New-York tribune., 1909-03-19
~ REAR CAR, LADIES'!
LET HoTrid Mem Ride Alone IN Sub
rag, Say Wor1erl.

q, % +b. --s- car iadiesi II you want regis
se- q protest against the football methocs OF 'hat
RIDE creature man. gather up your skirts ana run
for trs car al the end o: the subway train- II
enough women DO that tbs womans Municipal
League saws the Interborough Rapid Transit Com
parry will see the wisdom OF setting aside one car
or every train where women can travel In sweet
rnanless peace.
speeter fer separate for women at the meet
ing OF the wonan,s Municipal League, No IL East
zeth street yesterday. Mrs. Mulliner admitted that
not all women were in favor of separate CARS
.'CJre noted woman she said wrote n5 that she
thought men needed our influence in the cars. II
-zs leave them alone their splitting and smoking
and tranpIing and pushing this woman wrote me-
they VIII get perfectly unbearable
.~Thev couldn't be worse than they sre now
szld a woman in e haring purple hat
.7-her,re pretty bad in a crowd said Mrs Null
liner Any woman who wants 10 can tide IN cars
with them 90 reform them, but there ought 10 oe
sepa-ate cars for other women. don't oDJect 10
men" she explained hastily As individuals theE
ta chsrnin.. delightful: but taken in the ag-
s,egate they are rot In the rush hour IN the
subway it's every for himself, and our meli'
with their football training. make crowd II lSn
rlessant or cafe for Unaccompanied woman 10
encourrter I've seen acts Of violence committed oy
men in the subway rush that are almost ihoon-
oeivahle We ought 70 mark the difference between
rbe sexes IN every way Women are hnsI'
cleaner than men: they're nicer to meet
obiected Rornan blue suit "A crowd OF
women has dreadfu1ly stuny smell. don't kno {"
whether you've ever been in q crowd OF working
-eople but the vornen's clothes do take up the
bacon an5 cabbage and tobacco aWfully.
..IDon't the mems clothes, too7" demanded a de-
fender Of her
Men don't have 60 many ciothes' sa'o 'ne o1ue
MERE MAN PoNrMELLED.
H1iss katherine Day of the league testi-
o.6 ths. tuice in the last month her subway strap
b.6 heen hlched from her by horrid man
Women never take my straps, she said, ear
nestly-
Mrs 2 W LongtelloV. the originator Of the plan
q. teparate cars for women, told how she tried 70
induce Frank Hedley, general manager OF the IN
@.ororgh system TO aside the car OF every
--zin for tie gentler sex NJ Heoley' she Con-
fsssed wasn't exactly enthusiastic over the propo-
sition
form tbe women At 14th street I've frequently
.asn : small man a weak one rushed right oacN
e. ,rs middle Of the car when he wanted to get
or bv a crowd of shop girls. and then they'd STAND
end make fun Of the helpless man.
A. ,rts mint Mrs NulIiner led of in that sooT1l-
s1l kind Of laugh, snd several women were near u
70 remark that a man VEo- ccuIun laAe Nai0 VI
htrnscif-vell -
Mrs Iongfeslow said that unattended women haa
been subjected 10 unspeakRbie Insults IN tne rusl
h-a1ry IN ths subway. We hope to nave healIIle
before the Public Service Commission in april we
rpect TO have several women testify WHO nave oee
,,s,,l-.d In the subway she ssid- we nope 70
rlor how much better IL would be TO set asioe ue
-es- car as e place where = woman can Tioe ano
no men can come near her .,
'eBut hadn't the chairman better make II pam,
,,,,ze.ted N. purple hat which had declared that
,rs7 were tust as bad they could De- tnaI
women wouldn't have TO take THIS car L nc nc
4. =. -.-,.,n On snother car with their
escorts7'
cor course" said the chairman