The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-06-14
INDIGNANT WOMEN.
Denounosng Judge Hilton for the Failure
| of stewards Women's Hotel Project.


Denounosng Judge Hilton for the Failure
of stewards women's Hotel Project.
The denunciations of Judge Hilton
and the late Women's Hotel scheme by
the women of New York are both loud
and deep. Their indignation knows no
bounds. They pronounce 1T the most
conspicuous fraud in the history OF
American charities, and the most mon
strous advertising scheme ever devised.
A huge indignation meeting to protest
against Judge Hilton for turning the ho-
tel into a mems tavern was held IN
Cooper Institute the other night. The
immense hall was crowded to suffoca-
ton. Mrs. Matilda Fletcher, of Iowa,
was the first speaker. She told her ex-
perience at the hotel in a manner that
evoked laughter and applause. She as
serted that the hotel had never been
open to women in reality. She showed
how the rules worked She was ordered
out of the library because she carried
dress on which she was putting ruffie.
There were constant little interferences.
A few days before the closing paper
was sent around 70 sign, acknowledging
great obligations to Judge Hilton. She
would sign, she said, if his name was
stricken out. She hated to kneel to one
man for the charity of another. Mrs.
Fletcher ended by reading list OF
twenty-five rules, capital burlesque on
those governing the Women's Hotel.
These were received with great laugh
ter. Mrs. Fletcher held up a scrap
book, which she said was filed with
hundreds of interviews with A. Il. Stew
art, in which he invariably said the price
for board in the hotel would not exceed
81 per week in any event, and would be
reduced to nothing if possible.
Mrs. Blake then freed her mind. She
said the Woman's Hotel was the most
monstrous advertising scheme ever de-
vised.
Mrs. Slocum, after brief speech, in
which she said that any man who holds
large mass of money and grinds work
ing women fills the ranks of the prosti-
tutes-read long string of resolutions,
which were adopted with great enthu-
siasm. The important three were as
follows
That, in view of the failure of this noble
purpose, we entreat Mrs. A.. I. Stewart to see
that what was intended for working women
shall not be taken from them, and that an
equivalent charity under better advisers, be
provided for them as she may in her womans
heart elect.
That until the evil genius of sordd gain
that presides over Stewards vast commercial
enterprise shows signs OF true reform, every
self-respecting woman should withdraw her
patronage therefrom, and that that which was
built up by women chiefly be taken away by
women.
That in putting on trial for only two months,
under fatal restrictions, what was nine years in
building, and trumpeted to the world as mag
nificent charity that in obtaining through its
brilliant opening, to which women chiefly con-
tributed by their presence and applause, a vast
amount of free advertising that in coolly in
sulting women, and betraying, as il by pre-
meditation. womans interest therein, the pro-
curer Of this result stands confessed as the
most astute Observation-Disclosures OF the day, and
the most conspicuous fraud in the history of
American charities. Wild cheers and great
laughter
This last resolution had to be repeat
ed three times, and the noise was deaf
ening. Then a collection was taken to
pay for the hall, and the women went
out satisfied with their revenge.