The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-24
SHE HAD A LOW MEETING.
U sHE HAD TO BREAK Up a JEW
ISL PRAYER MEETING TO DO IT.

AoU III LIZ IO DV Ia
Everything Wont Wrong with sIiss PrettyGiri's
Saturday Crusade In the jewish Quarter
CnmpniEninE Takea 80 Mech Management.
and ir Women Won't Come to Hear Other
Women Talk Politics, why, They Woh't.
She was such n pretty girl and she was having
such n hard time. Sho had arranged q meeting
at which the women of tho east side could hear
all about Seth Low and the Citizens Union.
She chose Starlight Hall at 141 Suffolk street,
and she said she would take 1t from 8 until D
T. NJ. yesterday afternoon.
At $3.50, when n sun reporter reached tho
place, no found in the street a multitude OF
children staring in rapt curiosity at the pretty
girl herself. She sat upon n chair at the door.
and she looked as IL she would rather have been
sitting almost anywhere else in town. Her
checks were flushed and her eyes were very
bright.
"oh. I'm having such q timel' she said to the
reporter. i've just been 'wrasling' with tho
saloon keeper; he's the man In his shirt sleeves
down thore. Iexpect he'll throw me out pretty
soon. but l can't help It. This is my meeting.
you know. Citizens Union, but i don't think
theren be very many here"
Don't your"
mo. and I've been having such a time. These
people will bamboozle you into anything. Oh,
Ill never hire u hall again from n man like thatl
Never! Just let me tell you. You know this Is
my meeting. and l wanted a room with a piano
in 1t. He said he had one, so l ngaged 1t, and
when / camo this afternoon what do you think .
Why. thore isn't a chair in the place! Nothing
but n little thing like n mantcl running around
the room. Think OF making a political speech
to AN audience sitting on a shelf like that!
" wouldn't thi X OF il, that's nll! So I said
I'd got to have a room wit seats Of some kind
and Nv got one. It's upsta RS. It's kind of a
synagogue, you kno \, AID there were q lot OF
men up there praying, but l told the saloon
keeper hey'd got to pray some place else. So
now I've got tn prayer me ting transferred to
a little room right in there, and I've got the hall
upst irs with tho benches. But I've had such a
time! 1 had to pl mt myself here at the en-
trance and head off these men lthe whole town
seems possessed with a wild desire to come and
prayD, and it's kept mo busy. l just get hold OF
them and push them into the little room and
tell them they can pray In there. There's a
see for yourself that I'm having "A lively time.
81 don't think. ,hcre'll be many here. my.
anXiously. tits awfully hard 10 get them to
come out. We had a meeting the other day and
hsieile TeT Where Gp!!s your tMe1 Sro.h there r. How'd do
Hes orkin' to day..
"Andh he isn't cominEf'
"Oh, dear! He was to be my violinistl Ihad
a regular programme, and everybody's disap'
At this moment three women started down
."Oh. you mustn't go!' exclaimed tho pretty
girl;
Just wait a little while longer"
"Iknow it's a little late. but you wait"
PLEASE. miss. the gas is so bad We can't
stand it,"
"oh, well. then you 60 on and come back after
Ali Of this time the prayerfully inclined He.
dignant and half amazed when they were waved
into the little room at one side.
pretty girl. She looked at the flaming advcr.
tisement, OF a masquerade ball. They don't
S ks1San Th Eain F% to sp naIin You k snS ssi4; Nathan aMss;
and Mrs. Benjamin; and Minnie Rosen's going
e translate il AZ into Yiddish. oh, there's
Finally three or four of the speaker; arrived
and after a long. long wal in the hall they
praying Jews had been temporarily anished.
There were three women, four children. and
onf few MAN more IN the %pop r9S%' in aFa snd there now %s.t
b hay" Ssnd esfn md dqlIy to f Scsy MRs sop@ls s,h shGss :bes sGt
She told them that Tammany has cheated the
city and is no friend to the poor man, and that
If they. wanted schools and parks and clean
disposed Of Gen. Tracy by saying that a vote for
him was an indirect one for fammany. go,
The men and women listened with a stolid
demeanor, with the exception of three small
children. who made all the noise there was.
The men did not stay through the meeting. but
slipped out. one by ono, presumably to pray. or
to dance, or to hobnob with the saloon keeper
below.
Up at the headquarters OF the women's Mu.
nicipal League there was, as usual, a dearth of
news. 1t was announced impressively that the
Low women are working hard among the col.
ored people. There is to be a meeting for col.
ored people next Tuesday evening at 1856
West Thirty-second street. Mrs. Charles
Russell Lowell. Miss A. Fl. d. Stead.
tho Rev. Granville Hunt, who is the
name Of Carr will address tho meeting. The
women held eighteen meetings last week and
have raised by subscription among women
SO. 1862. They are much interested in the mass
meeting which Mrs. William Schicffelin has ar.
ranged to be held at Cooper Uni0n next Wednes.
day afternoon.