New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-21
MOTHERS APPEALED TO.
Yrs. Nathan Tells of Good Work
Done Under Fusion Rule.

Done [ Rd6r FuS1On RUle.
q haven't come to talk politics 10 YOU said
Ms Frederick Nathan. president Of the Consum-
e-s League in addressing an audience of East side
mothers l- The assembly hall OF downtown Settle
merit yesterday afternoon but as woman and
hone lover want 10 talk 10 You women. home
lovers mothers about the work that lies before Us
curing The next faw weeks. the work that viii
come home 20 every one OF Us. viii affect every
ore q IS In every detail q daily living for the
next TWO years.
.,lo- one n Us however humble. is without in
euence. = takes very little leaven sometimes
q Iesven very big lump. and each one % u
must be responsible Tor some share Of this work
O. making and keeping clean homes, clean city.
pure foo5. pure water. low death rate and wide
open schools and parks. For that is what this
caupsign means 70 rs. Il is not question q poll
tics q one party Or the other Z is question q
mora and physical life and death and a question
thst after al comes heaviest and hardest on US
women.
SOME TA0I0lASY FACTS.
Kew 7 want 20 tell you few things which
personally know &C b. facts I would have no rea-
scu 70 exsgge-ste. Neither nor the other women
vo-t1ng together for q clean government Will
beneht ~ Il n any way except as the whole city
VII benefit You know that. You know am not
taking selhshly for any personal ends, but can't
hep being earnest and deeply interested IN the
iss-e to- have come 50 close II contact WIN
the terrible work q the last administration Here
IS ore instance that came directly under ny per
so-el notice : knew the woman well; she was IN
fac- friend % mine, Russian widow with four
children. Young girls. She was forced 70 I've IN a
tenement II which lodged a number OF disorcerly
-e-so-s Her children were spoken 20 and HANDED
Objectionable literature Il they went Up and Gown
the stairs alone. she vas a working woman d
bread winner. she could not be with them every
moment and n distraction and despair she at last
determined 20 plead with the police. She knew II
w. doubtful whether they would listen, but she
hoped that as fathers, simple humanity "ooAu
compel them 70 do something for her. les tne
policeman p whom she told her story listened Dut
re next day. without moments warning sH7
s-6 be- family and chsttels were put on the Sue
walk and The reign Of vice by which the ponce
mans purse would be -eplenished continued IN ne
te-a-ert eror which this woman hac been e'io'eo
And remember that the Tenement House toIll---s-
SIGN fs directly under the appointment OF 1he
,-s-1- A Ta-arnany Mayor viii see 10 Il tnaS tehe
merits are again run in Just this way, IN TACT true
Tau-uary fashion.
HON THEY FOOLED THE POLICE
.>cov- -e-.e-,ber. an not telling you things
have heard but facts have personally "l'hesse--
Here is another example; There was d snop ny
rt-y far from here which not Only " r, ~
6-ys ii the week but made its young glrl eHlPloss
z.-v .---f = late hour under Threat OF dismissal
ss tried over and over again 10 have the pIoTls'oI
she'd but in each instance the ponce -alis &C. 10
-ra-e ana one stayed IN the shop, wine m 90
ve1- To ne nrecnet SIs'' o. Stood erard saw
~. -l,rpr coming brcathlessly- 20 --7.. -,
8. ~ = -, sent M round from tn police sta-
-- ~ - fbe~eis one 81 those meddlesoIne l{'-
owners oyer her ae 1r ,feaselres arrived they
j. KID completely dlEfounled 10 Sc IN rs a.
Ioarce gave the whole Tins aTsy p ONE I5and
~ ~. - noe when they were caught ~
tre ao-' ihe children say
GREAT SAVING or LITTLE ONES
..,--g- look a. 81 from another standpoint nose
rf -1- who k-ow what il means TO br-hs ltIis o77
.--o rae world only 20 sec III Sex a. -
zoe ,-'sr ewes. those who know no." oIleh '.7
.... t-. .---ro7e- q illness closes win me Al'i1
81 "a. o-4- an appr.clate what Il means 10 have
re e.a-r rate lowered from 10 IN every ti'is1-0
under two years Of age, a. IL Na4 - - -.
s.-----f- IN 2 thousand. as u was ouIi's UT H
..- --,.--,s ~ 1oc WHY when ] went - PRESIDENT
1r..--.-v the man Tamuany Han put a. IN I4"1
of tie HeaIth Board becarse De nae 20 -
..a' ED TOLD him Of infringement 90 -' -t
tH- law h. didn't even know mere Va
s-s---a Az existence and had myself 70 nov -
llapter and page in question l Ter 80 - lent
.ars u ires have been collected curing Ne PyTe
sg-l-stration the attempted SIC - :. MSS I'D
az TaIumsnys efforts - - a. and
cu-ston that comes very closely nome - -. =
ION s,ne-f ANALYSTS under the SUPERVISOR % ~ -
board y Health, test water that oyii.s ,- Al-T-
a. -.Ir,sry rI5le there was practically no inS'ec-
-. 81 Vajer OF OF the food sold here in the shops
,,-5- ne ne yresent administration took hold Of
asrs sornething Ike ton Of impure ana wn ,c
cod found displayed lDI 1ti4F
rlsf froglerf inspection makes such a thlng I'M
possible Why do you know. @nole consls ls .s
llakIng powder not very long ago was Ioi Iio
\. r. - - Cevr powdered rock Il was promptly
- 80 went 70 I'll up Rikers Island.
IMPRESSED BY RESULTS
..--. h,f,,s the incoming Of this administration
,be-e we're $50 smallpox patients on North Brother
Island Last April there wasn't one. and only
tWeuty-six during the whole hrst SIX months OF
This year while during that same tinie Ch'c-so
- . ,-ao,rs ~ slo and Philadelphia 6sl On
Rsndalrs Island during the four years Tammany
WAS ga newer not was ever lnsIectso- ana
tao were found there v nose i4i'A Va
with bacliL ,,.t, s,,ervaav hanpen-
= -. EJECT the lives OF all OF Us WHAT IN
f.serloe euv one Of may have De ~ ls.Sh =,
istI ,~lt n not 10 be used on the she OF oecsht
.stS = clean honestly governed city Tor the
lsfrie r,eor,le about grow up ~ -.
NunicrsT League taking nuTnDers OF mn ~
women boatioads Of fifty sna sal ..~,f,epsents