Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-09-14
ASUFFRAG|ST ARMORY
Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont Erecting
Large Building In New York.
ADDITION TO HER TOWN HOUSE
Specially Designed as Lecture Hall
For a Militant Campaign by Suffra.
gettes-Neeessary, She Says, if the
Cause Hopes to Succeed.

| TOR a mIlCant AdUPdISu Wy 0ohaa
settes-Neeessary, She Says, if tn
Cause Hopes to Succeed.
Not content with opening Marble
House, at Newport, for suffragist lee
lures and giving the National Won
ans Suffrage association luxuriou:
headquarters on Fifth avenue, New
York, Mrs. o. Fl. P. Belmont an
nounced the other day that she il
building an addition, to be called the
armory. an exact reproduction of 6
room in the late Mr.. Belmont's house
Belcourt, at Newport, in her new house
at At Madison avenue. New York
which is TO be devoted to the cause
next winter. This new house is now
nearing completion. the architect prom
Using that it will be ready for occu
pancy on the LIST Of January.
"Since the house has been started,
said Mrs. Belmont recently in bel
apartment at the st. Regis hotel. in
New York. Il have become an ardent
suffragist. aud it seemed to me that
could serve the cause in no better way
than by providing large hall in which
prominent suffragists might lecture
during the winter. So l asked my
architect to arrange for this armory
which will be decorated with the armor
which hangs in similar hall in MIR
Belmont's old Newport home. Bel
court. | shall of course use the room
for other purposes, but my incentive
in building it was to devote it to the
cause of woman's suffrage.
my enthusiasm for suffrage grows
all the time Every one of my. chill
dren is sympathetic with me in regard
to the work Two Of my sons-W. K.
Vanderbilt. Jr.. and Harold Wander
bilt-have promised to sit on the plat
form at the public lectures which will
be given at Marble House on Aug. "a
and %.
Will Try to Interest the Men.
"You see. believe that one of the
weaknesses in the fight hitherto has
been the fact that more men were not
interested in suffrage. l S hall endeav-
or to interest the men Of my acquaint-
ance. if in no other way, at least finan-
cially.
You see. don't believe in individ-
ual work in any case. All the work for
cause like this must be collective.
and that is why have thrown myself
into the fight with the existing suf-
fragist institutions. l shall work en-
tirely with the city. state and national
institutions. OF course am getting
up a special league Of my own. but
that is only one small part of this
large body.
Just now l am especially interested
in making a success of the lectures
which are to be given at Marble
House. On the first occasion Dr.. Anna
Howard Shaw will speak and on the
second Professor Charles Zueblin. The
tickets for these lectures are SIS each.
and the money raised will be devoted
entirely to the campaign.
Until now l have always felt shat 1t
was best not to open Marble House to
public view because it has beer used
as my private residence, although I
should have liked very much to please
many art students who have ma de the
request in past years. 1 am depart
ing from the rule simply because be-
liere the step may tend to increase in
terest in the crusade for votes for
women.
Favors Militant Methods.
II have studied the question of suf-
frage in England thoroughly. l have
talked with Mrs. Pankhurst and her
daughter, and l have been to innumer-
able meetings. and / am convinced
that more militant methods must be
adopted in the United States If we
hope to succeed. do not think it is
necessary to 60 SO far as the English
suffragettes do. but do think that we
shall have to struggle to gain what we
want. / most emphatically believe In
street meetings for one thing.
'This winter we hope to have a lee
ture very nearly every day. Some
prominent speaker will be heard In
some part Of New York at least six
days in the week, and the subject will
always be Votes For Women The
armory in my new home will be OPEN
ed for the purpose as often as it Is
needed.
Gust so soon as the lectures which
we have planned for Marble House
are out of the way we shall start In
to work on plans for the fall campaign
The headquarters are now ready for
occupancy. and we shall hold an open
ing reception in them as soon as peo'
pie come back to town, early In Sep.
TENDER. Mrs. Harper has been here
all summer. but most Of the prominent
l,suffragists are elsewhere now. / my
| self am living at Newport" i, ~
Tho Beauties Of Marble House. ~
There are many parts OF the famous
| Marble House. which is built Of differ
I emit kinds Of marble throughout, which
have never been photographed. The
side toward the sea is protected from
the public gaze by high hedge, and
| this part has never been seen except
by friends Of Mrs. Belmont. The walls
on this side are composed Of Carrara
marble, deliberately carved. and there
is marble terrace 100 feet wide. The
| interior Of the building is famous fol