The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-09
b. 4. Z. LADIES GO TO COURT.
FEARFUL THINGS MAY BE I'M
PENDING IN WHITE PLAINS.
Observation-Disclosures Of One Of the Men
VIVA Pulled or Andres Stocking in'
vowed injunction Merely Concerns
q Date-i3ut- well. Here's the Rest.

VIVA Pulled or Andres stocking In.
vowed injunction Merely Concerns
Q Date-Hut- well. Here's the Rest.
An Injunction obtained by her opponents
| on Monday prevents Mrs. j. T. Lockwood,
the newly elected treasurer OF the White
Plains Chapter Of the Daughters OF the
1 American Revolution, from assuming the
| duties Of her office. The injunction was
granted at the petition Of Mrs. George l..
| Miller, Miss Faith M. Groser and Mrs. Henry
@. Henderson. Mrs. Miller Is said to be a
great granddaughter OF one Of the three
young men who pulled of Major Andres
stockings when he was making q certain
trip down from West Point. and thereby
saved their country. All the ladies once
admitted that this gave her a right TO be
first vice-regent Of the White Plains Daugh-
tors, q rank more exalted than any save that
OF regent. The regent is Mrs. Henry A.
Powell. wife Of the Brooklyn lawyer who
has an automobile and q little house in the
back yard to keep it in.
As for Miss Faith Groser, she was his
torian. She had every expectation Of being
reelected, but was not. She didn't like the
way a certain lot Of ladies engineered the
election Of her successor. It Is but a step
from wire pulling to hair pulling. Miss Groser
told her papa and he retained one OF the
leading lawyers Of White Plains. Mrs.
Henry c. Henderson joined the maloontents.
She had not lost any treasurerships, nor
had her greatgra ndfather pulled of any
body's stockings, except his own; but 1t Is
whispered that she could tell a few things
II she wants to. She will be called upon to
tell when the trouble comes to her and In
court. She says that she is going to do 30.
too, without fiinching.
The charge made in court when the in
junction Val applied for was mi sleadingly
slight. 1t was simply put for ward that
the election Of officers was held on the
wrong date, June 4. No one remembers
just when 1t should have been held, but
there is a provision in the charter, up in
the left hand corner Of the upper drawer
Of the secretary's bureau, that it should
be held somewhere along toward Christ
mas. The ladies are all 80 busy at that
season looking W the furnace man and
finishing up orocheting the presents that
they could not And time to do in the noun
tains that 1t was thought that it would
be nice to get the elections out Of the way
before the daughters left for the summer.
The rule was therefore broken.
But this Ia not the real reason for the con-
test. There are w%eightier complaints in
reserve. They have not been wasted pre-
maturely. They are to be reserved for the
crucial moment. They are grave and sem
s~ational. They have not been uttered,
unless II were to q few close friends who
promised they would not tell, either. 1t
may, therefore, be Of interest to repeat them
here. To begin with, 1t was by a hoTrid,
small trick that the old officers were voted
out. Mrs. Powell, the regent, who was
sure Of reeleotion-Mr. Powell being so
influential In Brooklyn-wrote a lovely,
ladylike letter to the members, hoping that
when they reelected her they would do as
much for the other officers.
There was no intimation Of an opposition
ticket until the time came to cast the bal
lots. Some at the meeting wondered why
all armed with pencils, 1t is true. When
the balloting occurred the pencils scratched
out the names of Mrs. Miller and Miss
0roser. 1t was a small meeting and most
Of these two ladies' friends were away.
The wife OF the leading undertaken, besides.
was elected treasurer.
The defeated candidates are sure that II
there had been the slightest idea that the
election would be contested their friends
would have rallied and seen them through.
As for Mrs. Powell, who actually turned
about after that ladylike letter and voted
against the women che had supported,
why there never OF course there has
been no notice taken of that. They speak
to her when they meet just as il nothing
had happened. They would not give her
satisfaction by noticing how she has acted.
The two factions met the other evening
at a bridge party. will you cut?" asked
Mrs. Powell, tremendously. Of the enemy
on her right hand. "Oh dear, no." was the
answer. 1T wouldn't be of the least use, you
know"
But this ia not the worst. II somebody
should tell all she could tell 1t would become
known that at the election in June more