be well protected. Equal Rights Club. The automobiles which will carry members of the Equal Rights club in the parade will be decorated with yellow bunting upon which will appear in black "Hartford Equal Rights Club 1885," the year of its organization. The club in its early existence adopted yellow the state and national color. After the visit of Mrs. Pankhurst to this country the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, in executive committee, changed from yellow to the colors of the militant organization of Manicurists and Chiropodists - Miss L. B. Pease, Hartford. Traveling Saleswomen - Mrs. Hulda L. Johnson, Hartford. At Park Casino. One of the features of the parade will be the appearance of Miss Rose Winslow, one of the youngest suffragist speakers in the country. She will speak at the mass meeting which will be held at the Park Casino immediately following the parade. Miss Winslow is a factory girl, who believed that she was capable of doing something worth while. She is now 26 years old but, from the time when she was 13 years of age, she began to show great aptitude in the speaking line. The mass meeting will begin about 4 o'clock, and several of the most able speakers in the cause of suffrage will be heard. Admission will be free, and it is expected that several thousands of people will try to crowd into the hall. A short concert will be given, and refreshments will be served to the paraders. Hartford Cou[rtant] HARTFORD, CONN., SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 2, 1914 - 24 PAGES Some of the Ladies in Today's Suffrage Parade MARY BULKLEY. Marshal of the Heralds. "JOAN OF ARC" Miss Ethel Murray, Who Will Lead the Parade in a Coat of Mail. MRS. ERNEST THOMPSON SETON Who Designed and Superintended the Making of All Banners Used in the Parade. VOTES FOR WOMEN Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett and Children. FIVE BANDS FOR SUFFRAGE PAGEANT Parade In Hartford This Afternoon Will Be Spectacular. LEADERS EXPECT 2,000 WILL MARCH Decorative Floats and Many Other Features. ___________________________________________ Meeting Anti-Suffragettes Nest Thursday Evening The meeting to be held Thursday evening, June 11th, is under the auspices of the Connecticut Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage and will be addressed by Miss Lucy J. Price. Of Miss Price's speech at the hearing before the General Assembly on the Suffrage question the Hartford Courant said, "One of the speakers who discussed the question in a most able manner was Miss Lucy Price. She took up each of the Suffrage arguments and put them out of the running." It is believed that systematic resistance should be made to the appeals and claims of woman suffragists by those who desire to educate public opinion to an opposition based on intelligent conviction. So much has been said for the extension of suffrage to women that a fair statement by those who believe that the enfranchisement of women is undesirable, is reasonably demanded. Those men and women are cordially invited to the meeting in I. O. O. F. hall at 8 o'clock and the admission is free. ___________________________________________ EQUAL FRANCHISE LEAGUE Gives Successful Entertainment Listen To An Able Address The Putnam Equal Franchise League held a very successful meeting Monday evening, when F. W. Hinrichs, a prominent lawyer of Brooklyn, N. Y., spoke on Equal Suffrage for men and women. After a few remarks by Mrs. Bartlett, president of the League, Eric H. Johnson introduced the speaker. Mr. Hinrichs gave an able and scholarly address, basing his arguments for equal suffrage on the fundamental principle of Democracy, which is governed by the people. He said that as the best ordered homes are those where men and women share equally in the management, so the best governed peoples will be those where men and women vote on equal terms. He emphasized the fact that equal suffrage is not merely a theory, it is a fact in ten states of the Union, and almost every country in Europe gives some measure of representation to women in the government. At the close of the address the audience enjoyed several musical selections sung by a chorus of young ladies under the direction of L. O. Williams. The members of the Equal Franchise league are taking an active interest in the suffrage campaign in Windham county, that is to begin June 15th. A large mass meeting in Odd Fellows hall is planned for June 19th, when Mrs. Carlos F. Stoddard of New Haven will speak. The campaign will be under the leadership of Miss Emily Pierson, State Organizer of the C. W. S. A. Speakers will make a tour of the county, in decorated automobiles, holding meetings in each town. The itinerary and the dates of the meetings will be published next week. "How the Vote Was Won," a play in one act was presented in Union hall Tuesday evening, by the Putnam Equal Franchise league to a full and appreciative house. Purporting to have been written a century or so hence, the play recounts in mock-historical vein the events which led to the enfranchisement of women-the general strike of a sex, the demand for support by female relatives, and the hasty refusal of heads of families to entertain the idea. The cast follows: Horace Cole, a clerk, Norman Kennedy Ethel, his wife, Miss Blanche Wood Winifred, her sister, Miss Annie Cogan Agatha Cole, Horace's sister, Miss Anna C. Levitt Molly, his niece, Miss Edna Mann Madame Christine, his distant relation, Miss Crescentia Beck Maudie Sparks, his first cousin, Miss Anna Montague Miss Lizzie Wilkins, his aunt, Mrs. Cortland D. Arnold Lily, his maid of all work, Miss Hazel Davis Gerald Williams, his neighbor, W. F. Rafferty, Jr. Norman Kennedy as an English master in his own house was especially good, and not even the optimistic Winifred or provocative Lily could persuade the pretty little Mrs. Cole to loose her temper. However, when the relatives begin to arrive for support— the sister, a niece, a very distant cousin, an actress cousin and finally an aunt, Cole realizes that something must be done for these self supporting women who seek recognition. W. H. Rafferty, as Williams, was good as a smug young man stiff with self-consciousness. Much credit is due Miss Beck, of the High school for her coaching and the experienced touch she gave the play. Co-operating with her was the committee: Mrs. W. J. Bartlett, Miss Annie Cogan, Miss Gertrude Jones and Miss Anna C. Levitt. Following the play good dancing was enjoyed by many who remained. Punch was served by Mrs. Richard Whitney and assistants. The hall was tastily decorated with banners and motto, lending spirit and ardor to the cause which is becoming so well recognized and accepted all over the country, and the local league has demonstrated by this success that it is very wide awake and "doing something" for sufferage. [*000621*] MARY BULKLEY Marshal of the Heralds "JOAN OF ARC" Miss Ethel Murray, Who Will Lead the Parade in a Coat of Mail. MRS. ERNEST THOMPSON SETON Who Designed and Superintended the Making of All Banners Used in the Parade VOTES FOR WOMEN Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett and Children. FIVE BANDS FOR SUFFRAGE PAGEANT Parade In Hartford This Afternoon Will Be Spectacular. LEADERS EXPECT 2,000 WILL MARCH Decorative Floats and Many Other Features. With fair weather promised and at least 2,200 men and women pledged to march today, the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association will give the most spectacular demonstration this afternoon of its strength that has ever been given in the state. The occasion is the first annual parade for the advancement of the cause of woman suffrage in Connecticut. The day is being celebrated in every state in the Union, with parades and speeches. The parade today in Hartford will probably bring out the largest number of women that have ever marched in a parade in this city for any cause. At 3 o'clock this afternoon the procession will begin to move from the Capitol, and adjacent streets and, with five bands playing, the spectacle will be one that should be remembered by those who witness it. Long In the Works. The parade given by the women in favor of woman suffrage has been planned for eight weeks and actual work for the event has been in progress during that time. More than 100 huge golden and silver banners have been made. Scores of smaller flags and banners will be carried in the many sections of the parade. These were all either made or bought by the workers for the suffrage cause. Twenty-five young women have worked two weeks in preparing dresses and costumers for the paraders. Bands Galore. Women from every town and city in the state have volunteered to march and, to original pledges of 1,200, there have been hundreds added. The Bridgeport and New Haven contingents will possibly bring bands of their own. The bands which will march are the (Concluded on Page 17.) gbee Wat Mrs. Madeline Ferola, convicted of murdering Camelo Camestrale in The Bronx, was sentenced to die in the electric chair during the week beginning July 6. The body of Senator Bradley was buried at Frankfort, Ky. Morton Hall, a 15-year-old wireless telegraph enthusiast of Wakefield, Mass., was killed by falling from a tree to which he was adjusting his apparatus. One man was burned to death when fire caused damage estimated at $1,500,000 in the lumber yard district along the Cuyahoga River, Cleveland. The estate of Chas. W. Post, who died in Santa Barbara, Cal., is valued at $20,000,000. The Senate and House, Washington, adjourned as a mark of respect to the late Senator Bradley, of Kentucky. William A. Taylor, chief of the bureau of plant industry, will be appointed Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. William Warner, of Cleveland, an aviator, fell 1,000 feet into Lake Erie and was drowned. His bride saw him fall. _____________________ Any of Our Entire Line of at 25 Per Cent. Discount. A line of Children's muslin priced from 50c to $1.25. Sale Pric 19c Children's straw bonnets that to $1.98. Sale Price, 39c Our Workroom is Equippe Trimming at a Moments Notice. SHOE DEPT. SPECIA Men's Walk-Over tan bluch narrow, medium, and broad tow, $4 Sale Price, Men's Stetson tan calf bluch $5.50 quality. Sale Price, Women's Rubber Sole tan ca $3.50 quality. Sale Price, Women's patent colt and Colonial pumps, $4.00 quality. Sale ___________________________________ Watch Our Show Windows ___________________________________ FAVORS UNITY OF CHURCHES Gov. Baldwin Speaks of Ideal Body at Club Dinner ONE CHURCH, SHORT CREED Looks Forward to Time When Christians Shall Have Shaken Off Influences of Dark Ages - Hopes For Comprehensive Union (Special Hartford Correspondence.) Hartford. - A single church organization, embracing every body of Christian believers, and with a short creed, was the idea church unity advanced by Governor Simeon E. Baldwin in an address at the annual dinner of St. John's Episcopal club here. "An annual dinner is a good feature of every human association," said the governor, "but it is peculiarly an appropriate thing in a church society or brotherhood. To meet around a common table for a friendly conference during a common meal is a token of that brotherhood which belongs, in some measure, and ought to belong in larger measure, to every church organization of whatever name. * * * "I look forward to the time - perhaps centuries hence - when Christian men shall have finally shaken themselves free from the influences of the dark ages and the middle ages, when there will be again one organization known as the Catholic church; not the Roman Catholic, but embracing the Episcopal; not the Congregational, the Baptist, the Presbyterian, or Methodist, but embracing every body of Christian believers. The creed will be a short one. There may be constituent groups of churches differing in their relation to the universal church. In one group bishops may advise; in another bishops of equal power; in another bishops of differing power; in one of them perhaps a bishop on whom is centered the highest power. "When we now send our missionaries abroad to foreign lands, we send them as Congregationalists, or Presbyterians, or Episcopalians, or Lutherans, but their denominational names are unintelligible to those to whom they go. They are divisive in their spirit and effect. "In Japan they have already organized what they call the Kumai church, which is broader and more comprehensive than any one of the [illegible] churches which have 000622 LY COURANT: FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1915. ANTIS WAGE WAR ON FLAG STREWN FIELD OF BATTLE Opponents of Votes for Women Heard In Argument At Capitol. MISS LUCY PRICE STARS IN DEBATE Compensation Commissioner Scores "Pros" and 13 Attacked. The second day of the woman suffrage debate at the Capitol opened yesterday afternoon in the Hall of the House with the air and the appearance of being staged on a battlefield, the suffragists and the opponents of suffrage ranged pretty evenly on the two houses of the hall, one camp distinguished by red roses and the other by white, and all the suffragists sporting purple, green and white flags, made the hall look like an animated war map. Although the hearing was given over to the "anti" side of the 'debate, the suffragists took several sharp flings at the speakers for the opposition in a short rebuttal allowed them at the close. They made the remarks which they construed as inadverdent arguments in their favor. The star of the day was Miss Lucy Price of Ohio, who made a speech that was both clever and highly impressive. The audience was identical in size with that of the day before, both of which were limited only by the capacity of the House. Representative Ivar L. Morehouse of Stratford, House chairman of the woman suffrage committee, opened the hearing by announcing that it would be divided into two parts, two and a half hours for opposition to the measures and a half hour of rebuttal by those who favor suffrage. President Markham. Mrs. Daniel A. Markham, president of the Connecticut Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, was the first speaker. She said that she thought women were not so ardent, now, as they had been for the ballot. Women had done much for themselves without the ballot and they could continue to do so. She said that large appropriations had been spent in opposition to a movement that was not favored by the majority of the women in the state. She drew the inference that this money could have been spent to much better advantage in directly constructive work. The remark drew strong applause from the suffragists of the audience. "Last Independence Day," she said, "the socialist red flag was carried for the first time in a parade through the streets of Hartford - in a suffrage parade. The procession did not seem to me to be appropriate to the celebration of a gala day, but looked more like a funeral cortege." Mrs. Markham read parts of the constitution of the Connecticut Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, explaining that the association is not composed of rich women alone, but of every class of women in the state who were working together for the good of all and not for the good of any individual class. She added that the women in the organization were willing to work in co-operation with me in any movement for common good. Miss Elizabeth Burnell. Miss Elizabeth Burnell, first vice-president of the organization, spoke as follows:— "It is related of a certain man that his wife induced him to carry a banner in a New York suffrage parade and that having been presented with one by the committee in charge he carried it practically dragging in the dust. When taken to task by his wife for the shiftless way in which he had kept his promise to her he replied that if she had seen the inscription she could hardly blame him, for it said: 'Men can vote, why can't l?' Now, gentlemen, we women who oppose woman suffrage do not feel that way about it, though we might conceivable inscribe upon our banners, 'Men can vote. why should we?' "We do ourselves full justice in realizing that we average in intelligence with men, but we cannot help asking ourselves If we are in the way of knowing much about fire-fighting, railroads, finance, engineering, fisheries, road-making, sewerage, and all the other lines of work that government has to do with. And we generally add the query as to who could enforce laws if we should ever make them. We know that our ballots would be blank-cartridges, "After the many reasons advanced yesterday for enfranchising women somebody may perhaps feel as Dr. [?] when told equal suffrage states is less than that of New York city, Philadelphia and Chicago? The old saying that 'nothing succeeds like success' has induced the advocates of suffrage to emphasize their successes and minimize their defeats. Last November, five of the seven states where a referendum was taken, defeated woman suffrage, and Ohio which had turned it down by an 87,000 majority two years before, gave a majority of 180,000 against it, - reminding one of Michigan, which two years ago in November defeated it by 700 and in five months, when it again came to the people, by 100,000. "We have a theory that a divided responsibility is badly taken. In the states of California, Colorado, Washington, Wyoming Idaho and Utah (all woman suffrage states), at the time of the last Presidential election 47 1/2 per cent. of the possible vote was cast, while in the nearby states of Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon, Nevada, South Dakota and Missouri (all manhood suffrage states then) 69 per cent. of the possible vote was cast. These states have similar conditions and varieties of population and therefore should be compared with each other and not with our Eastern states, where the large populations from other lands are found. The men of Connecticut, we believe, want to be just to the women. As a matter of simple justice we ask you to keep this burden from us. Women do not want to vote! Here in Hartford, when the matter was before our Legislature two years ago, and every effort was made to get women to register and vote on school questions of the 18,000 possible women voters, only 1,040 registered and only 95 went to the polls. "We do not see that women's vote is responsible for bettered conditions. Of course, she votes for men, not measures (except in the few instances of legislators being women), but we still believe that her ideas and influence are much back of this betterment. Men and women rise and fall together. In New Zealand In 1893, (when women got the vote) infant mortality was 76 in a thousand, after eighteen years of women's voting, it had dropped to 56 in a thousand. Did women's vote do this? "In 1883 (ten years before women were given the vote), infant mortality was 103 in a thousand. So in ten years, under male suffrage, it dropped to 27, while under the combined votes of men and women, in eighteen years, it dropped but 20. Did the absence of women's vote do this? Half truths are dangerous. We believe that legislation is but the outcome of public opinion, which we all, men and women, form. "Our ideal is the conservation of women. We believe, as somebody has expressed it, that womanhood has distinctive characteristics which make it the completement of manhood, and that it may conceivable spoil its own special glory by seeking to be none other than masculine in its range and domain of action. Workingwoman Speaks. Explaining that a majority of the 16,000 women enrolled among the "antis" were workingwomen, Mrs. Markham introduced Miss Marjorie Dorma as a woman who was industry and knew all about industrial conditions. She spoke, in part, as follows:- "Economy and efficiency have never been more necessary in the administration of our state and federal governments than they are today. in the business of governing ourselves, just as in any other business. we naturally desire to obtain the best possible results from the least possible expenditure of the time, energy and money of our citizens. On this principle is based all success in personal or public life. Woman suffrage violates this principle. It sets two persons to do a task which one can accomplish alone. It sets two sexes to do a task which one sex can perform alone. Any state which adopts woman suffrage wastes the time, energy and money of its citizens. "If I were to approach a man who ran a peanut stand or a factory and should say to him, "Double the time, double the energy and add to the money which you are using today to operate your push cart or factory,' and at the same time should offer this man no return for his doubled outlay, he would dismiss my proposition as senseless. Such, in a nutshell, to the woman suffrage proposition. "The suffragists come to the citizens of Connecticut and they say to you, 'Double the time, double the energy and add to the money which you are using today to operate the machinery of your government. Add the time of your women to the time of your men, add the energy of the women to the energy of your men and increase the cost of every election.' When the citizens of Connecticut ask, 'What will we get for this doubled outlay?' the suffragists have no answer. Comparing conditions in the states where men alone vote with the states where both men and women vote we find that there is absolutely nothing which the citizens of Connecticut may obtain from the combined votes of its men and women that it cannot get from the votes of its men - for half price! A state which adopts woman suffrage wastes the time, the energy and the money of its citizens. "Our town and city governments in America are large public business corporations, operating under a charter to carry on civic affairs by means of the common fund which they hold in trust for all the people. Women, as compared with men, have had relatively little experience in private or trust or corporate business affairs. This is not due to legislative enactment but to the natural division of labor between the sexes in home and state. Only one woman out of every five in the United States today is engaged in any kind of gainful pursuit, whatsoever. The average length of time this one woman is lawfully employed which carries elections and there are not enough working women to control politics. The hand of man, however, In not against us- quite the contrary. I may work at any trade in the union, in any state in the union, and I have better laws for my protection than the man who works at the bench beside me. Every law which protects him is a blanket law and covers both sexes, except in occupations so dangerous that women are not permitted to engage in them. In addition to the laws which working men and women share in common. I have dozens of laws which discriminate against him in my favor. Far from wishing to do away with this protective legislation for women, we are asking annually for more of it and better enforcement. Democratic Committeeman. William R. Palmer of the state democratic committee was introduced by Mrs. Markham as one of a number of men who could be called upon from any party in the state to speak in opposition to suffrage. He said that he did not come as a representative of the democratic committee or the state committee, but as an individual. He spoke, in part, as follows:- "With all due respect to the suffragists I consider the movement a fad which they will put aside when they tire of it as a child throws away a toy. "Your committee in this instance is a type of one of the fundamental principles of our representative form of government. If it were any way practical to submit the arguments for and against any question of great moment directly to the people the results must be most conclusive. As that is obviously impossible the next best plan might be to present the matter to the House of Representatives sitting as a committee of the whole, but as there are obviously many difficulties to such a plan, the House has authorized you to hear both sides of this question and, after due deliberation, to present your conclusion to that honorable body, which must perforce have great weight in determining the question. "Yesterday you were told that a favorable report upon this bill granting equal suffrage to women, which is a privilege and no-one's by right, would not entail the conclusion that you favored such action by the voters of this state. Such an argument is specious in the extreme and is positive, absolutely piffle, and is made, it seems to me, with two objects in view: one to cloud your best judgment and the other, in case there is any temptation on the parts of the members of the committee to shirk their responsibility to give them a loop hole through which they may crawl. You were sent here by your constituents to determine these questions for them and in no sense do your constituents expect you to refer difficult and perplexing questions back to them for a final decision. Your report to the House will be in substance as follows: Your committee has heard both sides of the argument for and against extending the franchise to women in this state. These arguments have been presented presumably by the ablest exponents of both sides of the question. The committee has given everything that was said the gravest consideration and has deliberated over the arguments without prejudice. Having in mind the solemnity of our oaths as members of the General Assembly in which we swore under God's guidance to serve the state's best interests. We also have in mind that portion of our fundamental law which provides the means whereby that law may be changed, and which says in substance that when in the opinion of a majority of the House it shall be deemed necessary to alter or amend this Constitution. Having, I have said, these two solemn obligations in mind, we recommend- and here comes the inevitable parting of the ways. You stand inevitably at the fork of two roads: one leads to a favorable report on this bill which absolutely binds your committee as considering that the welfare of this state will be best conserved by doubling our electorate. You say in effect that during all the years that the suffrage has remained solely with the men of this state we have succeeded in bringing things to such a pitiable pass that we need the votes of the women in our state to help on out of our difficulty; or, on the contrary, you will report that, after this careful investigation and serious deliberation it is your opinion that no necessity exists for further extension of the franchise. "It is the plain, unqualified duty of the General Assembly of this state to give the people what they ask for if, after careful consideration, the General Assembly, after investigation by its various committees, determines first, that what is asked for is wanted by a considerable percentage of the people of the state; and next, that the proposed law will be of benefit to the state as a whole. Now as to the number of people, or rather, the percentage of the inhabitants of the state that should be considered necessary to receive serious consideration on no drastic a change in our fundamental law: According to Professor Ladd of Yale University, the population of this state in 1910 was 1,114,756. Of these, 563,642 were males and, 551,114 were females, making the proportion of 102.3 males to 100 females. From the ages of 1 to 20 years the number is 409,000, which being deducted from the total population, leaves as a result men and women over 21 years old of 705,756. I have a letter in my hand received from the president of the association which favors women suffrage, which says in part: 'Our association has 25,000 enrolled members, men and made up in part of this 25,000, but granting that the whole number of those who have expressed the wish that the suffrage should be granted to the women, the percentage is only .0552 of the total inhabitants of voting age. Six months ago I had supposed that practically every woman in the state wanted the vote. I had heard rumors that there was some opposition on the part of the women of this state but I believed this opposition was inconsiderable because so little was heard of it. But in the fact of these figures the committee must see that asking 100 women here to stand before you in the proportion that I have suggested, there must inevitably be only four women who will any to you we want the ballot for all of the women in the state of Connecticut; we want the ballot because we believe that you men have made a sad failure of law-making in this state and we feel sure that by extending the right to vote to us we will be able to help you out of the difficulties in which you now find yourselves. And then the ninety-six women will say: 'We represent the vast majority of women in this state who do not want to be forced into politics. Our sisters have asked you to give to them a thing that men consider a great privilege. We simply ask you to leave us free to do those things which we regard as being of the greatest importance in life. We are the women who conduct the charities; we are the women, who care for our homes and our children, and we are the women who believe that our fathers and husbands and brothers and sons can represent us more effectively than ever we can learn to do.' These figures being correct and their correctness cannot be questioned, turning back to the fundamental law of a representative form of government that the majority must rule, the report of your committee must favor the wishes of this overwhelming majority. It is well known to your committee that for forty years the women of this state have had a right to vote on all matters pertaining to our schools, and our schools are probably the most important institutions in the state. It is there that our men and women are trained in all that goes for the best citizenship, and it was because it has always been regarded as one of woman's special duties to prepare children for the work and responsibilities that they have to assume in life and it was for this reason that the women were given a full voice in the management of school affairs. If the schools were left to the women they would be a failure. I have in my hand a list of 127 towns in the state which shows that the number of men registered was 170,180, and that the number of women registered was 4,883. I cannot unfortunately give you the number of women who have voted in all of these towns but it is well known to all of you that the proportion is very small. I can give you one specific instance which came under my personal observation and which I believe to be typical of the situation all over the state. I am the chairman of the town school committee in my home town. Ten years ago one lone woman registered in order that she might vote on the school question. A ballot box and box tenders were installed for her use. She cast one ballot and has never been heard from since, although the ballot box and box tenders are in place every year at the expense of the town. Two years ago five other women registered. They voted on the matters that related to schools that year. The vote was unanimous in the town meeting on every question that was presented. Therefore, the vote of these women neither helped nor hindered the conduct of school affairs, and these ladies have not voted since. So it seems to me that where the women in the state have not exercised their privilege of voting on this most important question that it indicates that they really don't want the vote at all. "It seems to me that this is not a question for men to decide. It certainly is not a party issue; it is a difference of opinion among the women themselves, which they should settle before they come to you and ask you to take the very grave step of making a change in the fundamental law of this state, and I pledge you that as soon as 51 per cent. of the women of this state will indicate in any convincing manner by any method that they may choose that they are desirous of having the franchise, while it would go very much against my feelings as an old-fashioned man to see the women of my family enter into politics as you have seen the women in the lobby of this House during this session of the General Assembly, I pledge you that I shall vote and work to give to this majority of the women what they ask. "There is one accusation which has been made, not openly, but persistently, against the women who are opposed to the suffrage, and that is that they are affiliated with come other interest in this state. I deny it absolutely as an unqualified, unmitigated lie. Any of you who have acted as jurors in a court of law will know that in finding your verdict you have been influenced not only by what has been said by the witnesses but by the appearance of the witnesses themselves and their manner of giving their evidence. I ask you in this instance to use that same method. Look over these women who are here opposed to the franchise for women and determine for yourselves whether or not they represent any interest except that which we regard as being the sweetest and best and holiest of all God's creatures." Miss Lucy Price. Miss Lucy J. Price of Ohio spoke in rebuttal of the previous day's arguments. In answer to the argument that the made the hall look like an animated war map. Although the hearing was given over to the "anti" side of the 'debate. the suffragists took several sharp flings at the speakers for the opposition in a short rebuttal allowed them at the close. They made the remarks which they construed as inadverdent arguments in their favor. The star of the day was Miss Lucy Price of Ohio, who made a speech that was both clever and highly impressive. The audience was identical in size with that of the day before, both of which were limited only by the capacity of the House. Representative Ivar L. Morehouse of Stratford, House chairman of the woman suffrage committee, opened the hearing by announcing that it would be divided into two parts, two and a half hours for opposition to the measures and a half hour of rebuttal by those who favor suffrage. President Markham. Mrs. Daniel A. Markham, president of the Connecticut Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, was the first speaker. She said that she thought women were not so ardent, now, as they had been for the ballot. Women had done much for themselves without the ballot and they could continue to do so. She said that large appropriations had been spent in opposition to a movement that was not favored by the majority of the women in the state. She drew the inference that this money could have been spent to much better advantage in directly constructive work. The remark drew strong applause from the suffragists of the audience. "Last Independence Day," she said, "the socialist red flag was carried for the first time in a parade through the streets of Hartford - in a suffrage parade. The procession did not seem to me to be appropriate to the celebration of a gala day, but looked more like a funeral cortege." Mrs. Markham read parts of the constitution of the Connecticut Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, explaining that the association is not composed of rich women alone, but of every class of women in the state who were working together for the good of all and not for the good of any individual class. She added that the women in the organization were willing to work in co-operation with me in any movement for common good. Miss Elizabeth Burnell. Miss Elizabeth Burnell, first vice-president of the organization, spoke as follows:— "It is related of a certain man that his wife induced him to carry a banner in a New York suffrage parade and that having been presented with one by the committee in charge he carried it practically dragging in the dust. When taken to task by his wife for the shiftless way in which he had kept his promise to her he replied that if she had seen the inscription she could hardly blame him, for it said: 'Men can vote, why can't l?' Now, gentlemen, we women who opposse woman suffrage do not feel that way about it, though we might conceivable inscribe upon our banners, 'Men can vote. why should we?' "We do ourselves full justice in realizing that we average in intelligence with men, but we cannot help asking ourselves If we are in the way of knowing much about fire-fighting, railroads, finance, engineering, fisheries, road-making, sewerage, and all the other lines of work that government has to do with. And we generally add the query as to who could enforce laws if we should ever make them. We know that our ballots would be blank-cartridges, "After the many reasons advanced yesterday for enfranchising women somebody may perhaps feel as Dr. Anna Shaw said she did when told that the Yale-Harvard-Princeton triangular debate chose to discuss the advisability of giving suffrage to women. 'I didn't know,' she said, 'that there was but one side to the question.' But it happens that the judges accorded the debates in all three cases to the anti side. We expect today, gentlemen, to make you feel that if there is but one side to the question, it is our side. At a hearing before the judiciary committee in Washington last year this threat was made, 'Grant us woman suffrage throughout the United States or 4,000,000 women, who vote in states where suffrage is already a fact will vote against you.' I do not mention this to comment upon 'uplift in politics' but to show you that 4,000,000 women do not and cannot vote in the eleven suffrage states. The following figures are taken from the United States census bureau: The eleven full suffrage states (and there were but nine then) and Illinois (with the partial suffrage) has 3,680,000 women of 21 years of age and over, and this includes the foreign born un-naturalized, the negro, the Indian, Chinese and the Japanese. The native born white women of voting age in all these states numbers 2,000,000. Under the limitations and restrictions put upon the franchise in these states it would be liberal to estimate that 2,500,000 women votes are represented by the suffrage leaders, that is, 2,500,000 of all conditions and nationalities who are able to vote. But the authorities of the states where women suffrage obtains, estimate that at a top figure not more than two-thirds of the possible women voters register and not more than 50 per cent. of those who register go to the polls. Two-thirds of 2,500,000 does not amount to a total of 1,700,000 and the 50 per cent. who actually vote number but 850,000. And gentlemen do you realize that the total population of all the ideas and influence are much back of this betterment. Men and women rise and fall together. In New Zealand In 1893, (when women got the vote) infant mortality was 76 in a thousand, after eighteen years of women's voting, it had dropped to 56 in a thousand. Did women's vote do this? "In 1883 (ten years before women were given the vote), infant mortality was 103 in a thousand. So in ten years, under male suffrage, it dropped to 27, while under the combined votes of men and women, in eighteen years, it dropped but 20. Did the absence of women's vote do this? Half truths are dangerous. We believe that legislation is but the outcome of public opinion, which we all, men and women, form. "Our ideal is the conservation of women. We believe, as somebody has expressed it, that womanhood has distinctive characteristics which make it the completement of manhood, and that it may conceivable spoil its own special glory by seeking to be none other than masculine in its range and domain of action. Workingwoman Speaks. Explaining that a majority of the 16,000 women enrolled among the "antis" were workingwomen, Mrs. Markham introduced Miss Marjorie Dorma as a woman who was industry and knew all about industrial conditions. She spoke, in part, as follows:- "Economy and efficiency have never been more necessary in the administration of our state and federal governments than they are today. in the business of governing ourselves, just as in any other business. we naturally desire to obtain the best possible results from the least possible expenditure of the time, energy and money of our citizens. On this principle is based all success in personal or public life. Woman suffrage violates this principle. It sets two persons to do a task which one can accomplish alone. It sets two sexes to do a task which one sex can perform alone. Any state which adopts woman suffrage wastes the time, energy and money of its citizens. "If I were to approach a man who ran a peanut stand or a factory and should say to him, "Double the time, double the energy and add to the money which you are using today to operate your push cart or factory,' and at the same time should offer this man no return for his doubled outlay, he would dismiss my proposition as senseless. Such, in a nutshell, to the woman suffrage proposition. "The suffragists come to the citizens of Connecticut and they say to you, 'Double the time, double the energy and add to the money which you are using today to operate the machinery of your government. Add the time of your women to the time of your men, add the energy of the women to the energy of your men and increase the cost of every election.' When the citizens of Connecticut ask, 'What will we get for this doubled outlay?' the suffragists have no answer. Comparing conditions in the states where men alone vote with the states where both men and women vote we find that there is absolutely nothing which the citizens of Connecticut may obtain from the combined votes of its men and women that it cannot get from the votes of its men - for half price! A state which adopts woman suffrage wastes the time, the energy and the money of its citizens. "Our town and city governments in America are large public business corporations, operating under a charter to carry on civic affairs by means of the common fund which they hold in trust for all the people. Women, as compared with men, have had relatively little experience in private or trust or corporate business affairs. This is not due to legislative enactment but to the natural division of labor between the sexes in home and state. Only one woman out of every five in the United States today is engaged in any kind of gainful pursuit, whatsoever. The average length of time this one women is lawfully employed is seven years. The relation of women to industry is transient, that of man is permanent. So long, however, as the relative inexperience of women in business continues - and unless women neglect the more vital work of the home it always will continue - it is not to be expected that we will obtain as practical results in the world of affairs from the combined votes of men and women as are obtained from the votes of men alone. Therefore we maintain that the interests of both sexes are more adequately protected today than would be in the case if women were added to the electorate. Every suffragist personally practices this belief, though collectively they repudiate it. When a suffragist possesses money or property to place in trust, always and invariably she places it in the hands of men. Every one of the Russell Sage trustees is a man. But when it is a question of the commonwealth, the public money and the public property which are to be administered, then the suffragists are perfectly willing to entrust them to the hands of inexperienced women. The suffragist is not as solicitous of the commonwealth as she is of her own possessions. I represent in my own person the two groups of women in whose name the ballot is most frequently claimed - the self-supporting group and the spinster group - each group is in a small minority. Since only one woman in kve is gainfully employed in the United States, it is obvious that with or without the ballot we self-supporting women are and always will be unable to pass any laws which men do not wish us to pass. If the hand of man really is against us- which is the impression a working woman sought to give you gentlemen yesterday- then our plight is indeed pitiable It is force of numbers there are obviously many difficulties to such a plan, the House has authorized you to hear both sides of this question and, after due deliberation, to present your conclusion to that honorable body, which must perforce have great weight in determining the question. "Yesterday you were told that a favorable report upon this bill granting equal suffrage to women, which is a privilege and no-one's by right, would not entail the conclusion that you favored such action by the voters of this state. Such an argument is specious in the extreme and is positive, absolutely piffle, and is made, it seems to me, with two objects in view: one to cloud your best judgment and the other, in case there is any temptation on the parts of the members of the committee to shirk their responsibility to give them a loop hole through which they may crawl. You were sent here by your constituents to determine these questions for them and in no sense do your constituents expect you to refer difficult and perplexing questions back to them for a final decision. Your report to the House will be in substance as follows: Your committee has heard both sides of the argument for and against extending the franchise to women in this state. These arguments have been presented presumably by the ablest exponents of both sides of the question. The committee has given everything that was said the gravest consideration and has deliberated over the arguments without prejudice. Having in mind the solemnity of our oaths as members of the General Assembly in which we swore under God's guidance to serve the state's best interests. We also have in mind that portion of our fundamental law which provides the means whereby that law may be changed, and which says in substance that when in the opinion of a majority of the House it shall be deemed necessary to alter or amend this Constitution. Having, I have said, these two solemn obligations in mind, we recommend- and here comes the inevitable parting of the ways. You stand inevitably at the fork of two roads: one leads to a favorable report on this bill which absolutely binds your committee as considering that the welfare of this state will be best conserved by doubling our electorate. You say in effect that during all the years that the suffrage has remained solely with the men of this state we have succeeded in bringing things to such a pitiable pass that we need the votes of the women in our state to help on out of our difficulty; or, on the contrary, you will report that, after this careful investigation and serious deliberation it is your opinion that no necessity exists for further extension of the franchise. "It is the plain, unqualified duty of the General Assembly of this state to give the people what they ask for if, after careful consideration, the General Assembly, after investigation by its various committees, determines first, that what is asked for is wanted by a considerable percentage of the people of the state; and next, that the proposed law will he of benefit to the state as a whole. Now as to the number of people, or rather, the percentage of the inhabitants of the state that should be considered necessary to receive serious consideration on no drastic a change in our fundamental law: According to Professor Ladd of Yale University, the population of this state in 1910 was 1,114,756. Of these, 563,642 were males and, 551,114 were females, making the proportion of 102.3 males to 100 females. From the ages of 1 to 20 years the number is 409,000, which being deducted from the total population, leaves as a result men and women over 21 years old of 705,756. I have a letter in my hand received from the president of the association which favors women suffrage, which says in part: 'Our association has 25,000 enrolled members, men and women.' "Twenty-five thousand being 3.54 per cent. of the total population of voting age, it means that you are asked to refer this great question ti the people of the state on a referendum vote by a much smaller percentage of the voters than is required on a petition necessary to submit the question of license to the voters of any town in this state. We were told yesterday by one of the speakers that the number of signers favoring equal suffrage numbered 39,012. I do not understand what these figures signify, whether they are to be added to the 25,000 claimed as members of the association, or whether this number is the wishes of this overwhelming majority. It is well known to your committee that for forty years the women of this state have had a right to vote on all matters pertaining to our schools, and our schools are probably the most important institutions in the state. It is there that our men and women are trained in all that goes for the best citizenship, and it was because it has always been regarded as one of woman's special duties to prepare children for the work and responsibilities that they have to assume in life and it was for this reason that the women were given a full voice in the management of school affairs. If the schools were left to the women they would be a failure. I have in my hand a list of 127 towns in the state which shows that the number of men registered was 170,180, and that the number of women registered was 4,883. I cannot unfortunately give you the number of women who have voted in all of these towns but it is well known to all of you that the proportion is very small. I can give you one specific instance which came under my personal observation and which I believe to be typical of the situation all over the state. I am the chairman of the town school committee in my home town. Ten years ago one lone woman registered in order that she might vote on the school question. A ballot box and box tenders were installed for her use. She cast one ballot and has never been heard from since, although the ballot box and box tenders are in place every year at the expense of the town. Two years ago five other women registered. They voted on the matters that related to schools that year. The vote was unanimous in the town meeting on every question that was presented. Therefore, the vote of these women neither helped nor hindered the conduct of school affairs, and these ladies have not voted since. So it seems to me that where the women in the state have not exercised their privilege of voting on this most important question that it indicates that they really don't want the vote at all. "It seems to me that this is not a question for men to decide. It certainly is not a party issue; it is a difference of opinion among the women themselves, which they should settle before they come to you and ask you to take the very grave step of making a change in the fundamental law of this state, and I pledge you that as soon as 51 per cent. of the women of this state will indicate in any convincing manner by any method that they may choose that they are desirous of having the franchise, while it would go very much against my feelings as an old-fashioned man to see the women of my family enter into politics as you have seen the women in the lobby of this House during this session of the General Assembly, I pledge you that I shall vote and work to give to this majority of the women what they ask. "There is one accusation which has been made, not openly, but persistently, against the women who are opposed to the suffrage, and that is that they are affiliated with come other interest in this state. I deny it absolutely as an unqualified, unmitigated lie. Any of you who have acted as jurors in a court of law will know that in finding your verdict you have been influenced not only by what has been said by the witnesses but by the appearance of the witnesses themselves and their manner of giving their evidence. I ask you in this instance to use that same method. Look over these women who are here opposed to the franchise for women and determine for yourselves whether or not they represent any interest except that which we regard as being the sweetest and best and holiest of all God's creatures." Miss Lucy Price. Miss Lucy J. Price of Ohio spoke in rebuttal of the previous day's arguments. In answer to the argument that the committee should do nothing except submit the suffrage question to the people without regard to principle, she said, "You were asked to be kind, to be generous, to be everything, in fact, except honest. The constitution requires that you shall submit questions to popular decisions only when the legislature deems a constitutional amendment necessary. Your constituents have elected you judges over them and you have the right to decide this question and you alone. "It is not true that the suffragists have enough signers to their petitions to get a referendum in a referendum state, as they have only a little over THE HARTFORD DAILY COURANT: FRIDAY, M STATE BANK & TRUST CO. ORGANIZED 1849 Your Business Will Be Valued The officers and department heads of this institution are accessible at all times. Their experience and the resources of this $5,000,000 bank are often of immeasurable service to patrons. Good banking connections are an asset to any corporation, firm or individual. Your business - whether of large or small volume - will be valued and given the attention that only a bank equipped as this one is can give to it. PERSONAL MENTION The members of the City Club will have a stag dinner this evening. John F. McDonough of Naugatuck has returned after a short visit with friends in this city. Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Rice of East Hartford have returned from a trip to the West Indies. Edward Curran who underwent an operation at the Hartford Hospital has returned to his home in New Britain. Robert Rankin will leave Hartford tomorrow for an extended trip during which he will visit the Panama-Pacific Exposition. James J. Flynn of this city has removed to Tariffville. Miss Jessie Stanton has returned from a short visit at the home of Mrs. James Bancroft of Hillstown. Charles S. Thayer has returned to his home in this city after a brief visit in New York. Miss Mary F. Johnson of Whitmore street is visiting her sister, Mrs. F. N. Dickenson of North Amherst, Mass. Friends of F. H. Sneath will be glad to learn that he was at his office yesterday, after being confined to his home In Farmington for several weeks by muscular rheumatism. Colonel Alton Farrel and Mrs. Farrel of Ansonia, are expected home this week. They left San Francisco on Monday. Colonel Farrel, who is a member of Governor Holcomb's staff, was married on inauguration day and since then has been on an extended wedding trip. Hon. H. H. Bridgman and Mrs. Bridgman of Norfolk attended the anti-suffrage hearing at the Capitol yesterday and went on to New York in the evening. They motored in from Norfolk over a good road all the way. The engagement of Miss Eleanor Taylor, daughter of Howard Taylor, and Gouverneur Morris Carnochan, Jr., both of New York, is announced. Mr. Taylor has his summer home in a beautiful locality on the Connecticut River in the eastern part of Portland, where the wedding will take place in June at the home known as St. Clements. Miss Taylor made her debut in the winter of 1914, and she has been very active in the younger set. Her father Is a prominent lawyer of New York. Rev. Albert T. Tamblyn of the Windsor Avenue Congregational Church has returned after a short visit to Philadelphia. G. W. Curtis of Windsor Locks is spending several days in New York. The second of a series of table d'hote dinners was given last evening at the Hartford Club, followed by dancing in the ballroom. The arrangements were made by the entertainment committee of the club which consists of Morgan G. Bulkely. Jr.. George A. Rochford and Frank E. Howard. George R. Ford, secretary and treasurer of the Hartford Market Company, is in New York for a few days. "The Music of Spain and Latin America" was the subject of the program of the Musical Club yesterday morning, which was arranged by Miss Annie Lorenz, Miss Marguerite Holcombe, and Mrs Freda Fuller Ludd the women of the committee which is conducting the sale at the jewelry store of M. W. Bassett, under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society of the Windsor Avenue Congregational Church. Miss Anna M. Rostek of Sigourney street has been a guest at the Hotel Collingwood, New York. Among those registered at the Allyn House are Mrs. and Mrs. A. D. Collin and son of Windsor Locks, and Mrs. L. F. Gardner of Derby. Mrs. George F. McClachlan of Brook street has had as her guest for several months, Miss Helen J. Tompkins of Woodstock, New Brunswick, who returned Wednesday. The General Topics Club met yesterday morning at the home of Mrs. William Barker, No. 277 Laurel street. A very interesting paper was read by Mrs. I. J. Steane on "Nooks and Corners of Old New York." John L. E. Pell of Great Barrington, Mass. is visiting Mr. and Mrs. E. Hart Fenn of Wethersfield. The Neighborhood Club of Edgewood street met Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs. Henry L. Huntington, Mrs. Philip L. Cahill assisting the hostess. Mrs. David Smythe read a very interesting and instructive paper on "American Women," and there were vocal selections by Miss Hulzheimer. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew P. Gunn and daughter of No. 475 Edgewood street have returned from a two weeks' visit in Quebec, Canada. Mr. and Mrs. And- rew P. Bunn and daughter of No. 475 Edgeamod street' have returned from a two weeks' visit In Quebec. Canada. A daughter was born Monday to Mr. and Mrs. John F. Horton of Philadelphia. The child is granddaughter of Mrs. L. M. Horton of Church street. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. William Hanks, a carpenter and builder in Norwalk, filed a petition in bankruptcy yesterday and he made oath that he did not have the money to pay the filing fee. His liabilities, all unsecured, are listed at $1,037.50. He has no assets. The workingmen's loan fund committee of the Hartford Business Men's Association met Wednesday afternoon, at which six applications for loans were considered. Two were allowed, two were rejected. one was not considered, and the other was referred to the secretary with power to grant the loan if investigation was satisfactory. Democratic headquarters in the Third Ward will be opened Saturday night at No. 222 Windsor avenue. The Ladies' Aid Society of the Windsor Avenue Congregational Church will be entertained at the City Club this noon for luncheon by M. W. Bassett. The society is to conduct a sale in the M. W. Bassett Company's jewelry store, No. 1,007 Main street, to-day for the benefit of the church. The charter revision commission will meet this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the office of Judge William F. Henney, Hartford National Bank Building. The city plan commission will meet this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the mayor's office to report on the proposed annexation of the Gravel Hill District of the town of Bloomfield to the city of Hartford. A building permit was issued yesterday by Building Inspector Burton S. Clark to Carlson & Torell of New Britain to build an eight-family brick tenement for M. S. Sheketoff at Nos. 28 and 30 Russell street. The building will cost $15,000. It will he four stories high. Miss Agnes Repplier lectured on "The Courageous Reader" at the assembly hall of Mt. St. Joseph Seminary last evening. The proceeds will be devoted to the charitable work of St. Agnes's Guild is doing in connection with St. Agnes's Home in West Hartford. Rev. Daniel C. Reed spoke last evening on "Economic Justice" before the bi-monthly meeting of St. Andrew's Neighborhood Club at the parish house. The Outlook Circle of King's Daughters met at the Windsor Avenue Congregational Church yesterday afternoon. The life and works of Robert L. Stevenson were discussed. Miss Katherine Hazeltine spoke in the parish house of the Asylum Hill Congregational Church yesterday afternoon on "Educational and Industrial Work In Non-Christian Lands." The twenty-first annual meeting of the Republican Club of Hartford will be held at the rooms, No. 234 Pearl street Tuesday evening, at 8 o'clock. Lunch will be served after the meeting. Michael G. Luddy and John M. Russell, two Connecticut men, took part in the annual prize debate of the Shahan Debating Society of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D. C., this week. A concert was given at Salvation Army headquarters last evening by the local and South Manchester bands. The Hartford McAll Mission will meet Tuesday at 3 o'clock at the Center Church House. The annual business meeting of the Center Church Guild will be held Wednesday evening at the Center Church House commencing with supper at 6:30. Friday evening, March 12, the campers who were in camp at Columbia Lake last summer will meet at the Center Church House for reunion and supper. Rev. R. H. Potter will be toastmaster. More than sixty members of the Recreation Club of the Y. W. C. A. met at Civic Club Hall on Lewis street last evening tor the weekly gymnasium practice and basketball games between teams of the club and the Double H Club. More than fifty other girls attended the club between noon and 7 p. m. yesterday. James F. Heffernan, First Company, Signal Corps, C. N. G., has been discharged from the service to enlist in the United States army. George A. Tyler has been discharged from the Second Division, Naval Militia, for non-residence. Rev. William H. Flynn will preach at vespers at St. Joseph's Cathedral Sunday. Dr. William H. Fitzgerald lectured on zonatherapy recently before a large number of physicians at St. Joseph's Hospital, Providence, R. I. Rev. Bernard McCarthy will preach a lenten sermon at the Immaculate Conception Church Wednesday evening. The women of Sr Peter's Parish will meet Friday evening, March 12, in the parish hall, for the transaction of business. The regular monthly meeting of the temperance committee of the Hartford Federation of Churches was held yesterday noon at the City Club. Luncheon was served. Nothing but routine business was transacted. Tonight will he club night at the City Club. Dinner will be served at 6:30 o'clock and will be followed by a cabaret and entertainment. The affair will be strictly "stag." OBITUARY. Henry S. Baker. Henry S. Baker died at his home, No. 117 Babcock street, yesterday morning of heart disease after an illness of fourteen months. He was born in England but came to this country when he was very young. He was bookkeeper in the freight office of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company and had been with the company thirty year. He was a member of St. Jomes's Church. Mr. Baker leaves his wife; a daughter, Mrs. C. E. Webster, and three sons, Henry C., Alfred and Frederick Baker, all of this city. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at his home. Rev. Edmund C. Thomas, rector of St., James's Church, will officiate. The burial will be in Zion's Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Erastus S. Root. Mrs. Lilliam A. D. Root, wife of Erastus S. Root, died at her home, No. 378 Sigourney street, Wednesday evening, aged 45 years. She was a native of Windsor. Vt. She leaves, besides her husband, a son, C. Wells Root, of Hartford; her mother, Mrs. Adelaide Dermott of Hartford, and three brothers, William B. Dermott of Hartford, George Dermott of Randolph, Vt., and Leon Dermott of Cincinnati. O. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at her home. Burial will be in Spring Grove Cemetery. FAIR TODAY; SNOW OR RAIN TOMORROW Washington, March 4.—Forecast: For eastern New York, snow north, snow or rain south Friday night or Saturday; north to northeast winds increasing. For New England, fair Friday; Saturday snow north. snow or rain south; north wind, shifting to northeast and increasing Friday night. The Texas storm is now moving northeastward and abnormally high pressure continues that direction. The weather was fair in the East. It is warmer in New England. The southwest storm will continue northeastward during Friday night and Saturday the precipitation will extend to New England and middle Atlantic coast. Storm warnings are displayed from the Atlantic coast from Jacksonville to Fort Monroe. The winds along the north Atlantic and middle Atlantic coasts will he moderate north and northeast increasing Friday night. By-Daily Meteorological Observations. W. W. Neifert, Local Forecaster. Connecticut Mutual Building. Hartford, March 4. 8 A. M. 8 P. M. Barometer 30.29 30.31 Temperature (deg. F.) 22 32 Dew Point (deg. F.) 12 25 Relative Humidity (%) 61 74 State of Weather Clear Clear Direction of Wind N NW Velocity of Wind (miles) 7 10 Daily Summary. Highest Temperature today 43 Lowest Temperature last night 14 Mean Temperature 28 Total Precipitation past 24 hours 0 Notes. Highest Temperature at 3:30 p. m. Lowest Temperature at 8 a.m., Sun rises at 6:21 a. m. Sun sets at 5:45 p. m. Moon rises at 11:04 p. m. Auto Lights. Automobile lamps should be lighted at 6:15 p. m. today. Everything Optical Everything Photographic Developing and Printing Finished in Less Than 24 Hours. Our work in this line has always been the highest quality produced in this city, and this high standard will be rigidly maintained. By improved methods we can now give the QUICKEST SERVICE, and still guarantee the same high quality we have always been called upon to supply. Harvey & Lews, 865 MAIN STREET. SPRINGFIELD. HARTFORD. NEW HAVEN. Edward Curran who underwent an operation at the Hartford Hospital has returned to his home in New Britain. Robert Rankin will leave Hartford tomorrow for an extended trip during which he will visit the Panama-Pacific Exposition. James J. Flynn of this city has removed to Tariffville. Miss Jessie Stanton has returned from a short visit at the home of Mrs. James Bancroft of Hillstown. Charles S. Thayer has returned to his home in this city after a brief visit in New York. Miss Mary F. Johnson of Whitmore street is visiting her sister, Mrs. F. N. Dickenson of North Amherst, Mass. Friends of F. H. Sneath will be glad to learn that he was at his office yesterday, after being confined to his home In Farmington for several weeks by muscular rheumatism. Colonel Alton Farrel and Mrs. Farrel of Ansonia, are expected home this week. They left San Francisco on Monday. Colonel Farrel, who is a member of Governor Holcomb's staff, was married on inauguration day and since then has been on an extended wedding trip. Hon. H. H. Bridgman and Mrs. Bridgman of Norfolk attended the anti-suffrage hearing at the Capitol yesterday and went on to New York in the evening. They motored in from Norfolk over a good road all the way. The engagement of Miss Eleanor Taylor, daughter of Howard Taylor, and Gouverneur Morris Carnochan, Jr., both of New York, is announced. Mr. Taylor has his summer home in a beautiful locality on the Connecticut River in the eastern part of Portland, where the wedding will take place in June at the home known as St. Clements. Miss Taylor made her debut in the winter of 1914, and she has been very active in the younger set. Her father Is a prominent lawyer of New York. Rev. Albert T. Tamblyn of the Windsor Avenue Congregational Church has returned after a short visit to Philadelphia. G. W. Curtis of Windsor Locks is spending several days in New York. The second of a series of table d'hote dinners was given last evening at the Hartford Club, followed by dancing in the ballroom. The arrangements were made by the entertainment committee of the club which consists of Morgan G. Bulkely. Jr.. George A. Rochford and Frank E. Howard. George R. Ford, secretary and treasurer of the Hartford Market Company, is in New York for a few days. "The Music of Spain and Latin America" was the subject of the program of the Musical Club yesterday morning, which was arranged by Miss Annie Lorenz, Miss Marguerite Holcombe, and Mrs Freda Fuller Judd. There were several vocal and instrumental selections which were characteristic of this rather limited class of music. The program of the open meeting next week, which is to be on Strauss and Brahm, is in charge of Mrs. Nellie Carey Reynolds, Miss Marion Williams and Miss Mabel Washburn. Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Whittlesey of North Beacon street are on a week's automobile trip to New York. Miss Al her Among those registered at the Allyn House are Mrs. and Mrs. A. D. Collin and son of Windsor Locks, and Mrs. L. F. Gardner of Derby. Mrs. George F. McClachlan of Brook street has had as her guest for several months, Miss Helen J. Tompkins of Woodstock, New Brunswick, who returned Wednesday. The General Topics Club met yesterday morning at the home of Mrs. William Barker, No. 277 Laurel street. A very interesting paper was read by Mrs. I. J. Steane on "Nooks and Corners of Old New York." John L. E. Pell of Great Barrington, Mass. is visiting Mr. and Mrs. E. Hart Fenn of Wethersfield. The Neighborhood Club of Edgewood street met Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs. Henry L. Huntington, Mrs. Philip L. Cahill assisting the hostess. Mrs. David Smythe read a very interesting and instructive paper on "American Women," and there were vocal selections by Miss Hulzheimer. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew P. Gunn and daughter of No. 475 Edgewood street have returned from a two weeks' visit in Quebec, Canada. A daughter was born Monday to Mr. and Mrs. John F. Horton of Philadelphia. The child is granddaughter of Mrs. L. M. Horton of Church street. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. William Hanks, a carpenter and builder in Norwalk, filed a petition in bankruptcy yesterday and he made oath that he did not have the money to pay the filing fee. His liabilities, all unsecured, are listed at $1,037.50. He has no assets. The workingmen's loan fund committee of the Hartford Business Men's Association met Wednesday afternoon, at which six applications for loans were considered. Two were allowed, two were rejected. one was not considered, and the other was referred to the secretary with power to grant the loan if investigation was satisfactory. Democratic headquarters in the Third Ward will be opened Saturday night at No. 222 Windsor avenue. The Ladies' Aid Society of the Windsor Avenue Congregational Church will be entertained at the City Club this noon for luncheon by M. W. Bassett. The society is to conduct a sale in the M. W. Bassett Company's jewelry store, No. 1,007 Main street, to-day for the benefit of the church. The charter revision commission will meet this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the office of Judge William F. Henney, Hartford National Bank Building. The city plan commission will meet this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the mayor's office to report on the proposed annexation of the Gravel Hill District of the town of Bloomfield to the city of Hartford. A building permit was issued yesterday by Building Inspector Burton S. Clark to Carlson & Torell of New the local and South Manchester bands. The Hartford McAll Mission will meet Tuesday at 3 o'clock at the Center Church House. The annual business meeting of the Center Church Guild will be held Wednesday evening at the Center Church House commencing with supper at 6:30. Friday evening, March 12, the campers who were in camp at Columbia Lake last summer will meet at the Center Church House for reunion and supper. Rev. R. H. Potter will be toastmaster. More than sixty members of the Recreation Club of the Y. W. C. A. met at Civic Club Hall on Lewis street last evening tor the weekly gymnasium practice and basketball games between teams of the club and the Double H Club. More than fifty other girls attended the club between noon and 7 p. m. yesterday. James F. Heffernan, First Company, Signal Corps, C. N. G., has been discharged from the service to enlist in the United States army. George A. Tyler has been discharged from the Second Division, Naval Militia, for non-residence. Rev. William H. Flynn will preach at vespers at St. Joseph's Cathedral Sunday. Dr. William H. Fitzgerald lectured on zonatherapy recently before a large number of physicians at St. Joseph's Hospital, Providence, R. I. Rev. Bernard McCarthy will preach a lenten sermon at the Immaculate Conception Church Wednesday evening. The women of Sr Peter's Parish will meet Friday evening, March 12, in the parish hall, for the transaction of business. The regular monthly meeting of the temperance committee of the Hartford Federation of Churches was held yesterday noon at the City Club. FAIR TODAY; SNOW OR RAIN TOMORROW Washington, March 4.—Forecast: For eastern New York, snow north, snow or rain south Friday night or Saturday; north to northeast winds increasing. For New England, fair Friday; Saturday snow north. snow or rain south; north wind, shifting to northeast and increasing Friday night. The Texas storm is now moving northeastward and abnormally high pressure continues that direction. The weather was fair in the East. It is warmer in New England. The southwest storm will continue northeastward during Friday night and Saturday the precipitation will extend to New England and middle Atlantic coast. Storm warnings are displayed from the Atlantic coast from Jacksonville to Fort Monroe. The winds along the north Atlantic and middle Atlantic coasts will he moderate north and northeast increasing Friday night. By-Daily Meteorological Observations. W. W. Neifert, Local Forecaster. Connecticut Mutual Building. Hartford, March 4. 8 A. M. 8 P. M. Barometer 30.29 30.31 Temperature (deg. F.) 22 32 Dew Point (deg. F.) 12 25 Relative Humidity (%) 61 74 State of Weather Clear Clear Direction of Wind N NW Velocity of Wind (miles) 7 10 Daily Summary. Highest Temperature today 43 Lowest Temperature last night 14 Mean Temperature 28 Total Precipitation past 24 hours 0 Notes. Highest Temperature at 3:30 p. m. Lowest Temperature at 8 a.m., Sun rises at 6:21 a. m. Sun sets at 5:45 p. m. Moon rises at 11:04 p. m. Auto Lights. Automobile lamps should be lighted at 6:15 p. m. today. Everything Optical Everything Photographic Developing and Printing Finished in Less Than 24 Hours. Our work in this line has always been the highest quality produced in this city, and this high standard will be rigidly maintained. By improved methods we can now give the QUICKEST SERVICE, and still guarantee the same high quality we have always been called upon to supply. Harvey & Lews, 865 MAIN STREET. SPRINGFIELD. HARTFORD. NEW HAVEN. ADVANTAGES OFFERED UNQUESTIONED Strength, progressive methods, large resources and conveniently located banking rooms unite in making irable depository for corporations, firms s. al Exchange Bank Street, Hartford, Conn. CAPITAL $500,000.00 SURPLUS AND PROFITS $400,000.00 RESOURCES (over) $3,000,000.00 5 per cent. of the men supporting them, but that is not half so important as the fact that we do not live in such a state. It would be absolutely dishonest for you to submit to popular vote a question in which you do not believe. Every member of the committee on the legislature who votes in favor of such action is casting a direct vote for women suffrage. "The statement which won the greatest applause yesterday was that those women who are opposed to suffrage are so opposed because they do not know enough to want it" The suffragists present applauded in great [?]. "Those who applaud such a sentiment are applauding an effort to break down democracy, and in favor of a principle that a majority which does not want a thing should have it inflicted upon them. The Man Across the Street. "The phrase that lack of suffrage means taxation without representation does not mean what the original phrase did. Every woman who owns properly has representation. You cannot raise her taxes without raising those of the man who owns property across the street or next door. All society is one vast partnership of men and women. There must be a division of the responsibility and the work of this partnership. We don't want to have to neglect the work that we can do best to duplicate what you are doing well. "The whole idea fails, it seems to me, in attributing too much importance to you and to your work: in saying that you are the most important men in the state, and that politics is the one great, important thing. If you will pardon me for saying so, this is not true. The work that woman is doing in her own natural sphere is more important. "The suffragists told you yesterday that they wanted to put the influence of mother love into legislation. Whatever else we may think of politics, we will have to admit that practical politics is not an appropriate place for mother love. "We were told that they wished to purify politics at its source. Can we do this better by using the ballot or by improving the race of men? "You were told to go to the greatest women in this country to learn what women as a whole need. Would you go to the greatest man in America to learn what the great mass of women need? Would you not rather go to the humble working man to learn the needs of men? "Every one of the 'great women' mentioned yesterday as having done great good has been forced to do this good, and has done it, without the ballot. "If you put every adult person in the state into politics we do not believe you will gain any good, but you will take away the conditions which now make the best women in the state and would make them mere politicians. A Challenge. "A New York woman said yesterday that workingwomen were not protected and she Inferred that they would be protected by the ballot. I ask the suffragists to tell me, in their rebuttal, one thing that has been done by the man-made laws to protect men which has not protected women even more. In any state that has an eight-hour day the reform was obtained by unions and not by laws. There are four states in the Union which have 8-hour laws, and they are suffrage states. I admit it. (Applause by suffragists.) But those who remind you of that always forget to tell you that two of these states had the law before they had suffrage. (Applause from the other side.) "We protest against your submitting this question to the voters of the state unless you honestly believe in woman suffrage and come out unequivocally in favor of it. If you do otherwise, you perjure your own beliefs or you violate the constitution. We protest against the principle of suffrage because we believe that our work in the world is as important as yours and we do not wish to be forced to neglect it; because we do not wish to be deprived of the special protection we now have; and because society, politics and government itself would suffer from the change." State Wide Roll Call. Mrs. Markham called upon a number of women who are the heads of local organizations in their towns, cities and counties to report on the feeling toward suffrage in their localities. The following reported in a sentence, each, as follows: - Mrs. Edward Hopkins of New Haven, Mrs. Ebenezer Learned of Norwich. Others who were to have answered the roll call, but did not for lack of time, were: Mrs. William B. Glover of Fairfield, Mrs. Emily Peabody of Glastonbury, Miss Marjorie Moore of Kensington, Miss Amy Vorce of Farmington, Mrs. Charles F. Brooker of Ansonia, Mrs. John R. Bacon of Danbury, Mrs. Charles Bottomley of Rockville, Mrs. E. H. Rogers of New Canaan, Mrs. A. C. Liebert of East Hartford, Miss Marian DeForest of Bridgeport, Miss Elizabeth Ely of Old Lyme, Mrs. William L. Stone of Guilford, Mrs. Alfred H. Terry of Fairfield county. South School Teacher. Miss Mary L. Linehan of the South School said that the old-fashioned homes are rapidly disappearing, and that the time some women wish to spend in politics could be spent to better advantage in bringing up their children. The state does not ask and should not ask the head of a school to feed the children of mothers who cannot cook because they are too busy seeking votes for women. "You should have planks in any suffrage platform you may adopt to teach children respect for authority - a phrase that is obsolete - and to teach the children what we do not have time to teach them, respect for law and reverence for the Creator." this time we are asked to add to the laws and take away from the home. Either now or later these women will be dominated by the undesirable qualities of over-reaching ambition, love of show and avidity, according as their movement grows, such qualities as are most opposed to the teachings of Christianity. "It is rather surprising that a body of ladies should come before you and ask for the privilege of the ballot, saying they are eminently fitted for it and yet want it in opposition to the principles majority rule. Suggests Solution. "I would suggest that a substitute bill be introduced allowing the women of the state a week in which to enroll for the cause. If they can get 50 per cent. of the women of the state to enroll they will be entitled to the vote. Let the workers for the cause get the women who are not here, but are at home tending to their duties." At this point he was interrupted by laughter, but he explained that the "antis" present were "mothers who came to fulfill a very unpleasant duty. "Are conditions ideal in the so-called 'white states' of the West in some of which divorce is more frequent than anywhere in the Union, in one of which there has been civil war for the past year; an in others which contain cities that are far from being the most moral in the country?" Rebuttal Begins. Representative Morehouse offered Mrs. Markham an additional five minutes for closing, although the time alloted the for debate had ended. She wished to assign her time to another speaker but was refused permission. Mrs. Markham then yielded the floor after summing up the arguments briefly, and the suffragists were given a half hour for rebuttal. Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, president of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, opened the rebuttal by an attack upon the last speaker, referring sarcastically to his "calm and judicial aspect" and saying that although he had not made an effort to stampede the meeting he had held up all the old bogies of the "antis" and had shaken them before the eyes of the committee. She said she agreed with him that his race was a dying race. Democratic History? In answer to Palmer's speech, Mrs. Hepburn said that the last time she had seen Palmer was when he, as a member of the democratic state central committee, was trying to persuade the democrats of the assembly not to stand by their party platform pledge for suffrage. She had reminded him, she said of their pledge, when he answered "Why what difference does that make? We all know that a party platform is merely an advertisement to catch votes." Continuing, she said that, in spite of what the antis had said, she could assure the legislators that from her points of view they were by the far the most important persons in the state; that there was strong legal opinion that the constitution permitted an appeal to popular vote on any question where there seemed to be a demand for such expression of opinion; and that the figures in regard to referendum voting were correct as claimed by the suffragists in that a percentage only of the persons who voted at the last election were required for such a vote. Mrs. Carlos Stoddard of New Haven also took a fling at Mr. Chandler, saying that his speech was good evidence that it would be better to entrust the ballot to women than to him and that he had told of murders and crimes in the suffrage state of Oklahoma when every woman present knew that Oklahoma was not a suffrage state. She answered his reference to the strike troubles in Colorado by saying that it was the women of the state who had demanded and obtained federal intervention and she gave a number of statistics to show that divorce is on the decrease in woman suffrage states. Comparing arguments brought up in regard to the responsibilities imposed upon women by suffrage and the remarks made by a speaker who thought that politics and the ballot were matters of little importance, she said that if the responsibility was great the ballot was important, and that if the ballot was not important there could be no great burden of responsibility imposed upon those who wielded it. The other arguments were taken up briefly, though in great detail, by these speakers and also by Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett and Mrs. Arnold L. Gesell of New Haven. The last named made an address in which she told the committee that the star of political freedom for women had arisen and that the movement could not be checked by any means under the sun. Representatives W. S. Rogers of Litchfield and Welcome Davis of Eastford spoke in opposition to woman suffrage, after the meeting had been thrown open to opponents of suffrage unaffiliated with any suffrage or anti-suffrage organization. Mr. Rogers said he thought that when women really wanted the vote they could get it without coming to the Capitol and button-holing politicians. The hearing ended a little after 5 o'clock. SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN Windham County To Be Canvassed In the Interest of Votes for Women The cause of suffrage has received such a tremendous impetus from the recent activities that the public has learned what a proud thing It is to be a suffragist. With this Idea in view a campaign will be made in this county by the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association in the interest of votes for women. Miss Emily Pierson, State Organizer, will have charge of the same, and will drive her own runabout the trip. She will be accompanied by a number of assistants, among whom are Miss Freda Kirchway and Miss Anne Kutner of Barnard college, Miss Katherine Meredith, a graduate of Wellesley college, who is deeply interested in prison reform and juvenile courts; Miss Ethel Rankin of Denver, and Miss Alyse Gregory of Norfolk. Already halls have been engaged in every town in the county, and suffragists everywhere are preparing to give their assistance. Among those who will also speak at some of the meetings are Eric B. Johnson of Putnam, Hamilton Holt of New York, and Dr. Edward M. Harris of Providence. Arrangements are completed and the program for the week of June 15 will he as follows: Monday—Thompson, meeting in town hall at 8 p. m. Speakers, Miss Emily Pierson, Miss Ethel Rankin, and Miss Katharine Meredith. Tuesday—North Grosvenordale, at 8 p. m. in Union hall. Wednesday—West Woodstock in Lyceum hall. Thursday—South Woodstock, Phillips' hall. Friday—Putnam, Odd Fellows' hall. Two or more speakers will address each of the meetings, which are all free, and in all cases the public is cordially invited. On June 19th the executive board of the state organization will be entertained at the home of Mrs. R. P. Danielson. Among those who will be present are Mrs. Thomas Hepburn, president; Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, vice president; Mrs. Edward Porritt, Mrs. Carlos F. Stoddard and Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett. Most of these speakers have at various times addressed the Putnam Equal Franchise League, and it is hoped that all may be heard again. Manager Fine of the Bradley theatre has secured the film showing the parade in Hartford on May 2d, and has designated Tuesday, June 16, as "Suffrage day" in his playhouse, when the film will be shown at the afternoon and evening performances. Those who took part In the parade from this town may be recognized, and many more will wish they were in it. All suffragists should make it a point to see this film. The board of management of the Putnam Equal Franchise League has elected the following committees: Entertainment, chairman Mrs. John Evans Shepard; Gertrude Jones, Mrs. W. W. Whitney, Elizabeth Ash, Abbie McKenna. Press committee, Anna Levitt. Window Cards, Sarah Brady. Membership, chairman Mrs. Ernest C. Morse; Mrs. Harry C. Meinken, Elizabeth Ash, Mrs. W. N. Brown, Abbie McKenna, Annie Cogan, Mrs. Adler Towne, R. Psyche Webster. Chicago's Women Voters. There is no great significance in the fact that less than one-third of Chicago's recently registered women voters participated in Tuesday's primaries. The April election will furnish the real test of the desire of women to exercise the franchise now they have it. A bitter contest over democratic aldermanic nominations doubtless explains why 33,381 democratic women voted, as against 10,189 republican women, 3,297 progressive women and 662 socialist women. The empty honor of aldermanic nomination was conferred upon three progressive women candidates and four socialist women candidates. None has a chance for election. Perhaps the most notable fact in this Chicago contest is that it was in districts having the largest foreign population that the vote of women was heaviest. March 19, 1914 HOW SENATE VOTED ON SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT Senators voting for the suffrage amendment were Ashurst, Brady, Bristow, Burton, Chamberlain, Clapp, Clark (Wyoming), Gallinger, Gronna, Hollis, Hughes, Jones, Kenyon, La Follette, Lane, Lea, Myers, Nelson, Newlands, Norris, Owen, Perkins, Poindexter, Ransdell, Shafroth, Sheppard, Sherman, Smoot, Stephenson, Sterling, Sutherland, Thomas, Thompson, Townsend and Works--35. Senators voting against the amendment were Bankhead, Borah, Bradley, Brandegee, Bryan, Catron, Dillingham, du Pont, Gore, James, Johnson, Lee (Maryland), Lodge, McCumber, McLean, Martin, Martine, Oliver, Overman, Page, Pittman, Pomerene, Reed, Shields, Smith (Georgia), Smith (Maryland), Smith (South Carolina), Swanson, Thornton, Tillman, Vardaman, Weeks, West and Williams—34. EQUAL SUFFRAGE NOTES Equal suffrage demonstrations are being planned all over the country for Saturday, May 2nd. In Connecticut the demonstration will take the form of a pageant and parade in Hartford. A large delegation from the local Equal Franchise League expects to march. The woman suffrage bill passed the New Jersey Senate last week by a vote of 11 to 3. Detective Burns gave great encouragement to suffrage workers when he declared himself heartily in favor of woman suffrage, at his recent lecture in Putnam. He said he had never yet! heard a good reason why women should not vote. Washington, D. C.—Chairman of National Woman's Suffrage Association says Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont cannot speak for association as she holds no office. May 2 is the date settled last week for the suffrage demonstration at Hartford. "Joan of Arc" will lead the procession. New York City—Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, because of her recent accident, will not participate personally in the southern suffrage campaign. Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, the president of the Connecticut Woman's Suffrage association, will speak in Odd Fellows' Hall, March 13. MRS. HEPBURN TO SPEAK Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, president of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association will speak at the first anniversary meeting of the Equal Franchise League in Odd Fellows' Hall next Friday evening March 13 at 8 o'clock. There will be a musical program. The public is invited. 000627 ever else we may think of politics, we will have to admit that practical politics is not an appropriate place for mother love. "We were told that they wished to purify politics at its source. Can we do this better by using the ballot or by improving the race of men? "You were told to go to the greatest women in this country to learn what women as a whole need. Would you go to the greatest man in America to learn what the great mass of women need? Would you not rather go to the humble working man to learn the needs of men? "Every one of the 'great women' mentioned yesterday as having done great good has been forced to do this good, and has done it, without the ballot. "If you put every adult person in the state into politics we do not believe you will gain any good, but you will take away the conditions which now make the best women in the state and would make them mere politicians. A Challenge. "A New York woman said yesterday that workingwomen were not protected and she Inferred that they would be protected by the ballot. I ask the suffragists to tell me, in their rebuttal, one thing that has been done by the man-made laws to protect men which has not protected women even more. In any state that has an eight-hour day the reform was obtained by unions and not by laws. There are four states in the Union which have 8-hour laws, and they are suffrage states. I admit it. (Applause by suffragists.) But those who remind you of that always forget to tell you that two of these states had the law before they had suffrage. (Applause from the other side.) "We protest against your submitting this question to the voters of the state unless you honestly believe in woman suffrage and come out unequivocally in favor of it. If you do otherwise, you perjure your own beliefs or you violate the constitution. We protest against the principle of suffrage because we believe that our work in the world is as important as yours and we do not wish to be forced to neglect it; because we do not wish to be deprived of the special protection we now have; and because society, politics and government itself would suffer from the change." State Wide Roll Call. Mrs. Markham called upon a number of women who are the heads of local organizations in their towns, cities and counties to report o the feeling toward suffrage in their localities. The following reported in a sentence, each, as follows: - Mrs. Edward Hopkins of New Haven, Mrs. Ebenezer Learned of Norwich. Others who were to have answered the roll call, but did not for lack of time, were: Mrs. William B. Glover of Fairfield, Mrs. Emily Peabody of Glastonbury, Miss Marjorie Moore of Kensington, Miss Amy Vorce of Farmington, Mrs. Charles F. Brooker of Ansonia, Mrs. John R. Bacon of Danbury, Mrs. Charles Bottomley of Rockville, Mrs. E. H. Rogers of New Canaan, Mrs. A. C. Liebert of East Hartford, Miss Marian DeForest of Bridgeport, Miss Elizabeth Ely of Old Lyme, Mrs. William L. Stone of Guilford, Mrs. Alfred H. Terry of Fairfield county. South School Teacher. Miss Mary L. Linehan of the South School said that the old-fashioned homes are rapidly disappearing, and that the time some women wish to spend in politics could be spent to better advantage in bringing up their children. The state does not ask and should not ask the head of a school to feed the children of mothers who cannot cook because they are too busy seeking votes for women. "You should have planks in any suffrage platform you may adopt to teach children respect for authority - a phrase that is obsolete - and to teach the children what we do not have time to teach them, respect for law and reverence for the Creator." Mixup Is Applauded. MIss Lenihan wandered a little from her subject and after talking a while about teachers' pensions said that the teachers could legislate better than men. The remark brought loud applause and laughter from the suffrage side of the hall. "If the women who are seeking the ballot will form themselves into an auxiliary to the great body of women who are training the children, we will see the dawn of a new era in America." The suffragists took this also as a cue for applause. At this point Mrs. Markham interrupted and asked Miss Lenihan to shorten her remarks. She yielded and closed with the sentence, "If the women, here, will visit my school, they will see, as I do, the need of the ballot in the home." This brought the strongest applause of the day, nearly all from the suffragists. George B. Chandler Compensation Commissioner George B. Chandler said, in part: - "Throughout the discussion yesterday in favor of doubling the number of votes in the state, the people entirely misconceived the purpose of the meeting and I, in forgetfulness of the fact that this is a deliberative body, tried to stampede the meeting into support of their measure by a number of ridiculous devices, as if it were a political convention. I observed an utter misunderstanding of the principles of government. "The suffragists are comforted at the very outset of their propaganda by the incontrovertible biological phenomenon that in order to keep the race up to a proper standard each woman should bear at least four children. "They have certain exotic vices like free love and feminism at one end of their propaganda and socialism at the other end - the support of a body which recently flouted the stars and stripes in the streets of Hartford. "The arguments yesterday started by establishing certain fundamental principles of government, in forgetfulness of the fact that the best government is not that of the best principles but that which is the most expedient and which works best. "Law is the result and not the cause of custom. We are suffering from an epidemic of law making and a dearth of certain kinds of home making. At Democratic History? In answer to Palmer's speech, Mrs. Hepburn said that the last time she had seen Palmer was when he, as a member of the democratic state central committee, was trying to persuade the democrats of the assembly not to stand by their party platform pledge for suffrage. She had reminded him, she said of their pledge, when he answered "Why what difference does that make? We all know that a party platform is merely an advertisement to catch votes." Continuing, she said that, in spite of what the antis had said, she could assure the legislators that from her points of view they were by the far the most important persons in the state; that there was strong legal opinion that the constitution permitted an appeal to popular vote on any question where there seemed to be a demand for such expression of opinion; and that the figures in regard to referendum voting were correct as claimed by the suffragists in that a percentage only of the persons who voted at the last election were required for such a vote. Mrs. Carlos Stoddard of New Haven also took a fling at Mr. Chandler, saying that his speech was good evidence that it would be better to entrust the ballot to women than to him and that he had told of murders and crimes in the suffrage state of Oklahoma when every woman present knew that Oklahoma was not a suffrage state. She answered his reference to the strike troubles in Colorado by saying that it was the women of the state who had demanded and obtained federal intervention and she gave a number of statistics to show that divorce is on the decrease in woman suffrage states. Comparing arguments brought up in regard to the responsibilities imposed upon women by suffrage and the remarks made by a speaker who thought that politics and the ballot were matters of little importance, she said that if the responsibility was great the ballot was important, and that if the ballot was not important there could be no great burden of responsibility imposed upon those who wielded it. The other arguments were taken up briefly, thought in great detail, by these speakers and also by Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett and Mrs. Arnold L. Gesell of New Haven. The last named made an address in which she told the committee that the star of political freedom for women had arisen and that the movement could not be checked by any means under the sun. Representatives W. S. Rogers of Litchfield and Welcome Davis of Eastford spoke in opposition to woman suffrage, after the meeting had been thrown ope to opponents of suffrage unaffiliated with any suffrage or anti-suffrage organization. Mr. Rogers said he thought that when women really wanted the vote they could get it without coming to the Capitol and button-holing politicians. The hearing ended a little after 5 o'clock. SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN Windham County To Be Canvassed In the Interest of Votes for Women The cause of suffrage has received such a tremendous impetus from the recent activities that the public has learned what a proud thing It is to be a suffragist. With this Idea in view a campaign will be made in this county by the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association in the interest of votes for women. Miss Emily Pierson, State Organizer, will have charge of the same, and will drive her own runabout the trip. She will be accompanied by a number of assistants, among whom are Miss Freda Kirchway and Miss Anne Kutner of Barnard college, Miss Katherine Meredith, a graduate of Wellesley college, who is deeply interested in prison reform and juvenile courts; Miss Ethel Rankin of Denver, and Miss Alyse Gregory of Norfolk. Already halls have been engaged in every town in the county, and suffragists everywhere are preparing to give their assistance. Among those who will also speak at some of the meetings are Eric B. Johnson of Putnam, Hamilton Holt of New York, and Dr. Edward M. Harris of Providence. Arrangements are completed and the program for the week of June 15 will he as follows: Monday—Thompson, meeting in town hall at 8 p. rn. Speakers, Miss Emily Pierson, Miss Ethel Rankin, and Miss Katharine Meredith. Tuesday—North Grovenordale, at 8 p. m. in Union hall. Wednesday—West Woodstock in Lyceum hall. Thursday—South Woodstock, Phillips' hall. Friday—Putnam, Odd Fellows' hall. Two or more speakers will address each of the meetings, which are all free, and in all cases the public is cordially invited. On June 19th the executive board of the state organization will be entertained at the home of Mrs. R. P. Danielson. Among those who will be present are Mrs. Thomas Hepburn, president; Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, vice president; Mrs. Edward Porritt, Mrs. Carlos F. Stoddard and Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett. Most of these speakers have at various times addressed the Putnam Equal Franchise League, and it is hoped that all may be heard again. Manager Fine of the Bradley theatre has secured the film showing the parade in Hartford on May 2d, and has designated Tuesday, June 16, as "Suffrage day" in his playhouse, when the film will be shown at the afternoon and evening performances. Those who took part In the parade from this town may be recognized, and many more will wish they were in it. All suffragists should make it a point to see this film. The board of management of the Putnam Equal Franchise League has elected the following committees: Entertainment, chairman Mrs. John Evans Shepard; Gertrude Jones, Mrs. W. W. Whitney, Elizabeth Ash, Abbie McKenna. Press committee, Anna Levitt. Window Cards, Sarah Brady. Membership, chairman Mrs. Ernest C. Morse; Mrs. Harry C. Meinken, Elizabeth Ash, Mrs. W. N. Brown, Abbie McKenna, Annie Cogan, Mrs. Adler Towne, R. Psyche Webster. Chicago's Women Voters. There is no great significance in the fact that less than one-third of Chicago's recently registered women voters participated in Tuesday's primaries. The April election will furnish the real test of the desire of women to exercise the franchise now they have it. A bitter contest over democratic aldermanic nominations doubtless explains why 33,381 democratic women voted, as against 10,189 republican women, 3,297 progressive women and 662 socialist women. The empty honor of aldermanic nomination was conferred upon three progressive women candidates and four socialist women candidates. None has a chance for election. Perhaps the most notable fact in this Chicago contest is that it was in districts having the largest foreign population that the vote of women was heaviest. [handwritten] March 19, 1914 HOW SENATE VOTED ON SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT Senators voting for the suffrage amendment were Ashurst, Brady, Bristow, Burton, Chamberlain, Clapp, Clark (Wyoming), Gallinger, Gronna, Hollis, Hughes, Jones, Kenyon, La Follette, Lane, Lea, Myers, Nelson, Newlands, Norris, Owen, Perkins, Poindexter, Ransdell, Shafroth, Sheppard, Sherman, Smoot, Stephenson, Sterling, Sutherland, Thomas, Thompson, Townsend and Works--35. Senators voting against the amendment were Bankhead, Borah, Bradley, Brandegee, Bryan, Catron, Dillingham, du Pont, Gore, James, Johnson, Lee (Maryland), Lodge, McCumber, McLean, Martin, Martine, Oliver, Overman, Page, Pittman, Pomerene, Reed, Shields, Smith (Georgia), Smith (Maryland), Smith (South Carolina), Swanson, Thornton, Tillman, Vardaman, Weeks, West and Williams—34. EQUAL SUFFRAGE NOTES Equal suffrage demonstrations are being planned all over the country for Saturday, May 2nd. In Connecticut the demonstration will take the form of a pageant and parade in Hartford. A large delegation from the local Equal Franchise League expects to march. The woman suffrage bill passed the New Jersey Senate last week by a vote of 11 to 3. Detective Burns gave great encouragement to suffrage workers when be declared himself heartily in favor of woman suffrage, at his recent lecture in Putnam. He said he had never yet! heard a good reason why women should not vote. Washington, D. C.—Chairman of National Woman's Suffrage Association says Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont cannot speak for association as she holds no office. May 2 is the date settled last week for the suffrage demonstration at Hartford. "Joan of Arc" will lead the procession. New York City—Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, because of her recent accident, will not participate personally in the southern suffrage campaign. Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, the president of the Connecticut Woman's Suffrage association, will speak in Odd Fellows' Hall, March 13. MRS. HEPBURN TO SPEAK Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, president of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association will speak at the first anniversary meeting of the Equal Franchise League in Odd Fellows' Hall next Friday evening March 13 at 8 o'clock. There will be a musical program. The public is invited. 000628 12 THE HART VOTES FOR WOMEN SUFFRAGE CRY. Mrs. Hepburn Marshals Her Forces in Splendid Style at the Capitol. EBENEZER J. HILL SENDS A TELEGRAM. Mr. Bennett a Doughty Champion—J. Henry Looks On—Rose Winslow's Advocacy. "And future generations. with wonder and delight, Shall read in these here pages of the great pro-suffrage fight." Which, being only an adaptation of "McCloskey's Fight," as sung by Maggie Klein, may give some idea of the earnestness of the conflict, the first round of which was run off Wednesday afternoon. It was remarkable for many things, but principally for the fact that the suffrage case rested, promptly at 4 o'clock, exactly on time. It was a well-gotten-up case that Mrs. Hepburn put forward, evenly balanced, interesting all the way, whether you agree with the arguments or not. It kept the legislature's committee on suffrage, and that on constitutional amendment, sitting on their rostrum for the entire time. There was very little coming and going in the hall of the house; the aisles were blocked like those of a church at a fashionable wedding, and the number of "Beg pardons" one had to emit before getting to a door or a seat was something terrific. At some of the dramatic moments, of which there were a few, at least, the proverbial pin could have been heard to tinkle as it struck the floor, if the floor hadn't been carpeted, and if 600 women hadn't worn rustling silk. Speaking of dramatic moments, there was one that outshone all the rest for cleverness of political manipulation. The hands of the house clock were slowly drawing around to 4. The names on that monster 39,012-signature petition had just been tabulated by towns and counties. The suffrage case rested, apparently. But no—the final shot was coming. Ebenezer Goes In. It was like the end of a football game, the score 0 to 0, and only five minutes to play. Mrs. Quarterback Hepburn had a star, sitting on the bench all the time, whom she hadn't called on. And then with a mental "Warm up, Ebenezer!" to the side line bench, she turned to the speaker's bench. and said to the committee: "I have here a telegram from Congressman Ebenezer J. Hill, who was unable to attend the hearing in person, which I will read." And read it she did. This is it "Don't waste time answering prejudices and non-essentials. They have always been thrown across the path of progress and human rights and always will be. Stand on the bedrock of everlasting and eternal justice. By the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States all persons, men and women, are made citizens of the nation if born or naturalized here. The nation gives citizenship, not the state, and no state can justly take from you the right to exercise its powers and privileges, by prescribing a qualification for performing its highest privileges and duties, to which It is impossible for you to attain. The very fact that thin is a government by consent of the governed compels equality of citizenship and equality of voting power. Anything else is tyranny. Make the qualifications as rigid as you choose, residence, property, intelligence, anything to which the citizens of the nation can attain. Qualifications impossible of attainment mean class distinctions and in the absorption by the nation of all government and the practical abolition of state functions and control which is now going on, this means disaster to the little section of the nation that we call New England; equal suffrage is already a political necessity for us in New England. If there is but one woman in Connecticut and I trust there is more than one, who wants now to do her full duty as a citizen of the United States she ought to have that right. I would rather trust our intelligent New England women than the Mexican Greasers who can now vote In many states by simply declaring that they intend to become American citizens. I earnestly hope that the legislature will submit the amendment. ("Signed) E. J. Hill." "Didn't he come across something splendid?" rejoiced one of the younger set of suffragettes, in the patois of the girls' colleges. "Dear old congressman! Wish they were all like that!" To save space, as well as repetition, the message from Washington to the Suffrage Garcias was greeted with such remarks as "Well, well, Ebenezer sure done himself proud," from most of the legislators about the capitol. J. Henry Draws a Bye. Outside the hall of the house before the hearing began stood a commanding figure, tall, velvet-hatted, cigar-smoking. A friend went up to him. "Thought you were supposed to be banished during Lent?" he queried incredulously. "You here to support or oppose the amendment?" "No," said J. Henry Roraback, with a sardonic grin—his grins are always sardonic in print, you know —"to-day I'm just an innocent by-stander." And however much one may question the accompanying adjective, the fact remains that, Wednesday afternoon, he was just a bystander. At least. ostensibly. Enter Mr. Bennett. Who was going to speak for the men's suffrage league, that much-joshed, but very-much-in-earnest body of worthies, was kept in the dark for a long time. Here again Mrs. Quarterback Hepburn sprung another surprise from her substitute list. Enter Mr. M. Toucan Beninett. Mr. Bennett had been attending a hearing before the judiciary committee, protesting in the name of the Connecticut Society for Social Hygiene, but it didn't phaze him a hit to turn right around and plead the cause of vote-anxious woman. Not a bit. He rose to the occasion nobly, just as if it didn't make any difference whether Mrs. Bennett were there or not, just as if he would have come of his own accord, if his wife hadn't been interested in the cause. "I bet she made him come here," whispered one skeptical sister in the gallery. "Made him come? That great big chap?" answered a more perspicaious neighbor. "Huh, she couldn't 'a done it if he hadn't a' wanted to." Nancy Jackson's Case. Mr. Bennett made his plea as a lawyer, short and to the point. He cited the Declaration of Independence, which his wife had quoted before him. Evidently that document is a popular one in the Bennett family. He read its catalog of grievances against gouty, nutty old King George III., and said the men of to-day were piling all those same grievances on women—taxing them without representation, and all the rest. He quoted from the state constitution, the first clause of the bill of rights, which establishes equality on the part of all men, and reviewed over again the case of old Nancy Jackson, the slave who was brought to Connecticut along back in the '40's, and who was exempted from rights under the constitution, not because she was a slave, but but because she didn't have the vote. "Women to-day are not people, politically speaking," he affirmed, "but are slaves just as Nancy Jackson was adjudged under that decision of the supreme court." He got quite a hand from the house as he sat down. Rose Winslow. Miss Rose Winslow of New York, the girl from the mills, who had worked, and earned her own living ever since she was 11 years old, proved quite a sensation. She talked straight and clear, and right from the shoulder were her utterances regarding the relation of prostitution to the living wage question. Working women needed the vote to secure for themselves a living wage, she said. "What I want you men to remember most is that we workingwomen get so low a wage that when we wish to buy a pair of shoes we have to go without meat for weeks to save the money. "The expectation of a great many employers of women at a $6 a week wages is that if the woman cannot Drescher, mill operator; Miss Bessie Connor, mill operator. Putnam—Miss Catherine Byrne, bookkeeper; Miss Anna Gegan, mill operator; Miss Bloxham, trained nurse; Miss P. Webster, trained nurse. Thompson—Miss Abbe McKenna, mill operator. Norwich—Miss Hattie Blackstone, warp maker, velvet mill; Miss Gladys Upton, stenographer; Miss Margaret Tresher, bookkeeper; Miss Margaret Moore, stenographer; Dr. Esther B. Woodward, physician. New London—Miss Ruby Bliven, saleswoman; Miss Mary C. Keeley, retail clerk; Mrs. William Cruise, janitor; Miss Bessie Bliron, box maker; Mrs. Mary Birmingham, clerk; Mrs. Martha Tuttle, bookkeeper; Miss Josephine O'Connell, clerk; Miss Mary Bleen, cashier; Miss Nora Connor, dressmaker. Welcome, Welcome! After the suffrage regular team had left the oratorical field at 4 p. m., the hearing was thrown open to the non-organized supporters of the cause. They were all men, two of them clergymen, and one of them Representative Welcome Davis from Eastford, a superman. Welcome lived up to his name, extolling the virtues of womanhood and the injustice of denying them the franchise, for upwards of half an hour. He went to the length of saying, "There ought to be at least two women on every committee in this house to my way of thinking; then they might get something done." And, as Welcome is a member of the committees on military affairs and state library, he oughter know, oughtn't he? Dr. W. H. Allee, of Ridgefield, president of the Fairfield county farm bureau; the Rev. R. A. Dunlap, chaplain of the house; the Rev. John H. Stubbert of Putnam; James L. McGuire of Hartford, a former vice-president of the Connecticut Federation of Labor; the Rev. Duane N. Griffin of this city, who quoted Byron with great effect and much applause, and C. H. Aspinwall of Meriden, were other speakers on behalf of the cause. The last named gentleman said he came from the moat conservative town in the state, but he had presented the suffrage petition to sixty-seven people, and fifty-three had signed it. Which according to the applause he got, was evidently considered some going. SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT Work Still Going On. Miscellaneous Notes. Arrangements have been made to hold the annual State Convention of the Connecticut Suffrage association in Hartford, sometime during October the date being left opened until such speakers would be available. The final report of the summer campaign in Windham, Tolland and Middlesex counties shows that 122 meetings were held, 65 in halls and 57 out of doors. There were present approximately 15,933 persons, 8258 at the hall meetings and 7675 at the out door meetings. Another interesting fact is that Chautauqua closed its 40th session on Aug. 31. Suffrage has been a popular subject this summer, and the best speakers, including Secretary of State Bryan, have delivered the woman's message of freedom. This year 8,000-000 persons in the 3000 towns where the association meetings have been held have been enlightened on the subject of the ballot for women. The most important work being done now is that of obtaining from the Democratic and Republic parties the insertion of a suffrage plank in their state platform. For this work the cooperation of every suffragist in Connecticut is earnestly desired. The one thing that every one can do to help is the writing of letters to members of the Central committees and to the candidates for the Legislature. A single letter may have little effect, but the cumulative effect of hundreds of letters is greater than can well be realized. The Putnam Franchise league will resume their meetings shortly and bigger and better features may be expected. The Woodstock Equal Franchise League The Woodstock Equal Franchise league held its regular November meeting in the chapel of the East Woodstock Congregational church on Wednesday afternoon. The meeting was presided over by the president, Mrs. J. E. Shepard. Miss Emily Pierson, State organizer, who was to address the meeting, was unavoidably detained, and during the time that she was scheduled to speak and her arrival, the time was ably taken up on short talks on current topics, Federal banks and international questions. Different views were discussed by the president, Rev. T. A. Turner, Rev. and Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Arthur Morse, Mrs. A. R. Rawlings and Mrs. W. J. Bartlett, president of the Putnam league. At the close, Miss Pierson gave one of her well known illuminating talks on "What the Vote has Done for the West." Having just returned from the "seat of war" as it were, she was well prepared in the outline she gave. Speaking for Connecticut, she stated the time had come when the whys and wherefores of equal suffrage need not be so earnestly explained. With 23,000 adults all over the state who have signed the petition to the legislature the Judiciary committee has proof enough that the vote is wanted to bring this measure before the house. As these signers of the petition have their representative from every town in the state. The winning of Nevada is of significance as an indication of the respect with which woman suffrage is viewed by those who are in close contact with it. Nevada was surrounded by suffrage states and its voters were supplied therefore with first hand knowledge as to the workings of suffrage. After the address refreshments in charge of the vice president, Mrs. T. A. Turner, and assistants were served. It is expected a good representation will be on hand to hear Miss Margaret Foley, of Boston, who will address the Putnam league on Friday evening in Odd Fellows hall. 000629 FIRST LINE UNREADABLE sitting on their rostrum for the entire time. There was very little coming and going in the hall of the house; the aisles were blocked like those of a church at a fashionable wedding, and the number of "Beg pardons" one had to emit before getting to a door or a seat was something terrific. At some of the dramatic moments, of which there were a few, at least, the proverbial pin could have been heard to tinkle as it struck the floor, if the floor hadn't been carpeted, and if 600 women hadn't worn rustling silk. Speaking of dramatic moments, there was one that outshone all the rest for cleverness of political manipulation. The hands of the house clock were slowly drawing around to 4. The names on that monster 39,012-signature petition had just been tabulated by towns and counties. The suffrage case rested, apparently. But no—the final shot was coming. Ebenezer Goes In. It was like the end of a football game, the score 0 to 0, and only five minutes to play. Mrs. Quarterback Hepburn had a star, sitting on the bench all the time, whom she hadn't called on. And then with a mental "Warm up, Ebenezer!" to the side line bench, she turned to the speaker's bench. and said to the committee: "I have here a telegram from Congressman Ebenezer J. Hill, who was unable to attend the hearing in person, which I will read." And read it she did. This is it "Don't waste time answering prejudices and non-essentials. They have always been thrown across the path of progress and human rights and always will be. Stand on the bedrock of everlasting and eternal justice. By the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States all persons, men and women, are made citizens of the nation if born or naturalized here. The nation gives citizenship, not the state, and no state can justly take from you the right to exercise its powers and privileges, by prescribing a qualification for performing its highest privileges and duties, to which It is impossible for you to attain. The very fact that thin is a government by consent of the governed compels equality of citizenship and equality of voting power. Anything else is tyranny. Make the qualifications as rigid as you choose, residence, property, intelligence may question the accompanying adjective, the fact remains that, Wednesday afternoon, he was just a bystander. At least. ostensibly. Enter Mr. Bennett. Who was going to speak for the men's suffrage league, that much-joshed, but very-much-in-earnest body of worthies, was kept in the dark for a long time. Here again Mrs. Quarterback Hepburn sprung another surprise from her substitute list. Enter Mr. M. Toucan Bennett. Mr. Bennett had been attending a hearing before the judiciary committee, protesting in the name of the Connecticut Society for Social Hygiene, but it didn't phaze him a bit to turn right around and plead the cause of vote-anxious woman. Not a bit. He rose to the occasion nobly, just as if it didn't make any difference whether Mrs. Bennett were there or not, just as if he would have come of his own accord, if his wife hadn't been interested in the cause. "I bet she made him come here," whispered one skeptical sister in the gallery. "Made him come? That great big chap?" answered a more perspicaious neighbor. "Huh, she couldn't 'a done it if he hadn't a' wanted to." Nancy Jackson's Case. Mr. Bennett made his plea as a lawyer, short and to the point. He cited the Declaration of Independence, which his wife had quoted before him. Evidently that document is a popular one in the Bennett family. He read its catalog of grievances against gouty, nutty old King George III., and said the men of to-day were piling all those same grievances on women—taxing them without representation, and all the rest. He quoted from the state constitution, the first clause of the bill of rights, which establishes equality on the part of all men, and reviewed over again the case of old Nancy Jackson, the slave who was brought to Connecticut along back in the '40's, and who was exempted from rights under the constitution, not because she was a slave, but but because she didn't have the vote. "Women to-day are not people, politically speaking," he affirmed, "but are slaves just as Nancy Jackson was adjudged under that decision of the supreme court." He got quite a hand from the house as he sat down. Rose Winslow. Miss Rose Winslow of New York, the girl from the mills, who had worked, and earned her own living ever since she was 11 years old, proved quite a sensation. She talked straight and clear, and right from the shoulder were her utterances regarding the relation of prostitution to the living wage question. Working women needed the vote to secure for themselves a living wage, she said. "What I want you men to remember most is that we workingwomen get so low a wage that when we wish to buy a pair of shoes we have to go without meat for weeks to save the money. "The expectation of a great many employers of women at a $6 a week wages is that if the woman cannot make a living honestly they can make it dishonestly, that they can get a beau which means they can indulge in prostitution. I want to say this clearly and openly so that you will understand exactly what I mean. The idea back of the question asked by every employer of cheap female labor as to whether the employee is living at home is that they recognize the fact that their wages are so low they can not make a living without outside aid." Miss Winslow was the only speaker from outside the state imported by the suffrage workers in Connecticut. Working Women. To bring home Miss Winslow's arguments more tangibly to the committees on the dais, Miss Emily Pierson announced that a number of working women from all parts of the state, representing almost all its diversified industries and occupations, wished to go on record as favoring the bills. She caller the roll, and as many of the women who were able to attend the hearing, arose, and said simply "I favor the bill and am a believer in suffrage," or words to that effect, and sat down. A number of those who wished to go on record were unable to get to the capitol because of their work. The roll call follows: New Haven - Miss Elizabeth Sullivan, clock factory worker; Miss Sarah Joyner, journalist; Miss Katherine Mullen, school teacher. Waterbury - Miss Isabella Atkinson, bookkeeper; Mrs. Mary J. Bryan, boarding house keeper; Mrs. Allen Logan, boarding house keeper; Miss Susan O'Neil, lawyer. Farmington - Miss Theodate Pope, architect. Meriden - Miss Gladys Beatty, stenographer. Norwalk - Miss Louise Spillane, dressmaker; Miss Frances A. Taylor, furrier. Danbury - Miss Margaret Griffin; Miss Margaret Foley, hat trimmer; Miss Agusta Kane, hat trimmer; Miss Anna Gallagher, hat trimmer. Hartford - Miss Elizabeth Flanagan, telephone operator; Miss Deborah Gross, bookkeeper; Miss Dorothy Borden, retail clerk; Mrs. Vogel, boarding house keeper; Mrs. Lawlor, milliner; Mrs. Elizabeth Byles, office worker; Miss Agnes Goghers, office worker. Canaan - Miss Katherine Finnigan, school teacher. Bridgeport - Mrs. Ruth C. Kilpatrick, journalist; Miss Ethel Hogan, office worker. Willimantic - Miss Abbie O'Connor, mill operator; Miss Katherine the most conservative town in the state, but he had presented the suffrage petition to sixty-seven people, and fifty-three had signed it. Which according to the applause he got, was evidently considered some going. __________ Charles E. O'Brien of Brooklyn, aged 29, was drowned in the swimming tank of the New York Athletic Club. O'Brien had but one arm and swam with difficulty. The Mexican and European wars have more than doubled the number enlisting in the United States Army. Less than half pass the mental and physical tests. Wildwood, N. J., Life Guards established a record for that resort when within one hour Captain Needham and his men, after most strenuous work, rescued twenty-six persons from drowning. The New Jersey Audubon Society, of which George Batten of Montclair is president, has issued a statement denying that the society is opposed to all cats and desired to legislate against them. Richard O'Brien, a miner, was deported by the Butte Mine Workers' Union, when he refused to join the Union as he already belonged to the Western Federation of Miners. When he reported for work, he was escorted out of town. Because so many of the Chicago Grand Opera Co.'s singers are endangering their lives and voices in the present European struggle the managers of the company have decided to call off all the performances scheduled for the coming season. Rodman Wanamaker will send two Indian boys to the Academy in Mercersburg, Pa. After completing the course there they will be sent to Princeton. When their education is completed they will return to their people to help educate them. Congress expects to complete its business of legislation by October 1. Whether or not it will adjourn then will depend upon conditions rising from the European war. Red Cross fund now totals $42,615 in New York and $22,262 in Newport. Senator Overman of North Carolina introduced a bill amending the banking and currency laws so that the tax on emergency currency for the first three months of its issue shall be reduced from three per cent. to one per cent. Walter Jackson has been nominated for president of WEEK'S NEWS STORIES RETOLD Events That Made a Stir Condensed to a Paragraph. WHAT WASHINGTON IS DOING News of Interest That Trickles From the White House and the Various Departments - Catalogue of Crimes and Casualties War Bulletins The steamer Masapequa, chartered by the Rockefeller Foundation, arrived at Havre, with a cargo of food for the starving Belgians, valued at $275,000. The steamer Massapequa, chartered tive state in Siam, has assured Great Britain of his loyalty during the present war between England and Turkey. An unknown British officer, who lately died of his wounds, was awarded the Iron Cross by the Kaiser for rescuing a wounded German soldier. Queen Mary sent her thanks to America for their response to her appeal for 300,000 pairs of socks and belts for British soldiers at the front. British officials discredited the report that the Kaiser had sounded Italy on the question of peace. The State Department issued new regulations as to the issuance of United States passports, in order to prevent their use by foreign spies. An official dispatch from Petrograd states that the Germans have been defeated beyond Kalisz, in East Prussia. Field Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar is going to France. The official announcement making this fact public says the famous general is going into the war zone "to see the Indian troops." Lord Roberts was born in Cawnpore, India, 82 years ago. 000630 CRANK HITS SUFFRAGIST. Former Was of Auto Variety, However, and Machine Backfired. Danielson, Conn., June 24.—Miss Freda Kirchwey, daughter of Dean Kirchwey of Columbia law school, who is driving an automobile in the Grand Suffrage tour through Poland and Windham counties, Connecticut, was struck In the face today by the crank of her car when It backfired. Her face was bruised, but she was not badly injured and drove the car the rest of the way to West Woodstock. where she was to speak at a suffrage meeting. SUFFRAGE NOTES Margaret Foley to Speak in Putnam Local League Opens Fall Campaign The Putnam Equal Franchise league which is becoming known as one of the most active suffrage organizations in the state, will hold a public meeting in Odd Fellows hall Friday evening :November 20, at 8 o'clock. Admission is free and the public is invited to attend. The speaker will be Miss Margaret Foley of Boston who is at present engaged In campaign work in Massachusetts and who is coming to Putnam by a special arrangement with the :Massachusetts Woman Suffrage association. Miss Foley has recently returned from Nevada where she gave two months of strenuous work to the suffrage cause and where the woman suffrage amendment won on election day. Miss Foley will doubtless tell some of the interesting experiences she had in the Nevada campaign. Miss Foley was born in Dorchester, Mass., and attended the public schools there, and later, after graduating from a Boston High school, she became a factory worker, learning the trade of a hat trimmer. All her spare time, however, she devoted to voice culture and her study of music covered a period of 16 years. This early training has contributed in no small measure to her success as a public speaker. She is logical, forceful and witty and her remarkable carrying voice holds her audience in rapt interest to the last word. It was while teething swimming and gymnastics at Western coast resorts, for Miss Foley is an expert swimmer, that she first began to observe the conditions of women and to become interested in civic betterment. Not long after her return to Boston from the West, she was engaged by the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage association to present to trade unions all over the State the suffrage resolutions then before the legislature, with a view of securing their endorsement. In this she was entirely successful. Miss Foley is a trustee of the Children's Institutions Department of the city of Boston, a position to which she was appointed by Mayor Fitzgerald and confirmed by the Civil Service commission. She was the first active suffragist to hold a city office. Few speakers engaged in her work are better informed or have had equal opportunities for studying her subject. She has traveled in many European countries, examining suffrage conditions particularly in connection with women and children in industrial life, and she has campaigned in a number of states in this country, where her zeal and courage in pleading for votes for women have been a great factor in the advancement of the cause. The sixth Equal Franchise league in Windham County was organized in Willimantic Nov. 11th, with Mrs. S. A. Niles as president. The other leagues in order of their formation, are Putnam, Danielson, Woodstock, Hampton and Eastford. There are now 64 leagues in the state. Suffrage workers from all parts of the country have gathered at the 46th annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association at Nashville, Tenn., during the VOTES FOR WOMEN ! Campaign Nov. 16 to 27, 1914 MEETINGS JEWETT CITY, Rioux Hall, 8 P. M., MONDAY, NOV. 16 Speakers, Miss Alyse Gregory, Norwalk. Miss Isabella Sanders, Chicago. PRESTON CITY, Baptist Church Vestry, 8 P. M., MONDAY, NOV. 16 Speakers, Miss Easily Pierson, Cromwell, Mrs. Willis Austin, Norwich. COLCHESTER, Grange Hall, Speakers, 8 P. M., TUESDAY, NOV. 17 Miss Emily Pierson, Cromwell, Miss Isabella Sanders, Chicago. YANTIC.; Fire Engine Hall, 8 P. M., TUESDAY, NOV. 17 Chairman, Mr. H. J. Gibbs. Speaker, Miss Alyse Gregory, Norwalk, Mrs. William A. Norton, Norwich. EAST WOODSTOCK, Congregational Chapel, 8:00 P. M., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 18 Speaker, Miss Emily Pierson, Cromwell. BALTIC, Shannon Hall, 8:00 P. M., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 18 Speaker, Miss Alyse Gregory. (en francais), Norwalk, Miss Isabella Sanders, (in English), Chicago. LEBANON, Grange Hall, 8:00 P. M., THURSDAY, NOV. 19 Speakers. Miss Emily Pierson, Cromwell, Miss Alp. Gregory, Norwalk. Miss Isabella Saunders, Chicago. VOLUNTOWN, Union Hall, 8:00 P. M., FRIDAY, NOV. 20 Speakers, Miss Alyse Gregory, Norwalk, Miss Isabella Sanders, Chicago. SALEM, Grange Hall, 8:00 P. M., MONDAY, NOV. 23 Chairman, Hon. J. F. Rogers. Speakers, Miss Alyse Gregory, Norwalk, Miss Isabella Sanders, Chicago. PATCHAUG, The Chapel, 8:00 P. M., MONDAY, NOV. 23 Chairman, Rev. Francis S. Child, Speakers, Miss Emily Pierson, Cromwell. Mrs. Willis Austin, Norwich. GLASGO, Social Hall, 8:00 P. M., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 25 Speakers, Miss Emily Pierson, Cromwell, Mi.. Hadie Blackstone, Norwich. FITCHVILLE, Palmer's Hall, 8:00 P. M.. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 25 Chairman, Rev. G. Elmer Lamphere. Speakers, Miss Alyse Gregory. Norwalk, Miss Isabella Sanders, Chicago. BOZRAH CENTER, Congregational Church, 8:00 P. M., FRIDAY, NOV. 27 Chairman, Rev. J. C. Young Speakers, Miss Emily Pierson, Cromwell, Miss Faith Bonfoey, Norwich, FRANKLIN, Town Hall, 8:00 P. M., FRIDAY, NOV. 27 Chairman, Rev. C. P. Capshaw. Speakers, Miss Alyse Gregory, Norwalk, Miss Isabella Sanders, Chicago. You must be interested in Votes for Women. We cordially invite you to come and hear the speakers who will visit your town. Suffrage literature and souvenirs will be on sale at the meetings. ADMISSION FREE 6 000631 CRANK HITS SUFFRAGIST. Former Was of Auto Variety, However, and Machine Backfired. Danielson, Conn., June 24.—Miss Freda Kirchwey, daughter of Dean Kirchwey of Columbia law school, who is driving an automobile in the Grand Suffrage tour through Poland and Windham counties, Connecticut, was struck In the face today by the crank of her car when It backfired. Her face was bruised, but she was not badly injured and drove the car the rest of the way to West Woodstock. where she was to speak at a suffrage meeting. in the state, will hold a public meeting in Odd Fellows hall Friday evening :November 20, at 8 o'clock. Admission is free and the public is invited to attend. The speaker will be Miss Margaret Foley of Boston who is at present engaged In campaign work in Massachusetts and who is coming to Putnam by a special arrangement with the :Massachusetts Woman Suffrage association. Miss Foley has recently returned from Nevada where she gave two months of strenuous work to the suffrage cause and where the woman suffrage amendment won on election day. Miss Foley will doubtless tell some of the interesting experiences she had in the Nevada campaign. Miss Foley was born in Dorchester, Mass., and attended the public schools there, and later, after graduating from a Boston High school, she became a factory worker, learning the trade of a hat trimmer. All her spare time, however, she devoted to voice culture and her study of music covered a period of 16 years. This early training has contributed in no small measure to her success as a public speaker. She is logical, forceful and witty and her remarkable carrying voice holds her audience in rapt interest to the last word. It was while teething swimming and gymnastics at Western coast resorts, for Miss Foley is an expert swimmer, that she first began to observe the conditions of women and to become interested in civic betterment. Not long after her return to Boston from the West, she was engaged by the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage association to present to trade unions all over the State the suffrage resolutions then before the legislature, with a view of securing their endorsement. In this she was entirely successful. Miss Foley is a trustee of the Children's Institutions Department of the city of Boston, a position to which she was appointed by Mayor Fitzgerald and confirmed by the Civil Service commission. She was the first active suffragist to hold a city office. Few speakers engaged in her work are better informed or have had equal opportunities for studying her subject. She has traveled in many European countries, examining suffrage conditions particularly in connection with women and children in industrial life, and she has campaigned in a number of states in this country, where her zeal and courage in pleading for votes for women have been a great factor in the advancement of the cause. The sixth Equal Franchise league in Windham County was organized in Willimantic Nov. 11th, with Mrs. S. A. Niles as president. The other leagues in order of their formation, are Putnam, Danielson, Woodstock, Hampton and Eastford. There are now 64 leagues in the state. Suffrage workers from all parts of the country have gathered at the 46th annual convention of the National American Women Suffrage Association at Nashville, Tenn., during the past week. Among the Connecticut delegates are Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton of Greenwich and Mrs. A. E. Seranton Taylor of Norfolk, both of whom have recently assisted at suffrage meetings in this vicinity. Special music has been planned for the occasion. It is expected Mrs. Laura Broder Corcoran will render a solo, accompanied by Miss Katherine Seward. VOTES FOR WOMEN ! Campaign Nov. 16 to 27, 1914 MEETINGS JEWETT CITY, Rioux Hall, 8 P. M., MONDAY, NOV. 16 Speakers, Miss Alyse Gregory, Norwalk. Miss Isabella Sanders, Chicago. PRESTON CITY, Baptist Church Vestry, 8 P. M., MONDAY, NOV. 16 Speakers, Miss Easily Pierson, Cromwell, Mrs. Willis Austin, Norwich. COLCHESTER, Grange Hall, Speakers, 8 P. M., TUESDAY, NOV. 17 Miss Emily Pierson, Cromwell, Miss Isabella Sanders, Chicago. YANTIC.; Fire Engine Hall, 8 P. M., TUESDAY, NOV. 17 Chairman, Mr. H. J. Gibbs. Speaker, Miss Alyse Gregory, Norwalk, Mrs. William A. Norton, Norwich. EAST WOODSTOCK, Congregational Chapel, 8:00 P. M., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 18 Speaker, Miss Emily Pierson, Cromwell. BALTIC, Shannon Hall, 8:00 P. M., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 18 Speaker, Miss Alyse Gregory. (en francais), Norwalk, Miss Isabella Sanders, (in English), Chicago. LEBANON, Grange Hall, 8:00 P. M., THURSDAY, NOV. 19 Speakers. Miss Emily Pierson, Cromwell, Miss Alp. Gregory, Norwalk. Miss Isabella Saunders, Chicago. VOLUNTOWN, Union Hall, 8:00 P. M., FRIDAY, NOV. 20 Speakers, Miss Alyse Gregory, Norwalk, Miss Isabella Sanders, Chicago. SALEM, Grange Hall, 8:00 P. M., MONDAY, NOV. 23 Chairman, Hon. J. F. Rogers. Speakers, Miss Alyse Gregory, Norwalk, Miss Isabella Sanders, Chicago. PATCHAUG, The Chapel, 8:00 P. M., MONDAY, NOV. 23 Chairman, Rev. Francis S. Child, Speakers, Miss Emily Pierson, Cromwell. Mrs. Willis Austin, Norwich. GLASGO, Social Hall, 8:00 P. M., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 25 Speakers, Miss Emily Pierson, Cromwell, Mi.. Hadie Blackstone, Norwich. FITCHVILLE, Palmer's Hall, 8:00 P. M.. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 25 Chairman, Rev. G. Elmer Lamphere. Speakers, Miss Alyse Gregory. Norwalk, Miss Isabella Sanders, Chicago. BOZRAH CENTER, Congregational Church, 8:00 P. M., FRIDAY, NOV. 27 Chairman, Rev. J. C. Young Speakers, Miss Emily Pierson, Cromwell, Miss Faith Bonfoey, Norwich, FRANKLIN, Town Hall, 8:00 P. M., FRIDAY, NOV. 27 Chairman, Rev. C. P. Capshaw. Speakers, Miss Alyse Gregory, Norwalk, Miss Isabella Sanders, Chicago. You must be interested in Votes for Women. We cordially invite you to come and hear the speakers who will visit your town. Suffrage literature and souvenirs will be on sale at the meetings. ADMISSION FREE 6[illegible] SUFFRAGE BILL IS DEFEATED House Votes 204 Ayes to 174 Noes on Constitutional Amendment Enfranchising Women LEADERS OF PUTNAM SUFFRAGISTS ENCOURAGED BY RESULT Rev. J. R. Stubbert Repeated His Interesting Address on the Question to an Appreciative Audience at Odd Fellows Hall Friday evening He strongly Favors Woman Rights "You can say that the suffragists of Putnam are elated and enthusiastic over the vote in the House," said Mrs. W. J. Bartlett, president of the Putnam Equal Franchise League, referring to the amendment to the constitution to enfranchise women, which was defeated in the National House of Representatives Tuesday by a vote of 204 to 174. A two-thirds vote or 252 would have been necessary to carry it. Partly lines were not strictly drawn, many opposing it being in favor of leaving the question to individual states. "When you consider," continued Mrs. Bartlett, "that there were 174 affirmative votes out of a total of 378 why should we not feel encouraged." National suffragist leaders expressed the same sentiment. For the Antis Mrs. Dodge said: "It means taht the suffrage movement fostered by hysterical women is on the wane." WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND THE BIBLE The January meeting of the Putnam Equal Franchise League was an occasion of unusual interest as the address was given by Rev. J. R. Stubbert of the Baptist church. Mr. Stubbert has a strong belief in the justice of equal suffrage and he is always ready to stand for what he believes is right. He generously gave his services when the league invited him to present his views at a public meeting. His stirring talk was an inspiration to his many auditors. The meeting was held in Odd Fellows hall Friday evening, January 8. Mrs. W. J. Barlett, president of the league, was chairman of the evening. Before and after Mr. Stubbert's address, Mr. Trevithic sang two pleasing solos, accompanied at the piano by Miss Diane Breault. Mr. Stubbert developed his theme, "Woman Suffrage and the Bible," with eloquence and logic, speaking of the equality of women from the Biblical point of view, the Historical point of view, and the point of view of Common Sense. I call you "friends" tonight. I don't want to make the mistake that one speaker made, who said, "I call you friends, I won't call you ladies and gentlemen' because I know you all too well for that." I simply think if I call you "friends" it will do. We come tonight to consider a subject that is not new. It is very old. It is a God-given subject. It pertains to the better class of society, and what we are willing to do for them. I think in all nations the acknowledgement is made that woman is the purest and most religious of the human family. I would like to know the nation or the individual who prescribes the duties of a woman. I make these few remarks before I enter upon the subject because a few years ago, the "Mr. Johnson" as he is called in England, was asked something about the education of women. It was beginning to be mooted then in England, and Johnson, in his gruff way, said what we would expect of him, that the best education that a woman could get was to make a good dinner in the kitchen; for probably no man in England ever liked to eat so well as Johnson. He couldn't see over the great wall of custom, and I do not know that anything is of grater hindrance to progress than custom, but who made the law to say that a woman should not vote alongside of a man? Do you know any place that it was ever made or any nation that ever made it, where did it come from. It came from the bosom of depotism, and no man or woman wants to live with them * * * today are welcome but I don't want to live there. Now, let us see, as we go along my subject, in my mind, are those principles maintained by the suffragists whether they are right from a Biblical and Historical and Common Sense Viewpoint. Now, God made man and put him in the Garden, and he said "It is not well for man to be alone," and if you run down WINDHAM COUNTY OBSER (Continued From Page One) SUFFRAGE BILL IS DEFEATED Eve's eye became the eye for women of all ages. If you read your Bibles aright, you will find that she saw those two things but she saw something vastly more, vastly more important, she saw it was there to make one wise, to understand good evil, so Eve becomes the first philosopher in the world; before Adam, she wanted to look into things to discover the principles, to see whether or not they are good and they are evil. When corruption entered in( woman loses her place of equality. Sin pulled her down. As men became corrupt, they robbed woman of her true inheritance of equality with themselves, and you will find that that is in accordance, too, with the rules of nature, - corrupt heart, corrupt life does not seek to have a pure one near him and so they go on and trample her down. Now, if you want to believe like them, I cannot do it. God made woman on equality with man; that is God's position, and man never was commissioned to give her another place in society. God called woman. He received their songs. You remember, too, time would fail me to tell more, when the Jewish nation was about to be wiped out, and if they had been wiped out, there would have been no religion left, no God, no hope, no spiritual life of purity and goodness. A little girl, now a young woman, comes up to the throne and now asserts her right and speaks out what no man ever spoke out, "I will go, and if I perish, I will * * * * and she said she would go to the king, and make known to the king her mission, and she went expecting if it meant for her to be beheaded, and the king held out the scepter to Queen Esther, and Queen Esther saved the Jewish nation from destruction. It was a woman who did it. God p[illegible] woman on the throne along with man and so the same equality down through the ages. When God went before the world, he wasn't ashamed, he wasn't afraid to receive blessings from a woman. If the apostles were preachers, he made Mary Magdalene the first preacher of the Resurrection, and when you come to look upon Him on the cross, he looks down upon the Holy Mother, the Virgin Mary. Jesus didn't forget in his dying moments the honor and the glory that was upon the blessed Virgin, so scripture may not hope with the Apostles of the Virgin Mary, but out of history, but the Lord, her son, remembered her in his dying moments. If you pass over into secular history, you will find the same thing obtained. You will find the mother of Constantine building churches, going out head of him founding institutions. If you go over into Russia, you will find wonderful women, there, women that the very despots had to take up and acknowledge their equality. Now when I speak of some of those women in history, I do not approve of all that they did, but just to show their power of intellect, their determination. The Pope has made a Saint of Joan of Arc. If you come down int the days of Queen Victoria * * * She had a mind that was right and a determination to what was right. Can you say that woman must not vote on her property? There is something else that we hear. I saw it stated not very long ago, that it wasn't well for women to vote, they didn't know enough - (Illustration of man with ballot.) It is said that women are carrying on the work of our churches. It is so in every church. If the women were out of the Protestant churches, you might as well lock up the church doors. (Illustration of John and Mary.) Job was the first man that I know of who opened his eyes to the equality in business of a woman to a man, and he says "I will give my daughters an inheritance with their brothers." and so distributed the property between the brothers and the sisters alike, and our law says "share and share alike" when you make your will. Every reform has been fought for. You will find that women had to fight their way for education; they had to fight their way through to owning property. It is only a few years since a women didn't own her child any more than the horse in the barn owned him. She had no control over child in the state of Connecticut until a few years ago. Is that you trink is right? "Judge ye that what is right" says the Savior. The very life of the nation depends upon the condition of woman in that nation. The time was when mothers couldn't read, when mothers couldn't sign their names, but now, if you find any such one in the community, it is a rarity. You will find tht equal suffrage is coming just so sure as the sun will rise tomorrow morning. Men may not believe it, some women may not believe it, but it is coming just the same SUFFRAGE NOTES Successful Meeting in Upper Wards Sermon on Suffrage by Rev. Mr. Stubbert A successful suffrage meeting was held in St. John's hall Tuesday evening under the auspices of the Putnam Equal Franchise League. Dr. Omer LaRue acted as chairman of the meeting. Miss Alyse Gregory of Norwalk spoke in French on the fundamental justice of the suffrage cause. An excellent musical program followed: Violin and piano Misses Ruth and Gertrude Plessis Piano solo Miss Gertrude Plessis Vocal solo George Bourne accompanied by A. Wood at the piano. After the music Miss Gregory discussed the suffrage question in English. Miss Rosamond Danielson of Putnam Heights and Mrs. W. J. Bartlett, president of the Putnam League, also spoke briefly on different phases of the subject. New members were added to the League. Sunday evening a large audience listened with deep interest to a stirring address delivered at the Baptist church by Rev. John R. Stubbert on the enfranchisement of women. He prefaced his lecture by the statement that no one had requested him to speak on the subject of suffrage, though one well-meaning soul had warned him not to do so. But since he had ever felt it part of his duty as a pastor to stand for the truth at all times, he considered it both an obligation and a privilege to speak upon a question of such national importance and moral significance. Mr. Stubbert has been requested by the Suffrage League to repeat the address in Odd Fellows' hall that all who choose may have the opportunity to hear so clear and eloquent an exposition of the subject. He will go to Hartford while the legislative assembly is in session to use his influence there in the suffrage cause. In other times the church has too often refused its recognition to humanitarian movements of a non-sectarian nature until they have become too popular or powerful to be ignored. Expediency rather than spiritual fearlessness, prejudice and silence rather than inquiry and freedom of speech have been its policy and weakness. Let us trust that it is not so now, and here today as never before, more of the spirit of a live christianity and less of the letter are needed. DOROTHY J. BARTLETT, President of Putnam Equal Franchise League. The Eastford Equal Franchise League Mrs. H. H. Converse, president, is to have a public meeting in the Eastford chapel, this Friday evening at 7.30. The speakers will be Miss Emily Pierson of Cromwell, State Organizer of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, and Walter J. Bartlett of Putnam. A number of Putnam suffragists are planning to go to Eastford by automobile for the meeting. vor of leaving the question to individual states. "When you consider," continued Mrs. Bartlett, "that there were 174 affirmative votes out of a total of 378 why should we not feel encouraged." National suffragist leaders expressed the same sentiment. For the Antis Mrs. Dodge said: "It means that the suffrage movement fostered by hysterical women is on the wane." WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND THE BIBLE The January meeting of the Putnam Equal Franchise League was an occasion of unusual interest as the address was given by Rev. J. R. Stubbert of the Baptist church. Mr. Stubbert has a strong belief in the justice of equal suffrage and he is always ready to stand for what he believes is right. He generously gave his services when the league invited him to present his views at a public meeting. His stirring talk was an inspiration to his many auditors. The meeting was held in Odd Fellows hall Friday evening, January 8. Mrs. W. J. Barlett, president of the league, was chairman of the evening. Before and after Mr. Stubbert's address, Mr. Trevithic sang two pleasing solos, accompanied at the piano by Miss Diane Breault. Mr. Stubbert developed his theme, "Woman Suffrage and the Bible," with eloquence and logic, speaking of the equality of women from the Biblical point of view, the Historical point of view, and the point of view of Common Sense. I call you "friends" tonight. I don't want to make the mistake that one speaker made, who said, "I call you friends, I won't call you ladies and gentlemen' because I know you all too well for that." I simply think if I call you "friends" it will do. We come tonight to consider a subject that is not new. It is very old. It is a God-given subject. It pertains to the better class of society, and what we are willing to do for them. I think in all nations the acknowledgement is made that woman is the purest and most religious of the human family. I would like to know the nation or the individual who prescribes the duties of a woman. I make these few remarks before I enter upon the subject because a few years ago, the "Mr. Johnson" as he is called in England, was asked something about the education of women. It was beginning to be mooted then in England, and Johnson, in his gruff way, said what we would expect of him, that the best education that a woman could get was to make a good dinner in the kitchen; for probably no man in England ever liked to eat so well as Johnson. He couldn't see over the great wall of custom, and I do not know that anything is of greater hindrance to progress than custom, but who made the law to say that a woman should not vote alongside of a man? Do you know any place that it was ever made or any nation that ever made it, where did it come from. It came from the bosom of depotism, and no man or woman wants to live with them * * * today are welcome but I don't want to live there. Now, let us see, as we go along my subject, in my mind, are those principles maintained by the suffragists whether they are right from a Biblical and Historical and Common Sense Viewpoint. Now, God made man and put him in the Garden, and he said "It is not well for man to be alone," and if you run down through the history of the human family, you will find that is true. Where men separate themselves from society and segregate, they generally, whatever their intentions are, they generally become corrupt. Cage them about with all the good influences that you may, yet little by little coruption creeps in, so the Lord knew it when he said "It is not well for man to be alone." Then He made a help-meet, a help-meet and I think it has been a great stumbling block to many. "Help-meet, a helper. Made a helper for him, that is what the word means, a helper, and woman becomes a helper for man, a helper in everything but one thing. Christ said "Judge ye yourselves what is right" so man and woman went along together quietly. I don't know how many centuries before they were expelled from the Garden, but you remember how that came about, - Eve's temptation. They put it all upon the eye and upon the appetite - when she saw the fruit that was good to look at and that was good to taste, and they stop there, hence they say that (Continued on Page Five) You remember, too, time would fail me to tell more, when the Jewish nation was about to be wiped out, and if they had been wiped out, there would have been no religion left, no God, no hope, no spiritual life of purity and goodness. A little girl, now a young woman, comes up to the throne and now asserts her right and speaks out what no man ever spoke out, "I will go, and if I perish, I will * * * * and she said she would go to the king, and make known to the king her mission, and she went expecting if it meant for her to be beheaded, and the king held out the scepter to Queen Esther, and Queen Esther saved the Jewish nation from destruction. It was a woman who did it. God p[illegible] woman on the throne along with man and so the same equality down through the ages. When God went before the world, he wasn't ashamed, he wasn't afraid to receive blessings from a woman. If the apostles were preachers, he made Mary Magdalene the first preacher of the Resurrection, and when you come to look upon Him on the cross, he looks down upon the Holy Mother, the Virgin Mary. Jesus didn't forget in his dying moments the honor and the glory that was upon the blessed Virgin, so scripture may not hope with the Apostles of the Virgin Mary, but out of history, but the Lord, her son, remembered her in his dying moments. If you pass over into secular history, you will find the same thing obtained. You will find the mother of Constantine building churches, going out head of him founding institutions. If you go over into Russia, you will find wonderful women, there, women that the very despots had to take up and acknowledge their equality. Now when I speak of some of those women in history, I do not approve of all that they did, but just to show their power of intellect, their determination. The Pope has made a Saint of Joan of Arc. If you come down into the days of Queen Victoria * * * She had a mind that was right and a determination to what was right. Can you say that woman must not vote on her property? There is something else that we hear. I saw it stated not very long ago, that it wasn't well for women to vote, they didn't know enough - (Illustration of man with ballot.) It is said that women are carrying on the work of our churches. It is so in every church. If the women were out of the Protestant churches, you might as well lock up the church doors. (Illustration of John and Mary.) Job was the first man that I know of who opened his eyes to the equality in business of a woman to a man, and he says "I will give my daughters an inheritance with their brothers." and so distributed the property between the brothers and the sisters alike, and our law says "share and share alike" when you make your will. Every reform has been fought for. You will find that women had to fight their way for education; they had to fight their way through to owning property. It is only a few years since a women didn't own her child any more than the horse in the barn owned him. She had no control over child in the state of Connecticut until a few years ago. Is that what you trink is right? "Judge ye that what is right" says the Savior. The very life of the nation depends upon the condition of woman in that nation. The time was when mothers couldn't read, when mothers couldn't sign their names, but now, if you find any such one in the community, it is a rarity. You will find tht equal suffrage is coming just so sure as the sun will rise tomorrow morning. Men may not believe it, some women may not believe it, but it is coming just the same as the Judgement Day is coming. This is a great subject and it is hard to get through it for there is so much of it. This great reform is coming. Eleven states have already taken up the truth of righteousness and who are those women, - your mothers, your sisters, your wives, and can you take from them that which rightly belongs to them? Is it right? Is it common sense? It is coming as sure as Elijah's cloud brought rain: We honor our mothers, we honor our wives, we ronor our sisters. They shall have all the privileges, they shall have all the duties, they shall have enfranchise as well as we. God speed the day you will help it on. SUFFRAGE NOTES Successful Meeting in Upper Wards Sermon on Suffrage by Rev. Mr. Stubbert A successful suffrage meeting was held in St. John's hall Tuesday evening under the auspices of the Putnam Equal Franchise League. Dr. Omer LaRue acted as chairman of the meeting. Miss Alyse Gregory of Norwalk spoke in French on the fundamental justice of the suffrage cause. An excellent musical program followed: Violin and piano Misses Ruth and Gertrude Plessis Piano solo Miss Gertrude Plessis Vocal solo George Bourne accompanied by A. Wood at the piano. After the music Miss Gregory discussed the suffrage question in English. Miss Rosamond Danielson of Putnam Heights and Mrs. W. J. Bartlett, president of the Putnam League, also spoke briefly on different phases of the subject. New members were added to the League. Sunday evening a large audience listened with deep interest to a stirring address delivered at the Baptist church by Rev. John R. Stubbert on the enfranchisement of women. He prefaced his lecture by the statement that no one had requested him to speak on the subject of suffrage, though one well-meaning soul had warned him not to do so. But since he had ever felt it part of his duty as a pastor to stand for the truth at all times, he considered it both an obligation and a privilege to speak upon a question of such national importance and moral significance. Mr. Stubbert has been requested by the Suffrage League to repeat the address in Odd Fellows' hall that all who choose may have the opportunity to hear so clear and eloquent an exposition of the subject. He will go to Hartford while the legislative assembly is in session to use his influence there in the suffrage cause. In other times the church has too often refused its recognition to humanitarian movements of a non-sectarian nature until they have become too popular or powerful to be ignored. Expediency rather than spiritual fearlessness, prejudice and silence rather than inquiry and freedom of speech have been its policy and weakness. Let us trust that it is not so now, and here today as never before, more of the spirit of a live christianity and less of the letter are needed. DOROTHY J. BARTLETT, President of Putnam Equal Franchise League. The Eastford Equal Franchise League Mrs. H. H. Converse, president, is to have a public meeting in the Eastford chapel, this Friday evening at 7.30. The speakers will be Miss Emily Pierson of Cromwell, State Organizer of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, and Walter J. Bartlett of Putnam. A number of Putnam suffragists are planning to go to Eastford by automobile for the meeting. THE HARTFORD DAILY COURANT; THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1915. 11 SUFFRAGE WORKERS THRONG CAPITOL TO PLEAD FOR BALLOT Take Possession of Hall of House and Hold It Through Hearing. 47 WORKINGWOMEN ANSWER ROLLCALL Congressman-elect E. J. Hill Sends Long Telegram Espousing Cause. Backed by as many women as could be parked into the Hall of the House and hundreds of others who could not find spare in the huge room, the suffragist leaders who have been close to the front doors of the hall since the opening of the Legislature and on every session day took possession of the Capitol yesterday and had their turn at making the walls echo with speeches and arguments on a question that is more important to them, at least. than anything that has yet come before the assembly or is likely to come before it for many weeks. They started to besiege the fortress hours before the House convened in the morning, although their special hearing was set for 2 o'clock in the afternoon and were heralded by a bevy of little flower girls garbed in special costumes and carrying baskets of purple, white and green bouquets that they gave to everyone who would accept them. By the time the House .adjourned, at 1 o'clock, the suffragists were gathered at the doors in hordes and the moment the gavel fell announcing that the formal proceedings were at an end they swooped into the hall and filled every nook and cranny as fast as the representatives moved aside for them. The hearing was orderly, but not entirely free from sensation. One of the surprises was a delegation of forty-seven workingwomen who spoke two or three words apiece as their names were called for the cause they represented. Another was a long telegram from Congressman Elect E. J. Hill in favor of suffrage in which he said that anything else would be tyranny. A few flings were taken at the "antis," whose turns come today, the sharpest being from a speaker who said the reason they opposed suffrage was because they knew so little. The labor element was well represented, the president of the State Federation of Labor being one of several men who spoke In favor of suffrage. Miss Rose Winslow of New York. a working girl, gave one of the most eloquent addresses of the day, touching pretty frankly upon the relation of prostitution to the living wage and to suffrage. The attendance is thought to have been about 600. Senator Barnes, as chairmen of the woman suffrage committee, called the hearing to order on time and announced that the debate would be limited to two hours. Mrs. Hepburn. Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, president of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association gave the first address, as follows:— "Since we appeared before these committees two years ago two more states have granted women full suffrage,—Nevada and Montana. Illinois has granted women presidential and municipal suffrage and Alaska has granted them full suffrage. Of the seventeen state legislatures that have taken up a suffrage measure at this session, the action in thirteen has been without qualification favorable. It seems strange that we should still be asking, here in Connecticut, to have of women who do not want to vote. But from the point of view of the referendum the suffragists and the antis prove the same thing, that woman suffrage is a live issue and that the time has come to submit it to the voters. "In order to give you some practical proof, if you need any after the crowds that you see here today, that there is a very real demand for a referendum on this question in Connecticut we have brought to you a petition from every town in the state. Every one of these names has been signed during the past year. The signers are all over 21 years of age; they all believe in woman suffrage and they are all asking you to submit the question to the voters. The total number of names on the petition Is 39,012. In a state like California where they have the initiative and referendum we should have a great many more names than are required to get the question before the voters without any act of Legislature at all. In order that you may know how many names come from the different parts of the state I am going to ask the county chairmen and town representatives to rise and present their petition when I call their I names." Mrs. Hepburn then called the names of a number of county leaders, who arose with the delegations that accompanied them, as they were called. "Antis" Afriad. Mrs. Hepburn closed by saying that she had noticed that those women who were In favor of woman suffrage were not so much afraid to entrust the question to the voters as those who are opposed to it. Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett. Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett, president of the Hartford Equal Franchise league, said, in part:— "Women should have the right to express their opinion in the state by the use of the ballot. Full citizenship, the duty of the ballot, is the stimulus that will rouse the women. The majority of the women of California make use of their suffrage privilege. The total vote for governor at the last election in Arizona was nearly three times as great as in the previous election when men alone had voted. "The women who do not want the vote do not know enough to want it. The reason they do not know enough is because they have had too little experience in citizenship. The more they don't want the vote the more reason they should be given it and the more reason you should try to give it to them. "We ask you to withhold no longer from the voters of this state the right to pass up on this question, and we ask you to show your faith in the people, who are the soveign power in the state." Mrs. Bennett's speech was well applauded, especially when she cast bouquets at the "Antis." Mrs. Stoddard. Mrs. Carlos Stoddard of New Haven spoke on the reasons that women did not have the ballot when the constitution was drawn up and why they ought to have it, now. She described the educational system of earlier days, the exclusion of girls from schools and of women from nearly all except domestic activities, contrasting these conditions with the conditions of today in education and public and private life. Changed Industrial Conditions. "The great change in the social order today is due to the change in industrial conditions. Where young girls. a century ago, used to work only in their own homes under the protection of their own mothers, they go out into the world today and work in factories, stores and offices under the protection of their own watchfulness, alone. It is safe to say that there is hardly a woman of leisure in America, today, for they are all working for social reforms or in other activities. Some Great Women. "There are, for instance, the great women who are actively in politics or similar work like Julia Lathrop, Josephine Baker, Katherine Davis, Florence Kelley and Jane Addams. They did not go out into the world because of restlessness, but because they felt the call of humanity and followed their helpless children out into the open. "Fifty years ago you might have wanted to keep your women in the home and away from the sordid side of life. But you speak too late. They have already gone out into the saddest and most sordid side of life, and are giving their lives to alleviate the conditions they have found. it from the point of view of a lawyer and the application of the Declaration of Independence and the state constitution on woman suffrage. He quoted the preamble of the declaration that the power of the government is derived from the consent of the governed and four of the grievances that the colonies charged to the King of England, saying that they were equally applicable to the women of today and the men of a century and more ago. Quoting from the state constitution the first clause of the bill of rights, which establishes equality on the part of all men, he referred it a supreme court decision exempting a negro woman from rights under it because she did not have the vote and was not, therefore, a party to the social compact of the state. He said that every woman in the state stood in the same relation under that decision. Women Not People. "Today women are not politically people," he added, "but are slaves just as Nancy Jackson was adjudged under this decision. There is a possible relief in this situation, however, and I appear before you in behalf of the hundreds of men in the state who are with the women in their fight for this relief. "I maintain that women suffer a grievance in that they are taxed without representation; in that they have no voice in the election of the representatives who pass laws vital to them and their children or of the judges who enforce these laws; and in that they are not even recognized as people." Labor Sanction. Julius C. Stremlau of Meriden, president of the Connecticut Federation of the Connecticut Federation of Labor, said that he had been instructed by the federation to appear at the hearing to endorse the votes for women cause and to tell the committee something about the conditions under which thousands of women in the state work. A Girl From the Mills. Miss Rose Winslow of New York was introduced as a young woman who began working in a mill when she was 11 years out and one who would tell something about factory women and their needs. She said, in part:— "We have been charged with being restless. Every movement that has resulted in good has arisen from restlessness. We are prone to settle in established ways of thinking and this is the only excuse I can see for the phrase that 'every woman's place is in the home,' when we all know that a tremendous number of girls and women work every day outside the home. "I know that my place is not in the home. I have not had a chance to sit in a home since I was a little girl. "When the men say that women in industry are protected, they lie. They are not protected, and they never will be until they protect themselves. It is not because men are evil but because they have too much to do for themselves. All you need to do to see how hard the men have to struggle to get decent living conditions for themselves is to look about you and watch their struggles. "If this is true of men, how much more true is it of women who do not have the power of the ballot or the influence of trade organizations? They do not even have the power coming from having a wage that is 'sufficient to keep the body within the shirt.' "The only thing to do is to try to equalize the conditions of men and women. The fact that we are undermining the strength of women in industry so as to weaken the mothers of the next generation is a strong reason for equalization. Most of the women who oppose suffrage are In comfortable circumstances. One of queerest situations I know of is that of an "anti" leader in New York who is the president of a day nursery. It is odd that a woman who believes that the place for women is in the home should spend her time caring for the children of mothers whose place Is obviously not in the home. Wages and Prostitution. "What I want you men to remember most is that we workingwomen get so low a wage that when we wish to buy a pair of shoes we have to go without meat for weeks to save the money. "The expectation of a great many employers of women at a $6 a week wage is that If the woolen cannot make a living honestly they can make Moore, stenographer; Dr. Esther B. Woodward, physician. New London—Miss Ruby Bliven, saleswoman; Miss Mary C. Keeley, retail clerk; Mrs. William Cruise, janitor; Miss Bessie Bliron, box maker; Mrs. Mary Birmingham, clerk; Mrs. Martha Tuttle, bookkeeper; Miss Josephine O'Connell, clerk; Miss Mary Bleen, cashier; Miss Nora Connor, dressmaker. New Haven—Miss Elizabeth Sullivan, clock factory worker; Miss Sarah Joyner, journalist; Miss Katherine Mullen, school teacher. Waterbury—Miss Isabella Atkinson, bookkeeper; Mrs. Mary J. Bryan, boarding house keeper; Mrs Allen Logan, boarding house keeper; Miss Susan O'Neil, lawyer. Farmington—Miss Theodate Pope, architect. Meriden—Miss Gladys Scatty, stenographer. Norwalk—Miss Louise Spillane, dressmaker; Miss Frances A. Taylor, furrier. Danbury—Miss Margaret Griffin; Miss Margaret Foley, hat trimmer; Miss Agusta Kane, hat trimmer; Miss Anna Gallagher, hat trimmer. Hartford—Miss Elizabeth Flanagan, telephone operator; Miss Deborah Gross, bookkeeper; Miss Dorothy Borden, retail clerk; Mrs. Vogel, boarding house keeper: Mrs. Lawlor, milliner; Mrs. Elizabeth Byles, office worker; Miss Agnes Goghers, office worker. Canaan—Miss Katherine Finnigan, school teacher. Bridgeport— Mrs. Ruth C. Kilpatrick, journalist; Miss Ethel Hogan, office worker. "Besides these," Miss Pierson said, "I have received scores of letters from all over the state saying that the writers wished to be present, but could not, simply because they had to work." Monster Petition. Mrs. Hepburn presented the petition previously referred to, saying that all the signatures had been obtained during the past year, that all the signers were over 21 years old, and that all wished for the passage of the resolution. The speaker read the county and town totals of the individual petitions which brought the mass up to a pile of manuscript several feet thick. A partial sumary of the petition follows: Counties—Hartford 10,011, Litchfield 2,972, Windham 1,767, New London 1,804, Middlesex 1,337, New Haven 10,849, Fairfield 9,384, Tolland 898. Cities--Hartford 5,626, New Britain 1,046, Middletown 431, New Haven 5,992, Waterbury 1,029, Bridgeport 2,884, Stratford 1,591. "When we present a petition that contains three times as many names as are necessary to obtain a referendum in any state that has the referendum law it is about time we expected for the passage of this resolution," Mrs. Hepburn said, in closing. At the close of the hearing Mrs. Hepburn played the trump card and read a telegram from Congressman-elect E. J. Hill, who was detained at Washington and was unable to attend the hearing in person. The message follows:— "Washington, D. C., March 2, 1915. Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, Don't waste time answering prejudices and non-essentials. They have always been thrown across the path of progress and human rights and always will be. Stand on the bedrock of everlasting and eternal justice. By the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States all persons, men and women, are made citizens of the nation if born or naturalized here. The nation gives citizenship, not the state, and no state can justly take from you the right to exercise its powers and privileges, by prescribing a qualification for performing its highest privileges and duties, to which It is impossible for you to attain. The very fact that this is a government by consent of the governed compels equality of citizenship and equality of voting power. Anything else is tyranny. Make the qualifications as rigid as you choose, residence, property, intelligence, anything to which the citizens of the nation can attain. Qualifications impossible of attainment mean class distinctions and in the absorption by the nation of all government and the practical abolition of state functions and control which is now going on, this means disaster to the little section of the nation that we call New England; equal suffrage is already a political necessity for us in New England. If there is but one woman in Connecticut and I trust there Is more than one, who wants now to do her full duty as a citizen of the United States she ought to would rather trust TWO MEN KILLED BY ROCKVILLE CAR Smashes Into Buggy—Fleischer and Richard Samich Dead. (Special to The Courant.) Rockville, March 3. Paul Fleischer, aged 41, and Richard Lamich, aged 38, both of this city, were struck by a trolley car and killed this morning on the Rockville-Warehouse Point line. The accident happened about 11:10 a. m. at a point on the road between Rockville and Ellington. Mr. Fleischer and Mr. Lamich were in a buggy, driving to Ellington. Just before Mr. Lanz's place was reached a car bound for Rockville came along, and the horse reared and bolted directly across the track in front of the car. The animal escaped the car, but the wagon was struck a full blow and the men killed instantly. Members of the Lanz family rushed to the scene, and doctors from Rockville and Ellington were summoned. Dr. T. F. O'Loughlin of Rockville and Dr. E. A. Brace of Ellington responded, the latter being the medical examiner. They examined the bodies and said that death must have been instantaneous. Mr. Lamich had a hole in the back of his skull, and Mr. Fleischer had a fracture at the base of the brain. Both bled from the ears. Permission was given by Medical Examiner Brace to remove the bodies. Both bodies were brought to this city. Those who witnessed the accident say that it was unavoidable, as the horse plunged across the track right in the path of the car, and, although the motorman put on the brakes, there was no chance of avoiding the collision. The wagon was smashed. The car was in charge of Conductor Leon Pomeroy. and the motorman was Allen Hall, who was "breaking in" under the direction of Motorman Everett W. Pascal of Warehouse Point. Mr. Fleischer formerly conducted a saloon on Village street, but retired about a year and a half ago, taking a trip abroad. He was a member of Hartford Lodge of Elks, Hartford Saengerbund, Hartford Schuetzen Verein, Rockville Y. G. A. A., Rockville Turn Verein, Rockville Sick Society, No. 1. Reading Society, the Liedertafel Singing Society, Gesang and Declamation Society, Economic Sick Society, Naturheil Verein, Order of Harugari, Red Men and the Rockville Chamber of Commerce. He leaves a wife and child. Mr. Lamich, who was about 38 years old, came to this country from Germany about four years ago, working for John W. Grote, the bologna manufacturer. Two years ago he went into business for himself on Village street and was building up a good trade. He leaves a wife and child In Germany. MUCH PROPERTY LOST IN SUFFIELD FIRE Grocery Store and Meat Market Burn —Three Acres of Tobacco Go Up In Smoke. (Special to The Courant) Suffield, March 3. The grocery store and meat market conducted by Paul Los on South Main street was burned tonight. There were four buildings burned: a horse barn, carriage shed, ice house and the main building used as a market and grocery store. The house was saved. The cause of the fire, which started in the building used as a market, is unknown. It was discovered shortly after 7 o'clock by a member of the family who happened to go out or doors and found the buildings all ablaze. An alarm was telephoned to the Congregational parsonage and the church bell was rung. Both hose companies and the hook and ladder responded. When they reached the fire all the buildings were burning and the roof of the house had also caught, but this was quickly put out by the department and those assisting. woman suffrage committee, called the hearing to order on time and announced that the debate would be limited to two hours. Mrs. Hepburn. Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, president or the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association gave the first address, as follows:— "Since we appeared before these committees two years ago two more states have granted women full suffrage,—Nevada and Montana. Illinois has granted women presidential and municipal suffrage and Alaska has granted them full suffrage. Of the seventeen state legislatures that have taken up a suffrage measure at this session, the action in thirteen has been without qualification favorable. It seems strange that we should still be asking, here in Connecticut, to have the question of woman suffrage submitted to the voters when in our neighboring states of New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey the Legislature passed the amendment last year, has passed it a second time at this present session and will submit it to the voters this coming fall. "Now, gentlemen, your committee can help the Legislature pass this amendment if you will submit to them a favorable report. That Is what we have come to ask you to do,—to recommend to the Legislature that they submit tihs question to the voters. In asking you to do this I want to remind you that there is a large number of women in this state who have been working early and late to get this question before the voters. We have been to every town in the state. We have held meetings and have been received with enthusiasm in most places. The townspeople have joined our association. Big collections have been taken up. Our work is supported entirely by voluntary contributions and we have found that women in all ranks of life are willing to deny themselves in order to support the work. "Gentlemen, the women in this state are in dead earnest in this matter. For the sake of our children and of the generations that come after us we are determined to do all in our power to get this matter settled. (Applause.) If it is necessary to carry on our educational work for twenty years longer we are willing to do it, but we want to know where we stand. How far is public opinion with us and how far is it against us? You do not know. I do not know. There is only one fair way to determine it and that is to submit this question to the voters. Tomorrow the anti-suffragists will tell you that they know of large numbers of their own watchfulness, alone. It is safe to say that there is hardly a woman of leisure in America, today, for they are all working for social reforms or in other activities. Some Great Women. "There are, for instance, the great women who are actively in politics or similar work like Julia Lathrop, Josephine Baker, Katherine Davis, Florence Kelley and Jane Addams. They did not go out into the world because of restlessness, but because they felt the call of humanity and followed their helpless children out into the open. "Fifty years ago you might have wanted to keep your women in the home and away from the sordid side of life. But you speak too late. They have already gone out into the saddest and most sordid side of life, and are giving their lives to alleviate the conditions they have found. "There are no women in the world who are doing such great constructive work as those who are actively working for votes for women and conversely nearly every woman you find who is doing active constructive work of any kind is in favor of the suffrage. If you question the greatest women in America you will find that they are in favor of votes for women." Miss Emily Pierson. Miss Emily Pierson, state organizer of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, said that she thought it hardly necessary to speak to the committee on suffrage as she had already expressed her opinion to most of the legislators, personally. She spoke of the foreign nations that had adopted suffrage and showed a map of the "white states" of this country, in which equal suffrage had been adopted, commenting on the rapid sweep of the movement from West to East and its spread from each state to its neighbors. "The 'antis' have reminded us that acres do not vote. Of course they don't, except in Connecticut. They have displayed charts showing that there are only 4,000,000 women voters, scattered over the great western suffrage area. I have found that this area is almost exactly duplicated by Connecticut as to the average size of towns and cities. "This movement is not a fad or an experiment. It has been tried in Wyoming since 1869. In none of the states has there been an attempt at a repeal. I defy the 'antis' to go out West and try to get a repeal. They would meet with no success at all. All we want here is a chance to try the vote." Mothers Beg for Vote. Mrs. Arnold L. Gesell of New Haven, wife of Professor Gesell of 'Yale University, spoke in behalf of the mothers in Connecticut. She said, in part: - "While the state is assuming many maternal functions it still keeps mothers from the polls who beg that they may be allowed to share in the responsibilities. Gentlemen, I ask you to be just, and if you have any faith in motherhood to untie these mothers' hands. The state needs the hands of women. The aged, the infirm and many others are cared for poorly by the state. "Every child is beset by thousands of evil influences from the moment that it is brought into the world, and the very babe in the cradle needs legislation. The mother's love is a profound and deep Instinct and it should have some share in the legislation that concerns mothers and their children." Male Support. Mrs. Hepburn, in introducing M. Toscan Bennett of the Men's League for Woman Suffrage, said that she had found that the men who had thought on the suffrage question most deeply were in favor of the movement. Mr. Bennett said that he thought of the movement and would speak of reason for equalization. Most of the women who oppose suffrage are in comfortable circumstances. One of the queerest situations I know of is that of an "anti" leader in New York who is the president of a day nursery. It is odd that a woman who believes that the place for women is in the home should spend her time caring for the children of mothers whose place is obviously not in the home. Wages and Prostitution. "What I want you men to remember most is that we working women get so low a wage that when we wish to buy a pair of shoes we have to go without meat for weeks to save the money. "The expectation of a great many employers of women at a $6 a week wage is that if the women cannot make a living honestly they can make it dishonestly, that they can get a beau which means they can indulge in prostitution. I want to say this clearly and openly so that you will understand exactly what I mean. The idea back of the question asked by every employer of cheap female labor as to whether the employee is living at home is that they recognize the fact that their wages are so low they cannot make a living without outside aid." Workingwomen Appear. Miss Pierson then announced that a number of women from all parts of that state representing nearly all its diversified industries and occupations had attended the hearing to signify their desire for suffrage. She called the following roll of such women, each of whom arose and expressed their approval of the cause as they answered without attempting to make any speeches:— Willimantic—Miss Abble O'Connor, mill operator; Miss Katherine Drescher, mill operator; Miss Bessie Connor, mill operator. Putnam—Miss Catherine Byrne, bookkeeper; Miss Anna Gegan, mill operator; Miss Bloxham, trained nurse; Miss P. Webster, trained nurse. Thompson—Miss Abbe McKenna, mill operator. Norwich--Miss Hadie Blackstone, warp maker, velvet mill; Miss Gladys Upton, stenographer; Miss Margaret Tresher, bookkeeper; Miss Margaret A Clean Mouth Promotes Health Oral hygiene is quite properly focusing the attention of the medical profession as well as the laity. A noted authority is quoted as saying: "There is not one single thing more important In the whole range of hygiene than hygiene of the mouth." In the process of sterilizing the mouth—destroying disease germs—dependence may be placed on Absorbine, Jr. This germicidal liniment has made good under severe laboratory tests and Its use as a germ destroyer and preventive is becoming quite general. It is unlike the usual germicide because it is non-poisonous and is safe and harmless to use. Prof. J. D. Bird, Biological Chemist, Washington, D. C., after an extensive laboratory examination of Absorbine, Jr., reports : "Four or live drops of Absorbine, Jr., to an ounce of water is sufficient to thoroughly cleanse the mouth and teeth of injurious bacteria, without injurious action on the teeth." (Complete report mailed upon request.) Sold by most druggists at $1.00 per bottle or sent postpaid by the manufacturer, W. F. Young, P. D. F., 351 Temple St., Springfield. Mass. privileges and duties, to which it is impossible for you to attain. The very fact that this is a government by consent of the governed compels equality of citizenship and equality of voting power. Anything else is tyranny. Make the qualifications as rigid as you choose, residence, property, intelligence, anything to which the citizens of the nation can attain. Qualifications impossible of attainment mean class distinctions and in the absorption by the nation of all government and the practical abolition of state functions and control which is now going on, this means disaster to the little section of the nation that we call New England; equal suffrage is already a political necessity for us in New England. If there is but one woman in Connecticut and I trust there is more than one, who wants now to do her full duty as a citizen of the United States she ought to have that right. I would rather trust our intelligent New England women than the Mexican Greasers who can now vote in many states by simply declaring that they intend to become American citizens. I earnestly hope that the Legislature will submit the amendment. (Signed) E. J. Hill." Other Speakers. Dr. W. H. Alle of Ridgefield, president of the Fairfield County Farm Bureau, said that it seemed incomprehensible that 400 men could set up their opinion against that of 39,000 people of the state as to the advisability of submitting any question to the people. "The people," he said, "have the only right to decide and the Legislature has no right to withhold from them their right to exercise that privilege. "When you get home to the towns that sent you here you will realize that you are not above the people, but are merely on a level with them. I appeal on behalf of the common voters. 1 am not here to speak either for suffrage or against it, but in behalf of the men voters of the state that they be allowed to decide the question of woman suffrage." Rev. R. A. Dunlap, chaplain of the House, spoke briefly in support of the resolution. Rev. John R. Stubbert of Putnam said that he believed in woman suffrage, and thought that women had just as much right to put their marks on ballots as to sign deeds. "I venture to say," he added, "that there is not a man in the House who could make such eloquent speeches as these women have made here, today. "Women suffer more from intemperance and through their children than any other persons and they have a right to say what the laws shall be to regulate excise and to protect their children." James L. McGuire of this city, vice-president of the Connecticut Federation of Labor said that every labor organization in the state had endorsed woman suffrage. Representative Welcome Davis of Eastford went so far in his advocacy of suffrage as to say he thought women should be elected representatives in the General Assembly. He thought that If there were two women on each committee of the assembly, matters coming before the committees would be more thoroughly looked into and examined. Rev. Duane N. Griffin of this city and C. H. Aspinwall of Meriden also spoke in favor of the resolution. The hearing closed at about 5 o'clock. The two hours allotted to the organized suffragists were not exceeded. Chaplain W. R. Cary of the state prison will speak at the meeting of the Hartford Chapter, King's Daughters, Saturday afternoon at II o'clock at Center Church House. street was burned tonight. There were four buildings burned; a horse barn, carriage shed, ice house and the main building used as a market and grocery store. The house was saved. The cause of the fire, which started in the building used as a market, is unknown. It was discovered shortly after 7 o'clock by a member of the family who happened to go out of doors and found the buildings all ablaze. An alarm was telephoned to the Congregational parsonage and the church bell was rung. Both hose companies and the hook and ladder responded. When they reached the fire all the buildings were burning and the roof of the house had also caught, but this was quickly put out by the department and those assisting. The low water pressure, which has been critised before, again caused trouble. Three acres of tobacco and all the contents of the store were entirely destroyed. Over $300 worth of goods had been delivered at the store within the last two or three days. The tobacco was not sold but Mr. Los had received an offer for it and would probably have been sold it this Friday. All the livestock, consisting of three horses, one cow, several pigs and chickens, was saved, as were the carriages and meat cart. The buildings were owned by John Cocheski and were insured, as was also the tobacco owned by Mr. Los. Much credit is due the firemen for their efficient work in saving the house and adjoining property, after the tire had got such a decided start. Mr. Los could not give the estimate of his loss tonight. AT ONCE! STOPS STOMACH MISERY AND INDIGESTION "Pape's Diapepsin" makes sick, sour, gassy Stomachs feel fine. Do some foods you eat hit back—taste good, but work badly; ferment into stubborn lumps and cause a sick, sour, gassy stomach? Now, Mr. or Mrs. Dyspeptic, jot this down: Pape's Diapepsin digests everything, leaving nothing to sour and upset you. There never was anything so safely quick, so certainly effective. No difference how badly your stomach is disordered you will get happy relief in five minutes, but what pleases you mist is that it strengthens and regulates your stomach so you can eat your favorite foods without fear. Most remedies give you relief sometimes—they are slow, but not sure. "Pape's Diapepsin" is quick, positive and puts your stomach in a healthy condition so the misery won't come back. You feel different as soon as "Pape's Diapepsin" comes in contact with the stomach—distress just vanishes—your stomach gets sweet, no gases, no belching, no eructations of undigested food, your head clears and you feel fine. Go now, make the best investment you ever made, by getting a large fifty-cent case of Pape's Diapepsin from any drug store. You realize in five minutes how needless it is to suffer from indigestion, dyspepsia or any stomach disorder. 12 THE HARTFORD DAILY COURANT: THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1915. COMMITS SUICIDE BY DRINKING ACID Middletown Man Said to Have Had Family Troubles. RED CROSS SENDS ANOTHER SHIPMENT Friction In Settlement of Hale Estate—Notes. MIDDLETOWN OFFICE OF "THE COURANT". Rooms 10-12, Pythian Building, L. O. Ryan, Manager. Phone Office No. 1082 Also at No. 235-5 Advertisements, Wanted, For Sale, To Rent, etc., received every day until 7 p.m. for the following morning's issue. Subscriptions for the daily and Sunday editions received. (Special to The Courant.) MIDDLETOWN. Thursday. March 4. John S. Carroll of Silver street, South Farms, committed suicide by drinking muriatic acid yesterday morning, dying some hours later in great agony at the Middlesex Hospital. Mr. Carroll had spent Tuesday night in Rocky Hill, visiting his brother, and started for Middletown on the trolley car. When he reached the switch at Pierson's greenhouse, he got off the car. and going Into a nearby shed, drank the contents of a bottle of muriatic arid which he had in his pocket. He then returned to the car, and was soon in agony. His condition was noticed at once by passengers and he was rushed to the police station in this city for first aid treatment. Dr. D. L. Maitland first attended him, and had him removed in the Middlesex Hospital Carroll was almost pulseless at this time. and there was but little hope for his recovery from the start. He died late in the afternoon. It Is understood that Carroll was brooding over domestic troubles. He is married and has several children. He has not been working of late, but at one time was employed by the Rogers & Hubbard Manufacturing Company of Portland. Hearing On Sullivan Case. coroner Stephen B. Davis will hold an inquest this morning regarding the death of Miss Lubibie Sullivan, the East Wallingford colored woman, who was killed by an Air Line train near the East Wallingford railroad station last Saturday. The railroad men who were in charge of the train which struck her have been summoned as witnesses. The hearing is set for 9 o'clock. Yacht Club Has $2,000. The committee from the Middletown Yacht Club which has in charge the matter of raising the $4,000 to complete the fund for the building of a new clubhouse, has already managed to secure about half of this sum, and the prospects are now that the remainder will be secured. The building committee will meet Saturday evening with Architect Leroy P. Ward to discuss plans for the building. The next meeting of the club will be held on the second Wednesday in April, when the committee will make a further report on the progress of the fund. Red Cross Send Another Shipment. Middlesex Chapter of the Red Cross has just sent another shipment of 5,127 pieces, this being the sixth since the outbreak of the war. Altogether the local chapter have sent 19,100 pieces, of which number about 11,000 were bandages. The present shipment contained 3,999 bandages, the remainder being garments of various description. ferred the degree of Past Master on three candidates last night. Joseph W. Fosa of this city, a member of the junior class at Wesleyan University, has been chosen as a member of the editorial board of the Wesleyan Literary Monthly. The place was won by competition. Mr. Fosa is a graduate of the local high school. The funeral of Mrs. G. Robert Bailey of Elm street, South Farms, was held yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the South Farms Methodist Church. Rev. John L. Brooks officiated. The burial was in the Pine Grove Cemetery. A son has been born to Mr. and Mrs. P. Stephen O'Brien. Donald McCarthy. son of Democratic State Central Committeeman Daniel J. McCarthy, recently underwent an operation at the Middlesex Hospital for an injury to his foot. Mrs. E. P. Strong of High street has gone to Florida for a stay with her son Harry of Hartford. COLLINSVILLE. E. J. Smith is having the building opposite the Central New England railroad station remodeled so that a part of It can be used as a tenement. The work is being done by F. V. Brown who started work there Tuesday. Another story will be added to the north end of the building that was formerly used by J. C. Johnson as a repair shop, and a tenement of five rooms, three on the first floor and two bedrooms above, will be built. The office of the Adams Express Company, which is located in the basement below, will not be changed. The second social and entertainment for the young people of the village will be held in the chapel of the Congregational Church at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow evening. Stereopticon pictures of the Connecticut River valley and the White Mountains will be shown, after which a social hour will be enjoyed. No admission will be charged and all children in the sixth grade or above are invited. While the evening Is arranged especially for the young people everybody will be welcome. These social gatherings are being conducted by the boys' committee of the men's Bible class. Rev. George E. Phillips of Winsted preached the Lenten sermon last evening at Trinity Church. The members of Village Lodge, No. 29. F. and A. M., have been invited to attend next Monday evening the meeting of Evening Star Lodge, No. 101, of Unionville. All of the chairs will be occupied by thirty-second degree masons. All who wish to attend are requested to notify, L. A. Carleton, M. F. Butler, H. T. Dexter, or Raymond Wagner. Mr. and Mrs. Burton N. Bristol announce the engagement of their daughter, Amy Luella, to Frederick B. Wellman of Harwinton. Rev. Grace Edwards and her mother. Mrs. D. N. Edwards of Nepaug, went Monday to spend the week at their former home in Sayville, L. I. Mrs. Wilbur Beckwith is confined to the bed. She was thrown from a sleigh about three weeks ago when the sleigh slipped on some ice and overturned in front of the Nepaug Church. She held to the reins and stopped the horse, but was badly injured. She is slowly improving. but as the sciatic nerve was injured it will take some time for her to regain her health. L. D. Dowd, who has been confined to his home by illness for the past four weeks, is able to be out again. John Migneault has a place in the Hartford office of the Aetna Life Insurance Company. OLD SAYBROOK. The list of taxable property ratable by law on the first day of October, 1914, as returned to the tax commissioner from the town clerk's office this week, made up from the complete returns of the assessors and board of relief is as follows:— 581 dwelling houses . . . $692,742 415 1-6 barns, sheds. etc. . . . 57,477 925 house and building lots . . . 122,193 47 1/2 buildings used for stores. etc. . . . 67,195 1 building used for mills, manufacturing and distilleries, including water power and machinery . . . 27,281 7673 19-30 acres of land . . . 154,674 148 horses and mules . . . 6,7700 201 neat cattle . . . 6,280 Sheep, angora goats, swine and poultry . . . 2,140 52 automobiles and motor vehicles . . . 16,975 67 carriages, wagons, and bicycles . . . 1,527 Watches and jewelry of any kind . . . 725 Furniture, libraries and musical instruments . . . [illegible] REV. J. A. GILLILAND DEAD IN BRISTOL Rector of Plymouth Church Eighteen Years. WILL LAY TAX TOMORROW NIGHT James Tracy Dies Suddenly In His Market. BRISTOL OFFICE OF "THE COURANT". New Lilley-Tracy Block, Main St. F. C. Norton, Manager. Phone Office No. 561-4 Also at No. 237-12 Advertisements, Wanted, For Sale, To Rent, etc., received every day until 9 p.m. for following morning's issue. Subscriptions for the daily and Sunday editions received. (Special to The Courant.) BRISTOL, Thursday, March 4. Rev. John D. Gilliland, a retired clergyman of the Episcopal Church, died at his home here yesterday noon, aged 74 years. About six years ago he suffered a slight shock of paralysis but until about two months ago he was able to get about his home and welcome friends. He was born In Armagh, Ireland, August 1, 1841, and came to this country when a young man. His first studies for the ministry at Philadelphia were followed by a course at the Berkeley Divinity School at Middletown. He was graduated from Berkeley in 1869 and the following year was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Williams. He had charge of the parishes of Washington and Colchester, this state, and for four years was rector of Trinity Episcopal Church and for eighteen years covering two pastorates. While rector of St. Peter's in Plymouth he also looked after St. Matthew's Church in East Plymouth. In 1900 he founded St. Mark's Mission in Terryville and looked after the services of the mission. June 1, 1908, he resigned as rector of St. Peter's and come to this town for a well earned rest. Notwithstanding a winter spent at Southern Pines, N. C., where he was under medical treatment, he failed to regain his former good health and with his family he re-moved to this place and lived in the old Lewis homestead. For many years he walked the distance between Plymouth and Terryville, not only to attend to the services of St. Mark's Mission, but to attend to the spiritual needs of his flock. His home life was ideal. He was painstaking in doing his utmost for his church. When he left the service of the Plymouth Hill Church the parishioners showed their esteem for their rector by a farewell service that was attended by a large number of people, irrespective of denominational lines or beliefs. In 1871 he married Miss Susie Morris of Bethlehem, and besides his wife he leaves four children John A. of Waterbury, Frederick H. of Stamford, Rachel, wife of Dr. Edwin D. Forrest of Tilton, N. H., and Caroline E., head kindergartner at the South Side School. He also leaves a grandson, John Morris Gilliland of Waterbury. Death of James Tracy. James Tracy, one of the oldest and best known of the Irish residents of this city, died suddenly yesterday afternoon in his place of business on Pond street. A customer had just left his market, about 4 o'clock, when Mr. Tracy was seized with heart trouble. A nephew, Edward Barry, entered the market very shortly after the customer had left and found his uncle unconscious on the floor. Help was summoned and he was taken to his home, nearby. Dr. T. G. O'Connell was sum- leaves a brother, William Tracy, of New Britain. Mr. Tracy was one of the very well known residents of this city, much respected by a wide circle of friends, and a self-made man in every respect. Having lived here so many years he had seen Bristol make a steady and sure advance and had done his share in advancing Bristol. The funeral will be held at 9:30 o'clock Friday morning at St. Joseph's Church, and burial will be in the family plot in St. Joseph's cemetery. Friends are requested to omit flowers. Sheep Bake Committee. The following form the committee that is arranging the details of the sheep bake that the Elks will serve when District Deputy John E. McCann of New Haven visits the local lodge. The members are: William W. Rice, Charles E. Gage, Fred E. Meder, Edward G. Dunbar, Daniel P. Crowley, Harry C. Rockefeller, C. J. Blum, William J. Ryan and John Champion. Chief Belden III. Chief Belden has been ill of a cold for several weeks. He has remained at home this week and is looking after his condition carefully. During his recuperation Captain Gucken is acting-chief during the day time, Officer Lane as relief to acting-chief Gucken, and Officer Cullem takes Captain Gucken's place at the night desk. Street Department Busy. The street department is still busy repairing some of the damage done by the last rains. Work is also being done on the general cleaning up of the main streets of the business district. At the Rockwell Park gravel bank the crusher is being operated every day. Will Lay Tax Tomorrow Night. The city council will hold a special meeting tomorrow evening and lay the tax rate. The present indications are that the general city tax rate will be twelve mills, an increase of a quarter of a mill. The first taxing district tax will be three mills, the same as last year. There is some paring of the budget yet to be done in an effort to get the appropriations down to a low enough figure to warrant these low tax rates. There has been a decrease in the grand list of the city, yet on the other hand some departments show an increase in money needed. To Attend Hearing Today. Mayor Cray, Corporation Counsel William J. Malone and Commissioner of Public Works Anderson, besides some of the councilmen and other interested citizens will be present this afternoon at 2 o'clock at a hearing to be held before the railroad committee of the General Assembly, regarding the extension of time asked for by the Bristol & Plainville Tramway Company. College Club's Play Pleases. There was a larger attendance at the concluding presentation of "The Time. The Place, and The Girl," the play of 1915 given by the Woman's College Club, Tuesday and Wednesday night, in Red Men's Hall last night than on the opening night. As a result the net receipts will make a substantial increase to the fund being raised for the benefit of some Bristol girl who will attend college. The acting was exceptionally good and fully up to the standard that has hitherto been maintained. The music was a feature of the program for each evening, this being under the direction of Harry W. Barnes. Great credit is due Miss Mary Norton for the completeness which she insisted upon throughout the rehearsal periods. It is to be hoped that the big success scored by those taking part In the play of Tuesday and Wednesday evening will encourage the organization to prepare at once for their play of the fall or another spring. Elks Elected officers. The following have been elected officers of Bristol Lodge of Elks: Exalted ruler, Daniel F. Crowley, esteemed leading knight, J. E. Roberts; esteemed loyal knight, Howard F. Sanford; esteemed lecturing knight, William E. Eustice; secretary, George E. Roberts: tyler, F. P. Kennedy; trustee for three years, Edward G. Dunbar; delegate to the grand lodge, Past Exalted Ruler William P. Hynds; alternate, Past Exalted Ruler William T. Hofsees. These officers will be installed by District Deputy John E. McCann of New Haven March 16. Big Pin Bowlers Tonight. The big pin bowlers who made this town famous about three years ago will be on the alleys again this even- KANGAROO ROAMS LITCHFIELD HILLS Animal That Answers Its Description Seen By Several. SHORT FORELEGS, POWERFUL TAIL Makes Big Jumps, Prints of Hindlegs Accompanying Footprints. (Special to The Courant) Litchfield, March 1. Is an escaped kangaroo roaming the wild and almost unexplored mountainous regions along the picturesque Shepaug River in the once populous but now abandoned Woodville section some six miles or so from Litchfield, or is it an entirely new animal evolved perhaps from jack rabbits? That is the question that half a dozen isolated dwellers along the wildly romantic road leading past once busy centers of the iron industry, past the ruins of houses, past the foothills below the historical counterfeiters' den in the overhanging rocks above, are asking again this winter, as they have been asking it for five or more winters, thus far without receiving any satisfactory reply. The what-is-it has been seen at a distance by many, but not near enough so that they could give a clear description of it. Its footprints, plainly outlined in the snow along the steep, wooded narrow road which runs up to the farm of Sylvester Wainwright on top of the mountain, has been found again during the winter and have been examined with great care by Frederick W. Cone of Litchfield, who owns a bungalow just beyond one of the most famous old highways of Revolutionary days—the now brush-tangled and quite abandoned Albany and Hartford post road. They have also been investigated by Harvey Foote and Charles Craig, who have likewise caught glimpses of the animal as it fled away with incredible speed in a series of long leaps and bounds resembling those of the kangaroo of Australia. The footprints in the soft snow were similar to a kangaroo's, and each time they were found it was evident that about ten inches of the slender hind legs of the beast had come down also into the level of the foot, for that portion of the hindquarters invariably accompanied the presence of the footmarks. On the several occasions when the nondescript was seen it appeared to be about three and a half feet tall in an erect position, with short forefeet which seemed to be used more as arms than feet. It had a tail, which appeared to be muscular and powerful, about three feet long, and the animal did not walk or run away when approached suddenly, but took leaps of fully ten feet and soon disappeared in a wilderness on the down slope to the river, where it was impossible for men to follow it. The ears were small and donkey-like in shape and it appeared to hove a loose paunch resembling that of an opossum. The animal made no sound on any of the occasions when it has been accidentally stumbled upon, and in no Instance has It looked back at its pursuers. The tracks have been observed on the old post road also, and apparently led in the direction of the ancient ruined Wedge homestead, and thence towards Mt. Tom. Professor Harped of New York, to whom the general appearance of the animal was described while he was on a visit to the lakes here in 1913, declared that it bore all the distinguishing marks of the Macropodidae family, and he was at a loss to understand how such a plete the fund for the building of a new clubhouse, has already managed to secure about half of this sum, and the prospects are now that the remainder will be secured. The building committee will meet Saturday evening with Architect Leroy P. Ward to discuss plans for the building. The next meeting of the club will be held on the second Wednesday in April, when the committee will make a further report on the progress of the fund. Red Cross Send Another Shipment. Middlesex Chapter of the Red Cross has just sent another shipment of 5,127 pieces, this being the sixth since the outbreak of the war. Altogether the local chapter have sent 19,100 pieces, of which number about 11,000 were bandages. The present shipment contained 3,999 bandages, the remainder being garments of various description. Hubbard Motor Affairs. President F. W. Stickle of the Capitol Foundry Company of Hartford is sending out a circular letter to the creditors of the Hubbard Motor Company of this city, asking for an extension of time for the payment of claims. Mr. Stickle says that the large creditors will not stand for any of the other creditors forcing payment, but will put the concern into the bankruptcy or else ask for a receiver, should any one try such a thing as this. He further says that a local bank has offered a line of credit to the concern on condition that the present creditors do not press their claims, thus enabling the company to adjust its affairs in an equitable manner for all concerned. Case of Black Diphtheria. Vincenzo, the 2-years-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Sebastiano Sanno of No. 47, Washington street, died at his parent's home yesterday morning after a short illness with black diphtheria. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon and was private. The burial was in St. John's Cemetery. Broke Bottles In Street. Because a couple of milk bottles fell off his wagon and broke in the street, and he failed to pick up the broken pieces, Angelo Augeri of Portland. a 16-years-old Italian boy who peddles milk for his father in this city, was obliged to pay a fine of $5 in the city court yesterday morning. Funeral of Edward Hartnett. The funeral of Edward Hartnett was held yesterday morning at 8 o'clock at his home in Durham, and at St. Francis's Church at 9 o'clock. Francis A. Jordan celebrated the mass. The bearers were William Synott, William Dooley, Michael Hartnett and John Welch. The burial was in St. John's Cemetery. To Settle Hale Estate. The administration account of the estate of Mrs. Leonora P. Hale of his city, over whose affairs there have been several warm hearings before Judge of Probate Curtiss S. Bacon, was filed yesterday in the probate court, and was accepted by Judge Bacon. There remains to be distributed in cash about $2,000, together, with three diamonds. There are five heirs and there has been considerable friction. They are: G. Ernest Hubbard of this city, Mrs. Lillian Pitman and Mrs. Mabel Pierce of Wethersfield, Fred Hubbard of New York and Mrs. William McDonald of Hartford. Funeral of James F. Williams. The funeral of James F. Williams will be held this morning at 9:30 o'clock at the family home on Green street, and at 10 o'clock at St. John's Church. The burial will be in St. John's Cemetery. Notes. Washington Chapter, B. A. M., con- by law on the first day of October, 1914, as returned to the tax commissioner from the town clerk's office this week, made up from the complete returns of the assessors and board of relief is as follows:- 581 dwelling houses $692,742 415 1-6 barns, sheds, etc. 57,477 925 house and building lots 122,193 47 1/2 buildings used for stores, etc. 67,195 1 building used for mills, manufacturing and distilleries. including water power and machinery 27,281 7673 19-30 acres of land 154,678 148 horses and mules 6,700 201 neat cattle 6,280 Sheep, angora goats, swine and poultry 2,140 52 automobiles and motor vehicles 16,975 67 carriages, wagons and bicycles 1,527 Watches and jewelry of any kind 725 Furniture. libraries and musical instruments 9,680 Goods and merchandise of merchants and traders 21,000 Goods and materials of manufacturers 900 Cables, wires, poles, underground mains, conduits, etc. 1,000 Fisheries and fishing apparatus 150 Steam, sailing vessels and other boats 1,050 Railroad, city and other corporation bonds. etc. 1,400 Money at interest in this state and elsewhere 5,743 All other taxable property 600 Ten per cent. additional on lists not given in 9,997 Tot. value of taxable property $1,207.43 Total number assessed for personal tax, 315. Number having no property assessed for personal tax only, 201. ANDOVER. Ex-Senator William B. Sprague, has been appointed administrator of the estate of the late William H. Ross, formerly a real estate dealer, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and who died at his home on the Willimantic road, Columbia, on February 22, as a result of a shock. Mr. Ross leaves a sister, Miss Elizabeth Ross, of East Northport, L. I., and a brother, John T. Ross, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. Hamilton and Mrs. E. M. Yeomans are both ill, the doctor being in daily attendance. A crowd attended the auction at the Griffin place in Cheney Hollow on Monday last. and good prices were paid. Among the recent comers here, who are going into the poultry business on large lines, are Messrs. Benton, Reiveley and Wright. All have bought a good supply of incubators. Mr. Benton has placed an order for 4,000 eggs for hatching purposes, and Mr. Wright has bought several hundred of day-old chicks. Mr. Reiveley begins with a stock of 300 hens. WINSTED. With Waterbury dropped from the ranks of the Eastern leaguers, the proposition to revive interest in the formation of the old Naugatuck Valley league gains strength among the fans, and before long steps may be taken with that end in view. The old Naugatuck Valley league was composed of teams from Winsted, Torrington, Waterbury, Ansonia, Derby and Bridgeport, and there is no reason apparent why teams in these towns would not be a money making proposition. An effort is being made to locate a will supposed to have been made by Dimock Smith, the Winsted teamster who dropped dead in a courtroom during the last session of the superior court. It is supposed that Smith left an estate of about $10,000. Mountain County Pomona Grange, No. 4, held their quarterly meeting at Odd Fellow's Hall Wednesday. It was voted to hold the next quarterly meeting, which will be in June, in Harwinton. nominational lines or beliefs. In 1871 he married Miss Susie Morris of Bethlehem, and besides his wife he leaves four children John A. of Waterbury, Frederic H. of Stamford, Rachel, wife of Dr. Edwin D. Forrest of Tilton, N. H.. and Caroline E., head kindergartner at the South Side School. He also leaves a grandson, John Morris Gilliland of Waterbury. Death of James Tracy. James Tracy, one of the oldest and best known of the Irish residents of this city, died suddenly yesterday afternoon in his place of business on Pond street. A customer had just left his market, about 4 o'clock, when Mr. Tracy was seized with heart trouble. A nephew, Edward Barry, entered the market very shortly after the customer had left and found his uncle unconscious on the floor. Help was summoned and he was taken to his home, nearby. Dr. T. G. O'Connell was summoned. Rev. T. J. Henna arrived at his side just a few minutes before he died. He was dead when the doctor arrived. Dr. O'Connell and Dr. Brackett, medical examiner, pronounced the cause or death as heart trouble. Mr. Tracy was born in Westmeath, Ireland, in April of 1836, and came here in the spring of 1857. He was one of that party of Irish laborers who settled as a colony near the Copper Mines and were the first workmen at the old Bristol copper mines. He then went to work for Nathan L. Birge in the mill at the North End, remaining with that concern twenty-seven years as an engineer. The next ten years he served as a watchman of the movement department of the E. Ingraham Company plant, leaving that factory to work for J. H. Sessions & Son. In 1894 he opened the meat market on Pond street, but a short distance from his home, and he had conducted the market since and was working in it at the time of his death. Mr. Tracy was twice married, his first wife having been Miss Margaret Burke of this place. They were married March 20, 1860, and she died three years later. The children born of this union died. May 7, 1865 he married Miss Catherine Baggott of this place, the wedding taking place in St. Joseph's Church. The couple would have celebrated their golden wedding in May and the children were already beginning to make plans for that happy event. Besides his wife, there are seven children living, three daughters, Mrs. David M. Barry, Mrs. Edward J. Sheehey and Mrs. John T. O'Brien, all of this place, and four sons, James V., William J., Thomas A. and Edward B., all of this city. He HOW TO STOP DANDRUFF AND LOSS OF HAIR Here is a simple, inexpensive treatment that will almost always stop dandruff and scalp itching, and keep the hair thick, live and lustrous: At night, spread the hair apart and rub a little resinol ointment into the scalp gently, with the tip of the finger. Repeat this until the whole scalp has been treated. Next morning, shampoo thoroughly with resinol soap and hot water. Work the creamy resinol lather well into the scalp. Rinse with gradually cooler water, the last water being cold. Resinol ointment and resinol soap easily heal eczema and similar skin-eruptions. Prescribed by physicians for 20 years, sold by all druggists. For trial free, write to Dept. 11-R, Resinol, Baltimore, Md. once for their play of the fall or another spring. Elks Elected officers. The following have been elected officers of Bristol Lodge of Elks: Exalted ruler, Daniel F. Crowley, esteemed leading knight, J. E. Roberts; esteemed loyal knight, Howard F. Sanford; esteemed lecturing knight, William E. Eustice; secretary, George E. Roberts: tyler, F. P. Kennedy; trustee for three years, Edward G. Dunbar; delegate to the grand lodge, Past Exalted Ruler William P. Hynds; alternate, Past Exalted Ruler William T. Hofsees. These officers will be installed by District Deputy John E. McCann of New Haven March 16. Big Pin Bowlers Tonight. The big pin bowlers who made this town famous about three years ago will be on the alleys again this evening to meet some of their old time bowling friends from Hartford. Among the local bowlers tonight will be Frank Griffith, Frank Mathes, Charles Wolcott, Alfred Mathes, Arthur Cucuel, Clarence Griffith, George Weeks, Fayette Douglas and Clarence B. Atkins. Goes to Charter Oak Hospital. Mrs. Paul M. Hubbard has entered the Charter Oak. Hospital of Hartford where she will remain for a week or ten days to be under the observation of a Hartford specialist. Notes. Stephen Shaughnessy of Marlboro, Mass., has been here for a short time as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Markham at their home on Blakeslee street. Carl Carlson is a member of the building committee of the Eastern Missionary Association under whose direction the Swedish Orphanage, costing $30,000, has been built in Cromwell. It will be dedicated Sunday and several from here will attend the exercises. The Community Club will meet tomorrow night with Miss Esther Merrill of Peaceable street. Mrs. John Sergi has entered the Springfield General Hospital. Verner Sanderson of Ingraham place entertained the members of the Men's Club of the Swedish Lutheran Church last evening. The rehearsal of the chorus choir of the Congregational Church will take place Friday evening at 7 o'clock. The basketball team of the Laurel Club will go to Glastonbury this evening to play a game with the Mannahanock Camp Fire Girls. Rev. Raymond Maplesden of Suffield will conduct the conference meeting in the Baptist Church this evening at 7:30 o'clock. Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Spring have been spending a few days in New York. There is a continued improvement noted in the condition of Dr. J. H. Desmarais, who is recuperating from an attack of pneumonia in the Hartford Hospital. The senior class in the high school is to present the annual class play some time in April. "A Scrap of Paper" has been selected and rehearsals are now being held under the direction of Miss Mary Norton. DEEP RIVER. Walter Lee is expected home from the Hartford Hospital this week. Miss Ethel Durgea has gone to Haverstraw, N. Y. to attend the funeral of her grandmother. Mrs. Felix Starkey entertained the Jolly Whist Club Monday evening. Prizes were won by Mrs. William Ventres and Miss Hazel Peck. A son was born March 2 to Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Luca. Arington D. Parmelee of Winthrop has been seriously iII with pneumonia. took leaps of fully ten feet and soon disappeared in a wilderness on the down slope to the river, where it was impossible for men to follow it. The ears were small and donkey-like in shape and it appeared to have a loose paunch resembling that of an opossum. The animal made no sound on any of the occasions when it has been accidentally stumbled upon, and in no instance has it looked back at its pursuers. The tracks have been observed on the old post road also, and apparently led in the direction of the ancient ruined Wedge homestead, and thence towards Mt. Tom. Professor Harned of New York, to whom the general appearance of the animal was described while he was on a visit to the lakes here in 1913, declared that it bore all the distinguishing marks of the Macropodidae family, and he was at a loss to understand how such a species could exist here or endure the climatic changes for any length of time. It is brown in color, with large eyes and prominent nose, and while not as large as the genuine kangaroo seen in traveling menageries, closely bears out the general resemblance. A determined effort to capture it is to be made when it is seen again, and thus settle once for all the many theories advanced as to its real zoological status. PINE MEADOW. Henry Brown, who has been confined to the house with grip and influenza for several days, was able to be at his work yesterday. James E. Leonard. sr. was in Hartford recently and paid a visit to his old friend and former neighbor Dan O'Neil. Mrs. Dennis Keeley spent Tuesday in Torrington as a visitor of her daughter, Mrs. De Lane. Deputy Sheriff Frank P. Marble advertises upon the public sign post at auction April 1, 1915 for cash lost goods at Frank A. Cases barn on Main street. The goods are one end spring carriage left at said farm some six months ago, owner unknown. Landlord Harry Donahue of the New Hartford House served an excellent turkey dinner to victors and vanquished of the recent card tournament, Tuesday evening. There were sixteen plates laid there, being four guests, besides the members of the tournament and it said all did justice to the menu, and the excellent manner it was served brought forth comments of praise. Several after dinners speakers were developed at the gathering. The winners of the tourna- SUFFRAGE PAGEANT Big Equal Suffrage Parade in Hartford Ladies of Local League in Procession Connecticut's share in the nationwide Equal Suffrage demonstration last Saturday took the form of a magnificent pageant at Hartford. The parade in which more than 2,000 women marched, formed at the State Capitol and passed through the principal streets of the city amid much enthusiasm. Many of the marchers wore costumes of white or of bright colors similar to those which made picturesque the parade at Washington a year ago. College graduates in cap and gown, gave an accent of dignity to the moving phalanxes of white, blue, pink and lavender, all making a stirring spectacular effect in the bright spring sunshine. There were five bands in the line, banners and floats were numerous, and unique features brought much applause from the crowds of spectators. A float that attracted much attention was an ox team skilfully guided by a man in Puritan costume, and carrying a band of young Indians. This was following the automobiles that represented the Equal Suffrage states, and it bore a banner with the legend, "Connecticut trying to catch up." There were many men in the column, delegations coming from Yale, Wesleyan and Trinity. A feature of the parade was the long array of automobiles decked in suffrage colors. Several cars, including those belonging to Mrs. John Evans Sheppard, Mrs. R. P. Danielson, W. J. Bartlett and C. D. Arnold, went to Hartford from Putnam to take part. Mrs. W. J. Bartlett, president of the Putnam Equal Franchise league, marched in the section with the presidents of the sixty leagues of the state, accompanied by her daughter Ruth, who carried the Putnam league banner. Miss Dorcas Bartlett rode among the mounted heralds led by Joan of Arc at the head of the column. Miss Anna Arnold marched with the delegation of school children. Miss Rosamond Danielson, Windham County chairman of the C. W. S. A., marched with the members of the state executive board. Others among the members of the Putnam league who went to Hartford for the parade were Mrs. C. S. Weaver, Mrs. W. L. Beard, Mrs. H. C. Meinken, Mrs. C. D. Arnold, Mrs. Walter Phillips, Mrs. McKenna and Miss Abbie McKenna of Mechanicsville, Miss Sarah Brady, Miss Mary Wheaton, Miss Gertrude Jones, and Mrs. George H. Nichols. MRS. HEPBURN PLEASED HEARERS HER ADDRESS IN FAVOR OF GRANTING EQUAL SUFFRAGE Was Scholarly and Argumentative—Local League Has Grown in Its First Year The Putnam Equal Franchise League held its first anniversary meeting in Odd Fellows' hall on Friday evening, March 13. The speaker of the evening was the president of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, of Hartford. Among the large and interested audience were members of the League from Danielson, Woodstock and Dayville. MRS. THOMAS N. HEPBURN Mrs. W. J. Bartlett, president of the League, presided. The first numbers on the program were musical. Mr. H. E. Hayden's piano selections were received with much applause, and Mrs. Hayden delighted the audience with her rendition of a vocal solo, giving "Annie Laurie" as an encore. Mrs. W. L. Beard, the vice president, spoke of the organization of the League a year ago, and of its steady growth from a small number to a membership of more than forty. Mrs. John Sheppard urged the women to make use of the school vote and to do all in their power to keep up and raise the standard of the public schools. Mrs. Hepburn is a very pleasing speaker, a woman of broad culture, a graduate of Bryn Mawr. and a former student at Radcliffe. Mrs. Hepburn spoke of the fact that Connecticut has no state reformatory for women. At the close of her address the following resolution was adopted: "Whereas, in Connecticut the reformatories to which girls over 16 can be sent are under private management and give no opportunity for the girls to learn a trade, and no opportunity for the treatment of the feeble minded, and whereas other states have found it imperative to give girls sent to reformatories the advantages of modern reformative treatment, be it resolved that we, in public meeting here assembled, petition the committee having this matter under consideration to report in favor of a state reformatory for women. During a social hour after the speaking the League members and their friends were presented to Mrs. Hepburn. Bountiful refreshments were served by the entertainment committee, Miss Katharine Byrne, Miss Gertrude Jones, Mrs. Wallace Whitney and Miss A. McKenna. There were varieties of sandwiches, cakes, olives. coffee, etc. These were contributed by the League members and were material evidence that the women who want the vote are not neglecting household accomplishments for politics. INFLUENCE OF WOMEN. The Milk Campaign viewed as Argument for Suffrage. To the Editor of the Sunday Journal: It seems to me that your correspondent who last Sunday deduced from the achievements of the Housewives' League in the milk investigation an argument against the extension of suffrage to women is wrong. Some years ago the writer knew a toolmaker of whom it was boasted by foremen and shopmates that he could lay out work more accurately with ordinary dividers and scale than could be done by some men with the instruments of precision usually employed for accurate work. According to your correspondent's logic, there was no need that this man should use or should be permitted to use such instruments of precision. The true reasoning appears to be that if this man's sense of feeling and his perceptions were so highly developed that with crude tools he could produce such excellent results, he should, with fine instruments, achieve unusually remarkable accuracy. So likewise, if, without the vote, the women of Providence were able to uncover and cause the disinfection of the rank and pestilential scandal in the milk inspection department, how much might they have accomplished with the vote to prevent such a scandal? The time to treat such matters is before they reach the scandalous stage. If, as your correspondent states, "it has been a matter of common report for some years that conditions in the milk department were scandalous," is it to be supposed that women would have permitted that condition to go unchallenged if they could have registered their votes against those who complaisantly acquiesced in the existing conditions. The statement that "not a man in the city dared to raise his voice in protest" is a terrific arraignment of a system of franchise under which those who can refuse to exercise the franchise to protect the health and lives of their families, and those who are willing and "self-sacrificing" enough to do so are unable to support their demands by their votes. The statement quoted is one of the best arguments for women's suffrage that could be presented. This is not an emanation from any women's suffrage organization, but just an expression of a mere man who has been converted to women's suffrage by reading "anti" publications, and arguments like those of your correspondent, all of which convince him that women's suffrage is rational, just, expedient and Inevitable. PRINCEPS. Providence, Jan. 12. Meeting Opposed to Woman Suffrage Men and women who are seriously interested in the question of women voting or not voting will be eager to hear Miss Lucy Price, an acknowledged leader in the study of economic questions. She makes a clear and accurate statement of present laws and conditions, worthy the careful attention of honest people who are seeking the common sense solution of what the future of women is to be in the United States. What we went to know is not how much good the smashing of windows is doing the militant suffragists in England, but whether, right here in New England, votes for women would not mean danger to the body politic, danger to the many immunities and privileges granted to women and danger to the women themselves. The meeting is arranged for by the Connecticut Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage and will be held at I. O. O. F. hall on Thursday, June 11, at 8 p. m. Men and women invited. Admission free. Attended Woman Suffrage Demonstrations. Miss R. Psyche Webster, Superintendent of the Day Kimball hospital, spent a part of her annual vacation in Washington last week attending the working women's demonstration in behalf of Woman Suffrage. Miss Webster was in the Connecticut delegation of 30 women in the procession of over three hundred who called upon President Wilson at the White House. The President was very courteous, shaking hands with each delegate, but he failed to give the women the encouragement they sought. Miss Webster attended the immense Votes of Women ball at the 71st Regiment Armory in New York, and she was also present at the mass meeting that was held in Washington on the evening before the march to the White House. Suffragists Plan Campaign. Women prominently identified in the State and national movement were in session at the headquarters of the Waterbury Equal Franchise League here. Among the distinguished suffragettes at the meeting were Mrs. Medill McCormick, of Chicago, chairman of the National Congressional Committee, and Mrs. Stanley McCormick, of Boston, treasurer of the National Women's Suffrage Association. A plan for organizing every ward and voting district in the State was adopted. In each ward and voting district, a canvass will be made and the views of the voters on the woman suffrage question obtained. Mrs. Ernest Seaton of Greenwich was appointed chairman of the Art Committee which will have charge of the plans for floats, banners and costumes to be used in the State suffrage parade to be held in Hartford. 000639 —Mrs. W. J. Bartlett, Miss Rosamond Danielson, and Mrs. E. C. Morse, are the Putnam members of the suffragette parade committee to be held in Hartford Saturday. The Suffrage lecture held in the hall Friday evening was well attended. Miss Pierson of Hartford is a very interesting and forcible speaker. Nearly all present signed the petition to the Legislature desiring Equal Franchise. Mrs. Bartlett, president of the Putnam Equal Franchise League and Miss Danielson, County Chairman occupied the platform with her and also spoke on the subject. Miss Pierson lectured at the Community House on Saturday evening, in Pomfret, where her remarks were listened to with the closest attention. At the close of the meeting a generous collection was taken up for the cause. Eight Pomfret people joined the Putnam Equal Franchise League. PROMINENT LADIES Guests Entertained at Tea by Putnam Equal Franchise League Speak on Woman Suffrage Question Miss Emily Pierson, state organizer of the Woman Suffrage Association, addressed Wolf Den Grange in their hall in Abington last Friday evening. The meeting was presided over by Mrs. Walter E. Brown and the large audience evidenced Its approval by repeated and prolonged applause. This being the first time a meeting was addressed by a suffragist. Miss Pierson took a wide scope, dwelling but little on each of the many phases—even to militancy In England. The entire address was of an educational nature and was both interesting and instructive. The Putnam Equal Franchise League held a very interesting meeting Saturday afternoon, April 25, in Odd Fellows' hall. The speakers were Miss Fisher of New York and Miss Emily Pierson of Cromwell, Conn. Miss Fisher is prominent in equal suffrage work in New York city. She spoke Friday in Hartford and came to Putnam while making a short visit with Mrs. Valentine of Pomfret. Miss Fisher spoke very entertainingly of suffrage organizations and demonstrations in New York. She compared the first suffrage parade in New York when only 300 women marched, with the parade last year when over 10,000 women and men were in line. Connecticut suffragists are planning a pageant and parade in Hartford next Saturday afternoon, May 2nd, and Miss Fisher advised everyone to see it. Miss Pierson is the state organizer of the C. W. S. A., and is very well known throughout the state. She spoke of the effect of women's vote in the equal suffrage states. She said that enfranchising women has invariably resulted in improving the laws effecting women and children. Rev. J. R. Stubbert spoke a few words in favor of equal suffrage that were received with enthusiasm. A pretty feature of the meeting was a song by a chorus of the children of the seventh and eighth grades, trained by Miss Etta Whiting. At the close of the meeting there was a social hour. Mrs. H. C. Meinken and Mrs. E. C. Morse poured tea. Mrs. John Evans Shepard gave an informal talk, relating her first impression of just such a meeting when Julia Ward Howe, author of the song, "Battle Hymn of the Republic," was the speaker. Miss Pierson then followed with a short talk explaining what "suffrage" meant and how the boys and girls were to work together when men and women, even as they were being educated together now. In the evening, Miss Pierson closed her "suffrage fete" with an address at the Community House In Pomfret. She was introduced by Mr. John Ash. A league was hoped to be formed, but it was found to be inexpedient at the present, but a number so wished to identify themselves with the cause that their names were given to the Putnam league. Therefore much may be expected from the added zeal of the new members. A large delegation from the Equal Franchise League was present. ERVER WEDNESDAY AFTERN TEA WELL ATTENDED Miss Fisher and Miss Pierson Presented to Putnam Ladies The tea given by the Putnam Equal Franchise league Saturday afternoon, April 25, in honor of Miss Fisher of. New York, and of Miss Emily Pierson of Cromwell, Conn., was a very enjoyable and successful affair. Mrs. W. J. Bartlett, the president of the league, presided during the speaking that preceded the serving of refreshments. School children of the seventh and eighth grades sang two songs very prettily under the direction of Miss Etta Whiting. MISS PIERSON Miss Pierson is state organizer of the Connecticut Women Suffrage association. She spoke on the change woman's vote would work in politics. Miss Pierson spent last summer in Colorado, where women have had the vote for 20 years; she said that in Colorado no candidate could be elected who did not pay some attention to the interests of women, which are centered particularly in the welfare of children, child labor, morality, temperance, etc. As a result of equal suffrage the women voters can point to a list of more than 100 good laws that have been passed through their influence. Miss Fisher spoke very entertainingly of the suffrage situation in New York, telling of the great advance the movement has made in the past few years. She told about many parades that suffragists have held in New York city, and advised everyone to see the suffrage parade in Hartford next Saturday afternoon. Rev. Mr. Stubbert spoke a few words in favor of woman suffrage. After the speaking tea was served by Mrs. Ernest C. Morse and Mrs. H. C. Meinken. PUTNAM REPRESENTED In the Suffrage Pageant at Hartford Saturday The Suffrage pageant in Hartford last Saturday is said to have been a most brilliant spectacle. It was witnessed by thousands of people who crowded the sidewalks on the line of march and added to the success the occasion with cheers and waving banners. There were more than 2000 women in the line, in costumes of varied colors with appropriate banners at the head of each section, all arranged in one beautiful color scheme, devised by Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, the chairman of the Art committee. There were five bands in the procession, many symbolic floats artistically decorated, and a great number of automobiles adorned with suffrage colors. Several cars went to Hartford from Putnam flying "Votes for Women" bannerettes and carrying members of the Putnam Equal Franchise League to march in the parade. Mrs. W. J. Bartlett, president of the League, marched in the section with the presidents of the 60 Leagues in the state, with her daughter Ruth, who carried the Putnam banner. Miss Dorcas Bartlett rode with the mounted heralds led by Joan of Arc, at the head of the procession. Miss Anna Arnold marched with the school children carrying banner "Votes for Women". Automobiles belonging to Mrs. John Evans Sheppard, Mrs. R. P. Danielson and Mr. W. J. Bartlett were in the section representing the referendum states. Among the members of the Putnam League who went to Hartford for the parade were Miss Rosamond Danielson of Putnam Heights, who marched with the members of the state executive board, Mrs. Charles S. Weaver, Mrs. C. D. Arnold, Miss Sarah Brady, Mrs. H. C. Meinken, Mrs. Walter Philips, Mrs. W. L. Beard, Miss Mary Wheaton and Miss Gertrude Jones, Miss Katherine Byrne, Miss Abbie McKenna, Mrs. George H. Nichols. Woman Suffrage Campaign Ends Today Campaigners to Continue the Work in Tolland County This is the last week of the Votes for Women automobile tour, by means of which the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association has been carrying on an active campaign in Windham county for nearly a month. The party has taken headquarters in Willimantic for this week and the schedule includes the following dates: Chaplin, Monday, July 6, Church vestry, 8 p. m. Hampton, Tuesday, July 7, Grange hall, 8 p. m. Scotland, Wednesday, July 8, Grange hall, 8 p. m. Willimantic, Thursday, July 9, 8 p.m. The campaign headquarters over the Fourth were at Mrs. J. E. Sheppard's cottage In South Woodstock. The workers expressed much regret at leaving this part of the county where they have had such a hospitable reception and have enjoyed the hearty co-operation of the local suffragists. The workers celebrated the Fourth of July by attending the clambake at East Woodstock led by holding several open air meetings. Mrs. John Evans Sheppard was one of the speakers at the East Woodstock celebration making equal suffrage the subject of her address. Miss Pierson and Miss Freda Kirchway spoke at the theatre at Wildwood park in the afternoon. From there they went to Willimantic where they had a very successful street meeting at the sunset hour. After the mass meeting to be held in Willimantic Thursday evening the organizers of the C. W. S. A. will go from Windham into Tolland county and conduct a similar campaign. 000640 THE HARTFORD DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, MARCH ANTIS TELL WHY THEY ARE ANTIS. [CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1.] then all manhood suffrage states, 69 per cent of the possible vote was cast. These states, Miss Burnell pointed out, have similar conditions and varieties of population and therefore should be compared with each other and not with the eastern states where the large populations from other lands are found. "The men of Connecticut, we believe," said Miss Burnell, "want to be just to the women. As a matter of simple justice we ask you to keep this burden from us. Women do not want to vote! Here in Hartford, when the matter was before our legislature two years ago, and every effort was made to get women to register and vote on school questions, of the 18,000 possible women voters, only 1,040 registered and only ninety-five went to the polls." The lack of better conditions under women's vote was also illustrated by figures. "We do not see that women's vote is responsible for bettered conditions," she said. "Of course, she votes for men, note measures, except in the few instances of legislators being women, but we still believe that her ideas and influence reinforce this betterment. Men and women rise and fall together. In New Zealand, in 1892, when women got the vote, infant mortality was seventy-six in a thousand. After eighteen years of women's voting it had dropped to fifty-six in a thousand. Did women's vote do this? In 1883, ten years before women were given the vote, infant mortality was 103 in a thousand. So in ten years, under male suffrage, it dropped twenty-seven, while under the combined votes of men and women, in eighteen years, it dropped by twenty. Did the absence of women's vote do this?" Miss Burnell asserted that half truths are dangerous, and that her side believed that legislation is but the outcome of public opinion, which men and women alike form. In conclusion she said that the ideal of the antis is the conservation of women, believing, that womanhood has distinctive characteristics which make it the completement of manhood, and that it may conceivably spoil its own special glory by seeking to be none other than masculine in its range and domain of action. Ballots, Blank Cartridges. Miss Elizabeth R. Burnell, who was the second speaker, began her speech by telling of the man whose wife induced him to carry a banner in a New York suffrage parade. Having been presented with one by the committee in charge, he carried it, practically dragging it in the dust, and when taken to task by his wife for the shiftless way he had kept his promise to her, he replied that if she had seen the inscription she could hardly blame him, for it said "Men Can Vote, Why Can't I". "Now gentlemen," said Miss Burnelle, "we women who oppose woman suffrage do not feel that way about it, though we might conceivably inscribe upon our banners, 'Men Can Vote, Why Should We?' We do ourselves full justice in realizing that we average in intelligence with men, but we cannot help asking ourselves if we are in the way of knowing much about fire-fighting, railroads, finance, engineering, fisheries, road-making, sewerage, and all the other lines of work that government has to do with. And we generally add the query as to who would enforce laws if we should ever make them. We know that our ballots would be blank cartridges." Miss Burnell said that after the many reasons advanced Wednesday for enfranchising women, somebody might perhaps feel as Dr. Anna Shaw said she did when told the Yale-Harvard-Princeton triangular debate chose to discuss the advisability of giving suffrage to women. "I didn't know," she said, "that there was but one side to the question." But in all three cases the judges accorded the debates to the anti side. "We expect to-day," said Miss Burnell, "to make you feel that if there is but one side to the question it is our side. At a hearing before the judiciary committee in Washington last year, this threat was made: 'Grant us women suffrage throughout the United States or 4,000,000 women who vote in states where suffrage is already a fact, will vote against you.' I do not mention this to comment upon 'uplift in politics,' but to show that 4,000,000 do not and cannot vote in the eleven suffrage states." Miss Burnell quoted from the United States census bureau figures showing that the eleven full suffrage states, of which there were but nine at the time of which she spoke, and Illinois, with partial suffrage, have 3,680,000 women of 21 years of age and over, this including the foreign-born or unnaturalized, the negro, Indian, Chinese and Japanese. The native born white women of voting age in all these states numbering 2,000,000. "Under the limitations and restrictions put upon the franchise in these states," continued Miss Burnell, "it would be liberal to estimate that 2,500,000 women voters are represented by the suffrage leaders, the ballot. No class can gain anything by doubling its votes, since the relative state of each class would remain the same. The crass interests of men and women are the same and the interests of any woman are safer to-day in the hands of the men of her own class than they would be in the hands of women in a different class. If I shuld go to a man, who owned a peanut stand or a manufacturing plant, and should say to him, 'Double the time, double the energy, and add to the money which you are using to-day to operate your push cart or your factory' and at the same time should not offer this individual any return for his doubled outlay he would at once appreciate the fact that my proposition was a senseless one. Such, in a nutshell is the proposition of woman suffrage." Miss Dorman continued her simile by saying, "The suffragists come to the citizens of our country and they say to every class, 'Double the time, double the energy and add to the money which you are using to-day to govern yourselves. Add the time of your women to the time of your men; add the energy of your women to the energy of your men and increase the cost of elections.' Class by class, we answer them and say, 'What will we get for our double outlay?' What can one class get from combining the votes of its men and its women?" The suffragists give us no adequate reply. So sensible business women, or sensible homemakers, we find our own answer. We compare conditions in the states where our men alone vote with conditions where both men and women vote and we find that there is absolutely nothing to be obtained from votes of men and women that we cannot also obtain from votes of men alone - for half price. Therefore, we do not favor woman suffrage and see no advantage in double the vote of our class." Little Expense. Miss Dorman said that town and city governments are larger public business corporations, operating under a charter to transact civic affairs by means of the common funds which they hold in trust for all the citizens. "Women, as compared to men," she said, "have had relatively little experience in private or trust or corporate business affairs. This is not due to legislative enactment, but to natural laws. Only one woman out of every five is engaged in any kind of gainful pursuit whatsoever in the United States to-day. The average length of time that this one woman is engaged in gainful pursuits is seven years. There are only 5,000,000 women wage earners in the United States of 21 years and over, as compared with the 24,000,000 females of 21 years and over, by the thirteenth census." Miss Dorman contradicted a statement made by the speakers for suffrage, Wednesday, saying "The suffragists told you yesterday that there were 8,000,000 women who earned their own bread and butter outside the home. This is not true. There are 8,000,000 females of 10 years and over engaged in gainful pursuits. A woman is a female 21 years of age. Thirty per cent of these wage earning women are in domestic service." The inexperience of women in business was further illustrated by the speaker who said that unless the vital work of the home was to be neglected the inexperience of women in business would continue, and that men did not need more sentiment in the business of government, but a more practical knowledge of affairs of state was wanted from government by the anti-suffragists. "The only subject touched upon by the suffragists, yesterday," said Miss Dorman, "was protective legislation for women. The government has a good many other problems to cope with besides special legislation for a single group. You, gentlemen, of course, know this. So long as the relative inexperience of women in business continues we anti-suffragists believe that the interests of all of us, women as well as men, are more adequately protected to-day than would be the case if women were added to the electorate. Individually, every suffragist believes, but collectively, they repudiate it. When a wealthy suffragist has money or property to place in trust or to be administered, she always and invariably places it in the hands of men. Every one of Mrs. Russell Sage's trustees is a man. But when it becomes a question of the administration of public money or public property, held in trust for the people, ah, say the suffragists, that is different. My own money and property are dear to me. I must safeguard them; what do I care for the commonwealth? What do I care if Uncle Sam is in debt or if New York city is facing bankruptcy? The wealthy suffragist is perfectly willing that inexperienced women should administer our public business, but she takes good care to see that her personal business affairs are watched over by men. She does not love her country as herself. Miss Dorman said that in her own person she represented the two types of women in whose name the ballot is most frequently claimed, the woman who must earn her own bread and butter, and the old maid. Speaking for the working woman she said she might work at practically every trade in every state in the union, with better laws for her are one. That this 80 per cent. of women can only vote either like their husbands or against them, and if with them there are twice as many to count, while against him, it disenfranchises him, tying his hands, were other points made by Miss Dorman, who said the interests of women were safe in the hands of their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers. Duty of Legislators. Miss Lucy J. Price of Cleveland told the legislators that they were asking Wednesday to be "just" in a vague sort of way; to be progressive, and various other things; everything except to be honest to themselves, their convictions and the electorate which sent them here, and to the constitution of Connecticut under which they hold office. "That constitution provides that you can submit to the voters only such amendments to the constitution as you deem necessary," she said. "That is the very phrase used there. That is the condition under which your constituents sent you here. In the words of Burke, 'they 'elected your judgement to act for them.' Every speaker, but one, yesterday urged you to overthrow the constitution, to disregard the trust placed in you by those whose votes were cast for you, and to submit this to the voters whether you personally believe in the measure or not. Gentlemen," Miss Price continued, impressively, "you are acting beyond your rights, you are betraying your trust, if you do that. One speaker, a man, and an attorney, recognized this and asked you to make women politically equal with men. Because he alone seemed to realize that would be what you would be recommending if you recommend the passage of this bill. You were told that 'if' this were an initiative and referendum state there would be enough names now offered by the suffragists to insure such an election. This is a mistake. The names offered are only a little over 5 per cent. of the adult population of the state. And no state allows an initiative election on such a small number. Moreover, the exact point is this. This is not an initiative and referendum state. If Connecticut wanted to do away with the power of the legislators and their responsibility towards the measures they must consider, it would have adopted the initiative. The very fact that it has not done so is proof that your state still demands of you that you decide these questions according to your own judgement and send for popular vote only those of which you approve." Against Their Wills. Miss Price took up the arguments made in favor of suffrage at yesterday's session and denied that woman suffrage was necessary in order to accomplish any of the reforms whose need had been suggested. She placed particular emphasis upon the fallacy that votes would help the wage earning woman to obtain the help which Miss Rose Winslow yesterday insisted she must have. "I will ask our opponents in the half hour rebuttal which they will have this afternoon," she said, "to name one way in which men are protected by law in any of the ways Miss Winslow declared women must be and can be if they vote. The real questions before the committee to-day is are you going to make a political factor out of every citizen in your state, deprive the state of the wonderful value of non-political viewpoint and non-political methods of the half which is now out of politics; are you going to politicize humanity at the request of less than 5 per cent. of the Connecticut women and thrust the great majority of the women among your constituents into politics against their will?" Fifteen Opponents. After Miss Price had spoken, fifteen women chairmen of branches of the Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage in various parts of the state, spoke briefly for the women they represented. They were Mrs. William B. Glover of Fairfield; Mrs. Emily Peabody of Glastonbury; Miss Marjorie Moore of Kensington; Miss Amy Vorce of Farmington; Mrs. Charles F. Brooker of Ansonia; Mrs. John R. Bacon of Dansbury; Mrs. Charles Bottomley of Rockville; Mrs. E. H. Rogers of New Canaan; Mrs. Leibert of East Hartford; Miss Marion De Forest of Bridgeport; Miss Elizabeth Ely of Old Lyme; Mrs. William L. Stone of Guilford; Mrs. Albert H. Terry of Fairfield county; Mrs. Ebenezer Learned of Norwich and Mrs. Edward Washburn Hopkins of New Haven. Mr. Chandler. George B. Chandler, compensation commissioner for the First congressional district, spoke briefly, approaching the subject from the standpoint of government. Mrs. Chandler is a former member of the general assembly, and a student of government problems. His remarks were in the nature of rebuttal of pro-suffrage arguments presented Wednesday. Other Speakers. William R. Palmer, of Derby, a member of the democratic state central committee, also spoke for those opposed to suffrage, and another masculine speaker down on the program was Charles D. Moore. the outcome of public opinion, which men and women alike form. In conclusion she said that the ideal of the antis is the conservation of women, believing, that womanhood has distinctive characteristics which make it the completement of manhood, and that it may conceivably spoil its own special glory by seeking to be none other than masculine in its range and domain of action. Ballots, Blank Cartridges. Miss Elizabeth R. Burnell, who was the second speaker, began her speech by telling of the man whose wife induced him to carry a banner in a New York suffrage parade. Having been presented with one by the committee in charge, he carried it, practically dragging it in the dust, and when taken to task by his wife for the shiftless way he had kept his promise to her, he replied that if she had seen the inscription she could hardly blame him, for it said "Men Can Vote, Why Can't I". "Now gentlemen," said Miss Burnelle, "we women who oppose woman suffrage do not feel that way about it, though we might conceivably inscribe upon our banners, 'Men Can Vote, Why Should We?' We do ourselves full justice in realizing that we average in intelligence with men, but we cannot help asking ourselves if we are in the way of knowing much about fire-fighting, railroads, finance, engineering, fisheries, road-making, sewerage, and all the other lines of work that government has to do with. And we generally add the query as to who would enforce laws if we should ever make them. We know that our ballots would be blank cartridges." Miss Burnell said that after the many reasons advanced Wednesday for enfranchising women, somebody might perhaps feel as Dr. Anna Shaw said she did when told the Yale-Harvard-Princeton triangular debate chose to discuss the advisability of giving suffrage to women. "I didn't know," she said, "that there was but one side to the question." But in all three cases the judges accorded the debates to the anti side. "We expect to-day," said Miss Burnell, "to make you feel that if there is but one side to the question it is our side. At a hearing before the judiciary committee in Washington last year, this threat was made: 'Grant us women suffrage throughout the United States or 4,000,000 women who vote in states where suffrage is already a fact, will vote against you.' I do not mention this to comment upon 'uplift in politics,' but to show that 4,000,000 do not and cannot vote in the eleven suffrage states." Miss Burnell quoted from the United States census bureau figures showing that the eleven full suffrage states, of which there were but nine at the time of which she spoke, and Illinois, with partial suffrage, have 3,680,000 women of 21 years of age and over, this including the foreign-born or unnaturalized, the negro, Indian, Chinese and Japanese. The native born white women of voting age in all these states numbering 2,000,000. "Under the limitations and restrictions put upon the franchise in these states," continued Miss Burnell, "it would be liberal to estimate that 2,500,000 women voters are represented by the suffrage leaders, that is, 2,500,000 of all conditions and nationalities who are able to vote. But the authorities of the states where woman suffrage obtains estimate that at a top figure not more than two-thirds of the possible women voters register, and not more than 50 per cent. of those who register go to the polls. Two-thirds of 2,500,000 does not amount to a total of 1,700,000 and the 50 per cent. who actually vote number but 850,000. And, gentlemen, do you realize that the total population of all the Equal Suffrage states is less than that of New York city, Philadelphia and Chicago? The old saying that 'Nothing succeeds like success,' has induced the advocates of suffrage to emphasize their successes and minimize their defeats. Last November, five of the seven states where a referendum was taken, defeated woman suffrage; and Ohio, which had turned it down by an 87,000 majority two years before, gave a majority of 180,000 against, remind one of Michigan, which two years ago November defeated it by 700 and in five months, when it again came to the people, by 100,000." From a Business Standpoint. Miss Marjorie Dorman, who organized the National Wagearners' League Opposed to Woman Suffrage, spoke on the question from a business standpoint, opening with the statement that economy and efficiency in administration were never more needed in our state and federal governments than to-day. Miss Dorman said that the principle applied to personal business and to the business of governing, is naturally a desire to obtain the best possible results from the least possible expenditure of time, energy and money. Woman suffrage, she said, violates this basic principle of all success, setting two people to do a job which one sex is capable of performing alone. "Woman suffrage means an economic loss to any state which adopts it," said Miss Dorman. "Class for class the men of our country have she said, "have had relatively little experience in private or trust or corporate business affairs. This is not due to legislative enactment, but to natural laws. Only one woman out of every five is engaged in any kind of gainful pursuit whatsoever in the United States to-day. The average length of time that this one woman is engaged in gainful pursuits is seven years. There are only 5,000,000 women wage earners in the United States of 21 years and over, as compared with the 24,000,000 females of 21 years and over, by the thirteenth census." Miss Dorman contradicted a statement made by the speakers for suffrage, Wednesday, saying "The suffragists told you yesterday that there were 8,000,000 women who earned their own bread and butter outside the home. This is not true. There are 8,000,000 females of 10 years and over engaged in gainful pursuits. A woman is a female 21 years of age. Thirty per cent of these wage earning women are in domestic service." The inexperience of women in business was further illustrated by the speaker who said that unless the vital work of the home was to be neglected the inexperience of women in business would continue, and that men did not need more sentiment in the business of government, but a more practical knowledge of affairs of state was wanted from government by the anti-suffragists. "The only subject touched upon by the suffragists, yesterday," said Miss Dorman, "was protective legislation for women. The government has a good many other problems to cope with besides special legislation for a single group. You, gentlemen, of course, know this. So long as the relative inexperience of women in business continues we anti-suffragists believe that the interests of all of us, women as well as men, are more adequately protected to-day than would be the case if women were added to the electorate. Individually, every suffragist believes, but collectively, they repudiate it. When a wealthy suffragist has money or property to place in trust or to be administered, she always and invariably places it in the hands of men. Every one of Mrs. Russell Sage's trustees is a man. But when it becomes a question of the administration of public money or public property, held in trust for the people, ah, say the suffragists, that is different. My own money and property are dear to me. I must safeguard them; what do I care for the commonwealth? What do I care if Uncle Sam is in debt or if New York city is facing bankruptcy? The wealthy suffragist is perfectly willing that inexperienced women should administer our public business, but she takes good care to see that her personal business affairs are watched over by men. She does not love her country as herself. Miss Dorman said that in her own person she represented the two types of women in whose name the ballot is most frequently claimed, the woman who must earn her own bread and butter, and the old maid. Speaking for the working woman she said she might work at practically every trade in every state in the union, with better laws for her protection than the man who worked beside her. Every law, which protected him, being a blanket law and covering both seces, with additional laws protecting her and discriminating against him. "Already the abolition of night work for women is secured in some states, but we are not asking it for men," she said. "Women have the eight, nine, or ten-hour day in various industries in numerous states, which do not protect men in the same industry. It is against the laws of some states to work women in mines, to let them handle explosives, run elevators, clean and oil moving machinery and work at occupations which require constant standing. We are demanding no such protection for men. The suffragists are trying to do away with this protection for women in industry when they demand legal equality. They are proving themselves the worst enemies of the working women today. We do not want legal equality. We want the state to give us every protection which men enjoy, plus many other safeguards which men do not need. With or without the vote we are only a small minority of the citizens and we are dependent on the general electorate. We never can pass any laws which men do not wish us to pass since we are hopelessly outnumbered in the body politic." In regard to old maids, which she termed by-products of the big social machine, Miss Dorman said they, like the working women, would be beaten before they started to the polls, from their few numbers, of the women 20 years of age and over in the United States, only 19.5 per cent being "unappropriated blessings," of the women 30 years of age and over only 10 per cent. being single, which of women 65 years and over, she said only 6 per cent. were unwed. These cheerful figures being quoted from the Thirteenth census, besides proving that while there was life there was hope, Miss Dorman said they proved that this is a married woman's country and that 80 per cent. of the women live under the marriage contract which presupposes that the economic interests of the man and wife referendum state. If Connecticut wanted to do away with the power of the legislators and their responsibility towards the measures they must consider, it would have adopted the initiative. The very fact that it has not done so is proof that your state still demands of you that you decide these questions according to your own judgement and send for popular vote only those of which you approve." Against Their Wills. Miss Price took up the arguments made in favor of suffrage at yesterday's session and denied that woman suffrage was necessary in order to accomplish any of the reforms whose need had been suggested. She placed particular emphasis upon the fallacy that votes would help the wage earning woman to obtain the help which Miss Rose Winslow yesterday insisted she must have. "I will ask our opponents in the half hour rebuttal which they will have this afternoon," she said, "to name one way in which men are protected by law in any of the ways Miss Winslow declared women must be and can be if they vote. The real questions before the committee to-day is are you gong to make a political factor out of every citizen in your state, deprive the state of the wonderful value of non-political viewpoint and non-political methods of the half which is now out of politics; are you going to politicize humanity at the request of less than 5 per cent. of the Connecticut women and thrust the great majority of the women among your constituents into politics against their will?" Fifteen Opponents. After Miss Price had spoken, fifteen women chairmen of branches of the Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage in various parts of the state, spoke briefly for the women they represented. They were Mrs. William B. Glover of Fairfield; Mrs. Emily Peabody of Glastonbury; Miss Marjorie Moore of Kensington; Miss Amy Vorce of Farmington; Mrs. Charles F. Brooker of Ansonia; Mrs. John R. Bacon of Dansbury; Mrs. Charles Bottomley of Rockville; Mrs. E. H. Rogers of New Canaan; Mrs. Leibert of East Hartford; Miss Marion De Forest of Bridgeport; Miss Elizabeth Ely of Old Lyme; Mrs. William L. Stone of Guilford; Mrs. Albert H. Terry of Fairfield county; Mrs. Ebenezer Learned of Norwich and Mrs. Edward Washburn Hopkins of New Haven. Mr. Chandler. George B. Chandler, compensation commissioner for the First congressional district, spoke briefly, approaching the subject from the standpoint of government. Mrs. Chandler is a former member of the general assembly, and a student of government problems. His remarks were in the nature of rebuttal of pro-suffrage arguments presented Wednesday. Other Speakers. William R. Palmer, of Derby, a member of the democratic state central committee, also spoke for those opposed to suffrage, and another masculine speaker down on the program was Charles D. Moore, legislative representative for the state of Connecticut of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, a particularly strong labor organization, which has never endorsed any resolution in favor of woman suffrage. WINDHAM COUNTY OBSERVER WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON CAMPAIGN ENDS AT END OF WEEK VOTES FOR WOMEN HEARD IN ALL PARTS OF COUNTY Old Campaigners Could Profit by the Efficient Way in which the Work Has Been Carried Out This week completes the month's campaign of the Votes for Women automobile tour through Windham county, and on Friday the workers will invade Tolland county. The party has headquarters in Willimantic this week and the schedule includes the following meetings. Hampton, Tuesday, Grange hall. Scotland, Wednesday, Grange hall. Willimantic, Thursday, July 9. On Wednesday, July 1, the meeting was in Brooklyn where the campaign workers had been making their headquarters. It was very successful much interest being evinced by the number of questions asked and the signatures obtained on the suffrage petition. Miss Danielson of Putnam Heights was chairman of the evening, and the speakers were Miss Freda Kirchwey, Miss Gregory and Miss Pierson. Thursday, July 2, a meeting was held in Webster's Hall, Dayville. This date was added to the schedule because of the interest aroused by the outdoor speaking in Dayville. Mrs. Eric M. Johnson of Putnam presided. The speakers were Miss Danielson of Putnam Heights, W. J. Bartlett of Putnam, Miss Gregory and Miss Pierson. Friday evening, July 3, meetings were held simultaneously in Warrenville and Eastford. Miss Kuttner was chairman of the Warrenville meeting held in Baker's Hall. Miss Gregory spoke of the progress women have made in the past century, and Miss Vera Buck spoke of the right of ballot as the next important step for women. In Eastford Miss Ethel Lee Rankin of Colorado acted as chairman, and the speakers were Miss Kirchwey of New York, and Miss Emily Pierson. The campaigners celebrated the Fourth by attending the clam bake at East Woodstock, and by holding several outdoor meetings. Mrs. John Evans Sheppard was among the after dinner speakers in East Woodstock making Equal Suffrage the subject of her talk. Mien Pierson and Miss Kirchwey spoke at Alexander's lake WIldwood park, in the afternoon. From there they went to Willimantic where they had a very large street meeting at the sunset hour. The campaign headquarters over the Fourth were at Mrs. J. E. Sheppard's cottage in South Woodstock The workers felt much regret at leaving this part of the county where they have been treated with generous hospitality, and have received the hearty co-operation of the local suffragists. Saturday was the windup of the 3rd week of the Windham county suffrage campaign. Miss Emily Pierson Miss Aylce Gregory and all her large contingent of helpers—both regulars and volunteers—took advantage of the general holiday making and visited all the places within easy reach of Willimantic by automobile at which pleasure seekers can be found. Out door speeches, most of them short so as not to fatigue the hearers, and much distribution of suffrage literature and souvenirs were the features of the day; for the campaigners are determined to bring the message of votes for women to all the men and women who have not heard it in the regular meetings of the last three weeks. Miss Pierson has had considerable accessions to her forces during the past week. Miss Vera Buck of New Haven a member of the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women and an able enthusiastic worker, joined on as a regular member of the campaign force. Mrs. Louis Middlebrook and Mrs. C. Gallup, both of West Hartford, arrived at the Putnam house, Brooklyn, where the campaigners made their headquarters for the week. They came as volunteers, willing to take any part that offered in the campaign work. A little later Mrs. A. N. Pierson of Cromwell, with her niece, Miss Margaret Pierson, arrived from Cromwel in her large seven-seated touring car—bringing the welcome assistance not only of two more helpers. but also of a capacious and powerful automobile. During the five weeks of dams. As the treasurer of the Connecticut Suffrage association has just paid $750 into the national treasury as the contribution from the C. W. S. A., Connecticut has surely done well toward the support of the national association. Putnam Heights, W. J. Bartlett or Putnam, Miss Gregory and Miss Pierson. Friday evening, July 3, meetings were held simultaneously in Warrenville and Eastford. Miss Kuttner was chairman of the Warrenville meeting held in Baker's Hall. Miss Gregory spoke of the progress women have made in the past century, and Miss Vera Buck spoke of the right of ballot as the next important step for women. In Eastford Miss Ethel Lee Rankin of Colorado acted as chairman, and the speakers were Miss Kirchwey of New York, and Miss Emily Pierson. The campaigners celebrated the Fourth by attending the clam bake at East Woodstock, and by holding several outdoor meetings. Mrs. John Evans Sheppard was among the after-dinner speakers in East Woodstock making Equal Suffrage the subject of her talk. Miss Pierson and Miss Kirchwey spoke at Alexander's lake, Wildwood park, in the afternoon. From there they went to Willimantic where they had a very large street meeting at the sunset hour. The campaign headquarters over the Fourth were at Mrs. J. E. Sheppard's cottage in South Woodstock. The workers felt much regret at leaving this part of the country where they have been treated with generous hospitality, and have received the hearty co-operation of the local suffragists. Saturday was the windup of the 3rd week of the Windham county suffrage campaign, Miss Emily Pierson, Miss Aylce Gregory and all her large contingent of helpers- both regulars and volunteers- took advantage of the general holiday making and visited all the places within easy reach of Willimantic by automobile at which pleasure seekers can be found. Outdoor speeches, most of them short so as not to fatigue the hearers, and much distribution of suffrage literature and souvenirs were the features of the day; for the campaigners are determined to bring the message of votes for women to all the men and women who have not heard it in the regular meetings of the last three weeks. Miss Pierson has had considerable accessions to her forces during the past week. Miss Vera Buck of New Haven a member of the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women and an able enthusiastic worker, joined on as a regular member of the campaign force. Mrs. Louis Middlebrook and Mrs. C. Gallup, both of West Hartford, arrived at the Putnam house, Brooklyn, where the campaigners made their headquarters for the week. They came as volunteers, willing to take any part that offered in the campaign work. A little later Mrs. A. N. Pierson of Cromwell, with her niece. Miss Margaret Pierson, arrived from Cromwel in her large seven-seated touring car- bringing the welcome assistance not only of two more helpers, but also of a capacious and powerful automobile. During the five years of campaigning that still remain Miss Pierson expects many such reinforcements- the women remaining a longer or shorter time with the campaigners according to circumstances. The meetings last week have been at Plainfield, Canterbury, Brooklyn, Eastford and Warrenville. There have been meetings in halls each evening and numerous outdoor meetings in addition. In every place where this is a factory, a factory meeting is held either at noon or after work is over for the day and in larger towns there have been several of these factory meetings, all of them characterized by the interest shown by the workers in votes for women. The hall meetings have all been well attended - the number dependent of course on the size of the towns. Not every town could muster a meeting like that at Danielson where 620 people assembled in the Orpheum theatre to hear Mrs. Rienzi Robinson and Miss Pierson. But that attendance was in proportion to the population Miss Pierson discovered when she was making her way- a little late to a meeting at West Woodstock. The meeting was already in session before she reached the town, as she had been delayed en route, and she had to make inquiries as to the road. The only person she could discover in any of the houses around was an old grandfather of 95. When asked where the suffrage meeting was to be held he replied that he did not know but that if they went to the town hall they could find out because "all the folks was at the town hall"- and the suffrage meeting was there also. The National Woman Suffrage association is profiting to the extent of about $400 from the garden party given last week, by Mrs. Seymour J. Hyde, says the Norwich Record. Mrs. Jane Addams was the principal speaker, she being induced to come by Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton and Miss Rees, who are both on the board of the national association. There was a charge of $2 from the guests, but as may be judged by the results the attendance was large and every one delighted to see and hear Miss Ad ERVER WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 8, 1914. SOUTH KILLINGLY On Tuesday evening, June 30, at the church, Gladys Jacques became the bride of Willis E. Hill of Central Village. The church was very pret DANIELSON Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dembo, spent the weekend with relatives of Mr. Dembo in Colchester. Mrs. George C. Wheatley and daughters Gladys and Frances spen the week-end with Worcester friends Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Bassett of Providence were guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Ross for the holiday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. A. Van Woodworth were at Oakland Beach for the week-end. Mrs. Allie Vachon of Rutland, Mass. formerly of Danielson, is spending a few days with relatives in Danielson Albert Day of Springfield was in town with relatives for the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Earl M. Young visited relatives here over the week-end, coming from Providence. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Scott entertained Mrs. James G. Fitch of Beverly Mass„ over the holiday. George Bullard of Boston was a visitor with relatives in Danielson for the week-end. James A. Ryan of Pawtucket spent Sunday with friends in Danielson. S. D. Horton has had the road leading to his cottage at Old Killingly pond improved. Only one prisoner was presented in the town court on the morning of the Fourth, and he was discharged on probation. Mrs. Charles T. Thayer of Putnam visited friends here on the Fourth. The union services scheduled for next Sunday are to be held at the Baptist church. The Mothers' Club and families are to be at Alexander's lake for an outing Wednesday. Charles Edwin Blake of Brooklyn spent the holiday at St. Andrews school at Barrington. Miss Evelyn Soule of Norwich spent the week-end here, the guest of Lucy Hopkins. HAMPTON Mrs. Clara Parker and son of Brooklyn were guests of Mrs. Arnold Kent last week. Mrs. A. B. Edwards was in Willimantic last Wednesday. Bissell Carey and his brother Harold of Hartford are stopping at Mrs P. H. Pearl's for a short time. The young son of John Skinner is reported to have infantile paralysis and has been taken to St. Joseph's hospital in Willimantic. The funeral of Dwight Fuller, who was found dead in bed last week Monday morning, was held at the house last Wednesday afternoon. Burial was in the North cemetery. Mrs. Joseph Clark passed away last week Tuesday after a short illness. She was 74 years of age and a life ling resident of this town. Besides her husband she leaves one daughter, one brother, Dr. Rienzi Robinson of Danielson, and one sister, Mrs. George Bennett. She was a charter member of Little River Grange and was very active in Grange work and took great interest in all matters pertaining to the Grange. The funeral was held at the house last Thursday at two o'clock p. m. Rex. George S. Drowne conducted the services. Burial was in the South cemetery. The Fourth was very quietly observed here. A ball game was played in the forenoon by Hamptons and Willimantics, the home team being victorious. In the evening a dance was held in Grange Hall, which was well patronized and enjoyed by the crowd that attended. NORTH WINDHAM Among visitors in town for the Fourth were Mr. and Mrs. Edward Martin and son Harold of Georgiaville R. I., at E. A. Penni's. Mrs. William Shippee of Willimantic at Fred Thomas'. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Stone and two children at William Sisson's. Charles Downing and wife, also Harry Downing of Hartford at Mr. Downing's. Some of them who went away to spend the Fourth were Myron Lyon and family to Elliott. Mr. and Mrs William Knight and sons, also Mr. and Mrs. Henry Knapp motored to Providence. A few went to the clam bake and dance at Scotland. Some to the ball game at Windham and a clam bake was enjoyed at the Lynch farm by men exclusively. Value of Fruit Acids. It is thought that acid fruits induce rheumatism. The contrary is true. Fruit acids taken into the system by a person, who has rheumatism act [?] and actually have the ef- HAMPTON Mrs. Clara Parker and son of Brooklyn were guests of Mrs. Arnold Kent last week. Mrs. A. B. Edwards was in Willimantic last Wednesday. Bissell Carey and his brother Harold of Hartford are stopping at Mrs P. H. Pearl's for a short time. The young son of John Skinner is reported to have infantile paralysis and has been taken to St. Joseph's hospital in Willimantic. The funeral of Dwight Fuller, who was found dead in bed last week Monday morning, was held at the house last Wednesday afternoon. Burial was in the North cemetery. Mrs. Joseph Clark passed away last week Tuesday after a short illness. She was 74 years of age and a life ling resident of this town. Besides her husband she leaves one daughter, one brother, Dr. Rienzi Robinson of Danielson, and one sister, Mrs. George Bennett. She was a charter member of Little River Grange and was very active in Grange work and took great interest in all matters pertaining to the Grange. The funeral was held at the house last Thursday at two o'clock p. m. Rex. George S. Drowne conducted the services. Burial was in the South cemetery. The Fourth was very quietly observed here. A ball game was played in the forenoon by Hamptons and Willimantics, the home team being victorious. In the evening a dance was held in Grange Hall, which was well patronized and enjoyed by the crowd that attended. NORTH WINDHAM Among visitors in town for the Fourth were Mr. and Mrs. Edward Martin and son Harold of Georgiaville R. I., at E. A. Penni's. Mrs. William Shippee of Willimantic at Fred Thomas'. Mr. and Mirs. Alfred Stone and two children at William Sisson's. Charles Downing and wife, also Harry Downing of Hartford at Mr. Downing's. Some of them who went away to spend the Fourth were Myron Lyon and family to Elliott. Mr. and Mrs William Knight and sons, also Mr. and Mrs. Henry Knapp motored to Providence. A few went to the clam bake and dance at Scotland. Some to the ball game at Windham and a clam bake was enjoyed at the Lynch farm by men exclusively. Value of Fruit Acids. It is thought that acid fruits induce rheumatism. The contrary is true. Fruit acids taken into the system by a person, who has rheumatism act beneficially, and actually have the effect of increasing the alkalinity of the blood. Experiments have proved this conclusively. Thus a person who has too much uric acid in the blood should for a time eat fruit or acid fruit juices in large quantities. Lots Like That. A certain famous skyscraper builder said in his New York office the other day, apropos of costs and values: "Costs and values get confused because there are so many men who, if sunshine had to be paid for, would swear that gas gave a much more brilliant light." - New York Times Easily Settled. Hickville Postmaster (discussing affairs of state) - "Now, what do you think of our foreign relations, Ezry?" Prominent Lounger (warmly) - "I think they should be barred out uv this here country if they can't read an' write" - Judge. Reparation. "I think, William, I'll ask those new people next door to take dinner with us tonight." "What for?" "Well, the butcher, by mistake, left their meat order here, and it seems only fair." - Life. The Microbe Age. The old-fashioned boy who used to eat red ants spread on his bread and butter now has a son who won't touch a table knife until he knows that it has been properly sterilized. - Cincinnati Enquirer. His Complaint. "What's the matter?" asked the sympathetic motorist, as he halted where a pedestrian had broken down. "Tire trouble," replied the tramp, [?] was, indeed, our old friend, [?] Willie. Putnam Patriot. G W Danielson Apr 14 A WEEKLY FAMILY PAPER - - - - EIGHT PAGES. am Post Office matter. PUTNAM, CONN., FRIDAY, JUNE 19 1914 NO 25 TWO MEETINGS r and Bar Library Association Transact Business atter Association Elects New Officers There was a meeting of the Wind-m County Bar Library Association Id in the Bar Library, Putnam, last turday morning. Those present re State's Attorney Charles E. arls, Clerk E. M. Warner, Attorney arles A. Capen, Willimantic; Attor- ys A. G. Bill and E. L Dan-, on and Attorneys Charles L. Tor-., Ernest C. Morse, Howard C. adford, Eric H Johnson and A. S. cdonald, Putnam. It developed at the last formal meeting of the association was held in 1877 and that ly two of those present were mbers of the association, those be- Mr. Searls and Mr. Warner. The ers present signed the by-laws ad. tting them to membership. Mr. arls was chosen temporary chair -an of the meeting. It was proposed at a permanent organization be ef ted. This was done and the follow- officers were elected: President, Charles E. Searls. Secretary and treasurer, E. M. War- r. Librarian, Howard C. Bradford. Library committee, Charles A. Ca- Willimantic; Arthur G. Bill, nielson and J. F. Carpenter, Put -n. The cause for the meeting was to see the association would vote to hire room formerly occupied by the blic library for a bar library. The mbers inspected the room. It was ted that the lessor was willing to prove the room, install bookcases, les and chairs and cut a door ough into the superior court room. ter some discussion of the matter it s voted to hire the room for a period three years with the privilege of re- wal of five years more. The bar library has been overcrowded a considerable time and it has been possible to shelve all of the books. e new room will make a fine place the library with plenty of room d light and is immediately access from the court room. It will make cellent quarters for the attorneys o wish to use the books the library ords during sessions of court or at other time. ollowing the meeting there was a eting of the Bar Association to act n the application of Frederick F. dewig of Plainfield for admission he bar without examination. The lication was considered unfavor- and the applicant was granted mission to withdraw the applica- ary Fisher Johnson, Franklin, s. lice Kingsbury Franklin, Toning- Conn. cretary, Marion Andem, Putnam. reasurer, Marion Warren, Putnam. anquet committee, Silas M. Wh COMPENSATION COMMISSION Has Hearing in Putnam Superior Court Room Claim of Mrs. P. B. Sibley for Death of Husband Dr. James F. Donahue of Norwich, compensation commissioner of the second district, sat upon the bench in the superior court room at Putnam Monday morning for a hearing on the claim of the widow of the late Sheriff Preston B. Sibley for compensation for his death which occurred January last. Mr. Sibley received injuries by being thrown down while attempting to board a trolley car January 2nd last at Danielson. It is claimed that he was an employe of the state and that he was injured while in the performance of his duties. A similar claim is made against the county. Attorney Frederick M. Williams of Waterbury, who is compensation commissioner for the fifth district, sat with Commissioner Donahue. He stated that he was present as legal advisor to the commissioner. Mrs. Sibley was represented by Attorneys Charles E. Sends of Putnam and Harry E. Back of Danielson, Charles L. Torrey represented Windham county and William A. King of Willimantic represented Attorney General John H. Light, who was unable to be present. Mr. SearIs stated that the matter would be considered as two distinct cases and that he had agreed with the counsel for the county that the claim against the county should not be taken up until the claim against the state had been disposed of, which in effect would be that if the claimants are successful in maintaining their claim against the state then there would be no proceeding against the county. Attorney King stated that the state is raising the purely legal question of whether the county and not the state is liable, if liability exists. It was informally agreed to the facts but to make them part of the record several witnesses were heard who testified to seeing Mr. Sibley thrown down, to his illness and subsequent death from cerebral hemmorhage. Also that he was in the performance of his duty as sheriff when the accident occurred. It was shown that at the time he was injured he was on his way to Putnam where he had an appointment to meet the state's attorney for the purpose of having the bill for board of prisoners at Windham county jail approved by the attorney as the statute requires. It was agreed that if compensation was awarded that it would be the limit that the act allows for a death. Briefs are to be submitted in three weeks. Commissioner Williams asked counsel to treat broadly in their briefs the points of law as to whether a county sheriff comes within the defi- BACK IN JAIL Fred Brown Escaped from Sheriffs March 10 Caught in Woonsocket Tuesday Night Fred Brown, who escaped from the custody of deputy sheriffs at Danielson when the prisoners were being brought to Putnam from Brooklyn jail to the March term of the superior court, was lodged in jail Wednesday morning. An inspector of the Woonsocket police department located a man he thought was Brown and notified Jailer Fields who went to Woonsocket Tuesday night and found Brown in a moving picture show. The charge against Brown is burglary. There were thirteen prisoners in the gang being brought to Putnam on the morning of March 10th They were all safely put aboard the trolley car at Danielson but after the car had gone a short distance noses were counted and it was found that there were but eleven men left. The missing men were Brown and a man named John Burns, who, with two other men committed burglary at Moosup. Brown said that they slipped their handcuffs soon after they boarded the car. In the confusion of getting the men seated they slipped unnoticed out of the front door of the car and made for the woods. They kept going all day and did not know where they were but the next morning they landed in Putnam. Although deputy sheriffs in automobiles were scouring the country for the men Brown said he saw no signs of their being wanted in Putnam and after hanging around for a time the pair went to Mechanicsville where they took a car for Webster. Here they were joined by a Companion who appeared in court and was placed on probation. Finally the longing for home led Brown to Woonsocket where he was captured. He said he was just about to start for New Hampshire as he felt that if he stayed in Woonsocket he would be captured. Foresters Elect Officers Court City of Putnam, Foresters of America, held its annual meeting and election of officers Tuesday evening with the following result: Chief ranger, A. A. Brodeur. Sub chief ranger, Frank H. Cordier. Recording secretary, Eugene Alvord. Senior woodward, Raffie Cotton. Junior woodward, Arthur Brodeur. Senior beadle, Joseph Jolley. Junior beadle, John Daigle. Lecturer, James O'Brien. Trustee for three years, August Martin. Mrs. Lawson Pleased with Outcome of Trial Mrs. Amanda U. Lawson of East Woodstock was in Putnam Saturday. She again expressed her satisfaction at the outcome of her trial for manslaughter and was gratified at the speedy rendering of the verdict by the jury GAVE LIQUOR SUNDAY Fined $10 on Each of 12 Counts Joseph Robilard Furnished Liquor Illegally In the city court Monday morning Joseph Robilard plead guilty to 12 counts of furnishing liquor to persons to who the gift, sale or exchange of liquors is by law forbidden. He was sentenced to pay a fine of $10 on each count and costs of $8.09 and in default was taken to jail. The police for some time have known that someone was furnishing liquor to so called black listed men in the north part of the city. Early Sunday morning Sargeant Hayes saw suspicious actions and called Captain Murray and Patrolman Cordier. The officers lay hidden for three hours when finally their vigil was rewarded. Robilard was seen coming from a building and met a number of men near a shed and producing a flask of whiskey gave each a drink. Among the number were the two men whose names are on the so called black list. The accused made frequent trips from the building and each time gave the waiting men a drink. No money was seen to change hands, and while the police believe that Robilard was acting in the interest of some other person he refused to tell anything about it claiming that he bought the liquor Saturday night and gave it to the men. Graduates of the. Eighth Grade The following is the list of pupils of the eighth grade who were awarded diplomas entitling them to entrance to the High school next fall. The graduation exercises were held in the High school hall Thursday afternoon at two o'clock: Pearl A. Buck Sylvia Wheelock Alice Mae Shippee Wilfred S. Sharpe Durham J. Hall Jessie Gertrude Macdonald Irma Orill Greene Bertha A. Farrows Ethel May Ellis Lucy Cecelia Ellis Grace E. Brownlie William Desaulnier Willis Whitney Sherman Frank Lee Gifford Inez Lucy Brewer Eleanor C. Carpenter Bartley Giraca Fred C. Allard Elizabeth Sabin Hayward Clarence H. Brousseau Warren R. McNally Kenneth Sherman Andem Evelyn Carpenter Stites Louis Lombardo Lucy J. Button Florence E. Woodson Pauline L. Chapdelaine Randolph Lester Joslyn NAME COMMITTEES Woman's Relief Corps Appointments For The Year At a regular meeting of the W. R. C., No. 38, the president appointed the following committees for the ensuing six months: BELIEF COMMITTEE Mrs. Annie E. Spalding, Mrs. Julia M. Finchan, Mrs. Julia M. Cole, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Mrs. Anna T. Albee, Mrs. Inez V. Hoyle Mrs. Lillie E. Leach, Mrs. Ida Johnson, Mrs. Mary J. Fuller, Mrs. Frances A. Barrett, Mrs. Annie E. Spalding, Mrs. Diantha Chaffee, Miss Esther Converse, Miss Sadie Wilbur, Miss Nellie V. Jaques, Mrs. Julia M. Cole, Mrs. Lena A. Greene, Mrs. Estella McKachnie, Mrs. Cora Adams, Mrs. Ellen Manning, Mrs. Mabel Franklin, Mrs. Ida Klebart. AUDITING COMMITTEE Mrs. Inez V. Doyle, Mrs. Annie E Spalding, Mrs. Frances A. Barrett. HOME EMPLOYMENT COMMITTEE Mrs. Jane Inman, Mrs. Jane Willis, Mrs. Mary E. Bowen, Mrs. Abbie Wood. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Mrs. Estella McKachnie, Mrs. Mary G. Sherman, Mrs. E. Emily Tourtellotte. FLORAL COMMITTEE Mrs. Inez V. Hoyle, Mrs. Carrie Prentice, Mrs. Estella McKachnie. HOUSE COMMITTEE Mrs. Estella McKachnie Mrs. Lillie F. Leach. SEWING COMMITTEE Mrs. Melissa P. Arnold, Mrs. Inez V. Hoyle, Mrs. Mabel G. Carpenter, Mrs Frances A. Barrett, Mrs. Harriet Chaffee, Mrs. Sarah J. Willis, Mrs. Mary G. Sherman, Mrs. Diantha Chaffee, Mrs. Lillie E. Leach, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Howell. ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE Mrs. Mabel G. Carpenter, Mrs. Alice E. Wi bur, Mrs. Mary G. Sherman, Mrs. Mary J. Wright, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Howell, Mrs. Mary E. Bowen, Mrs. Lens A. Greene, Mrs. Ethel C. Tourtellotte, Mrs. Sadie Williams, Mrs. Mary S. Kenyon, Mrs. Lena Whipple. Annual Meeting Archdeaconry The annual June meeting of the New London Archdeaconry was held at the rectory of Christ Memorial church, Pomfret, Tuesday afternoon. Eleven clergymen and four lay delegates were present. The Holy GRANGE NOTES Senexet Orange Within the past week the grange has had the pleasure of entertaining the degree teams from Quinnatisset and Putnam Granges and of receiving into full membership twelve new patrons of husbandry. Quinnatisset worked the first degree and the home team conferred the second last Friday night. Last Monday evening the third and fourth degrees were conferred by the degree teams from Putnam.The new members are Robert E. Lowe, Edith Lowe, Mr. and Mrs. William Roycraft, Grace Hawkins, Edith M. Williams, Minnie Duffy, Michael L. Whyte, Henry F. Child, Carl Nelson, Walter Lindeman and George Harrington. There will be a program of welcome on July 1st in honor of the new members. Putnam Grange Notes There will be a special meeting of Putnam Grange Monday, June 22nd. At 7.30 applications for membership will be received and at 8 o'clock the annual Children's Night exercises will be held. Wolf Den Grange Notes The members of the Wolf Den Grange attended the third and fourth Degree Meeting in Hampton last Friday evening. The tableaux in connection with the degree work were very beautiful. The Sick Committee have presented Baby Books to the two Grange babies, Priscilla, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Elliott and Anne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanton D. Wicks. We are looking forward to Little River Grange visiting us June 24th. Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Rockwell of Senexit Grange will give us an interesting talk on Overhead Irrigation at the same meeting. We observed Children's Night June 10th. A very fine program under the direction of Misses Mae and Virginia Sharpe was given, consisting of songs and farces by the Abington children, piano solos by Master Chester and Miss Alice Rhoades of Pomfret, and a recitation by Verna Hilton of Pomfret Landing. A strawberry supper was served by the feast committee. Over 50 of our members were present, 45 children and many visitors. OBITUARY Joseph E. Rawson, 81 years of age, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Eugene Beaudry, Northbridge Center, Mass., early Monday morning, after a protracted illness. Mr. Rawson was born in Woodstock but had lived for many years in Putnam where he was employed as a woodworker in the shop of C. M. & E. B. Kent. He was a member of the 18th Connecticut and A. G. Warner Post G. A. R., and took great lutenist In matters pertaining to the old veterans. His health began to from the court room. It will make excellent quarters for the attorneys o wish to use the books the library ords during sesslons of court or at other time. ollowing the meeting there was a eting of the Bar Association to act n the application of Frederick F. dewig of Plainfield for admission he bar without examination. The lication was considered unfavor- and the applicant was grantend mission to withdraw the applica-. ary Fisher Johnson, Franklin, s. lice Kingsbury Franklin, Torring- Conn. cretary, Marion Andem, Putnam. reasurer, Marion Warren, _Putnam. anquet committee, Silas M. Wh[?] , A. L. Mansfield, James B. T- ,Jr. peakers, Mahlon H. Geissler, C. ght Sharpe, Alvin Martin. usic, L. W. Williams, Henry Ben- Louise Weatherhead. ntertainnient, Gertrude Jones, n Wheelock, Ernest C. Morse, ion Dady Frost. egistration, Edward F. Perry, M. Arthur Keith. nvitation, Edith C. Bowen, Ruth Austin, North Grosvenordale; ce I. Bennett. ________________________________ Graduation radley theatre was crowded to the rs Thursday evening by friends relatives of the graduting class of Putnam High school and citizens. ry seat was taken and many re- ned standing throughout the exer- The stags was decorated with class colors, green and gold, and class motto, "Gradatim," was hung the center of the stage. The three er classes were seated on the stage n the curtain rose and the seniors ched in and took the front seats. program was as follows: h School Orchestra ocation Rev. George D. Stanley rus—La Czarina School ry—Tbe Origin and History of Mu sical Instruments Kenneth C. Sharpe ool Quartette NevM'a Rosary y—Two Business Calls Aline LeClair ble Quartette, Hall, Smiling Morn y—The Common Progress of Na- tlons Albert S. Pratt rus Rest ress by Rev. Dr. Lackey, Hartford entation of diplomas by Superin- tendent Gordon C. Swift e class reception will be held in on hall this Friday evening. __________________________________ Suit Brought on Five Notes he case of David Hatch of Putnam ne Putnam Iron & Metal Compa- was begun before Justice Howard Bradford Monday morning. After plaintiff had put in his evidence case was adjourned to allow an ex- accountant to go over the books of defendant and render a statement ccounts. The suit was to recover ve promisory notes and for a bal- due for salary. The total amount med is $336.68 brought on several rent counts. __________________________________ seeing Mr. Sibley thrown down, to his illness and subsequent death from cerebral hemmorhage. Also that he was in the performance of his duty as sheriff when the accident occurred. It was shown that at the time he was injured he was on his way to Putnam where he had an appointment to meet the state's attorney for the purpose of having the bill for board of prisoners at Windham county jail approved by the attorney as the statute requires. It was agreed that If compensation was awarded that it would be the limit that the act allows for a death. Briefs are to be submItted in three weeks. Commissioner Williams asked counsel to treat broadly In their briefs the points of law as to whether a county sheriff comes within the definition of "employe" under the compensation act; whether a person elected to public office is under contract of employment; and whether the fact that the legislature has provided how a county sheriff shall be elected makes him a state officer. It is apparent that the question of whether or not compensation shall be allowed devolves to a great extent on the questions of law as to whether Sheriff Sibley was an employe and if so the employe of whom—the county or the state. It is anticipated that the question will finally be decided by the Supreme Court of Errors. ____________________________________ Anti-Suffrage Speaker Makes Fine Impression Miss Lucy J. Price of Cleveland, Ohio, delivered an address in opposition to woman suffrage last Thursday evening in Odd Fellows' hall. There were about sixty present, probably three-quarters of the number being suffragists, but whatever the views of those present all agreed that Miss Price is an able and forceful speaker. Mrs. William Williams of Hartford, vice president of the Connecticut Anti-Suffrage Association made a few remarks. She was introduced by Rev. C. J. Harriman and she in turn introduced Miss Price. Miss Price spoke for an hour and held the close attention of all. At the close of her remarks she volunteered to answer questions and a rapid fire was opened that lasted fully another hour. Miss Price was ready with answer and argument for each question propounded and succeeded in holding her position to the end with credit to herself and to the negative side of the woman suffrage question. ____________________________ Flag Raising Next Tuesday evening there will be a flag raising on the grounds of St. Mary's school. The school has never had a flag and there is considerable interest in the exercises. There will be music by the Catholic band and an address In French by Alderman Omer LaRue and an address in English by Alderman John B. Byrne. There will be drills by the school children. The veterans have been invited and the general public will be welcome. ____________________________ America, held its annual meeting and election of officers Tuesday evening with the following result: Chief ranger, A. A. Brodeur. Sub chief ranger, Frank H. Cordier. Recording secretary, Eugene Alvord. Senior woodward, Raffie Cotton. Junior woodward, Arthur Brodeur. Senior beadle, Joseph Jolley. Junior beadle, John Daigle. Lecturer, James O'Brien. Trustee for three years, August Martin. _____________________________________ Mrs. Lawson Pleased with Outcome of Trial Mrs. Amanda U. Lawson of East Woodstock was in Putnam Saturday. She again expressed her satisfaction at the outcome of her trial for manslaughter and was gratified at the speedy rendering of the verdict by the jury which set her free. But she said, "That does not give me back my husband." Tears filled her eyes as she made this statement. Mrs. Lawson was confident from the first that she would be acquitted for she said her conscience was clear and she was guilty of no wrong doing. Since her acquittal her health has improved but she is still subject to heart attacks and had to be treated in a drug store while she was in the city. She is living on the home place In East Woodstock with her two children, Adolph and Florence, the former carrying on the fine farm where they live. _____________________________________ Bank Commissioners in Putnam State Bank Commissions Fred P. Holt and Norris S. Lippitt were in Putnam for a short while Monday afternoon. They talked with some of the officials of the Putnam Savings Bank, but it was stated that nothing new had developed in the situation of the closed bank. The commissioners state that their method of procedure in the affairs of the bank and its subsequent closing at their order has the support and approval of Governor Baldwin. They still maintain the position that until there is some change in the bank's management it will not be allowed to open. The annual meeting of the bank will be held next month and the 6000 depositors are full of interest as to the development and have hopes that in some way the re-opening of the bank may be brought about. _____________________________________ Interesting Locals ADVERTISEMENT Furnished rooms for light house-keeping over Bartlett's store, with gas range. Apply at Bartlett's store. A strawberry supper will be served by the Order of the Eastern Star, Saturday, June 27, 5 to 7 o clock, Masonic temple, price 25c. We learn that through the real estate agency of A. B. Randall one of the Vitos farms of Thompson has been sold. Persons who wish to buy or sell will find this agency reliable. A. B. Randall. - Miss Helena McGavitt has returned to her home from Cappahosic, Va., where she has been teaching. _____________________________________ Ethel May Ellis Lucy Cecilia Ellis Grace E. Brownlie William Desaulnier Willie Whitney Sherman Frank Lee Gifford Inez Lucy Brewer Eleanor C. Carpenter Bartley Giraca Fred C. Allard Elizabeth Sabin Hayward Clarence H. Brousseau Warren R. McNally Kenneth Sherman Andem Evelyn Carpenter Stites Louis Lombardo Lucy J. Button Florence E. Woodson Pauline L. Chapdelaine Randolph Lester Joslyn Elizabeth Diana Diamond Thomas Joseph Howarth The class colors are crimson and white. The program was as follows: Invocation Rev. F. D. Sargent Chorus Praise Ye the Father Greeting Pauline Chapdelaine Essay—The Panama Canal Willie Sherman The Garrison of Cape Ann Whittler Lucy Ellis Piano duet, Ethel Ellis, Alice Shippee Essay—The Weather Bureau Kenneth Andem Violin Solo Eleanor Carpenter Class prophecy Durham Hall Chorus Swing Song The Story of Ung Kipling Inez Brower Violin Solo Sylvia Wheelook L'envoi Kipling Elisabeth Hayward Chorus Clickety-Click March Presentation of Diplomas Eric H. Johnson _______________________________ Putnam Boy Nearly Drowned Richard Dwyer, whose parents live on School street, was nearly drowned in Webster lake, Monday afternoon. The Dwyer boy and a boy named Georges from Dayville, hired a canoe and started out paddling. A gust of wind overturned the shell and they were thrown into 30 feet of water. Some men in a cottage saw the accident and went to their rescue in a boat and were just in time. Both boys had swallowed so much water they were made sick. The Georges boy was the farthest gone and it took ten minutes of first aid treatment and artificial respiration before he opened his eyes. _______________________________ Guest Took Money, Watch and Clothes Valor Osier of Thompson complained to the Putnam police Tuesday that a Putnam man had stolen money and goods from his house to the value of $85, Monday night. The man whom Osier accuses has a police record and was bound over by the Putnam city court on a robbery charge for which he did time in state's prison. Osier told the police that he has recently moved into a new house. He invited the man whom he says stole his property to stay with him Monday night. When he awoke Tuesday morning the man had gone also $35, a watch and chain and other things. _______________________________ Mrs Elisabeth S. Howell. ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE Mrs. Mabel G. Carpenter Mrs. Alice E. Wi bur, Mrs. Mary G. Sherman, Mrs. Mary J. Wright, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Howell, Mrs. Lena A. Greene, Mrs. Ethel C. Tourtellotte, Mrs. Sadie Williams, Mrs. Mary S. Kenyon, Mrs. Lena Whipple. ___________________________________ Annual Meeting Archdeaconry The annual June meeting of the New London Archdeaconry was held at the rectory of Christ Memorial church, Pomfret, Tuesday afternoon. Eleven clergymen and four lay delegates were present. The Holy Communion was celebrated by the Rev. J. Eldred Brown, Archdeacon, at 11 o'clock, assisted by Rev. P. S. Irwin, pastor of the church. Dinner was served at noon. After the business session a visit was paid to Pomfret school to inspect the chapel and other buildings. Automobiles met trains at Pomfret and Putnam. ___________________________________ JUNE WEDDINGS White —Furlong Miss Alice Furlong, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Furlong, Pomfret, and William White of Long Island City, were united in marriage at Holy Trinity church, Pomfret, on Monday morning by Rev. J. J. Elty. After the ceremony a wedding breakfast was served at the home of the bride's parents. The couple will make their home in Long Island City. The bride is a graduate of Putnam High school. Macomber—Greenleaf At Waltham, Mass., Tuesday, Earl C. Macomber, principal of the Israel Putman school, and Miss Beatrice Greenleef of Waltham, were united in marriage at the home of the bride's parents. They will spend the summer months in Maine. ___________________________________ Oliver Belleville Discharged and Arrested When Oliver Belleville, who was sentenced to thirty days for intoxication and to three months for carrying concealed weapons by the Putnam city court, February 2d, was discharged from Brooklyn jail Wednesday he found State policeman Robert Hurley waiting to take him into custody on a burglary charge. The crime alleged was committed In Oneco and Belleville was taken there for trial. When the man appeared in the city court he had nearly a hundred keys, a revolver, a pair of glasses and a pocketbook containing $35. The circumstances looked suspicious and officer Hurley later learned that a store In Oneco had been entered and the pocket book and glasses taken. Captain Murray went Wednesday as a witness Officer Chaffee doing duty to his absence. Belleville plead guilty and was bound over to the superior court. ___________________________________ —Alex Browning, an employe at the Manhasset mill, was run over by a heavy auto truck in Worcester Saturday evening, and is at the hospital in that city in a dangerous condition. His ribs were broken and lung punctured. ___________________________________ recitation by Verna Hilton of Pomfret Landing. A strawberry supper was served by the [?]. Over 50 of our members were present, 45 children and many visitors. ___________________________________ OBITUARY Joseph E. Rawson, 81 years of age, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Eugene Beaudry, Northbridge Center, Mass., early Monday morning, after a protracted illness. Mr. Rawson was born in Woodstock but had lived for many years in Putnam where he was employed as a woodworker in the shop of C. M. & E. B. Kent. He was a member of the 18th Connecticut and A. G. Warner Post G. A. R., and took great interest in matters pertaining to the old veterans. His health began to fail some years ago since which time he has made his home with his daughter, who with another daughter, Miss Alcey Rawson, survives. The body was brought to Putnam Wednesday morning for burial in the Grove street cemetery. The funeral service was conducted by Rev. Geo. D. Stanley. ___________________________________ Applications for New Textile School Applications are beginning to be received for admission to take up courses in the new textile school now ready to open. It is hoped that many young people will avail themselves of the great and generous opportunity afforded by the State to learn good trades in cotton manufacturing. ___________________________________ Pomfret School Graduation A class of 23 was graduated from Pomfret school at exercises held in the new gymnasium Friday morning, when President Flavel S. Luther of Trinity college, Hartford, delivered the principal address. The graduating exercises were preceded by services in Clark Memorial chapel at the school. Dean Hart of the divinity school at Middletown, a great friend of Pomfret school, assisting. In connection with the graduating exercises prizes were presented by Rev. William Beech Olmstead, head master of the school, who also presented the diplomas. The prizes are presented each year for extra meritorious work. Many of the students' relatives were at Pomfret for the graduating exercises, which were also attended by residents invited from Pomfret and surrounding towns. It is estimated that from 1,500 to 2,000 people witnessed the gala night displays Thursday, nearly 100 automobiles driving to the beautiful street from the various sections of the county. The students left for their homes Friday. ___________________________________ A suffrage meeting has been arranged at Society Hall at East Woodstock on the evening of Wednesday, June 24. This engagement was made by special request owing to the great enthusiasm aroused over the meetings at West and South Woodstock. At this meeting the speakers will be Mrs. John E. Sheppard and Miss Ethel Rankin of Denver. As Colorado is one of the nine states where women vote on the same terms with men Miss Rankin is particularly well qualified to speak on how suffrage actually works. THE PUTNAM PATRIOT June 19, 1914 PUTNAM PATRIOT DUTNAM CONN. MACDONALD & WILLIAMS PROPRIETORS Subscription Price $1.50 per year VOTES FOR WOMEN Woman Suffrage Automobile Tour Leaders of State Organization Visit Windham County Towns The Woman Suffrage Automobile Tour through Windham county started on June 15th, beginning with a very successful meeting in Thompson on Monday evening. The party which is under the auspices of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, has two automobiles, a touring car which belongs to the association, and is driven by Miss Alyse Gregory, and a light runabout which is owned and driven by Miss Emily Pierson. Miss Pierson, who is the state organizer, is conducting the campaign with her usual energy and enthusiasm. She has a corps of able assistants, numbering seven in all. Among these is Miss Ethel Lee Rankin of Denver, Col., who will speak on conditions in the suffrage states. Miss Freda Kirchway, daughter of Dean Kirchway of Columbia Law School, is one of the speakers. Miss Kirchway, who has just completed her junior year at Barnard College, was president of her class, and is president of the college undergraduate association for the next year. Another of the speakers is Miss Catharine Meridith of Hartford, who is an authority on the question of juvenile courts and prison reform. A feature of the campaign will be the open air meetings to which the audience will be called by a bugle call. Miss Marie Von Hoegen of New Haven, one of the workers, is an expert bugler. The complete itinerary of the tour is as follows: June 15, Thompson, Town hall, 8 p.m. June 16, North Grosvenordale, Union hall, 8 p.m. June 17, West Woodstock, Lyceum hall, 8 p.m. [?] South Woodstock Phillips Putnam where they have addressed the Equal Franchise League. The meeting in Thompson Monday evening was well attended. Miss Freda Kirchway was chairman of the evening and introduced the speakers. Miss Rosamond Danielson of Putnam Heights, Windham county chairman of the C. W. S. A., reviewed briefly the progress of equal suffrage and spoke of the fundamental justice of the cause. Miss Alyse Gregory, organizer, spoke of the changing conditions of women's work which make the ballot necessary for the protection of the workers. 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June 23, Danielson, 8 p.m. June 25, Sterling, Wright Club Room, 8 p.m. June 26, Moosup, Masonic hall, 8 p.m. June 29, Plainfield, Babcock's hall, 8 p.m. June 30, Canterbury, Methodist church, 8 p.m. July 1, Brooklyn, Unitarian hall, 8 p.m. July 3, Eastford, The Chapel, 8 p.m. July 3, Warrenville, Baker's hall, 8 p.m. July 4, Outdoor meetings. July 6, Chaplin, Church vestry, 8 p.m. July 7, Hampton, Grange hall, 8 p.m. July 8, Scotland, Grange hall, 8 p.m. July 9, Willimantic, 8 p.m. Miss Rosamond Danielson There is a long list of well known suffragists who will assist at the various meetings. Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, president of the C. W. S. A., heads the list. She is to be the principal speaker at the meeting in Putnam on Friday evening. Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, vice president of the C. W. S. A., has been asked to speak in Pomfret on June 22nd. Mrs Edward Purritt, Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett, and Mrs. Carlos F. Stoddard are among those who are well known in Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn The tour the progress to equal suffrage and spoke of the fundamental justice of the cause. Miss Alyse Gregory , organizer, spoke of the changing conditions of women's work which make the ballot necessary for the protection of the workers. Miss Emily Pierson, state organizer, spoke of the need of having woman's point of view represented in the government and at the close of the meeting she answered many questions on the various phases of the suffrage question. Miss Ethel Lee Rankin Tuesday Tuesday, the second day of the campaign, was a busy one for the workers. Beside the regular evening meeting scheduled for Union hall in North Grosvenordale, they held two noon meetings at the Grosvenordale mills, spoke at the circus performance in North Grosvenordale that evening, and sent speakers to the Bradley theatre both afternoon and evening when the motion pictures of the Hartford Suffrage Parade were shown. Miss Alyse Gregory The audience in Union hall at North Grosvenordale was large and enthusiastic. Mrs. W. J. Bartlett, president of the Putnam E. F. L., was chairman of the meeting. The speakers were Miss Ethel Rankin of Denver, W. J. [?] of the company put on [?] and colors. At the time of the evening performance the suffragists sent Miss Anna Kuttner and Miss Kirchwey to the circus grounds where the management allowed them to give suffrage talks. Miss Anna Kuttner The motion pictures of the Hartford Suffrage Parade brought out good audiences at the Bradley theatre. The pageant was impressive, and the short explanatory talks were well received. Miss Pierson was the speaker at the matinee and Miss Alyse Gregory in the evening. Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton and "Little Anne" At the West Woodstock meeting Wednesday evening Eric H. Johnson of Putnam will be one of the speakers. Mrs John Evans Sheppard will speak at the meeting in South Woodstock on Thursday evening. Wednesday The campaign meeting in West Woodstock Wednesday evening was a conspicuous success. Lyceum hall was crowded, every seat was taken, THE HARTFORD WEEKLY TIMES, THURSDAY, MARCH ANTIS TELL WHY THEY ARE ANTIS. [CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1.] then all manhood suffrage states, 69 per cent of the possible vote was cast. These states, Miss Burnell pointed out, have similar conditions and varieties of population and therefore should be compared with each other and not with the eastern states where the large populations from other lands are found. "The men of Connecticut, we believe," said Miss Burnell, "want to be just to the women. As a matter of simple justice we ask you to keep this burden from us. Women do not want to vote! Here in Hartford, when the matter was before our legislature two years ago, and every effort was made to get women to register and vote on school questions, of the 18,000 possible women voters, only 1,040 registered and only ninety-five went to the polls." The lack of better conditions under women's vote was also illustrated by figures. "We do not see that women's vote is responsible for bettered conditions," she said. "Of course, she votes for men, note measures, except in the few instances of legislators being women, but we still believe that her ideas and influence reinforce this betterment. Men and women rise and fall together. In New Zealand, in 1892, when women got the vote, infant mortality was seventy-six in a thousand. After eighteen years of women's voting it had dropped to fifty-six in a thousand. Did women's vote do this? In 1883, ten years before women were given the vote, infant mortality was 103 in a thousand. So in ten years, under male suffrage, it dropped twenty-seven, while under the combined votes of men and women, in eighteen years, it dropped by twenty. Did the absence of women's vote do this?" Miss Burnell asserted that half truths are dangerous, and that her side believed that legislation is but the outcome of public opinion, which men and women alike form. In conclusion she said that the ideal of the antis is the conservation of women, believing, that womanhood has distinctive characteristics which make it the completement of manhood, and that it may conceivably spoil its own special glory by seeking to be none other than masculine in its range and domain of action. Ballots, Blank Cartridges. Miss Elizabeth R. Burnell, who was the second speaker, began her speech by telling of the man whose wife induced him to carry a banner in a New York suffrage parade. Having been presented with one by the committee in charge, he carried it, practically dragging it in the dust, and when taken to task by his wife for the shiftless way he had kept his promise to her, he replied that if she had seen the inscription she could hardly blame him, for it said "Men Can Vote, Why Can't I". "Now gentlemen," said Miss Burnelle, "we women who oppose woman suffrage do not feel that way about it, though we might conceivably inscribe upon our banners, 'Men Can Vote, Why Should We?' We do ourselves full justice in realizing that we average in intelligence with men, but we cannot help asking ourselves if we are in the way of knowing much about fire-fighting, railroads, finance, engineering, fisheries, road-making, sewerage, and all the other lines of work that government has to do with. And we generally add the query as to who would enforce laws if we should ever make them. We know that our ballots would be blank cartridges." Miss Burnell said that after the many reasons advanced Wednesday for enfranchising women, somebody might perhaps feel as Dr. Anna Shaw said she did when told the Yale-Harvard-Princeton triangular debate chose to discuss the advisability of giving suffrage to women. "I didn't know," she said, "that there was but one side to the question." But in all three cases the judges accorded the debates to the anti side. "We expect to-day," said Miss Burnell, "to make you feel that if there is but one side to the question it is our side. At a hearing before the judiciary committee in Washington last year, this threat was made: 'Grant us women suffrage throughout the United States or 4,000,000 women who vote in states where suffrage is already a fact, will vote against you.' I do not mention this to comment upon 'uplift in politics,' but to show that 4,000,000 do not and cannot vote in the eleven suffrage states." Miss Burnell quoted from the United States census bureau figures showing that the eleven full suffrage states, of which there were but nine at the time of which she spoke, and Illinois, with partial suffrage, have 3,680,000 women of 21 years of age and over, this including the foreign-born or unnaturalized, the negro, Indian, Chinese and Japanese. The native born white women of voting age in all these states numbering 2,000,000. "Under the limitations and restrictions put upon the franchise in the ballot. No class can gain anything by doubling its votes, since the relative state of each class would remain the same. The crass interests of men and women are the same and the interests of any woman are safer to-day in the hands of the men of her own class than they would be in the hands of women in a different class. If I shuld go to a man, who owned a peanut stand or a manufacturing plant, and should say to him, 'Double the time, double the energy, and add to the money which you are using to-day to operate your push cart or your factory' and at the same time should not offer this individual any return for his doubled outlay he would at once appreciate the fact that my proposition was a senseless one. Such, in a nutshell is the proposition of woman suffrage." Miss Dorman continued her simile by saying, "The suffragists come to the citizens of our country and they say to every class, 'Double the time, double the energy and add to the money which you are using to-day to govern yourselves. Add the time of your women to the time of your men; add the energy of your women to the energy of your men and increase the cost of elections.' Class by class, we answer them and say, 'What will we get for our double outlay?' What can one class get from combining the votes of its men and its women?" The suffragists give us no adequate reply. So sensible business women, or sensible homemakers, we find our own answer. We compare conditions in the states where our men alone vote with conditions where both men and women vote and we find that there is absolutely nothing to be obtained from votes of men and women that we cannot also obtain from votes of men alone - for half price. Therefore, we do not favor woman suffrage and see no advantage in double the vote of our class." Little Expense. Miss Dorman said that town and city governments are larger public business corporations, operating under a charter to transact civic affairs by means of the common funds which they hold in trust for all the citizens. "Women, as compared to men," she said, "have had relatively little experience in private or trust or corporate business affairs. This is not due to legislative enactment, but to natural laws. Only one woman out of every five is engaged in any kind of gainful pursuit whatsoever in the United States to-day. The average length of time that this one woman is engaged in gainful pursuits is seven years. There are only 5,000,000 women wage earners in the United States of 21 years and over, as compared with the 24,000,000 females of 21 years and over, by the thirteenth census." Miss Dorman contradicted a statement made by the speakers for suffrage, Wednesday, saying "The suffragists told you yesterday that there were 8,000,000 women who earned their own bread and butter outside the home. This is not true. There are 8,000,000 females of 10 years and over engaged in gainful pursuits. A woman is a female 21 years of age. Thirty per cent of these wage earning women are in domestic service." The inexperience of women in business was further illustrated by the speaker who said that unless the vital work of the home was to be neglected the inexperience of women in business would continue, and that men did not need more sentiment in the business of government, but a more practical knowledge of affairs of state was wanted from government by the anti-suffragists. "The only subject touched upon by the suffragists, yesterday," said Miss Dorman, "was protective legislation for women. The government has a good many other problems to cope with besides special legislation for a single group. You, gentlemen, of course, know this. So long as the relative inexperience of women in business continues we anti-suffragists believe that the interests of all of us, women as well as men, are more adequately protected to-day than would be the case if women were added to the electorate. Individually, every suffragist believes, but collectively, they repudiate it. When a wealthy suffragist has money or property to place in trust or to be administered, she always and invariably places it in the hands of men. Every one of Mrs. Russell Sage's trustees is a man. But when it becomes a question of the administration of public money or public property, held in trust for the people, ah, say the suffragists, that is different. My own money and property are dear to me. I must safeguard them; what do I care for the commonwealth? What do I care if Uncle Sam is in debt or if New York city is facing bankruptcy? The wealthy suffragist is perfectly willing that inexperienced women should administer our public business, but she takes good care to see that her personal business affairs are watched over by men. She does not love her country as herself. Miss Dorman said that in her own person she represented the two types of women in whose name the ballot is most frequently claimed, the woman who must earn her own bread and butter, and the old maid, are one. That this 80 per cent. of women can only vote either like their husbands or against them, and if with them there are twice as many to count, while against him, it disenfranchises him, tying his hands, were other points made by Miss Dorman, who said the interests of women were safe in the hands of their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers. Duty of Legislators. Miss Lucy J. Price of Cleveland told the legislators that they were asking Wednesday to be "just" in a vague sort of way; to be progressive, and various other things; everything except to be honest to themselves, their convictions and the electorate which sent them here, and to the constitution of Connecticut under which they hold office. "That constitution provides that you can submit to the voters only such amendments to the constitution as you deem necessary," she said. "That is the very phrase used there. That is the condition under which your constituents sent you here. In the words of Burke, 'they 'elected your judgement to act for them.' Every speaker, but one, yesterday urged you to overthrow the constitution, to disregard the trust placed in you by those whose votes were cast for you, and to submit this to the voters whether you personally believe in the measure or not. Gentlemen," Miss Price continued, impressively, "you are acting beyond your rights, you are betraying your trust, if you do that. One speaker, a man, and an attorney, recognized this and asked you to make women politically equal with men. Because he alone seemed to realize that would be what you would be recommending if you recommend the passage of this bill. You were told that 'if' this were an initiative and referendum state there would be enough names now offered by the suffragists to insure such an election. This is a mistake. The names offered are only a little over 5 per cent. of the adult population of the state. And no state allows an initiative election on such a small number. Moreover, the exact point is this. This is not an initiative and referendum state. If Connecticut wanted to do away with the power of the legislators and their responsibility towards the measures they must consider, it would have adopted the initiative. The very fact that it has not done so is proof that your state still demands of you that you decide these questions according to your own judgement and send for popular vote only those of which you approve." Against Their Wills. Miss Price took up the arguments made in favor of suffrage at yesterday's session and denied that woman suffrage was necessary in order to accomplish any of the reforms whose need had been suggested. She placed particular emphasis upon the fallacy that votes would help the wage earning woman to obtain the help which Miss Rose Winslow yesterday insisted she must have. "I will ask our opponents in the half hour rebuttal which they will have this afternoon," she said, "to name one way in which men are protected by law in any of the ways Miss Winslow declared women must be and can be if they vote. The real questions before the committee to-day is are you going to make a political factor out of every citizen in your state, deprive the state of the wonderful value of non-political viewpoint and non-political methods of the half which is now out of politics; are you going to politicize humanity at the request of less than 5 per cent. of the Connecticut women and thrust the great majority of the women among your constituents into politics against their will?" Fifteen Opponents. After Miss Price had spoken, fifteen women chairmen of branches of the Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage in various parts of the state, spoke briefly for the women they represented. They were Mrs. William B. Glover of Fairfield; Mrs. Emily Peabody of Glastonbury; Miss Marjorie Moore of Kensington; Miss Amy Vorce of Farmington; Mrs. Charles F. Brooker of Ansonia; Mrs. John R. Bacon of Dansbury; Mrs. Charles Bottomley of Rockville; Mrs. E. H. Rogers of New Canaan; Mrs. Leibert of East Hartford; Miss Marion De Forest of Bridgeport; Miss Elizabeth Ely of Old Lyme; Mrs. William L. Stone of Guilford; Mrs. Albert H. Terry of Fairfield county; Mrs. Ebenezer Learned of Norwich and Mrs. Edward Washburn Hopkins of New Haven. Mr. Chandler. George B. Chandler, compensation commissioner for the First congressional district, spoke briefly, approaching the subject from the standpoint of government. Mrs. Chandler is a former member of the general assembly, and a student of government problems. His remarks were in the nature of rebuttal of pro-suffrage arguments presented Wednesday. Other Speakers. William R. Palmer, of Derby, a member of the democratic state but twenty. Did the absence of women's vote do this?" Miss Burnell asserted that half truths are dangerous, and that her side believed that legislation is but the outcome of public opinion, which men and women alike form. In conclusion she said that the ideal of the antis is the conservation of women, believing, that womanhood has distinctive characteristics which make it the completement of manhood, and that it may conceivably spoil its own special glory by seeking to be none other than masculine in its range and domain of action. Ballots, Blank Cartridges. Miss Elizabeth R. Burnell, who was the second speaker, began her speech by telling of the man whose wife induced him to carry a banner in a New York suffrage parade. Having been presented with one by the committee in charge, he carried it, practically dragging it in the dust, and when taken to task by his wife for the shiftless way he had kept his promise to her, he replied that if she had seen the inscription she could hardly blame him, for it said "Men Can Vote, Why Can't I". "Now gentlemen," said Miss Burnelle, "we women who oppose woman suffrage do not feel that way about it, though we might conceivably inscribe upon our banners, 'Men Can Vote, Why Should We?' We do ourselves full justice in realizing that we average in intelligence with men, but we cannot help asking ourselves if we are in the way of knowing much about fire-fighting, railroads, finance, engineering, fisheries, road-making, sewerage, and all the other lines of work that government has to do with. And we generally add the query as to who would enforce laws if we should ever make them. We know that our ballots would be blank cartridges." Miss Burnell said that after the many reasons advanced Wednesday for enfranchising women, somebody might perhaps feel as Dr. Anna Shaw said she did when told the Yale-Harvard-Princeton triangular debate chose to discuss the advisability of giving suffrage to women. "I didn't know," she said, "that there was but one side to the question." But in all three cases the judges accorded the debates to the anti side. "We expect to-day," said Miss Burnell, "to make you feel that if there is but one side to the question it is our side. At a hearing before the judiciary committee in Washington last year, this threat was made: 'Grant us women suffrage throughout the United States or 4,000,000 women who vote in states where suffrage is already a fact, will vote against you.' I do not mention this to comment upon 'uplift in politics,' but to show that 4,000,000 do not and cannot vote in the eleven suffrage states." Miss Burnell quoted from the United States census bureau figures showing that the eleven full suffrage states, of which there were but nine at the time of which she spoke, and Illinois, with partial suffrage, have 3,680,000 women of 21 years of age and over, this including the foreign-born or unnaturalized, the negro, Indian, Chinese and Japanese. The native born white women of voting age in all these states numbering 2,000,000. "Under the limitations and restrictions put upon the franchise in these states," continued Miss Burnell, "it would be liberal to estimate that 2,500,000 women voters are represented by the suffrage leaders, that is, 2,500,000 of all conditions and nationalities who are able to vote. But the authorities of the states where woman suffrage obtains estimate that at a top figure not more than two-thirds of the possible women voters register, and not more than 50 per cent. of those who register go to the polls .Two-thirds of 2,500,000 does not amount to a total of 1,700,000 and the 50 per cent. who actually vote number but 850,000. And gentlemen, do you realize that the total population of all the Equal Suffrage states is less than that of New York city, Philadelphia and Chicago? The old saying that 'Nothing succeeds like success,' has induced the advocates of suffrage to emphasize their successes and minimize their defeats. Last November, five of the seven states where a referendum was taken, defeated woman suffrage; and Ohio, which had turned it down by an 87,000 majority two years before, gave a majority of 180,000 against, reminding one of Michigan, which two years ago November defeated it by 700 and in five months, when it again came to the people, by 100,000." From a Business Standpoint. Miss Marjorie Dorman, who organized the National Wagearrners' League Opposed to Woman Suffrage, spoke on the question from a business standpoint, opening with the statement that economy and efficiency in administration were never more needed in our state and federal governments than to-day. Miss Dorman said that the principle applied to personal business and to the business of governing, is naturally a desire to obtain the best possible results from the least possible expenditure of time, energy and money. Woman suffrage, she said, violates this basic principle of all success, setting two people to do a job which one person can do alone, setting two sexes to do the work which one sex is capable of performing alone. "Woman suffrage means an economic loss to any state which adopts it," said Miss Dorman. "Class for class the men of our country have business corporations, operating under a charter to transact civic affairs by means of the common funds which they hold in trust for all the citizens. "Women, as compared to men," she said, "have had relatively little experience in private or trust or corporate business affairs. This is not due to legislative enactment, but to natural laws. Only one woman out of every five is engaged in any kind of gainful pursuit whatsoever in the United States to-day. The average length of time that this one woman is engaged in gainful pursuits is seven years. There are only 5,000,000 women wage earners in the United States of 21 years and over, as compared with the 24,000,000 females of 21 years and over, by the thirteenth census." Miss Dorman contradicted a statement made by the speakers for suffrage, Wednesday, saying "The suffragists told you yesterday that there were 8,000,000 women who earned their own bread and butter outside the home. This is not true. There are 8,000,000 females of 10 years and over engaged in gainful pursuits. A woman is a female 21 years of age. Thirty per cent of these wage earning women are in domestic service." The inexperience of women in business was further illustrated by the speaker who said that unless the vital work of the home was to be neglected the inexperience of women in business would continue, and that men did not need more sentiment in the business of government, but a more practical knowledge of affairs of state was wanted from government by the anti-suffragists. "The only subject touched upon by the suffragists, yesterday," said Miss Dorman, "was protective legislation for women. The government has a good many other problems to cope with besides special legislation for a single group. You, gentlemen, of course, know this. So long as the relative inexperience of women in business continues we anti-suffragists believe that the interests of all of us, women as well as men, are more adequately protected to-day than would be the case if women were added to the electorate. Individually, every suffragist believes, but collectively, they repudiate it. When a wealthy suffragist has money or property to place in trust or to be administered, she always and invariably places it in the hands of men. Every one of Mrs. Russell Sage's trustees is a man. But when it becomes a question of the administration of public money or public property, held in trust for the people, ah, say the suffragists, that is different. My own money and property are dear to me. I must safeguard them; what do I care for the commonwealth? What do I care if Uncle Sam is in debt or if New York city is facing bankruptcy? The wealthy suffragist is perfectly willing that inexperienced women should administer our public business, but she takes good care to see that her personal business affairs are watched over by men. She does not love her country as herself. Miss Dorman said that in her own person she represented the two types of women in whose name the ballot is most frequently claimed, the woman who must earn her own bread and butter, and the old maid. Speaking for the working woman she said she might work at practically every trade in every state in the union, with better laws for her protection than the man who worked beside her. Every law, which protected him, being a blanket law and covering both sexes, with additional laws protecting her and discriminating against him. "Already the abolition of night work for women is secured in some states, but we are not asking it for men," she said. "Women have the eight, nine, or ten-hour day in various industries in numerous states, which do not protect men in the same industry. It is against the laws of some states to work women in the mines, to let them handle explosives, run elevators, clean and oil moving machinery and work at occupations which require constant standing. We are demanding no such protection for men. The suffragists are trying to do away with this protection for women in industry when they demand legal equality. They are proving themselves the worst enemies of the working women today. We do not want legal equality. We want the state to give us every protection which men enjoy, plus many other safeguards which men do not need. With or without the vote we are only a small minority of the citizens and we are dependent on the general electorate. We never can pass any laws which men do not wish us to pass since we are hopelessly outnumbered in the body politic." In regard to old maids, which she termed by-products of the big social machine, Miss Dorman said they, like the working women, would be beaten before they started to the polls, from their few numbers, of the women 20 years of age and over in the United States, only 19.5 per cent being "unappropriated blessings," of the women 30 years of age and over only 10 per cent being single, while of women 65 years and over, she said only 6 per cent. were unwed. These cheerful figures being quoted from the Thirteenth census, besides proving that while there was life there was hope, Miss Dorman said they proved that this is a married woman's country and that 80 per cent. of the women live under the marriage contract which presupposes that the economic interests of man and wife cent. of the adult population of the state. And no state allows an initiative election on such a small number. Moreover, the exact point is this. This is not an initiative and referendum state. If Connecticut wanted to do away with the power of the legislators and their responsibility towards the measures they must consider, it would have adopted the initiative. The very fact that it has not done so is proof that your state still demands of you that you decide these questions according to your own judgement and send for popular vote only those of which you approve." Against Their Wills. Miss Price took up the arguments made in favor of suffrage at yesterday's session and denied that woman suffrage was necessary in order to accomplish any of the reforms whose need had been suggested. She placed particular emphasis upon the fallacy that votes would help the wage earning woman to obtain the help which Miss Rose Winslow yesterday insisted she must have. "I will ask our opponents in the half hour rebuttal which they will have this afternoon," she said, "to name one way in which men are protected by law in any of the ways Miss Winslow declared women must be and can be if they vote. The real questions before the committee to-day is are you going to make a political factor out of every citizen in your state, deprive the state of the wonderful value of non-political viewpoint and non-political methods of the half which is now out of politics; are you going to politicize humanity at the request of less than 5 per cent. of the Connecticut women and thrust the great majority of the women among your constituents into politics against their will?" Fifteen Opponents. After Miss Price had spoken, fifteen women chairmen of branches of the Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage in various parts of the state, spoke briefly for the women they represented. They were Mrs. William B. Glover of Fairfield; Mrs. Emily Peabody of Glastonbury; Miss Marjorie Moore of Kensington; Miss Amy Vorce of Farmington; Mrs. Charles F. Brooker of Ansonia; Mrs. John R. Bacon of Dansbury; Mrs. Charles Bottomley of Rockville; Mrs. E. H. Rogers of New Canaan; Mrs. Leibert of East Hartford; Miss Marion De Forest of Bridgeport; Miss Elizabeth Ely of Old Lyme; Mrs. William L. Stone of Guilford; Mrs. Albert H. Terry of Fairfield county; Mrs. Ebenezer Learned of Norwich and Mrs. Edward Washburn Hopkins of New Haven. Mr. Chandler. George B. Chandler, compensation commissioner for the First congressional district, spoke briefly, approaching the subject from the standpoint of government. Mrs. Chandler is a former member of the general assembly, and a student of government problems. His remarks were in the nature of rebuttal of pro-suffrage arguments presented Wednesday. Other Speakers. William R. Palmer, of Derby, a member of the democratic state central committee, also spoke for those opposed to suffrage, and another masculine speaker down on the program was Charles D. Moore, legislative representative for the state of Connecticut of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, a particularly strong labor organization, which has never endorsed any resolution in favor of woman suffrage. SAVED THE CHILD'S LIFE. An Indian territory ranchman went to the nearest town on business, and shortly after his departure Bessie, his 5-year-old child, wandered away from home in an attempt to follow him. The mother missed her two hours later, and instituted a search. When the father returned, the neighborhood turned out in force and searched for two days and nights. Finally an Indian found Bessie on an abandoned trail. She was fast asleep, and across her body stood a Newfoundland dog. The dog was torn and bleeding, and nearby lay the bodies of two wolves. The girl was unharmed, and she and her protector were taken back to her home, a distance of twelve miles. Sad to relate, the dog died that night of his wounds. The ranchman gave him decent burial, at which all the neighbors attended, and a marble headstone has been ordered for his grave. DROWNED IN FARMINGTON. Body of George Whiting Recovered From Pond Near Flood's Corners. Special to The Times. Farmington, March 4. The body of George Whiting, aged 45 years, was taken from a pond at Flood's corners, about a mile from here, to-day. Whiting had been missing since Tuesday night, when he broke through the ice while returning home. We worked for William J. O'Mears. Some men returning from fighting a forest fire on the McCahill farm noticed a hole in the ice. Grappling irons were secured and the body was recovered. Neighbors say they heard cries Tuesday night, but paid no attention to them as they thought it was only the noise of boys. RTFORD WEEKLY TIMES, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1915. known under the political plan that has been So long in use. Considerable liberty has been allowed in the relatively small field in which personality or special training counts, but, speaking broadly, a certain degree of fitness for the work has been required to be demonstrated, and attention given to making exceptional qualification count for something—after it has been proved and attested—not merely assumed by a politician who has debts to pay. HIS BEST WORK. We have had two years of Wilson to-day. The New York World calls them two years which have helped to make more history than any two years since Abraham Lincoln and pronounces the president "the sanest mind entrusted with the responsibilities of government anywhere in civilization." That in deeply reverent admiration. But shall we say it is inaccurate or undeserved? Of all the things the president has accomplished his conduct of our relations with Mexico seems to us at once the most characteristic of the man and the most valuable to his countrymen. The advantages to all of us of having been kept out of a war into which a less patient, more expedient president, responsive to the public clamor, would have plunged us are obvious. Less obvious, but far more important, are the advantages of having been guided as a republic and as citizens of a republic through that crisis by one whose loftiness of thought kept him, and us, above easy and materially profitable alliance with an assassin usurper, whose firm, philosophic democracy preserved for a neighbor people, despite their own irritating crudeness, their rights as a democracy, whose fixity of purpose kept him impregnable to assault and influence and whose wisdom, determination and uncomplaining patience sustained him, and us, the unfaltering props of peace and justice. Target for criticism, ridicule and suspicion the president went his way almost alone. Seldom has the detachment, the impersonality, the superiority to impulsiveness, the cleavage to sheer righteousness of any one man served this nation better. The mistakes that have been made have been the mistakes of detail. The broader vision has been clear and true and luminous. In recent years one president of the United States by outcry made common honesty popular. To-day the president of the United States by example makes practical the principles of a Christian gentleman. HARTFORD TO THE SOUND. "No opposition: everybody pleased" is apparently true of the plan to connect Middletown and Chester by electric line, and so complete a direct trolley route from Hartford to the sound. The principal argument offered in its favor at Tuesday's hearing was to the effect that Middletown's business interests would be materially benefited by the consummation of the project, affording as it would a convenient and economical means for people living south of Middletown to get into that city, enjoy its educational and mercantile advantages, buy and sell there, contribute to and enjoy a share of its prosperity. Apparently Middletown has greatly changed in recent years. From the reputation of being one of the slowest cities in the state it is rapidly freeing itself. It has awakened to a realization of its own possibilities, its duties towards Itself and how it may help its neighbors while helping itself. And whether the trolley project is primarily its own or that of the Shore Line Electric company, the gain that would come from the line to the city is positive, not alone because it would afford people a chance to get in and do business, but because it would afford those who work and live In Middletown a chance to get out into a recreational environment. Hartford's interest in the road is less direct than that of Middletown, but it is also of the double-barreled sort. Thousands of five-cent-fare payers who find in the trolley about tion to his Lord and Master, they would make it a matter of politics in Washington, and endeavor to preserve strict neutrality until they could find out how the people were likely to vote. But every intelligent citizen knows as well as President Wilson does that there is a ninety per cent. drift of public opinion in this country in favor of England, and that nothing can change it. Our German-American citizens are among the best we have, but we do not connect them in any way with the present attitude of Germany as a nation. In view of this fact, you should understand that it may be necessary to lean to tother side at times in order to keep the ship of state upon an even keel. All you have to do Is "hold on and chew." The sincerity of the government at Washington is not questioned, but, after all, "pigs is pigs." Patrons of public dinners within the territorial limits of Connecticut will suspect that they recognize in "American Citizen" the distinguished head of Waterbury's leading business organization. But when did he qualify himself as an expert on pigs, chewing, the devil and other vivid features of life in a free, unterrified and determinedly neutral republic? DWELLINGS AND TOBACCO BURN IN SUFFIELD. Polish Meat Market Is Destroyed and Dwellings Are Threatened— Loss $4,400. NOTES AND ENTERTAINMENTS. Suffield, March 4.—The Polish meat market and grocery store, owned by Paul Los, in South Main street, was totally destroyed by fire last evening about 8 o'clock, causing a loss of $4,400. The fire was discovered by some boys who were passing the store and saw flames bursting out of the roof. Mr. Los and his two brothers were busy waiting on customers inside and knew nothing of the fire until told by the boys. The building was a mass of flames in a few minutes and word was telephoned to the fire department headquarters in Bridge street. It is thought the fire started from sparks from a wood fire that was built early in the evening in a stove in the store, which is kept open during the early part of the evening, when the Polish residents do their buying for the next day. Besides the store building, which was a one-story frame building about 20 feet square, there was an icehouse, 20 feet square, containing twenty tons of ice, and in the next building adjoining, about 20 or 25 feet square, were three acres of 1914 tobacco in the bundle. Adjoining the building containing the tobacco were the barn, and wagons and horse sheds, containing two tons of hay, meat-carts, wagons, sleighs and stable furnishings. The meat-carts, wagons and sleighs, and three horses and four pigs were all saved, while the tobacco, hay, stock, ice and harness and blankets were destroyed. The loss is estimated by Mr. Loss to be about $2,400, partially covered by insurance, while the loss to the buildings will be about $2,000, making a total of $4,400. There were four buildings, all adjoining, burned to the ground. The hook and ladder truck and hose cart were drawn to the fire by Arthur Bissell behind his auto and he was obliged to make the third trip to the hose house to get extra hose. There were two lines of hose in use until 11 o'clock. There were thirty-five firemen who responded to the alarm, and it was after hard work that the dwelling, 35 feet from the store, was saved, as it caught fire several times. Finally the firemen were obliged to cut a hole in the roof in order to keep the roof and sides of the dwelling soaked with water so that it would not catch fire. The loss on the tobacco will be about $900, partially insured, and on the stock and fixtures of the store $800, while on the contents of the barns it will amount to fully $800. Acting Chief Chauncey Eggleston and Acting Assistant Chief Frank Smith did excellent work in saving the Los dwelling and adjoining dwellings on the south, occupied by the Zimmerman family. Mr. and Mrs. George Clark of Mapleton avenue, entertained the members of the Mapleton Whist club Tuesday evening at their home. The first prizes were won by Mrs. B. A. Thompson and Howard Button, and the consolidation prizes went to Mrs. Robert Brome and B. T. Thompson. The guests prizes were won by Charles Brome and Mrs. Charles Hanford. The members of the North End Sewing club were entertained yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Mary French, Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Frederick Brown, Mr. Albert Remington and Miss Belle Barnum. Miss Minnie Wilson entertained ten members of the W. S. C. club yesterday afternoon at her home in Day avenue. The Suffield fire department will hold the annual masquarade ball, Wednesday evening, March 17, in the town hall. The Epworth League of the West "ONLY GERMANS MAY FIGHT FOR GERMANY" German Reservist, Now a United States Citizen, Not Permitted to Enlist. IS NOW ON HIS WAY HOME. According to a letter just received by A. W. Schmidt of Brooklyn from a naturalized American who recently went to Germany to fight for his native country, the authorities refused to accept him because he had become an American citizen. "The privilege of dying on the field of honor for Germany is reserved for German citizens," he was told. According to him Germany still has more soldiers than she knows what to do with. The writer of the letter, says the Brooklyn Eagle, Is Hans Schlichting, a prosperous dealer In orchard and farm products of Winchester, Va. He says: "I trust you received my postal greetings and I am now keeping my promise to write you more in detail. We had a good passage and all went well. On two occasions our ship was stopped by British cruisers, but no one came on board. Not until we were lying before the port of Dover did any British officers come on board. We were there for twelve hours, but the English did not attempt to interfere with any of the passengers. We reached Rotterdam the next day but were not permitted to start for the frontier until the following morning. "At Bentheim, the German frontier station, our passports (there were three of us, all Americans) were declared to lack proper authentification. We had failed to obtain the certification of the German consul. I hoped to get by on the strength of my old certificate of military service and I finally persuaded the authorities to communicate with headquarters at Hanover with regard to my case. Two days later came the answer: 'We can make no more exceptions to the rule.' "That meant a return journey to Amsterdam, and at the cost of much inconvenience and expense we succeeded in getitng back our passes. After that there was no more difficulty and I proceeded straight to Berlin. Forfeits Old Rights. "My relatives were very much surprised to see me, as you can imagine. Immediately after the Christmas holidays I reported to the military authorities of the district and to my old regiment. In both places they refused to accept me on the ground that I had become an American citizen and had thereby forfeited my right to serve in the German army. Many of my old comrades were still with the regiment and it was bitterly disappointing to them as well as to myself that I was unable to realize my wish. "This insistence upon the letter of the law in times like these will show you how well matters stand with the German people. More than ever I am convinced of Germany's ultimate victory. The 'will to win' is the dominating factor in German life today, and the people are ready for any and every sacrifice to that end. The barracks are all filled to overflowing. My old company, the third, numbers 840 men. The soldiers are sleeping two in a cot because of crowded conditions. The one ambition of the wounded is to get back into the fighting. "The way in which German industry has organized to meet the incidental difficulties brought on by the war is simply marvelous. Business is booming everywhere. There are no men out of work. The federal government is the great employer of abor and has bread enough and work enough for everyone. I shall be back in Brooklyn next month and hope to see you then." REV. DR. LACKEY TAKES MASTER MASON DEGREE. Many Brother Clergymen Witness Ceremony as Carried Out by St. John's Lodge. ATTENDANCE VERY LARGE. Ministers of five denominations-- Baptist, Methodist, Congregational, Episcopal and Presbyterian—to the number of fifteen were present at the "ministers' night" of St John's lodge, F. and A. M., Wednesday evening, and witnessed the raising of their brother, the Rev. Dr. John Newton Lackey, pastor of the South Baptist church, to the degree of master Mason. They were the Rev. Dr. William F. English of East Windsor, grand junior warden of the grand lodge of Connecticut; the Rev. Franklin Countryman of East Haddam, a former associate grand chaplain; Rev. Dr. Herbert J. White, chaplain of St. John's lodge; the a democracy. whose fixity of purpose kept him impregnable to assault and influence and whose wisdom, determination and uncomplaining patience sustained him, and us, the unfaltering props of peace and justice. Target for criticism, ridicule and suspicion the president went his way almost alone. Seldom has the detachment, the impersonality, the superiority to impulsiveness, the cleavage to sheer righteousness of any one man served this nation better. The mistakes that have been made have been the mistakes of detail. The broader vision has been clear and true and luminous. In recent years one president of the United States by outcry made common honesty popular. To-day the president of the United States by example makes practical the principles of a Christian gentleman. HARTFORD TO THE SOUND. "No opposition: everybody pleased' is apparently true of the plan to connect Middletown and Chester by electric line and so complete a direct trolley route from Hartford to the sound. The principal argument offered in its favor at Tuesday's hearing was to the effect that Middletown's business interests would be materially benefited by the consummation of the project, affording as it would a convenient and economical means for people living south of Middletown to get into that city, enjoy its educational and mercantile advantages, buy and sell there, contribute to and enjoy a share of its prosperity. Apparently Middletown has greatly changed in recent years. From the reputation of being one of the slowest cities it is rapidly freeing itself. It has awakened to realization of its own possibilities, its duties towards itself and how it may help its neighbors while helping itself. And whether the trolley protect is primarily its own or that of the Shore Line Electric company, the gain that would come from the line to the city is positive, not alone because it would afford people a chance to get in and do business, but because it would afford those who work and live in Middletown a chance to get out into a recreational environment. Hartford's interest in the road is less direct than that of Middletown, but it is also of the double-barreled sort. Thousands of five-cent-fare payers who find in the trolley about their only means of access to the country and the shore will welcome one more route by which they can gain new scenes by a minimum of expenditure, the shortest way across. Incidentally, not a few of those 20,000 people south or Middletown, and which that city hopes to beckon to her shopping center, will hail with delight a means of corning °right through to Hartford," the city of larger opportunities. They do this already, when they can, and the newer plan would make the process easier and cheaper for them, with lees waste of time. It is a trolley link they have long needed to help complete an imperfect transportation service in a section which has hitherto been poorly served, and the arguments brought forward in its favor, at the hearing, included about every interest that could he represented and such a wonderfully wide range of country as to make one suspicious it may have been been somewhat stretched, by over-enthusiasm. On paper, the project must prove attractive to trolley patrons the most of whom seldom bother their heads over that other side of the problem which concerns receipts, expenditures and dividends. IF THE DEVIL CAME. Features of the issues of the London Spectator now available in this country are a dozen letters from Americans discussing the Spectator's editorial, "A Great Danger," of which America's attitude toward the European beligerents was the subject. Leading all the other letters is one from Waterbury, Conn., signed by "American Citizen", who cries out: Sir: Don't you get "woozy" on the attitude of the American people on the war question. If the devil himself should appear on earth in opposi- The building was a mass of flames in a few minutes and word was telephoned to the fire department headquarters in Bridge street. It is thought the fire started from sparks from a wood fire that was built early in the evening in a stove in the store, which is kept open during the early part of the evening, when the Polish residents do their buying for the next day. Besides the store building, which was a one-story frame building about 20 feet square, there was an icehouse, 20 feet square, containing twenty tons of ice, and in the next building adjoining, about 20 or 25 feet square, were three acres of 1914 tobacco in the bundle. Adjoining the building containing the tobacco were the barns and wagons and horse sheds, containing two tons of hay, meat-carts, wagons, sleighs, and stable furnishings. The meat-carts, wagons and sleighs, and three horses and four pigs were all saved, while the tobacco, hay, stock, ice and harness and blankets were destroyed. The loss is estimated by Mr. Loss to be about $2,400, partially covered by insurance, while the loss to the buildings will be about $2,000, making a total of $4,400. There were four buildings, all adjoining, burned to the ground. The hook and ladder truck and hose cart were drawn to the fire by Arthur Bissell behind his auto and he was obliged to make the third trip to the hose house to get extra hose. There were two lines of hose in use until 11 o'clock. There were thirty-five firemen who responded to the alarm, and it was after hard work that the dwelling, 35 feet from the store, was saved, as it caught fire several times. Finally the firemen were obliged to cut a hole in the roof in order to keep the roof and sides of the dwelling soaked with water so that it would not catch fire. The loss on the tobacco will be about $900, partially insured, and on the stock and fixtures of the store $800, while on the contents of the barns it will amount to fully $800. Acting Chief Chauncey Eggleston and Acting Assistant Chief Frank Smith did excellent work in saving the Los dwelling and adjoining dwellings on the south, occupied by the Zimmerman family. Mr. and Mrs. George Clark of Mapleton avenue, entertained the members of the Mapleton Whist club Tuesday evening at their home. The first prizes were won by Mrs. B. A. Thompson and Howard Button, and the consolidation prizes went to Mrs. Robert Brome and B. T. Thompson. The guests prizes were won by Charles Brome and Mrs. Charles Hanford. The members of the North End Sewing club were entertained yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Mary French, Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Frederick Brown, Mr. Albert Remington and Miss Belle Barnum. Miss Minnie Wilson entertained ten members of the W. S. C. club yesterday afternoon at her home in Day avenue. The Suffield fire department will hold the annual masquarade ball, Wednesday evening, March 17, in the town hall. The Epworth League of the West Suffield Methodist church met Tuesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Leahy. FARM CREDIT HELD UP. Investigation to Be Made and Report Presented at Next Session of Congress. Washington, March 4. - Conferees on the agricultural bill late yesterday agreed to eliminate entirely the rural credits rider to the measure and substitute a provision for investigation of the question of rural credits by a joint congressional committee to report at the next session. The conference report on the bill was adopted by both senate and house later in the night. The bill appropriates $22,971,022 for expenses of the agriculture department, including $2,500,000 to fight cattle epidemics. A senate amendment appropriating $3,000,000 for the Appalachian forest reserve was eliminated. The joint committee to investigate the rural credits plan for direct loans to farmers through federal machinery, will consist of the chairmen and two other members of the agriculture and banking and currency committees of each house. They are directed to report a bill not later than January 1, 1916. REWARD FOR MISS COOK. New Haven, March 4. - Virginius J. Mayo, president of the Mayor Radiator company, has increased the reward for the discovery of Miss Cook, who disappeared from the factory last Thursday, from $100 to $500. General Wood makes haste to deny his sponsorship for the American Legion. It is not surprising. That sort of an army naturally wouldn't appeal strongly to a citizen of General Wood's particular training. And then the American Legion doesn't need any major generals, anyway. It has the colonel and Richard Harding Davis. swer: 'We can make no more exceptions to the rule.' "That meant a return journey to Amsterdam, and at the cost of much inconvenience and expense we succeeded in getitng back our passes. After that there was no more difficulty and I proceeded straight to Berlin. Forfeits Old Rights. "My relatives were very much surprised to see me, as you can imagine. Immediately after the Christmas holidays I reported to the military authorities of the district and to my old regiment. In both places they refused to accept me on the ground that I had become an American citizen and had thereby forfeited my right to serve in the German army. Many of my old comrades were still with the regiment and it was bitterly disappointing to them as well as to myself that I was unable to realize my wish. "This insistence upon the letter of the law in times like these will show you how well matters stand with the German people. More than ever I am convinced of Germany's ultimate victory. The 'will to win' is the dominating factor in German life today, and the people are ready for any and every sacrifice to that end. The barracks are all filled to overflowing. My old company, the third, numbers 840 men. The soldiers are sleeping two in a cot because of crowded conditions. The one ambition of the wounded is to get back into the fighting. "The way in which German industry has organized to meet the incidental difficulties brought on by the war is simply marvelous. Business is booming everywhere. There are no men out of work. The federal government is the great employer of abor and has bread enough and work enough for everyone. I shall be back in Brooklyn next month and hope to see you then." REV. DR. LACKEY TAKES MASTER MASON DEGREE. Many Brother Clergymen Witness Ceremony as Carried Out by St. John's Lodge. ATTENDANCE VERY LARGE. Ministers of five denominations-- Baptist, Methodist, Congregational, Episcopal and Presbyterian—to the number of fifteen were present at the "ministers' night" of St John's lodge, F. and A. M., Wednesday evening, and witnessed the raising of their brother, the Rev. Dr. John Newton Lackey, pastor of the South Baptist church, to the degree of master Mason. They were the Rev. Dr. William F. English of East Windsor, grand junior warden of the grand lodge of Connecticut; the Rev. Franklin Countryman of East Haddam, a former associate grand chaplain; Rev. Dr. Herbert J. White, chaplain of St. John's lodge; the Rev. Dr. John F. Johnstone, chaplain of Hartford lodge; the Rev. J. Frederick Sexton of New Haven, chaplain of the senate; and the Revs. Howard A. Morton of Deep River, Daniel R. Kennedy of Suffield, Dr. James Gammack of West Hartford, Dr. Charles E. Hesselgrave of Manchester, Charles M. Calderwood of North Manchester, Byron Ulric Hatfield of Deep River, William Abbot Smith of Suffield, Daniel J. Clark of New Haven, William Bragg of Hartford and John Luther Kilbon of Springfield. There were present also Grand Secretary George A. Kies of Hartford, District Deputy Winthrop Buck, thirty-five other past members and about 300 other members of the craft. Following the opening of the lodge the past masters of St. John's lodge were received in form by Worshipful Master Clinton G. Nichols. The past masters then retired and returned with the clergymen, who were likewise received in form and escorted to seats in the East by the past masters. The master Mason degree was then conferred with Past Master Henry H. Dickinson, a close friend of Dr. Lackey, and a brother Baptist, acting as worshipful master. The impressive rendition of the degree by Acting Master Dickinson and the officers of the lodge was given close attention. The lodge quartet —Hubert L Maercklein, William J. Carroll, William G. Jones and Elbert L. Couch—gave a special program of music under the direction of Organist Robert H. Prutting. The degree work was followed by a supper in the banquet hall. Worshipful Master Nichols presided. Grace was said by Dr. English. Brief speeches were made by Dr. English, District Deputy Winthrop Buck and Dr. Lackey. The past masters present, not mentioned above, were J. Knox Hall, Charles Andrews, Lawrence P. Smith and Samuel N. Brainard, Orient lodge, East Hartford; Walter R. Deane, Evergreen, South Windsor; William J. Wilson, Apollo, Suffield; Frank H. Eno, St. Mark's, Simsbury; John M. Shaw, Miron J. Case and John R. Stoddard, Wyllys, West Hartford; Edwin H. Williams and Homer H. Bayrer, Lafayette, Hartford; James P. Cornish and Harold B. Waldo, Daskam, Glaston- Weather Forecast. Fair To-night. Friday Cloudy and Slightly Warmer. Temperature Past 24 Hrs.: Max. 26, Min. 14. T VOL. LXXV. NO. 54 CITY EDIT ANTIS TELL WHY THEY ARE ANTIS Just As Positive in Rejecting As Are Advocates in Demanding Suffrage. PREFER PRESENT STATUS. Mrs. Markham, Miss Price, Miss Burnell and Miss Dorman Argue Against Women Being Thrust Into Arena of Politics and Point Path of Duty to Legislators. GEO. B. CHANDLER OPPOSES. The red, red rose of anti-suffrage supplanted the modest violet of the vote-seekers on Capitol Hill, to-day, the color of the Tories waving where the Whig hue reigned Wednesday. And as ardent in their devotion to the color of the Jacobites were the anti-suffs, as were the followers of bonnie Prince Charlie in days long gone. A thronged hall of the house was again the order of the day; not all thronged with antis, to be sure, for the suffragists were on watch everywhere, taking down arguments against their cause, and mumbling to themselves as they did so, "I can nail that on rebuttal," or some other equally feminine expression. Weakness had been apparent in the suffrage case, as presented Wednesday afternoon, according to Miss Marjorie Dorman, one of this afternoon's principal speakers, and for these weaknesses, these openings in the line, the antis plunged to-day. "For one thing," said Miss Dorman, after yesterday's hearing, "they made too much of the working woman's plea. They don't realize that all the working women in the country, if allowed to vote, couldn't off-set the male vote which could be marshaled. It would only be about one-fifth of the workingmen's vote. "Then, too," she added, "I don't think I ever heard such weak speakers before. Why, they didn't import Dr. Anna Shaw for an occasion like this, or some suffrage speakers of equal national prominence, I can't see. Miss Winslow was the only speaker from outside the state that they had." To remedy this defect in the campaign of their opponents, the antis drew two speakers from without Connecticut, Miss Lucy J. Price of Cleveland and Miss Dorman herself, who hails from New York. So, according to some feminine logic, the score stood 2 to 0 in favor of the no-vote contingent, right at the start. There was better feminine logic furnished on the floor of the house, however, when the hearing got under way, and Miss Dorman had a chance to show that 75 per cent. of the members of the Connecticut Anti association are wage-earning women, and offset in a measure the plea of the working women for the vote, heard Wednesday. Miss Dorman, who organized the National Wage Earners' League Opposed to Woman Suffrage, is a working woman herself, having been a journalist for some time. With considerable skill she showed the futility of the extra votes, in the cost of elections and in their unavailingness, even when counted, to stem the tide of masculine voting strength. Opening Address. Mrs. Daniel A. Markham, president of the Connecticut Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, made the opening address. She said: "Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee: As I sat in this house, yesterday, and heard the article of the constitution read, which ward and said, 'Gentlemen, we have $1,500 a month and we are here to help you.' Fifteen hundred dollars a month! Think of it! That would go a great ways toward the reformatory for women, the Visiting Nurse association or the tubercular work in our state, but this is expended to keep the machinery going for the women who are asking for the ballot. Moreover, we must add to this the money we are spending to oppose this movement. In three years we expended $5,000. "This last autumn the president of the national association asked the suffragists to call a truce, and in the face of the terrible suffering in the world to-day, to sink all differences on the suffrage question and let us give our money, time and strength to our sisters in sorrow and need. This the suffragists declined to do, and so added to all our other activities we have the burden of working to oppose the ballot for women. "The Connecticut Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage has slowly and surely grown until now we have thirty-one organized branches, 16,000 women all 21 years of age, from all walks of life, and from all parts of the state." Miss Burnell went on to say that the anti-suffragists have a theory that a divided responsibility is badly taken, explaining that in the states of California, Colorado, Washington, Wyoming, Idaho and Utah, all woman suffrage states, at the time of the last presidential election 47 and a half per cent. of the possible vote was cast, while in nearby states of Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon, Nevada, South Dakota and Missouri, [CONCLUDED ON PAGE 20.] and Point [?] Legislators. GEO. B. CHANDLER OPPOSES. The red, red rose of anti-suffrage supplanted the modest violet of the vote-seekers on Capitol hill, to-day, the color of the Tories waving where the Whig hue reigned Wednesday. And as ardent in their devotion to the color of the Jacobites were the anti-suffs, as were the followers of bonnie Prince Charlie in days long gone. A thronged hall of the house was again the order of the day; not all thronged with antis, to be sure, for the suffragists were on watch everywhere, taking down arguments against their cause, and mumbling to themselves as they did so, "I can nail that on rebuttal," or some other equally feminine expression. Weakness had been apparent in the suffrage case, as presented Wednesday afternoon, according to Miss Marjorie Dorman, one of this afternoon's principal speakers, and for these weaknesses, these openings in the line, the antis plunged to-day. "For one thing," said Miss Dorman, after yesterday's hearing, "they made too much of the working woman's plea. They don't realize that all the working women in the country, if allowed to vote, couldn't offset the male vote which could be marshaled. It would only be about one-fifth of the workingmen's vote. "Then, too," she added, "I don't think I ever heard such weak speakers before. Why, they didn't import Dr. Anna Shaw for an occasion like this, or some suffrage speakers of equal national prominence, I can't see. Miss Winslow was the only speaker from outside the state that they had." To remedy this defect in the campaign of their opponents, the antis drew two speakers from without Connecticut, Miss Lucy J. Price of Cleveland and Miss Dorman herself, who hails from New York. So, according to some feminine logic, the score stood 2 to 0 in favor of the no-vote contingent, right at the start. There was better feminine logic furnished on the floor of the house, however, when the hearing got under way, and Miss Dorman had a chance to show that 75 per cent of the members of the Connecticut Anti association are wage-earning women, and offset in a measure the plea of the working women for the vote, heard Wednesday. Miss Dorman, who organized the National Wage Earners' League Opposed to Woman Suffrage, is a working woman herself, having been a journalist for some time. With considerable skill she showed the futility of the extra votes, in the cost of elections and in their unavailingness, even when counted, to stem the tide of masculine voting strength. Opening Address. Mrs. Daniel A. Markham, president of the Connecticut Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, made the opening address. She said: "Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee: As I sat in this house, yesterday, and heard the article of the constitution read, which we are considering, I could not but notice the dignity of the article, and my mind turned to those who established this commonwealth, the sterling qualities of the men, the ambition and hopes woven into this fabric they created. Sometimes we hear ours is a cumbersome method of government, the difficulties of changing our constitution are criticized. It is wise to consider radical changes slowly. Yesterday we heard referendum and recall referred to. I do not think the state of Connecticut will ever see that condition. We have watched Colorado with concern and pity over [?]oving the past year, the worst [?]erned state in our Union, and the conditions there could never obtain in a state governed like ours. "We believed that the work which the legislature is doing this year will be as effectual as in former years, the safeguarding of the state, the home and the race. "I represent 16,000 women over 21 years of age who have joined the Connecticut Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage. "As you look about this house and see the roses you can identify the antis. The rose is our emblem. Two years ago the legislature defeated the measure under consideration two to one. " We are sure that after you have heard the reason why we oppose suffrage for women you will do likewise. "We are constantly having it pointed out how women have progressed from the spinning-wheel to the school, to college, or to industry. "What is the climax of this progression? The business of the state of Connecticut has been suspended for two days that the men of this state can discover what the women of the state really want. You have given us possession of the house, and the whole circumstance bears out the contention of the anti-suffragist that without the burden of the ballot the interests of the women are protected by the men. "One day last September I was in a room in the Allyn house before the resolutions committee of the democratic convention, and the president of the suffragists stepped for- of Kansas , Nebraska, Oregon, Nevada, South Dakota and Missouri, [CONCLUDED ON PAGE 20.] 2 THE PROVIDENCE SUNDAY JOURNAL, MARCH 8, 1914. FIFTH SECTION. What Have Women Done With the Vote? A NOTEWORTHY study of the results of woman's suffrage In those States where it prevails has been made by George Creel, former Police Commissioner of Denver, and is published in the current number of the Century magazine. Mr. Creel's summary of these results is stated thus: "The woman vote is definitely against the saloon, against commercialized vice, and against the thoery that an 'open' town helps business. It is for more schools and better schools and compulsory education, and for the home in preference to the institution. and for the dignity and protection of motherhood in any and all circumstances. It is against the exploitation of the child, and for almost entire emphasis upon the corrective note in punishment rather than the punitive or deterrent." The article, which is copyrighted by the Century Company, is reprinted here by permission: Even more amazing than the prairie-fire sweep of equal suffrage is its effect on those who champion or oppose it It is an issue that seems to have the disturbing values of hemp or poppy, shutting out actualities and inducing dreams. As far as the United States is concerned, equal suffrage ceased to be a theory in 1869, when Wyoming gave women the vote. Since then nine more States and a Territory have enfranchised their females, each one a potential laboratory for the ascertainment of facts. The ten States and one Territory that have already answered in the affirmative are calling for company. Montana, Nevada and the two Dakotas will vote on the proposition in 1914, and the Legislatures of New York, New Jersey and Iowa have taken the first steps for submitting a constitutional amendment to the people in 1914. The law-making bodies of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are on record with favorable, but not final, action, and in every State the equal suffrage movement eclipses all others in size, strength and iron determination. Since an answer is inevitable, patriotism demands the elimination of prejudice and theories and sole consideration of facts and figures. Equal suffrage leaders, as a matter of course. will dispute this point of view, insisting that woman is entitled to the ballot because she is an adult human being, and that what she does with it is no more to be considered than man's use of his vote, whether wise or unwise. This claim has never been allowed by the majority. It is for man to say whether woman shall have the vote, and as a consequence man views the ballot not as a right that he must give, but as a privilege that he is at liberty to confer or withhold. Has equal suffrage made good? If so, he desires to aid in its extension. Has equal suffrage failed? If so, he wants to fight its spread. This, in a word, is the mental attitude of the great mass of men in the 38 non-suffrage States. They are waiting to be "shown." * * * The first approach of the investigator who is searching for truth, and not endeavoring to obtain confirmation of previous prejudices, is through the statute books of the 10 equal suffrage States. These experiment stations, with the year in which they gave the vote to women, are: Wyoming 1869 Colorado 1893 Utah 1896 Idaho 1896 Washington 1910 California 1911 Oregon 1912 Kansas 1912 Arizona 1912 Illinoi 1913 Alaska 1913 What statutory enactments are admittedly due to the woman vote? In many respects this is the only fair approach. Laws speaks for themselves, and that which is set down in black and white does not lend itself readily to distortion and misrepresentation. Do women avail themselves of the franchise privilege? Does the "bad" woman outvote her "good" sister? Have women become inveterate office seekers? Has equal suffrage disrupted the home? At the outset of the inquiry, Colorado and California suggest themselves as examples that may serve all purposes of computation and comparison. One has had suffrage for 20 years, the other for two. Colorado represents the old and its evolutions; California stands for the new, with its revolutions. There is also this postulate to be ac- of factories, stores and mines and forbidding the employment of those under 16 in unhealthful or dangerous trades; making father and mother joint heirs of deceased child; providing penalties for failure to support aged or infirm parents; a travelling library commission, consisting of five women, for the purpose of seeing that books reach the most remote mountain camp and prairie hut; making it a criminal offence to contribute to the delinquency of a child; a local option law, and the establishment of a State free employment bureau, with offices in all the principal cities and towns. It is at this point that a break must be made in the recital of laws, for 1910 heard the first gun of Colorado's winning struggle for equal justice. Without entering into causes, suffice it to say that the people believed themselves outraged by a supreme court, enslaved by "bipartisan machine," and pillaged by a plunderbund made up of public service monopolies, railroads, smelters and various trusts. Hard fighting wrenched the initiative and referendum from a venal Legislature, and a vote in Denver for municipal ownership of the water plant marked the first defeat that the allied public utility corporations had ever received. In 1911 a commission government campaign was launched at various points in Colorado, and put into operation in Grand Junction, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and various other municipalities. In Denver a corrupt council consigned a petition containing 20,000 signatures to the waste basket. A citizens' movement was formed, a full mayoralty ticket placed in the field, and on May 21, 1912, the non-partisan candidates were overwhelmingly elected by 10,000 more votes than the combined totals of the Democratic and Republican parties. In November, using the initiative for the first time, the people wrote these statutes and constitutional amendments: an eight-hour law for working women; a mother's compensation act; the recall of officials, with particular emphasis on the judiciary; State-wide civil service; an eight-hour law for miners, home rule for cities; the recall of decisions, providing that only the Supreme Court of the State shall have the power to declare laws unconstitutional, and that these decisions may be disapproved and set aside by a majority vote of the people; and the head-less ballot. In February, 1913, the long-delayed commission government election was held, the change adopted and on June 1, five commissioners, elected without party designations and by a preferential system of voting, took charge of Denver's affairs. There can be no question that women were literally the life of the revolution, bringing an even greater degree of radicalism to bear upon the various propositions than the men. Judge Lindsey, speaking for the citizens, John H. Gabriel, President of the Direct Legislation League, and the writer, as chairman of the commission government campaign, have never failed to say that the women, volunteering their services for the circulation of petitions, throwing open their homes when halls could not be hired, and as willing to trudge and drudge as to lead and sit in council, constituted the moving force of the forward movement. * * * In considering the laws enacted subsequent to 1910, mark the new economic and industrial emphasis; creation of a minimum-wage commission, with power to act; establishment of $50 as a minimum monthly wage for teachers, and doubling the length of the minimum school year; amendments putting teeth in the child labor law, the factory inspection law, and the compulsory education law; a workmen's compensation act; a law putting loan sharks out of business; a strong non-support law, and a companion statute making non-support an extraditable offence; a State home for the feeble-minded; validating the wills of married women; perfecting the "honor-and-trust" system at the penitentiary in many particulars; making the "third degree" a felony, etc. It is also important to note that a first act of the citizens' administration was the abolition of the infamous "red-light district", long protected by the bi-partizan alliance. Consideration of the case of California with respect to equal suffrage inevitably begins with the Weller recall and the campaign against commercialized vice. Foes of equal suffrage blame the women voters in toto, and accuse them of hysteria, emotionalism, and crack-brained theories. The women accept full responsibility, but plead ample justification, and both sides agree on this statement of fact as to the recall: One Albert Hendricks had raped a young girl in peculiarly revolting circumstances. Judge Shortall, before whom The city was forced to sever its relations with the clinic, whole sections of the vice district were cleansed, notably the Barbary Coast, and it was from these victories that the women of San Francisco joined with the womanhood of California in winning the injunction and abatement act from the Legislature. With regard to the general run of legislation, the following list was prepared by C. E. Sebastian, Chief of Police of Los Angeles, and read by him before the International Association of Police Chiefs as being the laws "mothered" by the voting women of California. His compilation is verified by Francis J. Heney and Judge W. P. Lawlor, who tried the graft cases. Raising the age of consent from 16 to 21; juvenile court amendment separating dependent from delinquent children; requiring fathers to support illegitimate children; requiring certificates of freedom from all venereal diseases from men as a precedent to the marriage license; the sterilization of certain inmates of lunatic asylums and a certain class of convicts, and a drastic law against pandering. Minimum wage law: workmen's compensation law; mothers' pension law; teachers' pension law, granting a pension of $500 a year to teachers who have been in service 30 years; a State housing and immigration commission to prepare for the handling of immigrants with the opening of the Panama Canal; and a State training school for girls, with the most approved correctional methods and thorough vocational training. Joint guardianship law; requirement of wife's signature to the assignment of a husband's wages; good milk inspection statute; a net container law; a weights and measures law; a law prohibiting the destruction of foodstuffs fit for human consumption, and a prison reform bill. Raising the age limit of child workers from 12 to 15; State-wide civil service; a billboard nuisance act, and an amendment to the liquor law hitting particularly at San Francisco's all-night sale. The Legislature that submitted the equal-suffrage amendment to the people passed an eight-hour law for women, and the new voters contented themselves at the last session by having it extended to include workers in apartment houses and nurses in training. * * * So much for results in Colorado and California. In a general way these activities denote the usual trend of the woman vote in all the equal suffrage States. Virtually every one of the laws relating to the personal and property rights of the female are found on the statute books of the other eight States. In none of the 10 has the woman failed to free herself of notorious political disabilities and ancient injustices, or neglected to acquire what she considers her full rights. This was to be expected. Common sense dictates such a course. The women would be fools if they did not make such first use of the ballot, nor do men quarrel with it. But—and here is an interesting study in psychology—the average man demands a larger reason than this for his gift of the vote. Consciously or subconsciously he resents the inference that women need more protection than he is willing to give. Gross inequalities persist because of the male voter's procrastination rather than his meanness or indifference. More important things, to him, push forward, and he finds difficulty in "getting around" to what the women want. Yet he hates and refuses to be put in the position of denying or resisting. Because of this quirk, it is with such fundamentals as are social rather than personal that he is concerned. What of the social evil, the liquor traffic, working day, poverty problems, education, child labor laws, penal reform, minimum wage laws? How has the woman voter approached these things? How will equal suffrage affect these questions? Taking these demands in order, the injunction and abatement law is admittedly the most effective weapon yet devised against commercialized vice, because it is sas, and Oregon possess the law. Only fine non-suffrage States have it. Of the other equal-suffrage States, Colorado's attempt to secure the measure at the last session failed, and the women will initiate the bill in 1914. Illinois, armed with the Chicago's vice commission's report, is "cleaning up," and in Arizona, Wyoming and Idaho, where the evil is sporadic, a fight is being made with very good general laws. The two Carolinas, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Mexico, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia have no State law against prostitution at all. A referendum has prevented the operation of the California law, but even without it, Los Angeles remains a "red-light-less" city, while in San Francisco the vice district has been abolished in large measure. Seattle, Denver, Sacramento, Boise and Salt Lake City, other equal-suffrage metropolises, have also stamped out their "bad lands" and put an end to municipal sanction of commercialized vice. The Seattle campaign, it may be remembered, involved the recall of Mayor Gill. As in the case of California, this first use of the ballot by the women of Washington was made the ground for charges of narrowness, puritanism and emotionalism. Tim facts In the case are these: "Hi" Gill was the open and avowed champion of the saloon and disorderly house. He insisted that they were necessary to the prosperity of Seattle. The climax of this policy was reached when two huge municipal brothels were erected in a public street. It was than that the people recalled him, 22,000 women voting, each woman an anti-Gill committee of one. Shortly afterward Gill's chief of police was convicted of collecting thousands from the women of the underworld, and is now in the penitentiary. The "higher-ups" escaped, owing to a kindly judge who quashed the indictments because commas were omitted! The equal-suffrage States are also far in advance of the rest of the country in the matter of the age of consent. California is the only commonwealth with 21 years; Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming have 18; Arizona has 17, and Oregon and Illinois have 18. In Georgia and North Carolina it is 10; in Mississippi, 12; in seven other non-suffrage States, 14; in 15 others, 16, and only three go as high as 18. According to the National Vigilance Association, every single equal-suffrage State has a "good" statue against white slaving or pandering. Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina have no such law, and those on the statute-books of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky and Tennessee are grossly inadequate. * * * With regard to the liquor traffic, there can be no question that the voting woman is as bitterly opposed to the saloon as she is to the brothel. Kansas, of course, has had State-wide prohibition for years; and Illinois, Oregon and Arizona, where the woman vote is scarcely a year old, cannot be fairly counted either one way or the other. All the other seven, however, have local-option laws that are drying up the liquor like some hugh blotter. Wyoming is 90 per cent. dry. Colorado has 50 "dry" counties out of 62. Only 18 of Utah's 28 counties are "wet", and 16 of those are mining-camps. Idaho, 90 per cent. dry, passed a search and seizure bill at the last session, also a law compelling an oath from patrons of drug stores, and California's list of "dry" towns has grown from 200 odd to over 600 since suffrage. An eight-hour day for the working-woman is a boon possessed by equal-suffrage States alone. Colorado, California, and Washington alone have gone this far, although Arizona's eight-hour law for laundries is almost as good, since that State has few other industries employing women. Washington, where the women have been begging for the law for eight years, received it from the first Legislature after the adoption of the equal-suffrage amendment. Utah and Idaho have the nine-hour 40 years to win the reform that Utah got in two. A frequent attack along these industrial lines is to show that protective legislation for women is found in States where women do not vote, and that these similar laws have not been passed in equal-suffrage States. For instance, Massachusetts and New York have some measures relating to factory women that are not found on the statute-books of Idaho and Wyoming. Also a law providing seats for saleswomen is possessed by Illinois, Massachusetts and New York., and not by Idaho. The validity of these criticisms cannot be allowed. While Massachusetts and New York have 152,713 and 136,788 factory girls respectively, Idaho and Wyoming have 681 and 501. In saleswomen the same absurd disparities are noted. Illinois, Massachusetts and New York have 12,149, 11,985 and 30,858, while Idaho comes forward with 153. One might as well blame Idaho and Wyoming for failure to admit statutes for the protection of deep-sea fishermen. * * * In the matter of taking poverty out of the list of crimes, the equal-suffrage States lead easily. Colorado, California, Washington, Illinois, Idaho, Oregon and Utah have mothers' pension laws that stop the cruel business of kidnapping children because the mother cannot earn enough to keep the wolf from the door. Only six non-suffrage States have adopted this humane measure. Idaho and Utah carry off first honors for generosity, both awarding $10 a month for the oldest child, but Utah allowing $7 per month for each additional child, against Idaho's $5. Child labor seems also to be a first consideration of the voting woman. Arizona is the one State in all the Union to adopt the model law framed by the National Child Labor Committee. California sets fifteen as the working age, and Washington, Colorado. Kansas, Utah, Illinois and Oregon have well-nigh perfect laws. Fourteen years is the deadline, 15 years during the school term, and 16 years in all dangerous trades. Idaho lets down the bars to children of 12-14 during school term - and Wyoming establishes the age limit of 14 only for certain occupations, and then makes an exemption for poverty. These are the two rotten spots, and even the fact that child labor is not a pressing problem in either State will not serve as an excuse. They shine white, however, by comparison with the sordid tragedies of Alabama, South Caroline, New Mexico, Georgia and Mississippi, where babes of 12 are permitted to work incredible hours for incredible pittance. Or side by side with the cranberry bogs of New Jersey, the glass factories of Pennsylvania and the canneries of the Northern States. * * * Every one of the equal-suffrage States has a complete compulsory-education law, splendidly safeguarded and bulwarked by truant schools and truant officers, parental-delinquency provisions. etc. Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas have no such law and in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Louisiana and Virginia the laws are utterly worthless. It is distinctly noteworthy that in the list of the 10 most illiterate States in the Union—Louisiana, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia there is not an equal-suffrage State. Colorado, Arizona and Oregon are the three great experiment stations for penitentiary reform, and have demonstrated the absolute practicability of the "honor-and-trust" plan. California women have just secured an extension of the inderterminate sentence to all crimes except murder, and also a provision for the payment of wages to working convicts and for assistance to discharged prisoners. Illinois, since equal-suffrage, is experimenting with the "honor-and-trust" plan, and Idaho and Utah have sent committees to Colorado to study Tom Tynan's methods. Of the non-suffrage States, only Iowa has bettered penal conditions, the others resting content with prison States. California, Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Utah have them, and at work. Massachusetts is the only non-suffrage State in their class. The slightest analysis of these summaries and their comparisons with non-suffrage States, develops certain facts instantly. The woman vote is definitely against the saloon, against commercialized vice, and against the theory that an "open" town helps business. It is for more schools and better schools and compulsory education, for the home in preference to the institution, and for the dignity and protection of motherhood in any and all circumstances. It is against the exploitation of the child, and for almost entire emphasis upon the corrective note in punishment rather than the punitive or deterrent. * * * In taking up stock objections, the charge that women do not avail themselves of the right to vote must necessarily be approached through typical instances. The following table is furnished by the Seattle election that recalled Gill: Ward... Men... Women... Per cent. 1st Ward... 1,873... 345... 17 2nd Ward... 2,570... 1,162... 44 3rd Ward... 4,178... 2,320.. 55 4th Ward... 3,938... 1,334... 34 5th Ward... 2,848... 981... 34 6th Ward... 1,815... 610... 34 7th Ward... 5,852... 3,674...63 8th Ward... 3,839... 2,025... 53 9th Ward... 3,291... 2,088... 63 10th Ward... 2,475...1,633... 66 11th Ward... 2,185... 1,457... 67 12th Ward... 2,773...1,426... 51 13th Ward... 2,543... 1,367... 54 14th Ward... 3,309... 1,385... 42 Total... 43,489... 21,807... 48 By way of explanation, the First Ward was the vice district, the Fifth and Sixth Wards constitute the heart of the business section, and the Seventh, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Wards are residential. From the 1912 election in Los Angeles the following figures are gleaned: Men... Women... Women per cent. Highland Park... 1,556... 1,504... 49 Hollywood... 1,348... 1,350... 50 Angeleno Heights... 2,104... 1,429... 40 East Side... 3,154... 2,127... 40 Boyle Heights... 3,619... 2,485... 41 Down-town and indus... 10,907... 4,827... 31 Westlake... 4,201... 3,567... 46 Edendale... 1,313... 1,011... 43 Wilshire Northwest... 3,706... 3,079... 46 West Adams... 7,456... 5,842... 47 Southwest... 6,551... 5,096... 44 Southeast... 7,290... 4,389... 38 Wilmington-San Pedro... 1,420... 693... 32 54,625... 37,399... 41.3 The percentage of registered men voting was 54.2 and that of women, 50.2. Further comparisons are made possible by these facts: Hollywood. Westlake, Wilshire and West Adams are prosperous, fashionable districts, while the others are given over to the moderately circumstanced or poor. A very Interesting survey of the Berkeley election returns establishes similar conclusions: The larger woman's vote was cast in the so-called "exclusive" neighborhoods, the smaller woman's vote in the poorer districts, and the average in the precincts inhabited by people of modest means. In Idaho, according to tables prepared by Mrs. Burton French and Mrs. Frederick Dubois, about 76 per cent. of the women voted at the last election, and about 84 per cent. of the men. Mrs. Frank Mondell of Wyoming and Mr. Sutherland of Utah are authority for the statement that every election calls out the same proportion of women as men. While no large election has been held in Illinois since equal suffrage, various small-town elections have been held, and the figures are rather interesting: Men... Women. Carpentersville... 172... 155 Carthage... 540... 423 Roisclare... 106... 107 Mt. Auburn... 102... 118 Benton... 414... 422 Geneva... 180... 227 Seattle and Denver furnish figures with regard to the claim that "bad women" have a way of controlling elections in equal-suffrage States. As will be seen, 345 women voted in the First Ward, where Seattle's red-light had its being at that time. In Denver the "bad lands" were confined to Precincts 1, 2 and 3 of the Fourth Ward prior to abolition. The election commission presents this table: Registered. Voted. the State there are three women office holders: Two city auditors, eight city treasurers, three city clerks, 10 county clerks, one county commissioner, twice as many as at any previous period in the 20 years. In the State Legislature at the present writing there are two women in the lower house and one in the Senate, the latter elected in 1912. Mrs. Riddle is a German epitome of common sense who enjoys a competence through years of dairy farming. Mrs. Lee is the mother of grown children, and Mrs. Robinson, the Senator, is an ex-college professor and a very brilliant writer. In addition to these, two women serve on the State Board of Charities and Corrections. Mrs. Helen Grenfell, as a member of the penitentiary board, has made penal reform possible, and there are women on the boards in charge of the various industrial homes. Utah has three women in the Legislature, and in Idaho the State Superintendent of Public Instruction is a woman, 25 out of 30 counties have women superintendents, a woman is on the Board of Regents, and there are about 20 county treasurers and auditors. Washington has two able women in the Legislature. Instead of being inveterate office seekers, there is far more ground for a charge that the voting women have entirely failed and absolutely refused to show the interest in office seeking and office holding that is entailed by her percentage of the vote. * * * Has equal suffrage disrupted the home? As far as divorce statistics may be trusted, these show that Wyoming has 118 to every 10,000; Colorado, 158; Utah, 92, and Idaho, 120. It is questionable, however, whether they amount to anything. Utah has the lowest divorce rate in the Union, which might easily be turned into an argument for Mormonism. It is much more to the point that there is not an instance on record of a divorce arising from anything connected with the vote. This statement is laid down as a challenge. There is now only the one remaining question to consider: Has the vote coarsened or cheapened women? In Colorado, most attacked along this line, there is an Equal Suffrage Aid Association composed of the most prominent men in the State, organized for the sole purpose of denying falsehoods and refuting slanders. Senator Charles S. Thomas. also an ex-Governor, Southern born, and the possessor of a voting wife and voting daughters, expresses the male sentiment of Colorado when he says: "The one offensive feature of equal suffrage has been the flood of blackguardly abuse heaped upon our women by foes of the movement. Scavengers, commissioned to attack and defame, have made pretense of studying our lives, thoughts, laws, and institutions between trains. The supposition that inclusion In the responsibilities of citizenship implies the instant degradation of our wives, mothers, sisters and daughters can only proceed from mental perversion and degeneracy." Bishop Spaulding of Utah, after long observation, declares that equal suffrage has developed better wives and better mothers, and that women have brought to their duties as citizens and legislators superior humanity and motherliness. The Portland Oregonian. unalterably conservative, admits editorially that equal suffrage has turned out to he one of the strongest fortifications of the home, and throughout his entire investigation the writer could not find any one, not even a dethroned "boss," who would put his name to the charge that the vote had debased the women of his State. The inevitable first result of equal suffrage is the removal of all polling places from the neighborhood of saloons. What was good enough for men is not good enough for their women folk. For the most part, voting booths are in churches, parlors, corner groceries or schools. Illinois had many of its polling places decorated with potted plants, many Kansas towns introduced "no-smoking” regulations, and in all of the older equal-suffrage States there is yet to be recorded an instance of insult to women in connection with the franchise. * * * Let conclusion come with the words of Mrs. Grenfell, that very wonderful woman whom many pick as Colorado's best citizen: "The opponents of equal suffrage never tire of declaring that woman's place is the home. I agree with them most heartily. It is because of the home that I want women to have the vote. The State is so much the over-parent to-day that I cannot look after my home without the waiting to be "shown." * * * The first approach of the investigator who in searching for truth, and not endeavoring to obtain confirmation of previous prejudices, is through the statute books of the 10 equal suffrage States. These experiment stations, with the year in which they gave the vote to women, are: Wyoming 1869 Colorado 1893 Utah 1896 Idaho 1896 Washington 1910 California 1911 Oregon 1912 Kansas 1912 Arizona 1912 Illinois 1913 Alaska 1913 What statutory enactments are admittedly due to the woman vote? In many respects this is the only fair approach. Laws speaks for themselves, and that which is set down in black and white does not lend itself readily to distortion and misrepresentation. Do women avail themselves of the franchise privilege? Does the "bad" woman outvote her "good" sister? Have women become inveterate office seekers? Has equal suffrage disrupted the home? At the outset of the inquiry, Colorado and California suggest themselves as examples that may serve all purposes of computation and comparison. One has had suffrage for 20 years, the other for two. Colorado represents the old and its evolutions; California stands for the new, with its revolutions. There is also this postulate to be accepted: absolute segregation of the woman vote is impossible. Men far outnumber the women in nine Western equal suffrage States, and the adoption of any law means that a certain portion of the male vote has given it the necessary approval. Reference to "women's laws," therefore, must be taken to mean those measures originated by women, introduced by women legislators, or else indorsed and lobbied for unflaggingly by women's organizations. The procedure in all the equal suffrage States is very similar. A State federation of women's clubs, at its annual convention, will discuss what it wishes in the way of legislation, and what it does not wish. Bills already in the field are framed to meet the demands, and then everything is placed in the hands of a legislative committee that is virtually an unpaid lobby. This committee, with an elastic membership of from 10 to 75, attends every session of the Legislature. The progress of bills is watched, care is taken to see that none of them is lost or hidden, and in the event of trouble, these Paul Reveres send out a warning that rains down scores of telegrams from every quarter of the State on the heads of recalcitrant legislators. * * * As a result of these methods, the following "women's laws," grouped in order that development may be studied, have been adopted by Colorado: 1893 to 1900: a State home or dependent children, three of the five members of the board of control to be women; making the mother joint guardian of the child with the father; raising age of protection for girls to 18 years; a State industrial school for girls, three of the five members of the board of control to be women; a factory inspection law; creating the indeterminate sentence, out of which Tom Tynan's wonderful "honor-and-trust" idea has been evolved; truant schools; requiring one woman physician on the State asylum board; provision for the inspection of maternity homes and lying-in hospitals conducted by private persons, etc. 1900 to 1910: juvenile court system; drastic compulsory education law; a child labor law taking little ones under 14 out to lead and sit in council, constituted the moving force of the forward movement. * * * In considering the laws enacted subsequent to 1910, mark the new economic and industrial emphasis; creation of a minimum-wage commission, with power to act; establishment of $50 as a minimum monthly wage for teachers, and doubling the length of the minimum school year; amendments putting teeth in the child labor law, the factory inspection law, and the compulsory education law; a workmen's compensation act; a law putting loan sharks out of business; a strong non-support law, and a companion statute making non-support an extraditable offence; a State home for the feeble-minded; validating the wills of married women; perfecting the "honor-and-trust" system at the penitentiary in many particulars; making the "third degree" a felony, etc. It is also important to note that a first act of the citizens' administration was the abolition of the infamous "red-light district", long protected by the bi-partizan alliance. Consideration of the case of California with respect to equal suffrage inevitably begins with the Weller recall and the campaign against commercialized vice. Foes of equal suffrage blame the women voters in toto, and accuse them of hysteria, emotionalism, and crack-brained theories. The women accept full responsibility, but plead ample justification, and both sides agree on this statement of fact as to the recall: One Albert Hendricks had raped a young girl in peculiarly revolting circumstances. Judge Shortall, before whom he was arraigned, demanded bond in the sum of $3000; but when he left town two days later, Judge Weller reduced the bail to $1000. Hendricks promptly fled, leaving a wife and two children behind him without means of support, and the incident would have been closed but for the women of the neighborhood in which the girl lived. At the outset of the investigation it was discovered that Hendricks had been in Weller's court before on a similar charge and had gone unpunished. Further delving developed that in scores of cases of criminal assault the bonds ranged from $50 to $300, and that continuance and dismissal were the favorite Wellerian modes of treatment. One particular scandal was that of a 14-year-old girl about to become a mother. Ten times Weller continued the case against her assailant, and the 10th time, which fell on the day the child gave birth to her baby, Weller dismissed the case because the "complainant failed to appear." The fight on commercialized vice has been waged chiefly in San Francisco, for Los Angeles abolished its infamous "crib district" in 1909 as the result of a scandal that exposed a city administration's intimate connection with the underworld. San Francisco's answer to the Ruef-French restaurant infamies, however, was the creation of a municipal clinic for the purpose of segregating prostitutes and subjecting them to physical examination. It was against this condition specifically, but against the whole system generally, that the women revolted. * * * When the men declared that prostitution was a "necessary evil," the women asked them if they were willing to let a member of their own families recruit the industry. When the men said that a "wide-open town" was a good thing for business, and that tourists would avoid a "closed town," the women answered: "If drunkenness and debauchery are necessary to make business good, then the sooner we get rid of that sort of business the better. If tourists come to San Francisco only for whisky and lust, we don't want that class of travel near the homes in which we are rearing our children." tivities denote the usual trend of the woman vote in all the equal suffrage States. Virtually every one of the laws relating to the personal and property rights of the female are found on the statute books of the other eight States. In none of the 10 has the woman failed to free herself of notorious political disabilities and ancient injustices, or neglected to acquire what she considers her full rights. This was to be expected. Common sense dictates such a course. The women would be fools if they did not make such first use of the ballot, nor do men quarrel with it. But—and here is an interesting study in psychology—the average man demands a larger reason than this for his gift of the vote. Consciously or subconsciously he resents the inference that women need more protection than he is willing to give. Gross inequalities persist because of the male voter's procrastination rather than his meanness or indifference. More important things, to him, push forward, and he finds difficulty in "getting around" to what the women want. Yet he hates and refuses to be put in the position of denying or resisting. Because of this quirk, it is with such fundamentals as are social rather than personal that he is concerned. What of the social evil, the liquor traffic, working day, poverty problems, education, child labor laws, penal reform, minimum wage laws? How has the woman voter approached these things? How will equal suffrage affect these questions? Taking these demands in order, the injunction and abatement law is admittedly the most effective weapon yet devised against commercialized vice, because it is directed against the owner of the property, and puts the power of action in the hands of every citizen. In addition to California, also Utah, Washington, Kan- Association, every single equal-suffrage State has a "good" statue against white slaving or pandering. Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina have no such law, and those on the statute-books of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky and Tennessee are grossly inadequate. * * * With regard to the liquor traffic, there can be no question that the voting woman is as bitterly opposed to the saloon as she is to the brothel. Kansas, of course, has had State-wide prohibition for years; and Illinois, Oregon and Arizona, where the woman vote is scarcely a year old, cannot be fairly counted either one way or the other. All the other seven, however, have local-option laws that are drying up the liquor like some hugh blotter. Wyoming is 90 per cent. dry. Colorado has 50 "dry" counties out of 62. Only 18 of Utah's 28 counties are "wet", and 16 of those are mining-camps. Idaho, 90 per cent. dry, passed a search and seizure bill at the last session, also a law compelling an oath from patrons of drug stores, and California's list of "dry" towns has grown from 200 odd to over 600 since suffrage. An eight-hour day for the working-woman is a boon possessed by equal-suffrage States alone. Colorado, California, and Washington alone have gone this far, although Arizona's eight-hour law for laundries is almost as good, since that State has few other industries employing women. Washington, where the women have been begging for the law for eight years, received it from the first Legislature after the adoption of the equal-suffrage amendment. Utah and Idaho have the nine-hour day. In each State the women made the fight for eight, and were forced to compromise. Only five non-suffrage States can say as much. It took Massachusetts parison with the sordid tragedies of Alabama, South Caroline, New Mexico, Georgia and Mississippi, where babes of 12 are permitted to work incredible hours for incredible pittance. Or side by side with the cranberry bogs of New Jersey, the glass factories of Pennsylvania and the canneries of the Northern States. * * * Every one of the equal-suffrage States has a complete compulsory-education law, splendidly safeguarded and bulwarked by truant schools and truant officers, parental-delinquency provisions. etc. Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas have no such law and in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Louisiana and Virginia the laws are utterly worthless. It is distinctly noteworthy that in the list of the 10 most illiterate States in the Union—Louisiana, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia there is not an equal-suffrage State. Colorado, Arizona and Oregon are the three great experiment stations for penitentiary reform, and have demonstrated the absolute practicability of the "honor-and-trust" plan. California women have just secured an extension of the indeterminate sentence to all crimes except murder, and also a provision for the payment of wages to working convicts and for assistance to discharged prisoners. Illinois, since equal-suffrage, is experimenting with the "honor-and-trust" plan, and Idaho and Utah have sent committees to Colorado to study Tom Tynan's methods. Of the non-suffrage States, only Iowa has bettered penal conditions, the others resting content with prison methods that are stupid and wasteful when they are not cruel and barbarous. Minimum-wage laws are almost entirely peculiar to the equal-suffrage are given over to the moderately circumstanced or poor. A very interesting survey of the Berkeley election returns establishes similar conclusions: The larger woman's vote was cast in the so-called "exclusive" neighborhoods, the smaller woman's vote in the poorer districts, and the average in the precincts inhabited by people of modest means. In Idaho, according to tables prepared by Mrs. Burton French and Mrs. Frederick Dubois, about 76 per cent. of the women voted at the last election, and about 84 per cent. of the men. Mrs Frank Mondell of Wyoming and Mr. Sutherland of Utah are authority for the statement that every election calls out the same proportion of women as men. While no large election has been held in Illinois since equal suffrage, various small-town elections have been held, and the figures are rather interesting: Men... Women. Carpentersville... 172... 155 Carthage... 540... 423 Roisclare... 106... 107 Mt. Auburn... 102... 118 Benton... 414... 422 Geneva... 180... 227 Seattle and Denver furnish figures with regard to the claim that "bad women" have a way of controlling elections in equal-suffrage States. As will be seen, 345 women voted in the First Ward, where Seattle's red-light had its being at that time. In Denver the "bad lands" were confined to Precincts 1, 2 and 3 of the Fourth Ward prior to abolition. The election commission presents this table: Registered. Voted. Precinct 1... 54... 46 Precinct 2... 61... 53 Precinct 3... 61... 45 176... 144 Assuming that every one of these votes represented prostitutes, what of it? Compare 345 with 21,807, or 144 with 38,000. As a matter of fact, the assumption is grossly false. The writer, out of his experience as newspaper man and Police Commissioner in Denver, is willing to assert that not 10 per cent. were prostitutes. The majority of these women are girls under the voting age or foreigners, while the remainder, practicing their sorry trade under assumed names, are unwilling to expose their identities by registration. In both Denver and Seattle, a large percentage of the vice-ward vote probably represented the wives of the day-laborer class, since segregation is invariably practiced at the expense of those whose poverty makes resistance impossible. As a bit of further information, Idaho has a law prohibiting persons of lewd life from voting. * * * Do women become inveterate office seekers? In Wyoming, where equal suffrage is 40 years old, there are two members of the Legislature and a number of women serving as county superintendent of schools. Mrs. Miller, one of the legislators, is the mother of grown sons, one of whom preceded her in the office; the other other, Miss Truax, a teacher, was petitioned to become a candidate as a protest against legislative delay in connection with school measures. In Colorado, where the women have voted for 20 years, virtually all the educational offices have been turned over to them. Since 1895 the State Superintendent of Public Instruction has been a woman, and to-day 43 out of 62 counties have women for county superintendents of schools. Denver has a woman President of the Election Board, and a woman member of the School Board, and prior to commission government, had another able woman as clerk and Recorder of Deeds. A member of the Board of Regents of the State University is a woman, and throughout mental perversion and degeneracy." Bishop Spaulding of Utah, after long observation, declares that equal suffrage has developed better wives and better mothers, and that women have brought to their duties as citizens and legislators superior humanity and motherliness. The Portland Oregonian. unalterably conservative, admits editorially that equal suffrage has turned out to he one of the strongest fortifications of the home, and throughout his entire investigation the writer could not find any one, not even a dethroned "boss," who would put his name to the charge that the vote had debased the women of his State. The inevitable first result of equal suffrage is the removal of all polling places from the neighborhood of saloons. What was good enough for men is not good enough for their women folk. For the most part, voting booths are in churches, parlors, corner groceries or schools. Illinois had many of its polling places decorated with potted plants, many Kansas towns introduced "no-smoking” regulations, and in all of the older equal-suffrage States there is yet to be recorded an instance of insult to women in connection with the franchise. * * * Let conclusion come with the words of Mrs. Grenfell, that very wonderful woman whom many pick as Colorado's best citizen: "The opponents of equal suffrage never tire of declaring that woman's place is the home. I agree with them most heartily. It is because of the home that I want women to have the vote. The State is so much the over-parent to-day that I cannot look after my home without the vote. The law says when the child shall go to school, what books it shall study, what food it shall eat, what car fare it shall pay, when it shall be vaccinated or given serums, punishes the child with truant officers, truant schools, juvenile courts, and tells when it may quit school and when it may go to work. "It is through franchises gained by the ballot that I am told what to pay for my water, my gas, my electric light, my telephone; it is by the vote that liquor questions are decided, and ordinances adopted for the regulation of morals. "I happened to read yesterday where the women of Kansas City were protesting against a return to the policy of licensing prostitution and making the community a sharer in the shameful gains. In another column I saw where an ordinance prohibiting saloons near schools and churches had been smothered in committee by an Alderman who happened to be Kansas City's most notorious saloon-keeper. Are those not questions that affect the home? And will anyone say that the voteless women of Kansas City are able to give their homes the fullest possible protection? "One must also consider the seven or eight millions of women who are forced outside the home by the necessities of existence. Is this vast army of underpaid, overworked toilers to have no voice at all? If women voted in New York, do you think America would be shamed by the spectacle of the Triangle Factory owners being fined $20 for the very offence that cost the lives of 145 girls in a former fire? "I have always thought, and I still think, that a government entirely by men is as stupid as a government entirely by women would be. There are as many home features in municipal or State administration as business features. Perhaps you may remember that the Indiana Legislature recently passed a $5000 appropriation for the better care of hogs, and defeated an appropriation of $5000 for the better care of children. Do you see what I mean? I do not question the importance of the appropriation for the revenue-producing hog, but wouldn't it have been well had some woman been in that Legislature to stand up for the non-revenue-producing child?" Massachusetts Plans Memorial Arch at Gettysburg The commission appointed by Governor Foss of Massachusetts to consider the advisability and expense of erecting a State monument to Massachusetts soldiers who fell during the three-day battle at Gettysburg has secured permission from the Government to build a memorial arch on one of the most desirable situations in that national reservation. For this work the commission has asked the Legislature to appropriate $50,000. While more than 700 monuments and tablets have been erected on the battlefield of Gettysburg, but three States, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have set up State memorials. The Massachusetts memorial will be erected over the entrance to the battlefield on Hancock avenue, opposite the National Cemetery. This site has been approved by the Secretary of War. It is at that point where the battle raged upon the afternoon and evening of July 2, and the forenoon of the 3rd. It is within five minutes walk of the "High Water Mark" and of the "Bloody Angle. From the observation roof of the memorial an excellent view will be afforded of nearly all the battlefield. It is closely adjacent to that part over with Gen. Lee's troops charged on July 2 under Gen. Pickett, and of the "stone wall" where was recorded the apex of the high wave of rebellion, and which thereafter receded. The arch, which will be of solid masonry, is to be approximately 42 feet wide, 16 feet deep and 50 feet high. The archway piercing it, through which Hancock avenue passes, will be about 18 feet wide and 31 feet in height. Stairways of concrete construction will lead, first, to a storeroom or chamber above the arch, where will be preserved such records as may be desirable, and, second, to a look-out covering the entire top of the arch. It is intended that in the parapet surrounding this outlook, arrows will be cut with proper lettering, pointing the directions to the different portions of the battlefield. FIFTH SECTION Ten Pages The Providence Sunday Journal. SPECIAL FEATURES PROVIDENCE, R. I., SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 1914. RHODE ISLAND FURS FOR LONDON MARKET The Finishing Touch. George W. Keach, Champion Trapper of the State Setting the Trap in the Woods A Trapper's Cabin in the Heart of the "Fur Country". Trappers of State Carry on Industry Far Larger Than City Folk Imagine. - Imported Pelts for Providence Woman of Fashion May Originally Have Come from the Nearby Wilds of Scituate TRAPPING as a profitable occupation has been given scant attention here in these Plantations. In rural communities it is followed by numerous schoolboys, as a pastime rather than a business, and it is not generally known that, in spite of its limited and densely populated area, Rhode Island sends pelts into the world's greatest fur sales which are held four times a year in far-off London. Although there are no immediate prospects that this State will ever become a dangerous competitor of the Hudson bay region, and other bleak northern countries, where fur is the principal product, the combined income of the professional trappers of Rhode Island is by no means to be sneezed at. Every year they sell thousands of dollars worth of pelts and skins to jobbers in near-by and distant cities and to itinerant buyers. These skins are shipped to New York, the centre of the fur trade of the United States, and many of them are included in the farmers and their sons there are several who depend almost wholly upon traps and shotguns for a living and who have reduced trapping to a fine art. * * * Perhaps the most prominent and best known trapper in the State at the present time is George W. Keach of Scituate. For more than two score years the Scituate man has been scattering his small steel traps through the dales and valleys of the State; frequently he has gathered in a single winter pelts which have sold here in Rhode Island for $1000; and there have been few years since he reached his majority that he has not made his traps yield a revenue considerably greater than than of the average farmer. In his younger days Mr. Keach trapped in every part of Rhode Island from the outskirts of Woonsocket to the Great Swamp in the old South County. Even now, when he professes to cover only a very limited area, his traps are scattered over 10 or 12 square miles in the towns of Scituate and Foster. One of the most profitable sections of his territory is included in the area selected by the Providence City Council as the site of the proposed new reservoir are easily caught by the expert trappers in dead falls or steel traps, and their pelts bring from $1 to $5 each, according to quality. But while the average trapper depends mainly upon the skunks for his income, a considerable sum each year is netted from the sale of the pelts of raccoons hold it in place. The average skunk or mink, detects the scent of the trapper before he gets within a yard of the trap and doesn't go near it. If a rain or two happens to wash away the scent of the trapper's hands and an animal is fool enough to try and get the bait what happens? Why the steel jaws come together and maybe catch the animal by the throat, the critter loses a little hair but generally manages to get away. "The best way to catch skunks is with a dead fall made of a flat stone. You've got to use the steel trap with minks and otters, and you've got to be clever to fool them. It was some time after I began trapping before I got on to the tricks of the business. Henry Law of Chestnut Hill was about the most expert trapper I ever saw. I went out with him a number of times and each time I got more pointers than I ever got from all the other trappers I have known put together. "One day I came across the trail of a big mink over near the State line. There was plenty of evidence to show that he was a big one and after I tried every trick I knew of getting him into a trap, I came to the conclusion that the "I had shown the man all my best places and nearly all my tricks, but it made me so mad when I saw what he did, that I made up my mind that I would get more than both of them put together. That first day after I started in I got five mink; the next day I got four; the third day I got three, besides eight or ten skunks. That season I got 47 mink, 36 'coons, a couple of hundred skunk and about 300 muskrat. It was one of the best reasons I have ever had. "What are the rules of trapping? There ain't none. Up in Maine or in any trapping country, where they know their business, one man never goes into the territory already taken by another unless he is invited or is looking for a lot of trouble. Up there, when a trapper finds someone else's traps in his territory he takes it for granted that the stranger might have set the trap without knowing that the territory was taken. "So the old trapper springs the trap and hangs it up on a tree. That is a polite invitation for the newcomer to get out. If the old trapper finds the trap set in the same place a second time he either carries it away or smashes it. George W. Keach, Champion Trapper of the State A Morning's Find A Trapper's Cabin in the Heart of the "Fur Country". Trappers of State Carry on Industry Far Larger Than City Folk Imagine. - Imported Pelts for Providence Woman of Fashion May Originally Have Come from the Nearby Wilds of Scituate TRAPPING as a profitable occupation has been given scant attention here in these Plantations. In rural communities it is followed by numerous schoolboys, as a pastime rather than a business, and it is not generally known that, in spite of its limited and densely populated area, Rhode Island sends pelts into the world's greatest fur sales which are held four times a year in far-off London. Although there are no immediate prospects that this State will ever become a dangerous competitor of the Hudson bay region, and other bleak northern countries, where fur is the principal product, the combined income of the professional trappers of Rhode Island is by no means to be sneezed at. Every year they sell thousands of dollars worth of pelts and skins to jobbers in near-by and distant cities and to itinerant buyers. These skins are shipped to New York, the centre of the fur trade of the United States, and many of them are included in the shipments from this country to the big fur sales in London. At these sales in the English metropolis almost every nation is represented among both the buyers and sellers. Furs from Alaska are placed side by side with those from darkest Africa and pelts from the United States are sandwiched in between the trophies of hunters and trappers from all parts of the world. The furs are sorted and arranged according to species and grades rather than according to the countries from which they come. There they are spread out before buyers representing the fur dealers of the world's largest cities, who are guided in making their selections by quality and price. The pelts are sold on their merits and as the otter, mink and some of the other small fur bearing animals captured in this State produce fur which rivals that of the same species in distant places it is not unreasonable to suppose that at least some of the animals, which provide the fur for gowns and other articles of wearing apparel offered for sale in the Providence stores, were trapped along the head waters of the Pawtuxet river in Foster, Scituate and Glocester and the pelts were shipped to Providence via New York, London and Paris. This supposition is not as far-fetched as it first seems. The value of the raw pelts shipped out of this State is estimated at several thousand dollars. This value represents only a part of the price of the skins after they have been cured and tanned. Just how many pelts are shipped out of Rhode Island in the course of a year is largely a matter of conjecture. Those who keep in touch with trappers estimate that there are upward of 100 men and boys who are engaged in the work and while for the most part it is take up purely as a matter of recreation by farmers and their sons there are several who depend almost wholly upon traps and shotguns for a living and who have reduced trapping to a fine art. * * * Perhaps the most prominent and best known trapper in the State at the present time is George W. Keach of Scituate. For more than two score years the Scituate man has been scattering his small steel traps through the dales and valleys of the State; frequently he has gathered in a single winter pelts which have sold here in Rhode Island for $1000; and there have been few years since he reached his majority that he has not made his traps yield a revenue considerably greater than than of the average farmer. In his younger days Mr. Keach trapped in every part of Rhode Island from the outskirts of Woonsocket to the Great Swamp in the old South County. Even now, when he professes to cover only a very limited area, his traps are scattered over 10 or 12 square miles in the towns of Scituate and Foster. One of the most profitable sections of his territory is included in the area selected by the Providence City Council as the site of the proposed new reservoir and the building of the dam near the village of Kent will flood a favorite retreat of the mink, must-rate and otter. According to Mr. Keach, these three animals with the raccoon and skunk, are the most important fur-bearing animals which may be trapped in Rhode Island. The red fox has a valuable pelt but the old Scituate trapper opines that the fox was created for the sole purpose of providing sport for fox hunters and that any trapper who would deliberately and knowingly seek to capture Reynard in a steel trap is neither a gentleman nor a true sportsman. Purely by accident, Mr. Keach caught one of the animals in his traps once and apparently the incident still troubles his conscience. The animal's curiosity was clearly responsible, as the trap was set in an out-of-the-way place some distance from the fox run. The pelt added $5 to the sum total derived from trapping that year, but in spite of the fact that a number one fox skin is now quoted at about $7 Trapper Keach insists that a man who would trap foxes is not a great deal better than a trapper who would knowingly invade a territory already take up by another, which is the capital sin of trapperdom. The trapping season in this State begins late in October. About Oct. 20, with the approach of cold weather, the fur on the skunks begins to "prime up," which in other words means that the animals are putting on their thick winter coats. * * * About the same time the fur on the raccoon grows thicker and takes on an added lustre, while the mink, otter and fox prime up in November. The muskrat is at its best between March 1 and April 15, so that unless the ground is covered with a heavy fall of snow, the trapper's open season lasts about six months. The pelt of the otter is the most valuable, the present quotations for a "number one" skin being $24 to $28. These animals are rather scarce in Rhode Island, however, and in the long run are not as profitable as the others. By far the greatest amount of the trapper's revenue comes from the skunk. They are comparatively plentiful; they are easily caught by the expert trappers in dead falls or steel traps, and their pelts bring from $1 to $5 each, according to quality. But while the average trapper depends mainly upon the skunks for his income, a considerable sum each year is netted from the sale of the pelts of raccoons and minks. The former is worth from $4 to $6 for a first quality skin, and the price received for the carcass, which is made the piece de resistance at coon suppers, adds to the value. The mink is comparatively plentiful in the wild back country remote from cities and factory villages and its pelt is sold as high as $7.50. The first-class pelts of the red fox are worth between $6 and $7. Muskrats are worth about 50 cents each, and the least profitable of all animals is the woodchuck or groundhog. No matter how fat or plump the groundhog may be and in spite of the great reverence in which he is held by those who rely upon his weather predictions, his pelt is worth scarcely more than a dime. As a fur-bearing animal the groundhog is a flat failure. Years ago the hide was cured and used to a considerable extent for covering small banjoes and drums and was cut into shoestrings. But better and cheaper material has been found and the commercial value of the hide is so small that few trappers take the trouble of carrying one home. "The great trouble with the trapping business in this State at the present time is that there are too many traps and not enough honesty in the woods," said Trapper Keach a few days ago in discussing his unusual occupation. "There was a time about 20 years ago when I thought there was such a thing as honesty in the world, but it's got so nowadays that you might as well expect a five-dollar bill to be left unmolested on the street down in the city as to expect to have your traps left alone in the woods. "Why, it's only a year or so ago that I bought nearly three barrels of traps. That was about 300. I bought them early in the winter, and the next spring I had 15 left. "Seems as though some folks believe that steel traps grow on trees and whenever they come across one in the woods that findings is keepings, not only for the catch, but also for the trap itself. Years ago the only protection needed for traps was to have your initials on them. If another trapper came along and found them he was honest enough to leave them alone and set his traps somewhere else. "The winter I lost so many I started out one afternoon right after a light snow fall. I soon found the tracks of the man that had been going along picking up my traps and I started to trail him. Followed his trial all right until I got out on to a road that was well travelled and then I lost him. I hunted along that road for a considerable distance trying to pick up the trail and finally I came to the conclusion that the fellow must have taken to the brook that crossed the road so as to throw me off. * * * "I went up the brook about half a mile and sure enough I picked up the trail again and it led right up to the back door of a house where a man, I supposed was a friend of mine, lived. I went over to the woodshed, following the trail, picked up a bundle of about a dozen of my traps, and then stopped long enough at the house to pay my respects to him and tell him that whenever I needed assistance in taking out the traps I would come around and let him now. "The trouble with the business now is that there are too many in it that don't know anything about it. I don't know of more than three or four good trappers in Rhode Island. Why , some of the traps are put in the woods by men or boys who don't know even how to bait. They manage to catch muskrats, once in a while a skunk, but if they ever got a 'coon they'd make a bee line for home to show the prize to all the neighbors. "A whole lot of them put the bait on the pan. It stands to reason that the animals don't eat with their feet, and to be sure of holding them at least one foot ought to be caught in the trap. Some of the fellows who think they know something about the business tie a piece of meat on the pan and wrap about a dozen strands of string around it to hold it in place. The average skunk or mink, detects the scent of the trapper before he gets within a yard of the trap and doesn't go near it. If a rain or two happens to wash away the scent of the trapper's hands and an animal is fool enough to try and get the bait what happens? Why the steel jaws come together and maybe catch the animal by the throat, the critter loses a little hair but generally manages to get away. "The best way to catch skunks is with a dead fall made of a flat stone. You've got to use the steel trap with minks and otters, and you've got to be clever to fool them. It was some time after I began trapping before I got on to the tricks of the business. Henry Law of Chestnut Hill was about the most expert trapper I ever saw. I went out with him a number of times and each time I got more pointers than I ever got from all the other trappers I have known put together. "One day I came across the trail of a big mink over near the State line. There was plenty of evidence to show that he was a big one and after I tried every trick I knew of getting him into a trap, I came to the conclusion that the old critter was pretty wise. "I tried winding the jaws of the trap and covering the pan with grass to make it look like a small bog, which usually gets a mink, and I tried all kinds of bait, but that old mink either kept away or he succeeded in getting the bat without springing the trap. Henry Law and I talked it over one day and Henry said he'd like to try his hand against the mink. I was perfectly willing and in less than a week Henry had the pelt of that old ming stretched as tight as a drum head wrongside out on a board. "Later he told me how he got him. Just sat down and reasoned that old mink straight into the trap. Henry said that after I told him how I had tried to catch the mink he came to the conclusion that it wasn't any ordinary critter and probably the only way it ever would be caught would be by accident. * * * "Then he started to reason out some logical way for having a perfectly natural accident happen around his traps. We had tried coaxing that old mink up to the trap by putting bait close to it and it didn't work. Henry reasoned that if the bait was some distance away from the trap the mink might go after it. So he took a rabbit and hung it on a branch over the stream about four feet above the water. Then he put his traps in the stream under the bait. That old mink came along, saw the rabbit, looked around for the traps and couldn't find any; then made a spring for the rabbit and fill into the water plumb into the jaws of the traps. "Now that's what I call trapping. But we don't have many men like Henry Law. Why, a couple of years ago I taught a man a lot of things about the business. I wanted someone to help me out and we had planned that we'd trap together. "After I told him about everything I knew, he came around one day and said he guessed he wouldn't be able to help me out, that the work on the farm needed all his time, or something like that. A little later I found out that he was trapping in partnership with another fellow and that they were coming into my territory. "I had shown the man all my best places and nearly all my tricks, but it made me so mad when I saw what he did, that I made up my mind that I would get more than both of them put together. That first day after I started in I got five mink; the next day I got four; the third day I got three, besides eight or ten skunks. That season I got 47 mink, 36 'coons, a couple of hundred skunk and about 300 muskrat. It was one of the best reasons I have ever had. "What are the rules of trapping? There ain't none. Up in Maine or in any trapping country, where they know their business, one man never goes into the territory already taken by another unless he is invited or is looking for a lot of trouble. Up there, when a trapper finds someone else's traps in his territory he takes it for granted that the stranger might have set the trap without knowing that the territory was taken. "So the old trapper springs the trap and hangs it up on a tree. That is a polite invitation for the newcomer to get out. If the old trapper finds the trap set in the same place a second time he either carries it away or smashes it. The third time that a strange trap is found the stranger is pretty apt to be greeted with a handful of shot when he comes nosing around. "But down here, where there is less territory, everyone does about as he pleases. It wouldn't do any good to make a fuss when another fellow came prying into your territory. There's no use risking spoiling your good nature by starting a fight when a small hard pebble jammed good and hard under the pan of the trap will make it perfectly harmless and make the man who doesn't know his business cuss his luck instead of looking around to cuss you. * * * "This business is not as good as it was when I was a young man. Nowadays when trapper brings in a lot of pelts the buyer will look them over, and if he offers you a good price for skunks he tries to put the first grade in the second, and if he's perfectly honest about sorting the skins he will want you to almost give him the mink or otter skins you may have. "I used to ship all my skins, but I got over that. Now I either take them to the market myself and sell each kind to the man that offers the most, or I wait until a buyer comes along and I get my money when I deliver the hides. "I don't blame the buyers a whole lot for trying to drive sharp bargains. The trapper that's dishonest in the woods is pretty sure to be the same when he goes to town. One of my friends down at Providence was telling me about a trapper that used to bring in skins. The trapper seemed to have got religion pretty badly and every time he called to sell skins he used to quote passages from the Scripture. "As a general rule the skins are turned wrong side out when they are sold. The man that knows the fur business can tell what kind of a skin it is by looking at the inside just as well as if he saw the fur. Now, the price on skunks depends entirely upon the thickness of the hair and the way it is marked. An all black skunk or one with just a little white in stripes near its head, is a first. If the stripes extend pretty well Continued on Page Four. THIRD WEEK Votes for Women Campaign Enthusiasm Being Aroused by Workers The Votes for Women Automobile Tour continues to attract much attention in this county. The workers are very enthusiastic over the campaign and they are cordially received in every town they visit. The headquarters of the campaign will be at the Putnam House, Brooklyn, until the 2nd of July. The program for this week included the following meetings: Plainfield, Monday, June 29, 8 p.m. Babcock's hall. Canterbury, Tuesday, June 30. 8p.m. Methodist church. Brooklyn, Wednesday, July 1, 8p.m. Unitarian hall. Dayville, Thursday, July 2, 8 p. m. Webster's hall. This is a meeting which has been added to the schedule because of the interest with which several out-door meetings have been received in Dayville. Mrs. Eric Johnson of Putnam will act as chairman and Miss Pierson and Miss Gregory will speak. Eastford, Friday, July 3, 8 p. m. the Chapel. Warrenville, Friday, July 3, 8 p. m. Baker's hall. On July 4th the campaign workers are planning to devote themselves to out-door meetings in as many towns as possible. The meeting in Sterling on June 25 was held in the Wright club room which was filled to the doors. It is estimated that there were more than 200 people in the audience, some of whom stood on the stairs to hear the speakers, Miss Pierson and Miss Gregory. The Moosup meeting on the 26th was in Masonic hall. Miss Rosamond Danielson of Putnam Heights was chairman and the speakers were Miss Gregory, Miss Emily Pierson and Miss Curtis of California. Miss Curtis, who has lived in Idaho and California, has voted in two presidential elections and spoke of woman suffrage from the point of view of the woman voter. Besides the evening meetings on the schedule the campaigners hold several out-door meetings daily. They speak from the automobiles where ever an audience is available in the streets of any town they may be passing through. On Thursday afternoon, June 25, Mrs. John Evans Sheppard entertained some of the Woodstock ladies who are particularly interested in the suffrage movement at her new bungalow at South Woodstock. Miss Pierson addressed the gathering informally, after which it was voted to form the Woodstock Equal Franchise League. This is the third E. F. L. in Windham county, the first being the Putnam league and the second the Danielson league. The following officers were elected: President, Mrs. John E. Sheppard, South Woodstock. Vice president, Mrs. T. A. Turner, East Woodstock. Treasurer, Miss Insa L. Hinrichs, Woodstock. Secretary, Miss Anna Nelson, South Woodstock. Friday afternoon, June 56, Mrs. Rienzi Robinson, president of the Danielson E. F. L., invited the members of the league to a tea to meet Miss Pierson and her assistants on the campaign. Plainfield was invaded by the suffrage forces on Monday. A large crowd listened to the outdoor speaking at noon and in the evening Babcock's hall was filled with an audience of over 300 people. Miss Ann Kuttner presided. The speakers were Miss Alyse Gregory, Miss Freda Kirchway and Miss Vera Buck. Miss Buck is an enthusiastic suffragist who joined the campaign last week. She is a working girl and speaks of what equal suffrage will do for the working classes. Tuesday, June 30, the campaigners divided into two parties. One under the leadership of Miss Pierson held the meeting scheduled in Canterbury. The other party, led by Miss Gregory, held a large open air meeting In Central Village where a crowd of more than 200 people gathered to hear the speakers. The interest felt by the audience was evidenced by the number of questions WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE AUTO CAMPAIGN Campaigners in Southern Section of County Much Interest Aroused in the Movement The Votes for Women Automobile Tour left Putnam Monday after a very successful campaign in this vicinity. The gaily decorated card driven by the campaigners have been much in evidence all through the week. The colors used in the decorations are green, white and violet, whose significance, the workers say, is "Give Women Votes." The meeting on June 18 in South Woodstock was very enthusiastic. Phillips hall was crowded and there was standing room only. Miss Alyce Gregory was the chairman and introduced the speakers. Mrs. John Evans Sheppard of South Woodstock spoke convincingly of women's need of the vote and the community's need of women voters. Miss Emily Pierson gave a short address and answered questions on the subject of suffrage. The meeting in Odd Fellows' hall, Putnam, Friday evening, the 19th, was especially notable, as Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, president of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, was the principal speaker. Mrs. Hepburn has been heard in Putnam before, and received a cordial reception. Mrs. W. J. Bartlett, president of the Putnam E. F. L., was chairman of the meeting. Miss Emily Pierson, state organizer, also spoke. This week the campaign will have headquarters in Brooklyn at the Putnam House, where a number of automobile parties will join it for several days. Miss Theodate Pope of Farmington is planning to come in her car, and also Mrs. A. S. Pierson of Cromwell. During the week the following meetings were held: Pomfret, :Monday June 22, 8 p. m., Pomfret Neighborhood Association House. Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton and Miss Pierson were the speakers. Music by Pomfret Neighborhood orchestra. Dayville, Tuesday June 23, at noon, open air meeting. Abington, Tuesday June 23, 8 p m., Grange hall, Mrs. John Evans Sheppard speaker. Danielson, Tuesday June 23, 8 p. In., Orpheum theatre. Music was furnished by the St James band. East Woodstock, Wednesday June 24, 8 p. m., Society hall. Mrs. Sheppard and Miss Gregory speakers. This special meeting had been added to the program because of the great interest that has been shown in the campaign at the meetings held in West and South Woodstock. Sterling, Thursday June 25, 8 p. m., Wright club room. Moosup, Friday June 28, 8 p. m., Masonic hall. The executive board of the C. W. S. A. met Friday, June 19th, at the home of Mrs. R. P. Danielson at Putnam Heights, and were entertained at luncheon. Those present were Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, president; Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, vice president; Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett, treasurer; Miss Mabel C. Washburn, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Edward Porritt, press secretary; Dr. Esther B. Woodward, chairman of New London county; Miss Emily Pierson, Miss Alyce Gregory and Miss Rosamond Danielson. The Pomfret Neighborhood Association House was well filled Monday evening for the campaign meeting in Pomfret. Miss Boult introduced Miss Rosamond Danielson of Putnam Heights who acted as chairman of the meeting. The first speaker was Mrs. Carroll Miller of Providence, who is spending the summer in Pomfret. Mrs. Miller spoke convincingly on the subject of indirect influence which the women of Providence have found a poor substitute for the ballot in their' efforts to secure legislation for the protection of children. Miss Emily Pierson, the State Organizer, arrived from . Hartford in her automobile, just in time to address the meeting, speaking of the power for good that the vote would be in the hands of women. The campaign workers were entertained in Pomfret Monday night by Miss Boult and Miss Stevens, and Miss Margaret The meeting in Danielson Tuesday evening was especially successful. Mrs. Rienzi Robinson, president of the Danielson League, has been working for weeks preparing for the event, and the success was in a large part due to her efforts. The Orpheum theatre was crowded to the doors. It is estimated that there were over 600 people present, among whom were most of the representative people of the Borough, judges, lawyers, merchants, ministers and other prominent citizens. The St. James Band furnished excellent music before and after the speaking. Mrs. Robinson introduced the speaker of the evening, Miss Emily Pierson of Cromwell, telling briefly of her position in the suffrage work. Miss Pierson spoke eloquently and convincingly of Woman Suffrage as the next step forward in human progress. The meeting in East Woodstock Wednesday evening was one of the most picturesque and interesting in the whole campaign. The night was so warm that it was decided to have the speaking out of doors instead of in the Society Hall. Chairs were arranged on the Common and Miss Pierson brought her car in front of them for use as a platform, while the electric headlights of several other cars made an excellent spotlight for the speakers. It was a perfect starlight evening with countless fireflies in the grass, and the white church and spire as a background made the scene one of rare beauty. Miss Danielson of Putnam Heights introduced the speakers who were Mrs. John E. Sheppard of South Woodstock, W. J. Bartlett of Putnam, and Miss Pierson of Cromwell. Mrs. Sheppard spoke in part as follows: "One of the chief reasons why women are asking for the vote is because of the change in the work of the world which puts all women's responsibilities under the control of laws. In the olden days the preparation of foods and the making of clothes was done entirely in the home. Today all this is carried [?] that there were more than 200 people in the audience, some of whom stood on the stairs to hear the speakers, Miss Pierson and Miss Gregory. The Moosup meeting on the 26th was in Masonic hall. Miss Rosamond Danielson of Putnam Heights was chairman and the speakers were Miss Gregory, Miss Emily Pierson and Miss Curtis of California. Miss Curtis, who has lived in Idaho and California, has voted in two presidential elections and spoke of woman suffrage from the point of view of the woman voter. Besides the evening meetings on the schedule the campaigners hold several out-door meetings daily. They speak from the automobiles where ever an audience is available in the streets of any town they may be passing through. On Thursday afternoon, June 25, Mrs. John Evans Sheppard entertained some of the Woodstock ladies who are particularly interested in the suffrage movement at her new bungalow at South Woodstock. Miss Pierson addressed the gathering informally, after which it was voted to form the Woodstock Equal Franchise League. This is the third E. F. L. in Windham county, the first being the Putnam league and the second the Danielson league. The following officers were elected: President, Mrs. John E. Sheppard, South Woodstock. Vice president, Mrs. T. A. Turner, East Woodstock. Treasurer. Miss lnsa L. Hinrichs, Woodstock. Secretary, Miss Anna Nelson, South Woodstock. Friday afternoon, June 56, Mrs. Rienzi Robinson, president of the Danielson E. F. L., invited the members of the league to a tea to meet Miss Pierson and her assistants on the campaign. Plainfield was invaded by the suffrage forces on Monday. A large crowd listened to the outdoor speaking at noon and in the evening Babcock's hall was filled with an audience of over 300 people. Miss Ann Kuttner presided. The speakers were Miss Alyse Gregory, Miss Freda Kirchway and Miss Vera Buck. Miss Buck is an enthusiastic suffragist who joined the campaign last week. She is a working girl and speaks of what equal suffrage will do for the working classes. Tuesday, June 30, the campaigners divided into two parties. One under the leadership of Miss Pierson held the meeting scheduled in Canterbury. The other party, led by Miss Gregory, held a large open air meeting in Central Village where a crowd of more than 200 people gathered to hear the speakers. The interest felt by the audience was evidenced by the number of questions asked and the signatures obtained on the suffrage petition. At Canterbury the meeting was held in the Methodist church on the Plains, through the courtesy of the Rev. Mr. Speenli. The meeting was very well attended, as people came to it from Westminster as well as from Canterbury Green and the Plains. Miss Ann Kuttner acted as chairman and the speakers were Miss Pierson and Miss Vera Buck. The campaigners have been making their headquarters at the Putnam House, Brooklyn, and in the Unitarian hall in that village the first formal meeting was held Wednesday evening with a large attendance. People came in from the outlying districts to add numbers to those living in the village. Miss Rosamond Danielson was chairman and introduced the speakers after making a few remarks in opening. Miss Pierson, Miss Gregory and Mrs.Sheppard addressed the meeting in turn and they were listened to with close attention. After a continued campaign Thursday and Friday the ladies will redouble their efforts on the holiday and hold out-of-doors meetings in various places bringing to an end the third week of the campaign. also spoke. This week the campaign will have headquarters in Brooklyn at the Putnam House, where a number of automobile parties will join it for several days. Miss Theodate Pope of Farmington is planning to come in her car, and also Mrs. A. S. Pierson of Cromwell. During the week the following meetings were held: Pomfret, Monday June 22, 8 p. m., Pomfret Neighborhood Association House. Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton and Miss Pierson were the speakers. Music by Pomfret Neighborhood or-chestra. Dayville, Tuesday June 23, at noon, open air meeting. Abington, Tuesday June 23, 8 p m., Grange hall, Mrs. John Evans Sheppard speaker. Danielson, Tuesday June 23, 8 p. m., Orpheum theatre. Music was furnished by the St James band. East Woodstock, Wednesday June 24, 8 p. m., Society hall. Mrs. Sheppard and Miss Gregory speakers. This special meeting had been added to the program because of the great interest that has been shown in the campaign at the meetings held in West and South Woodstock. Sterling, Thursday June 25, 8 p. m., Wright club room. Moosup, Friday June 26, 8 p. m., Masonic hall. The executive board of the C. W. S. A. met Friday, June 19th, at the home of Mrs. R. P. Danielson at Putnam Heights, and were entertained at luncheon. Those present were Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, president; Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, vice president; Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett. treasurer; Miss Mabel C. Washburn, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Edward Porritt, press secretary; Dr. Esther B. Woodward, chairman of New London county; Miss Emily Pierson, Miss Alyson Gregory and Miss Rosamond Danielson. The Pomfret Neighborhood Association House was well filled Monday evening for the campaign meeting in Pomfret. Miss Boult introduced Miss Rosamond Danielson of Putnam Heights who acted as chairman of the meeting. The first speaker was Mrs. Carroll Miller of Providence, who is spending the summer in Pomfret. Mrs. Miller spoke convincingly on the subject of indirect influence which the women of Providence have found a poor substitute for the ballot in their efforts to secure legislation for the protection of children. Miss Emily Pier-son, the State Organizer, arrived from Hartford in her automobile, just in time to address the meeting, speaking of the power for good that the vote would be in the hands of women. The campaign workers were entertained in Pomfret Monday night by Miss Boult and Miss Stevens, and Miss Margaret Peck. On Monday evening the films of the Hartford Suffrage Parade were shown at the Orpheum theatre in Danielson. Miss Alyse Gregory gave a short explanation of the parade before the pictures. Miss Gregory was entertained by Mrs Rienzi Kobinson while she was in Danielson. Tuesday was a particularly busy day for the campaigners. Outdoor meetings were held at noon in Dayville, and two large meetings in the evening, one in Danielson and one in Abington. The Abington meeting was in Grange hall at 8 p. m. Miss Freda Kirchway was chairman of the evening. Mrs. Carroll Miller spoke of women's need for the vote. Mrs. John Evans Sheppard gave an excellent address on the justice of the women's demand for the ballot, and Miss Alyce Gregory told of the progress that women have made in the past century. The meeting in Danielson Tuesday evening was especially successful. Mrs. Rienzi Robinson, president of the Danielson League, has been working for weeks preparing for the event, and the success was in a large part due to her efforts. The Orpheum theatre was crowded to the doors. It is estimated that there were over 600 people present, among whom were most of the representative people of the Borough, judges, lawyers, merchants, ministers and other prominent citizens. The St. James Band furnished excellent music before and after the speaking. Mrs. Robinson introduced the speaker of the evening, Miss Emily Pierson of Cromwell, telling briefly of her position in the suffrage work. Miss Pierson spoke eloquently and convincingly of Woman Suffrage as the next step forward in human progress. The meeting in East Woodstock Wednesday evening, was one of the most picturesque and interesting in the whole campaign. The night was so warm that it was decided to have the speaking out of doors instead of in the Society Hall. Chairs were arranged on the Common and Miss Pierson brought her car in front of them for use as a platform, while the electric headlights of several other cars made an excellent spotlight for the speakers. It was a perfect starlight evening with countless fireflies in the grass, and the white church and spire as a back-ground made the scene one of rare beauty. Miss Danielson of Putnam Heights introduced the speakers who were Mrs. John E. Sheppard of South Woodstock, W. J. Bartlett of Putnam, and Miss Pierson of Cromwell. Mrs. Sheppard spoke in part as follows: "One of the chief reasons why women are asking for the vote is because of the change in the work of the world which puts all women's responsibilities under the control of laws. In the olden days the preparation of foods and the making of clothes was done entirely in the homes. Today all this is carried on in the great mills and factories and the housekeepers who are trying to do their duty by their homes need a voice in the laws of the city and state in which they live. Very few of us here tonight who do not buy food and clothes made under conditions about which we know absolutely nothing. The clothes may come germ laden from the sweat shops of New York city. Our food may be prepared in dirty factories. If women could vote inspectors would be provided to carry out women's wishes in regard to the conditions under which these essentials of their home life are prepared. Women need the vote too in order to protect their children. In the modern city the child is subject to many undesirable surroundings. Only a few of the wealthiest people can really provide healthful influences for their children." MY NEIGHBOR'S WIFE by Hazel Canning NARROW IS THE PATH The old time religion, it is good enough for me. - Revivalist Hymn. Once a daughter was leaving her mother's house to go out into the world and Become Somebody. Her mother, at the door, took the sweet, young face betwen her hands and kissed it. "Be careful - how you paddle the little canoe," said she, "Woman's place is the home, but if you remain in the home, you will starve, my daughter. Remember - outside, in the world, they say and do strange things - different from home." "Yes, precious." "You have possibilities," said the mother, "And a good deacon for a grandfather. But, at times you are erratic. Take care, little daughter - Prove the New." They kissed and parted. ______ Then, taking up the Zest for Life, panting for the Original, with Hope and Great Expectation, she went forth. A dangerous combination, little wife of my neighbor. But I forgot to mention that the girl also took, against her will, a few grains of New England Common Sense. And in the morning she knocked at the gates of the City. "Let me in, " she pleaded, "I am young." "That alone will not suffice." "Let me in, for I am strong - " "Strength alone will not - " "Let me in," she pleaded from the depths of her heart, "there is work that I can do better than the average - And for success I will make concessions." "If you can indeed work better than the average - concessions are not necessary," the city answered her back. So she entered, to prove her might. ______ Now there roam abroad, in the city, Ravening Wolves, Exponents of the New Thought, crying the call of the Larger Lust, misnaming it "love" and "freedom." And, so soon as the little daughter had painted one picture worth while, there came to her, a devil's disciple, who poured Strange Talk into her ears. "Women," said the Broad-Minded friend, "women are six to every man in Massachusetts - now five - " "Well," said the young artist, "Will you trip up that sixth man for me?" "Your work," said the older woman, "is cold - emasculated. A woman must really live - to paint." "Remember George Sand, Lucietia Borgia and Cleopatra - Re- tion-" inute. "Perhaps you are right," married!" the other answered, "in the old- -" ," said the Apostle of the Danger- ot her?" _____ of which I have spoken, at times he young and inexperienced. So, who became my neighbor's wife too squeamish. said she to herself, "it must be friend." at the picture which did not mean ght, she met Mr. Perceval Strong Eleventh Page.) the Spur e Moment Roy K. Moulton pianola in the Miss Emily Pierson and Other Speakers. Upon invitation, Miss Emily Pierson of Cromwell will speak on Woman Suffrage at Wolf Den grange, Friday evening, April 24th. Other speakers will be Miss Pierson and Miss Fisher of New York. The same ladies will speak at an afternoon tea given in their honor in Odd Fellows' hall Saturday afternoon, the 25th, at 3 o'clock. There will be special music by grades six and seven of Israel Putnam school. The speakers will go to Pomfret in the evening where they will address an audience in the Community House. - The Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association is planning a Votes for Women pageant and parade for Saturday, May 2d, in Hartford. Representatives from the suffrage societies in all parts of the state will march in the parade, and it is expected that a large delegation will go from the local Equal Franchise League. There was a good attendance at the lecture on Woman Suffrage given in the Grange Hall Friday evening by Miss Pierson of Hartford. Miss Pierson is a talented and convincing speaker and nearly all present signed the petition to the Legislature asking for Equal Franchise. Miss Danielson of Putnam Heights, County Chairman, and Mrs. Bartlett, President of the Equal Franchise League of Putnam occupied the platform with her and spoke briefly on the subject. "How shall I really live?" asked the young artist. MRS. MARY J. ROGERS AGAIN LEADS LOCAL WOMEN SUFFRAGISTS Meriden Political Equality Club Honors Valiant Leader of Local Forces - Mrs. Rogers Predicts Campaign in Connecticut at Present Legislature. The annual meeting of the Meriden Political Equality club was held Monday afternoon in the Lewis hall of the City Mission building and with enthusiasm featuring the entire proceeding of the session every member departed with the hopes for equal suffrage raised much higher than ever before. The meeting was very well attended. Mrs. Mary J. Rogers was again elected president, the unanimous vote of acclamation proving a worthy testimonial to her ability as a leader for the local supporters of woman suffrage. Social Hour Enjoyed. Mrs. Rogers has been president of the local club for some years and has witnessed a steady growth, under her guidance, from a small group of earnest contenders for equal suffrage to the present strong organization of which the Meriden Political Equality club can rightfully boast. Upon the completion of the election of officers, remarks were made by the ladies return to office, the prospects of waging a strong campaign at the 1915 legislature thoroughly discussed and a social hour followed the business meeting. The hostesses for this afternoon tea were Mrs. John Beattie, Mrs. Charles Perry, Mrs. George Banner and Mrs. Herbert Benvie. Election of Officers. The officers elected at the annual meeting of the club were as follows: President--Mrs. Mary J. Rogers. Vice president--Mrs. Lillian Perry. Second vice president — Mrs. Elizabeth Banner. Third vice president — Mrs. Ada Krahl. Recording secretary — Mrs. Elwood Yale. Treasurer— Mrs. Rose Q. Gillette. Standing Committees. The standing committees were selected and the chairman were appointed as follows: Literature, Mrs. Agnes Butler; social, Mrs. Margaret Beattie; lecture, Mrs. Catherine Benvie; press, Mrs. Frances W. Hammond. It was announced to the club that the lecture committee had arranged to have Mrs. E. O. Parker of New Haven, a prominent member of the Social Hygiene society of Connecticut, lecture before the local club on the subject: The Two Standards of Morality." The approaching lecturer was spoken of very highly and all members requested to attend this event which will be held on Monday afternoon, February 8, a regular meeting day of the club. Parody Makes War Song. One of the most interesting features of the afternoon's program was the rendition of a vocal selection, by Mrs. Nellie Rule Arnold. The words for the song were the composition of President Mrs. Mary J. Rogers and the tune was the present-day favorite: "Tipperary." The verse was sung by Mrs. Arnold while all joined in when the chorus was reached. The words: "It's been a long way to Woman Suffrage, It's been a long way to go, It's been a long way to Woman Suffrage, For any state we know. So it's goodbye old creeds and way-backs, For full suffrage we only care. It's been a long way to Woman Suffrage, But Connecticut's most there." President Addresses Club. President Mrs. Rogers delivered a very interesting and instructive address during the meeting. She reviewed in some detail the work the club had accomplished the past year and stated she felt confident the coming 12 months would unfold more for the cause of woman suffrage than any particular year has developed since the equal suffrage was made a common cause by the feminine sex. In part, Mrs. Rogers said: "The nation-wide suffrage amendment was debated at the present congress for the first time on the floor of the house of representatives. The debate was extremely interesting and educational and the amount of public interest shown was most encouraging. The amendment did not pass of course for, indeed, no one expected it would on this attempt. However, the vote was a splendid endorsement of our efforts and great for a starter. "Now, as time rolls on, we shall watch the vote in favor grow. The amendment received a majority vote recently in the United States senate and a change of 16 votes would have placed a different complexion upon matters in the house of representatives. The suffragists have every reason to feel elated and encouraged over the prospects and the showing made during the debate while, on the other hand, the anti-suffragists must certainly feel ashamed of the vulgarity exhibited by some of their supporters. "In Connecticut it appears as if we will carry the fight in the house this year as the men will think it is a good sop. Then, when we get no results, we shall again bring it to our state legislature in two years, and put up a battle in both branches of the state's law-making establishment. Those states having equal suffrage cast practically a solid vote in favor of the national amendment. The men, who had witnessed the practical demonstration of the beneficial results in permitting women to vote, have testified strongly in behalf of equal suffrage and wish to see it spread all over our broad land." Miss Emily Pierson and Other Speakers. Upon invitation, Miss Emily Pierson of Cromwell will speak on Woman Suffrage at Wolf Den grange, Friday evening, April 24th. Other speakers will be Miss Pierson and Miss Fisher of New York. The same ladies will speak at an afternoon tea given in their honor in Odd Fellows' hall Saturday afternoon, the 25th, at 3 o'clock. There will be special music by grades six and seven of Israel Putnam school. The speakers will go to Pomfret in the evening where they will address an audience in the Community house. —The Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association is planning a Votes for Women pageant and parade for Saturday, May 2d, in Hartford. Representatives from the suffrage societies in all parts of the state will march in the parade, and it Is expected that a large delegation will go from the local Equal Franchise League. There was a good attendance at the lecture on Woman Suffrage given in the Grange Hall Friday evening by Miss Pierson of Hartford. Miss Pierson is a talented and convincing speaker and nearly all present signed the petition to the Legislature asking for Equal Franchise. Miss Danielson of Putnam Heights, County Chairman, and Mrs. Bartlett, President of the Equal Franchise League of Putnam occupied the platform with her and spoke briefly on the subject. 22 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1914. SUFFRAGIST TELLS PRESIDENT THEY HAD HOPED HE FAVORED THEIR CAUSE AT THE TIME HE WAS "GUNNING FOR VOTES" WE DEMAND AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ENFRANCHISING WOMEN SUFFRAGISTS' PARADE EN ROUTE FROM PUBLIC LIBRARY TO WHITE HOUSE. Two of the leaders of the delegation of three hundred working women from ten Eastern States who paraded to the White House to petition the President to aid the cause of suffrage, and the marching cohorts as they appeared on their way to the mansion, where they waited outside while four of their number formally addressed Mr. Wilson in an effort to obtain from him an expression favorable to their cause. After the President had refused to commit himself, he expressed a desire to shake hands with the marchers. MISS ROSE WINSLOW Mr. Wilson Tells Working Women's Delegation He Cannot Aid Them. CANNOT COMMIT PARTY Mrs. Glendowen Evans Reminds Him That as a Candidate He Seemed Almost on Their Side. HERALD BUREAU No. 1,502 H STREET, N.W. WASHINGTON, D.C., Monday President Wilson to-day engaged in a sharp discussion of his stand on the suffrage question with Mrs. Glendowen Evans of Boston, who led 300 working women from ten Eastern States to the White House to ask for the ballot. When Mr. Wilson explained that he could do nothing to aid their cause Mrs. Evans reminded him of an interview she had with him at Sea Girt, N. J., when he was a candidate for the presidency. "You seemed then, Mr. President, to go so far in advance of what had been said on the subject as to lead us to believe that you were almost on our side," she said. "We had hoped that you would go the whole way." "But then, you see," the President said, "I was speaking as an individual" - "Yet, at that time," Mrs. Evans replied, "you were gunning for votes." President Corrects Her. "I was making an appeal to the voters," Mr. Wilson hastened. "Yes, you were doing it in a way that we all admired." "But now," said the President, "I cannot speak for the party on the subject." "We don't ask you to speak for the party," was the rejoinder. "We ask you to speak to the party." "Now, I should be delighted to shake hands with your entire delegation," said Mr. Wilson, cutting off further discussion. Following a morning mass meeting the suffrage delegation, made up of working women entirely, marched down Pennsylvania avenue to the White House. The band, in the lead, played the wartime air, "The Marsaillaise." Two women at the head of the delegation carried a huge banner bearing the words: - "We demand an amendment of the constitution of the United States enfranchising women." Other banners in the procession were quotations from "The New Freedom," a book of campaign speeches by Mr. Wilson. Then came delegations from Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Virginia and West Virginia. These were divided into delegations of corset makers, factory workers, government clerks, stenographers, waitresses, shopgirls, white goods workers, book binders, hosiery weavers, carpet weavers and laundry workers. Secret Service men in front of the President's offices halted the procession and announced that the committee selected would be admitted. The others waited outside. President Is Cordial. President Wilson greeted the women warmly. Besides Mrs. Evans, the spokesman, the other speakers were Miss Margaret Hinchey, Miss Rose Schneiderman, Miss Melinda Scott and Miss Rose Winslow. Each told Mr. Wilson that working women everywhere desire the ballot and that they looked to him to advocate their cause. "You're a good dimocrat," said Miss Hinchey, who spoke with a marked Irish accent. She is a laundry worker. "You're on th' square and on th' level- there can be no dimocracy until everybody votes." Mr. Wilson told the women that the delegation had made a profound impression upon him, but that because of his position he could not act. He cited the fact that the democratic party has not indorsed woman suffrage and that he could not speak as an individual. This is the position he took several weeks ago when a delegation of women, led by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, called at the White House. At that time he made clear that he intended to recommend nothing to Congress that was not indorsed in the democratic platform. When Mr. Wilson expressed the desire to shake hands with the women waiting outside they filed through his office. Representative A. Mitchell, of Pennsylvania, chairman of the democratic caucus of the House, announced to-night that a democratic caucus on the question of creating a committee on woman suffrage will be held Wednesday night. Fifty-one members signed the petition, which resulted from the refusal of the Rules Committee to report out a resolution in favor of this committee. A warm contest is looked for, because of the fact that the House leaders understand that President Wilson is opposed to woman suffrage, while many democrats contend that opposition to this proposition will hamper democratic candidates for Congress at the next election. MISS MARGARET HINCHEY NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1914. EMPLOYMENT BUREAUS. Help Wanted - Females. BERTA CARLSON'S Agency. 2,494 Broadway, corner 93d st. - Cooks, chambermaids, waitresses, general houseworkers. COOKS, chambermaids, parlormaid, family Baltimore; waitresses, laundresses, country; couples, Jacquin's, 602 6th av. LIDA SEELY, Inc., Agency, 38 West 52d (Plaza - 2302). - Cooks, $35; Swedish kitchenmaid, young lady's maids; all nationalities; waitresses; Protestant nurses. WAITRESS, parlormaid, well trained, with good references; English, Scotch or Irish; city. Call Tuesday, Miss Lacy, agency, 15 West 38th st. SITUATIONS WANTED - MALES. ACCOUNTANT, 11 years' experience, three years each manufacturing and banking, five years woodworking; competent, energetic, ambitious; capable correspondent; Christian; liberal education. If character and ability are worth $28 to you please address R. M., 501 Herald. ACCOUNTANT, expert; part time engagements at reasonable charge; modern systems installed; income tax and financial statements prepared. Stevens, 135 West 80th. ACCOUNTANT. - Thoroughly competent office man of exceptional ability and experience desires active, responsible position only. Reliable, 423 Herald Downtown. ACCOUNTANT expert, opens and closes books, prepares financial statements. A. E., 187 Herald Harlem. AGENCY WANTED. TWO BROTHERS, ENERGETIC, HUSTLING LIVE WIRES, SEVEN YEARS' EXPERIENCE AS AGENTS FOR RAMESES CIGARETTES, DESIRE AGENCY FOR ANY FIRST CLASS ARTICLE OF MERIT, HERE OR ABROAD. ADDRESS B.T., 362 HERALD. A young man, about 30, desires to connect with either steel concern or general contractor; 12 years' experience two of largest steel companies in New York as draughtsman, estimator and contract man. E. L., 470 Herald. AM capable of rendering efficient service any important position; now assistant executive officer prominent corporation; 15 years with present employers; change advisable; conversant with secretarial duties; possess executive ability and initiative; age 30. M., 150 Herald Downtown. AMBITIOUS, well educated, energetic young man (22), possessing unquestionable references, desires employment with firm or corporation who will appreciate his efforts and offer future opportunity. K., 428 Herald Downtown. A young man with 12 years' experience in accounting, credits and collection of accounts, an able correspondent, possessing executive ability, desires position as an assistant to busy man; credentials excellent. L. G., 160 Herald Downtown. ADVERTISING. - YOUNG MAN, experienced as reporter, desires connection with agency, newspaper or firm; can write. Address Van, 170 Herald. AUDITOR. Young man (26), Christian, very rapid figurer, good penman; experienced at timekeeping and payrolls; references. Fred Wein, 277 East 143d. ATTENDANT, 26, invalid or mental case; competent nurse; excellently recommended. Williams, 107 East 28th. AMERICAN, single (33), wants work at anything; have four years' experience as chauffeur. C. A., 214 Herald. ATTENDANT (DIPLOMA) seeks position; first class references. Ruloff, 684 Lexington av., city. A boy wishes position at anything; with reference. Leo Kipp, 553 West 37th st. BARKEEPER. 35, single. German-Austrian, reliable, experienced in every detail; A1 city reference, desires steady position. A. S. 127 Herald Downtown. BARTENDER, married (35), quick, close mixer; city, country; reference. McIntyre, 617 West 135th st. BARKEEPER, competent young man, close mixer, wishes steady position; first class references, Malone, 231 8th st., Brooklyn. BARTENDER (34), downtown experience, good appearance, steady, reliable; reference. Fischer, [?] East 76th st. SITUATIONS WANTED - MALES. BOOKKEEPER, stenographer; will make good where industry, ability, intelligence essential; small salary. F., 1,731 Pitkin av., Brooklyn. BOOKKEEPER, experienced; card, voucher, safeguard and controlling accounts; excellent references. Roland, 145 West 117th. BOOKKEEPER'S assistant, 19, two years' business experience; good penman; accurate, honest; salary $7; best references. S. Berg, 41 East 4th st. BOOKKEEPER, double entry, cashier, wants position evenings. D. E., 161 Herald Harlem. BOY, 15, graduate, bright, willing, desires position in office where there is a chance to advance. Thomas McKeone, 558 8th av. BOY, 16, refined, Christian; make himself generally useful; school graduate. Thompson, 225 Herald Downtown. BOY; one year's experience; good penmanship; figurer; reliable, clean cut. F. G., 444 Herald Downtown. BOY (18) desires position in office; good writer, willing; Christian. Fred Mayer, 314 West 120th st., New York city. BOY, 15, graduate, wishes position in office. Geo. Kuebler, 135 West 104th. BOY, 18, strong, desires position in shipping department. Protz, 428 East 85th st. BOY, 17, Christian, school graduate, A1 references, wishes position. Mertens, 632 2d av. BOY (18) wishes position, generally useful, Henry Hartman, 56 East 104th st. BOY wishes position after school; good reference. Mitchell, 208 West 60th st. BOY (18), high school graduate, desires position at anything. Morris Scholsberg. 174 Eldridge st. BRIGHT young man (19) desires position with advancement; one year's office experience; can furnish A1 reference. J. L. 17 Herald Downtown. BUTLER OR VALET (Swede) wishes position in private family; thoroughly experienced; personal recommendation. J. Nelson, 102 Lexington av., city. BUTLER, valet; married couple; wife, Swedish cook, housekeeper; thoroughly competent take full charge bachelor's apartment; wages $100. Butler, 242 East 60th. BUTLER, valet, German (29) wishes position, private family; experienced, competent, neat, sober; excellent references. Gustav, 979 2d av., restaurant. BUTLER, competent; good disposition; do valet under any circumstances, understands plain cooking; highly recommended; good home preferred. Japanese. 910 9th av. BUTLER, cook, French, best French-American cook, desserts, first, houseworker; take charge entire small family; personal references. Paul, 269 West 39th. BUTLER. - Butler or as butler and valet by young German; speak good English; steady, sover, reliable and willing; good reference. S. C. H., 186 Herald. BUTLER. - Well trained young Englishman would like situation as useful butler; excellent personal and written references. Address Simmons, 308 Herald. BUTLER, useful over five years' city reference; disengaged when suited; good waiter, plate cleaner, salad, furnace; state wages; town or country. Butler, 799 Park av. BUTLER, working, German, English training, honest, sober; best references; salary $65-70. Letters, box 622. Advertising Agency, 1,464 3d av. BUTLER, valet, competent every way, desires work; excellent references; good man. Britton, 865 East 178th. BUTLER, valet, English, thoroughly experienced; age 32, height 5 feet 9; good long reference; disengaged when suited. Douglas. 150 East 60th. BUTLER, VALET, first class, educated, best references, wishes position. Address Reliable. 169 Herald. BUTLER, valet, useful (26), soer, honest, willing, competent, neat; best references. Industrious. 166 Herald. BUTLER; willing, useful, experience; city references; wages $35-40. Butler, 1,087 Lexington av. 'Phone, 2578 - Lenox. BUTLER valet, French; thoroughly experienced in all duties; eight years last place; city personal references. V. Louis, 143 West 63d st. BUTLER; thoroughly experienced, competent; willing, neat, useful houseman; excellent references. Kasbar, 914 2d av. BUTLER, valet, English, wants place in country, age 32, height 5 feet 9; good reference; disengaged when suited. Simpson, 136 Herald. BUTLER, valet. French. 45, wishes position with good family; 12 years' experience America; long reference. Ft., 109 West 54th. BUTLER, valet, long experience, wants position; city references; sober. J. B., 140 Herald. BUTLER, valet, young Irishman; good reference, G. R., 238 Herald. BY an expert scale maker; can repair all kinds of scales. Scales, 200 Herald. CABINETMAKER and French polisher, first class expert mechanic, wishes job from private parties. Jozsy, 1,038 Lexington av. Telephone, 8404 - Lenox. CHAUFFEUR, GERMAN; EXCELLENT MECHANIC; CAREFUL DRIVER; SEVEN YEARS' EXPERIENCE; FOREIGN, AMERICAN CARS; BEST REFERENCES; WAGES MODERATE. MEYER, 531 WEST 135TH. CHAUFFEUR, mechanician, German, married, no children, sober, trustworthy, understands all repairs, seven years' experience, two years' experience in first class auto factory, five years in highest, refined family, best references, wishes position in refined family. Carl M. Muller, 319 Jefferson st., Brooklyn. CHAUFFEUR-MACHINIST WISHES POSITION; TEN YEARS' EXPERIENCE; DOES ALL REPAIRS AND OVERHAULING; REFERENCES. SITUATIONS WANTED - MALES. COACHMAN, GARDENER, GENERAL USEFUL: understands care automobiles; married, no family. P. D., 832 Bay st., Sapleton, Staten Island. COLLECTOR. - Young man, 24, desires position as collector; first class references; willing to give bond or security. A. Nicletti, 776 7th av. COLLECTOR: real estate or other business; best of reference can be furnished. Write A. D., 148 Columbus av. COMPANION. - Young man (27), refined, of good appearance, willing and obliging, high class references, wishes position as travelling companion. Irving Wallace, 229 West 23d st., city. COOK or butler, reliable, sober, middle aged, speaks Italian, French, English, in private or small family hotel; respectable house preferred to high wages. Address C. C., box 581 Herald. COOK. - Excellent cook and useful man, private family; city or country; moderate wages; reference. Francois, 136 East 26th st. COOK. valet, butler, Chinese, first class, long experience bachelor apartment, desires position; take entire charge. W. W., 235 West 71st. COOK, butler, Japanese, wishes position cook, butler, small family; references. Masuta, 139 West 123d. COOK. - Corean wants position as cook and houseman in private family; honest, industrious; wages $25 to $30 month. Address 12 Mott st. COOK. - Colored man wishes position in private family; do plain cooking and general housework; reference; city. Young. 422 West 52d. COOK. - Competent woman as cook or houseworker; sleep home. 424 West 56th, top floor. COUPLE, German, desire positions in country; reliable, willing; seamstress, lady's maid, chambermaid; good references; all around man for light work, handy with tools, caretaker, poultry; good home for high salary. Schmeisser, 417 East 162 st., Bronx. COUPLE, cook, laundress, housework, useful, handy man; all work; together; large or small place; gardening, horses, cows, poultry; make all repairs, plumbing, carpentry, &c.; capable, conscientious workers; best references, character, ability. Butler, 351 West 19th. COUPLE, American, desire positions, city or country; useful, butler; wife good cook, baker; or entire work small family; can handle horse steam or dry heat. &c.; have girl aged 13; best references. G. C., 438 Herald. COUPLE. Belgians; man chauffeur and be useful; do own running repairs; wife chambermaid or laundress; good references; country preferred. John Gielen, 341 West 34th st. COUPLE. ENGLISH, EXPERIENCED, CHAUFFEUR AND EXCELLENT COOK; EXCEPTIONAL REFERENCES; NO WASHING. CHAUFFEUR, 258 HERALD. COUPLE wish positions private family; man chauffeur; own repairs; careful driver; wife seamstress, lady's maid; references; country preferred. P. R., 303 West 50th st. COUPLE. German; good butler, houseworker; wife fine cook, baker, good manager, or chambermaid; small family or bachelors. Michalik, 327 East 57th. COUPLE, first class Swedish cook, butler, valet; bachelor or small family; wages $100; highest recommendations; capable. Reliable, 247 East 61st st. COUPLE, GERMAN, FIRST CLASS; MAN BUTLER; wife cook; references; wages $80 to $90. Butler, 316 Herald. COUPLE, German; wife good cook, laundress; man butler, general houseworker; city, country, L. P. K., 24 East 31st st. COUPLE, as butler and cook, English, in good private family; experience; good references. Apply Tuck. 405 Herald. COUPLE, German: butler, valet, houseworker; absolutely excellent cook, laundress; references. Reimer. Telephone. 3882 - Plaza. COUPLE, colored, wish situations, private family; wife first class cook, man useful butler; good references; city, country. L. K., 237 West 37th. COUPLE. - Colored couple wish positions in private family; city, country. Felton, 171 West 81st, basement. COUPLE; man, useful; wife laundress; best references; city or country. C. Spong, 218 Herald. COUPLE wish positions, country; man gardener, wife cook. J. S., 246 West 14th. COUNTRY. - Englishman (38) wishes position on gentleman's estate; all around man; good references. Robert, 508 Herald. CREDIT man, office manager, 10 years' experience, desires connection where ability will be recognized; expert stenographer, bookkeeper. Reliable, 463 Herald Downtown. DOCTOR'S student (21), desirous studying medicine, wishes situation with physician, sanitarium; can take charge office; best references. D. A., 506 Herald. DOORMAN OR DAY WATCHMAN, IN COMMERCIAL HOUSE; HIGHEST REFERENCES. SITUATIONS WANTED - MALES. JANITOR wants position; do all repairs; best references. M. Kaers, 39 East 27th. JAPANESE, butler, valet, also cook, thoroughly capable, dependable, agreeable disposition, sober, wishes position in small family or bachelor apartment; long experience; good personal references. Hiroshima, 205 East 60th. JAPANESE couple want position in small private family or entire charge of apartment except laundry; city; man cook, wife waitress and chambermaid; best references. Mass, 184 High st., Brooklyn. JAPANESE, electrical graduate in this country, practical experience of three years with big manufacturing company, wants some position; good reference. J. E., 100 Herald Harlem. JAPANESE, experienced cook, secure position small family, with few hours to spare in afternoon; highest reference. Answer letters only, Omato, care of Mr. Canaglio, 326 West 33d. JAPANESE couple desire positions; experienced butler, valet, and cook; wife Swedish; willing entire charge; excellent references. Couple, 47 Prospect Place, Manhattan. JAPANESE, first class laundryman, to do finest, all kind hard work, wants position in private family; city or country; has highest reference. Tanaka, 47 Prospect place, Manhattan. JAPANESE, first class cook, general houseworker; small family; speaks English. Address Tokio, 507 Amsterdam av. Telephone, 7383 - Schuyler. JAPANESE chef, thoroughly competent, wishes position in hotel, club or private family; city, country; good reference. S.O., 177 West 97th st. JAPANESE, young, wishes permanent position as useful butler or housework; small wages; good reference. Sindo, 58 Sands st., Brooklyn. JAPANESE, all around cook, baker, wishes position; private family; reference. H., 368 West 57th. JAPANESE wants position at general housework in family. N. S., 47 Prospect place, New York city. JAPANESE desires position as houseman; take care gentleman's clothes. Okuzaki, 798 Lexington av. JAPANESE valet, butler, cook, experience; honest, sober; personal city reference. Massa. 278 Herald. JAPANESE boy wants position in family to help housework. Hori, 102 West 123d. JAPANESE student wants position; will do good cooking. Watari, 571 West 159th st. MAN (35), married, reliable, trustworthy, German-American, wishes position at anything; understands shipping; best references. Neumann, 249 State st., Brooklyn. MAN, neat, would like position as OUTSIDE MAN or INVESTIGATOR. D. McVeigh, 432 West 125th st., city. MAN, wants position, gentleman's place; horse, gardening, milker, &c.; best reference. Useful, 300 Herald. MAN. German, handy at anything, wishes position private country place; small pay; references. Address C., 852 Columbus av. MAN, elderly, wishes situation. Russian bath box keeper. M. G., 886 9th av. MECHANIC, experienced automobile and truck man, good driver, licensed, desires position either shop or driving; excellent references. P. K., box 117 Herald. OFFICE assistant (18) desires position with reliable concern; three years' experience; knowledge of bookkeeping; neat, accurate. Jos. Shapiro, 809 Freeman st., Bronx. ORGANIST and choirmaster of experience is desirous of securing a position in New York or its vicinity; choir work and boys' voices a specialty; churchman; highest references. Address Organist, 14 Herald Downtown. PAINTER, kalsominer, American, active, desires employment, day work or estimates. George, 355 Herald. PAYROLL and office clerk, age 21, business college graduate, three years' experience; best references; salary $14. A. Lennon, 214 Sandford st, Brooklyn. PHYSICIAN REGISTERED NEW YORK, desires position as assistant or any work in medical line. Address R. G., 172 Herald. PLAYER Piano. - Young man, first class in installing Cheney action and also in player actions, wishes position in factory or warehouse. G. R., 1,800 Park av., New York. PORTER. - Competent colored man, hard worker, reliable, reference. porter or elevator building. Joseph, 34 West 131st. Harlem - 5370. PORTER. - Married man wishes position as porter or anything. S. Morkovetz, 161 East 53d. POULTRYMAN, expert, with 10 years' experience in producing a vigorous winter laying utility stock and high grade exhibition birds, is [?] Herald. SITUATIONS WANTED - MALES. THE 79TH ST. SETTLEMENT, 232 East 79th st., asks for work for some of its boys, whom it can confidently recommend; they are from 15 to 18 years old, well developed, intelligent, capable and of good habits; they would willingly take any kind of work and do it faithfully. Telephone, Lenox - 1939. UPHOLSTERER, experienced, works at private residences; every description of furniture, couches re-covered, reupholstered; box springs re-made; references. Freedman, 471 Amsterdam av. UPHOLSTERER, experienced, works at private residences; every description of furniture, couches re-covered, reupholstered; box springs re-made; references. Freedman, 471 Amsterdam av. UPHOLSTERER, steady job, hotel or club; best hotel references; city, country. Upholsterer, 393 Herald. USEFUL second man, understands all kind housework, pressing clothes, care of silver, rugs, floors, steam heat, desires steady position; first class references. Paul Wolff, 262 West 37th st. USEFUL butler, 23, refined, obliging, reliable; long experience; satisfactory every respect; excellent city references. Melik, 110 Lexington av. 'Phone, 7299 - Madison. USEFUL man, German, middle age, wishes position in private family; thoroughly experienced; good references. Henry, 114 West 84th, care Henehan. USEFUL man, strictly sober; reliable houseman and valet, no waiting, wishes position; best reference. Wendell, 239 East 32d st. USEFUL houseman (28) in private family; thoroughly experienced; willing, obliging; best references; city, country; wages $30. B., 178 Herald. USEFUL man; thoroughly understands duties, waiting, silver; good reference. A. B., 310 Herald. USEFUL man wishes position; good references; Swede. Address 204 East 126th st., care Holst. USEFUL man, willing and obliging; best references. Frank, care stationery, 816 6th av. USEFUL man, willing and obliging; best references. T. D., 24 East 40th. VALET, Nurse. - Young Frenchman, speaks German, as gentleman's valet or nurse; thoroughly experienced; four years' reference last employer; sober. F. Lehman, care of Charles von Arx, 349 West 52d st. VALET, VISITING, HOTELS or PRIVATE; recommended; take charge of bachelor apartment; speaks principal languages. Address A. T., 107 Herald. VALET-Chauffeur, first class man, visiting or private place; I am also careful chauffeur. Baker, 184 East 79th st. 'Phone, 4560 - Lenox. VALET, experienced young man; high class references; first years last place. Y. L., 415 Herald. VALET, visiting, wishes one or more gentlemen; experienced; English; best references. J. B., 1 West 30th st. VALET, visiting, wishes more gentlemen; highly recommended by employers. Valet, 465 West End av. VALET, visiting, thoroughly experienced, wishes position; well recommended. Valet, 239 East 32d st. VALET, Swiss; first class references; for private gentleman or hotel. G. L., 476 Herald. WIDEAWAKE youth, educated, clean cut Christian; best references; competent clerk. A. B., 191 Herald Downtown. YOUNG ATTORNEY WISHING TO ENTER MERCANTILE FIELD SEEKS POSITION IN WHOLESALE HOUSE OFFERING ADVANCEMENT; EXCELLENT REFERENCES. E. B., 274 HERALD HARLEM. YOUNG man, 23, A1 unimpeachable habits and reputation, knowledge of commercial law, executive experience, wants position, preferably with real estate man, as general assistant, where devotion to business will be productive; no strictly commission offers. Address J. M., 472 Herald Downtown. YOUNG man, with thorough knowledge and practical experience of weaving and spinning machinery, one able to take complete charge of any branch pertaining to factory or office, wants employment; can speak French, Italian, German. T. Palamidessi, Post Office box 1,631, Winnipeg, Canada. YOUNG man, 26, hearing partially impaired, well educated in bookkeeping, accounting; three years' experience correspondence, timekeeping, cost accounting; ambitious worker; A1 references; moderate salary. Address L. W., 362 Herald. YOUNG man (20), highly indorsed, seeks opportunity with good concern; six years' good office and business experience; thoroughly familiar with export business and knowledge of bookkeeping. H. O., 119 Herald Downtown. YOUNG Greek, 17, well educated, with good recommendation, wishes employment in good private family; is willing to work without salary, but expects in return help in learning English. P. Politis, 116 West 38th st. YOUNG man, an experienced timekeeper and excellent office man, asks position with advancement in office of large manufacturing concern; industrious; with excellent credentials. Hirschborn, 14 Meserole st., Brooklyn. YOUNG man, 25, thorough double entry bookkeeper, experienced in managing, shipping and charging department, ery systematic, good correspondent, desires position; excellent references. R. W., 169 Herald Downtown. YOUNG man (21), good education, desires position with corporation or banking concern, where ability and conscientiousness will be appreciated, with chance for advancement; highest credentials furnished. Leroy, 101 Herald Downtown. YOUNG MAN, THOROUGH KNOWLEDGE OF WHOLESALE LIQUOR LINE, NINE YEARS' EXPERIENCE, DESIRES POSITION WITH IMPORTER; BEST REFERENCES. H. MANDELBAUM, 116 WEST 144TH ST., CITY. YOUNG man, useful, wishes position with private family; can do any kind of service work; handy all round man and understands his duties; honest, sober; best reference; city of country. W. R., 160 Herald. YOUNG man (21), good education, desires position with corporation or banking concern where AGENTS WANTED. Male. USE your spare time to build up a mail order business of your own; we help you start for a share in profits; 27 opportunities; particulars free. Dept. I, Mutual Opportunities Exchange, Buffalo, N. Y. HELP WANTED - MALES. AMBITIOUS persons make $20 weekly at home; light, pleasant work; send stamp for full particulars. Manufacturer, P. O. box 115, Brooklyn, N. Y. AN APPRAISER OF ANTIQUE FURNITURE; ALSO ONE FOR FINE BRIC-A-BRAC; BOTH MEN MUST BE EXPERTS. ROOM 1,109 80 MAIDEN LANE. AN experienced boy wanted to run stock board in Stock Exchange house. Apply, giving full particulars, box K, room 211, 44 Broad st. BOOKKEEPER, assistant, 19-22, Christian; must be neat penman and accurate; state references and salary desired. M. B. 200 Herald Downtown. BOY wanted by banking house as messenger and general office assistant; previous business experience not essential; salary $5. Address, stating age, L. B., box 460 Herald Downtown. BOY WANTED. - Experienced boy to run quotation board in stockbroker's office; start at $6. Apply W. B. Franklin & Co., in Hotel Belmont, 42d st. and Park av. , after 9:30 A. M. BOY, about 16, honest, good penman; willing to work for advancement in large office; state salary to start. J. D., P. O. box 1,478, New York city. BOY, 15-17, Christian, in law office; one who wants to learn; office experience unnecessary; state education and salary. B. C., 300 Herald Downtown. BOY. - Wanted, by wholesale dry goods house, bright, active boy, one just from school preferred. Address B. W., 279 Herald. BOY wanted in office of woollen commission house. Address, giving age, experience and references, to Accurate, 181 Herald. BOY WANTED, to learn good paying profession; must have talent and some knowledge of drawing. Address BRIGHT, 350 Herald. BOY wanted in office of large machinery concern; state age and experience. A. B., 123 Herald Downtown. BRIGHT American boy living in city with parents wanted to learn florist business. Craig Muir, 62 West 40th st. BRIGHT and intelligent errand bay; chance for advance. F. S., 345 Herald. BUYER wanted who is familiar with the following lines: - Toys and Dolls, Toilet Goods and Accessories, Rubber and Hair Goods, Linens, Blankets, Curtains. This is a good opportunity for a young man who is familiar with any of the above lines to secure a permanent position with future advancement; state age, experience and full particulars in regard to previous employment. Address in confidence, Vice President, National Cloak and Suit Co., 207 West 24th st. CASHIER. - Young man, bright, must have first class references, as cashier; salary $15. Hollender's Bath, 158 West 126th st. CHINAMAN wanted to cook and valet for bachelor. Address U. S. Navy Yard, Charleston, S. C. COMPANION. - Intelligent young man wanted as companion for a boy of 14; after school hours, from 3 to 7. M. S., 521 Herald. DRAUGHTSMAN, on patent drawings, at once; electrical experience required; state wages and years of experience. A. K., 186 Herald Downtown. DRUGGIST, junior clerk or apprentice; give particulars, age, experience and references. Address Accurate, 240 Herald Harlem. ERRAND boy wanted. Address, stating nationality, age and wages wanted. Petty, box 175 Herald Downtown. EXPERIENCED man on routing machine for brass and steel; state wages and experience. M. E. Cunningham Co., 625 Smithfield st., Pittsburg, Pa. EXPERIENCED salesman on marabou neckwear and trimmings. Novelty Feather Works, 818 Broadway. EXPORT commission house requires man take charge Santo Domingo and Cuban departments; capable managing them and bringing connections from those islands. Address Mercancia, 122 Herald Downtown. FARMER or farm hand for general farm work; must be experienced in team and plough work; married German, with or without children, preferred; house, garden and milk supplied; good chance for man with good references. Edwin A. Bennett, box 451, Manasquan, N. J. GENTLEMEN, artistically inclined, to work for us in their homes. Apply by letter only, Kalos Mfg. Co., 43 West 27th st. GENTLEMAN with sales ability to call on physicians can secure good position; commission. Call 2 to 5, room 31, Hotel Monticello. HEAD porter, hustler; 12 story office building; salary $50 per month. Address, giving experience, M. S., 473 Herald Downtown. INSURANCE men, experienced, clean records, solicit health, accident, monthly, weekly payment policies; no salary, but advance. Apply National Casualty Co., 100 William st., New York city, between 9 and 12. HELP WANTED - MALES. SALESMAN WANTED - A PRODUCER; YOUNG, WELL APPEARING, AGGRESSIVE MAN (CHRISTIAN), WILLING TO MAKE SMALL TOWNS; COMMISSION BASIS, WITH DRAWING ACCOUNT. FULL PARTICULARS, F. R., 483 HERALD. STENOGRAPHER as office assistant; must be good typist; not much stenography; hours 8 to 6; salary $9. Frankel Display Fixture Co., Hudson & Vestry sts. USE YOUR spare time to build up a mail order business of your own; we help you start for a share in profits; 27 OPPORTUNITIES; particulars free. Mutual Opportunities Exchange, Buffalo, N. Y. WANTED - A man of strong personality, culture and executive ability as head master of a large boys' camp; must be university graduate, with camp experience; salary, $500 for 10 weeks. Apply in writing, stating qualifications in full, Arcadia Schools, 220 Broadway. WANTED, in commission house, experienced young man for office work; must be good at figures. Address, in own handwriting, L., 266 Herald Downtown. WANTED - Young man secretary for literary woman; must be able to handle correspondence and general office work. W. E., 341 Herald. WANTED - Graduate drug clerk to assist chemist; good position for the right man. S. Gumpert & Co., 220 36th st., Brooklyn. WANTED - A furnace man. Call at 246 Central Park West, Tuesday, between 10-12 o'clock. YOUNG MEN, ABOUT 16 YEARS OLD, WANTED BY A LARGE IMPORTING FIRM; MUST BE NEAT AND INTELLIGENT; TO THOSE DESERVING, RAPID ADVANCEMENT IS ASSURED. IMPORTER, 312 HERALD. YOUNG man for billing; accurate typewriter; good chance for advancement; state salary and experience. S. R., 379 Herald Downtown. YOUNG man, about 22 years of age, quick at figures and with thorough knowledge of English currency. C. E., 310 Herald. 100 ablebodied men of good character, between the ages of 18 and 45, for occupation evenings; only those who are regularly employed in the daytime need apply; references desired. Apply in person any Monday or Tuesday evening at Armory, 68th st. and Broadway. C. N. Jemmott, Battery D. EMPLOYMENT BUREAUS. Help Wanted - Males. LIDA SEELEY (Inc.) Agency. 38 West 52d. Plaza-2302. Unmarried butlers, second, third men. COMMERCIAL EMPLOYMENT BUREAUS. Help Wanted - Males. HIGH grade office, clerical, technical sales openings. Call or write, Mighill Agency, Flatiron Building. BOARDERS WANTED. A. - 66 MADISON AV. Elegant Rooms, single or suites; private bath; elevator service; table the best; reasonable rates. A. - Madison av., 193. - Large single Rooms; bath; superior table; transients accommodates; references. 11TH, 112, 114 West. - Large, small Rooms, with Board; good service; table boarders accommodated. 26TH, 33 West. - Desirable Rooms, well heated, private baths attached; excellent table; Southerners, transients. 29TH, 41 East. - Large, small Rooms, southern exposure; excellent table; telephone; very reasonable. 36TH, 62 West. - Rooms, large, small; running water; home cooking; telephone; reasonable; references exchanged. 48TH ST. 54 WEST Desirable single Rooms; srictly first class house. 49TH, 68 West (Established 25 years). - Rooms, Suites; baths, telephones; superior table. 50TH ST., 72 West. - Rooms, nicely furnished; good table; $8 up; table Board. 53D, 64 West. - Fourth floor large Room, also hall Room; excellent table; owner; references. 54TH St. 15 East. - Two houses in one; unexcelled table and residentially; moderate rate; references. 54TH ST., 54 WEST. Single and double Rooms; table guests; references. 57TH, 260 West (seventh floor). - Room and Board; light apartment; table Board; elevation. MILLER. 57TH, 359 West. - Nicely furnished large and small Rooms, with excellent French Board; telephone. 63D ST., 23-30 East. - Second floor, large Room; also single Rooms; FINE TABLE. 64TH, 56 West. - Beautiful Room; private bath, shower, electric light; breakfast only if desired; also smaller [?] elegant surroundings; private Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.