New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-27
WOMEN THOROUGHLY REUSED
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETINGS IN DIFFERENT
PARTS OF TOWN
MANY SPEAKERS EXPLAIN WHY rAMMANY
SHOULD Re OVERTHROW FOR THE SAKE
OF THE CITY AND ITS HOMES.

NO 81 Willett-st. filled OVERLOOKING yester-
| day afternoon with typical East Side women who
| had gone there to listen the words Of wisdom
| and advice which should be spoken TO them by
| the benevolent. cultivated. kind-hearted women
who are making the welfare OF their downtrodden
sisters their principal aim life at the present
| time The majority OF the women-hearers wore
no covering on their heads and many OF them
carried babe In arms. but all were respectfully
| quiet. and while 1t evident that many who
were present did not understand English. the
speakers VIII" addressed their hearers that Ian
guage were AZ attentvely watched. II not listened
! to. were those who spoke In German.
Mrs C. II. Parkhurst opened the meeting and
| said that she represented the Womens Municipal
League, which sought to aid In purifying local poll
ties She continued by telling the women that the
men Of their households must register IL they had
not done already. and that they must then vote
for men who would improve their conditions, not
make them more uncomfortable. would happen II
Cammany should not be overthrown.
Mrs. Loering. the wife OF the ex-consul
Bremen spoke earnestly to the women in German,
and during her remarks many OF her hearers
affected &c tears.
Miss Helen f. Brown also spoke. setting forth
the Importance of public parks for the children OF
the poor A meeting under the direction of the
League will be held this afternoon at Lincoln Hall,
East Houston and Allen SITS.
meeting also was held by the Municipal League
last evening, No. Il West Twenty-eighth-st. in
| the interest Of working girls, and large number
of them present. Ex-Judge Noah Davis was
unable preside had been expected and Mrs.
Charles II Royce took the chair. There
seated with her upon the platform Mrs. Robert
Able Mrs. Charles F. Mclean. Mrs. Charles H.
Parkhurst and Miss Kate Bond. The speakers
Or. Jane Robbins. w. Harris Roome, Mr.. Kelley.
Frank Moss Mrs. Mary F Kelly Mrs. L. W. Belts.
Alfred Bishop and Mr. Farrell. the colored Repub
lican candidate for Assembly lyman from the NIth AS
semby District
DR.. Robbins spoke in manner that showed A
thorough knowledge Of city politics, especially Of the
condition of the lid Assembly District. where she
lives What want very much she began. is
a city to be proud Of" This remark created much
laughter. and the speaker continued: II sorry
TO confess that there is not much to be proud OF in
my district although try to impress the little
foreign boys with objects Of municipal pride. Down
in the lid have Philip Wssig. silver Dollar
Smith and Timothy Sullivan. and the latter Is
termed boss (IaughterD After last years
election he went about making speeches OF this
I had the Irish and Italians. but the Dutch OF
the Bowery did dirt What can expect from
our municipal! government II men Of this stamp
given control?' Illustrations given OF number
less evils existing in that district. caused by Tam
many. and every urged to help put down
this corrupt organization.
Mr.. Moss closely held the attention OF HIS hearers
and afforded much amusement by relating an anec-
dote in German history where the had
saved their town and homes by their moral cour-
matters into their own hands. even though the
speaker forced add that they marched 10
the public hail. where their husbands were sscreted
in council and rst presented themselves for action
with broomsticks in their hands. The women OF
to-day" he added will accomplish by their moral
courage what that little band OF women in the
German hamlet succeeded in doing You have
husbands and friends who need hope not the
broomstcks 1aughter)-but urging TO do their
duty. a crisis is at hand which involves the sta
bty OF the home. and when that IL involved
woman IL always called for.
An enthusiastic rally held last evening in the
Lincoln Club rooms In Abingdon Square. under the
auspices Of the Womans Republican Association
The crowded TO the doors the audience
being composed largely Of women and the references
by the speakers the corruption In Tammany Han
were .oudly applauded Miss Helen Narick Boswell
presided and explained the object OF the women In
this present campaign and SAID that nothing must
be left undone to force Tammany 10 the wall
The following communication from Or Parkhurst
read:
spoke qur ZINES Yesterday and am qq s,y trea
today saving nothing OF ,he iast 'na' nak his
evening at the Broadway Tabernacle J thought IT
this evening. but don't think it prudent for me
to DO than to I'll hT ou dsn enoy
meeting your people again IN the Lincoln uni .1
Club rooms and remember the eS S pea
ings ago. / fully admire the brave spir, which
distinguishes the women VINO are RathcTtl IN '"d'
hail especially in view OF the fact that you are
right In the midst OF Tammany stronghold Ten
them for me. ~ you will. for their ENCOURAGEMENT.
that they have the sympathy and moral support
OF hosts Of women all over this town. The nght IL
a hard one for men. for women. hut the pros
poets of victory growing brighter every Day
and we are hoping soon to BE released from the
condition Of practical servitude In which We are
being held by the constituencies, money-thirsty "
rants who are dominating US Yours Tor me rght,
'"''' CHARLES H. PARKHuRST.
Mrs Virginia Chanler Titcomb. who Is widely
connected with women's philanthropc movements
in Brooklyn. recited a suffrage poem among me
speakers who addressed the meeting We're Mrs
lane Pierce Mrs Falcs the Princess Nlroqua. MIS-
Adele Porter PORE, Captain Jack crawford
Theodore Sutro and the Rev. DR.. John A. u. VII.
son OF the Eighteenth Street Methodist Episcopal
Church. $3.50 . !, IT., -,
evening al the home OF Mrs. John II. Townsend.
No 34S West hirty-fourth- st. was postponed ow-
Ing TO the incemency OF the weather
HILLS VIEW OF THE CAMPAIGN OF 1885.
Osweso ~ V oct. Ex-senator David b. Hill
arrived here shortly after o'clock this evening,
and was met at the station by over thousand
nersons Samuel a. Beardsey and Frederick -
Schraub accompanied the party as Tar as uuca