New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-28
THE WOMAN'S MASS MEETING
CARNEGIE LYCEUM FILLED WITH REP
REsENTATIvE CLUB MEMBERS.

REsENTATIvE CLUB MEMBERS.
A PUBLIC GATHERING TO ADVOCATE THE INTER
Dsrs OF WOMEN UNDER THE CHARTER
OF THE GREATER NETWORK.
nuSic meeting to advocate the interests Of
women under the new charter of the Greater New
Work was held at Carnegie Lyceum yesterday after
noon and the audience large and enthusiastic
one The societies represented were
The New-York City Woman Suffrage League. Mrs
lille Devereux Blake. president; the Society for
Political Study the Rev. Phoebe a Hanaford presi-
dent. the Eleventh and Thirteenth Assembly Dis
,do,s Club Mrs. Helene Goldsmith president; the
Eighteenth Assembly District Club Miss Elizabeth
Iawton president: the Twenty-second and twenty
fourth Assembly Districts Club. Mrs Annie f. HAD
lay president: the Twenty-frst Assembly District
Club Miss Harr.ette A. Keyser. president; the
League for Political Education. Mrs. H. NJ Sanders
president: the Workingwoman's Society, Miss Alice
E. Woodbridge, president; the Kings county
Woman Suffrage League. tho Rev. Alice N wright
president; the Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Associa-
lion. Mrs Coraea *. Hood president; the Bedford
League Mrs p D. HackstaN president; the Car
roll Heights League. Mrs. A. ]. Perry president;
ths Prospect Heights League. Miss j. j. CASSIDY
PRESIDENT and the Queens County League MIS-
Mary E. Craigie. president, while delegates were
also present from Soross, the Consumers League
the Civics League and many other organizations
IN tho platform sat Miss Harriette Keyser. DR.
Mary Putnam jacob DR.. Harriette Keatinge, Mrs
Sass Mrs Thaddeus Wakeman, Mrs Annie r. HAD
ley Miss L. Garrett. Mrs f. S. Ostrander MIS-
John H. Judge Mrs. Esther Hermann Mrs John L.
Dewey Mrs Ella D,etz Clymer. Mrs. Theodore
sutro Mrs Selma Godzier Miss Teresa Barcalow'
Mrs harriet Stanton Blatch. Mrs II. p. Earle. Mrs
J Z Croft Mrs Priscilla D. Hackstaf. Mrs G. j.
Rouryoin Miss Adele Fieide and Mrs. Bradley. OF
Richmond. Staten Island
Mrs Blake opened the meeting with brief state
rnent Of its object and then introduced the first
sneaker DR. jacob who read a paper on General
Cor sideratons" dealing mainly with the subject OF
women in public office.
DR. jacobs REMARKS.
I'm the charter so far published she said
women are not considered under any heading ex-
cept as benefciares in the Department OF Chari-
ties or as offenders in the Department or Correc-
ton. On the other hand there is nothing either
IN the charter or the law OF the State 10 render
impossble the appointment of women TO positions
a good deal more honorable than these. me CITY
has no power grant to women even muncipai
suffrage but IT could place them In many orlces
OF trust and responsibility. The Boards OF Educa-
ton and Charities naturally suggest themselves as
the most suitable ones for such appointments. but
II would be difficult to name any department IN
which they could not make themselves uselui'
There certainly seems no reason why New-1or
women should not he able TO do what English
be askedit is asked whenever this suggestion 10 APP
poin, women is made-'What IS the good Of 1t?
What purpose will be served that would not just
as well be served by the appointment of men?
1T seems to me that great good would result
Non-partisanship in politics. non-partisanship In
the discharge OF official duties, IS the great de-
mand Of the hour. Who so well fitted TO meet
this demand. assist in its satisfaction as womep
in whom political partsanship has never had a
chance TO develop? Before women could have
chance 10 be trained into serious partisanshp. the
natural evolution of our social state would nave
carried everybody beyond that set OF ideas.
Dr.. Jacob said. further. that she did not want
any provision in the charter making the appoint
ment OF women in hospitals or other institutions
mandatory, this would occasion lack OF
prestige All she wanted was a mandatory recog-
milton OF their eligibility 10 enter competitive ex-
amnations for such places.
MRS BLATCH. OF ENGLAND SPEAKS.
Mrs. Batch. Of England. the next speaker.
and her subject was Women In English Munich
paes." She had been asked 10 make plain
statement Of tho facts of the case. she said. but
that was impossible. the facts were the most
mixedup things she had had TO deal with. In
general. women possessed all but the Parlia-
mentary suffrage. but there many vexations,
little exceptions, and the lawmaking power seemed
woman as political factor, while In some cases
o TO choSse ey Tss to be
proved their capacity for office holding. and had
frequently Deen begged ana implOred by the men
. stand again for offices from which they wished
70 retire: This. she thought. complete refuta-
ion OF the argument that female politicians were
STEY safe in sparsely populated districts. like
s~tyoming for II they did no harm in London.
which twice big Greater New-York they
night safely be introduced anywhere.
HARRIETTE KEYsER TALKS
The third speaker Miss Harriette Keyser took
up Industrial Conditions" and stated some I'M
pleasant facts in a most amusing way
Women are employed in the public departments
OF the city" said Miss Keyser. "as teachers type
writer's and stenographers clerks and cleaners
. lne teacher has TO go through a OF train
he that occupies usually about fourteen years and
tor her nrs year OF service receives the munihccnt
sum OF SO 81 30 a week more than the lowest paid
empioye in the city departments-a woman who
scrubs foOrs and washes windows In her second
gear her salary is <iS. $lA per annum more than
11ie boys VINO the elevators In the Criminal
Court House. In her ifth year she receives $52S
iess than the male cleaners in the City Hall After
tnrteen years Of faithful service she gets just
sc,ty as much as Warnings white wings and II
axes her full quarter OF century TO reach the
Salary with which the male teacher begins.
4, NOW II Il "A rule In the city departments that
me very lowest class Of skilled labor shall be paid
sor al the rate OF not less than $3.50 year and II
:. were not tor the fact that male teacher begins
IN NOsJ year. would be compelled TO believe
sh a, me City Fathers look upon teaching as un-
~, Among clerks ard stenogra piers things are a
te better but most OF the salaries do not reach
the $3.50 level
The female cleaner is paid 1854 a year. but a man
sseceives 1924 This Is the most unkindest cut of ALL
S IN all the discussions about woman's sphere, II
- never been denied that she has the highest |
nsnt TO scrub. Yet here we find men, who snif at
Sn}fe taking her work from her and being better
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