The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-20
TALKED AGAINST AN AIRSHIP
BROlDW ~ ~ FFRiG ROW. OW
PAINFULLY DIST RBED.

Mrs. renJe- Was ENplaining Ho~ seth
Lev Was CraNrnly Defeated when
ENerybadS quit Ltsiening TO Ioels
4 POstIusie an Padded shoulders.
4 woman standing al the junction
Of Broadway and Amsterdam avenue Just
above the Sevent second street subway
station at DIS last night was doing her
h~st IN explain to an attentive crowd
why Seth Low wasn't reelected Mayor Of
New York when a blond youth who had
been stargazing shrieked -Se, the air
ship
But the speaker. Mrs Henrietta TONES.
a one time president OF the Women's West
Side Republican club. went right on tell
ing how 10000 careless voters Of the silk
stocking district went out OF town on
election day because the sun shone and
they owned motors and the eyes Of the
audience gazed spellbound into hers.
Look at the airship!- repeated tho
youth No one paid any attention 10 him
Mrs TONES was assuring those present
that women would never. never be 50
wickedly neglectful Of their civic duties
no matter what the weather WAS
Say. whats the natter Is th. whole
bunch blind7- yelled the youth
Thrce men on tn. outskirts OF the crowd
followed the direction Of his glance and
yelled He's right Then everybody
looked up just in time tn $50 dirigible
balloon which came from New Jersey
floating southeast about $50 feet above
their heads.
IT'S Just like rowboat. amt it?- com
mented % sufiragetts who was carrying
a yellow banner labelled Not favor hut
Justice
The orator looked bored and proceeded
with her dissertation. Failing TO reawak-n
much interest concerning the political
fortunes of seth Low. she yielded the plat
form Ia Miss Iii zabeth Mo,'sch
Miss Moesch IL resident VI Harlem
and member Of one OF the allied branches
81 the Belmont Political Equality AsSocia-
ton. an. took the first prize for nratory
in tbs, novice class "a, the resent suffrage
meet at Corona. l.. /. and Is one IT the
most earnest workers in her district
You men pretend tn think We are not
capable of exercising the right ~ fran
ChiSe. she began. hut | want yuu 4"
equals. You derIde us beCsllse We wear
clothes that you say are foolish. hut |
would like tO know who " r,~ponEIble FOR
the styles in womsns clothing WIZ
hut the men who design them and keep
changing the fashions every two or three
I
What right have you men To critiCise
us anyway she demanded. IN bet
there Isn't a man in this crowd who lsn't
wearing coat with padded shouldsrS
The women who heard her giggled
Some 81 the men grinned,
oh YOU needn't deny &c said Miss
Moesch sarcastiCaly You accuse us Of
radding just hook home You talk
Also about how fond you are Of ~ and how
YOU love Ia protect US. You say that "
We had the ballot and II there were women
polic-m.n We would not he A. safe rs VI"
are now What rubbish. Of whom are
We afraid Ola the streets' OF women
Most as-uredy not. II j. men that We
our little children need ~ b" protected
against
The auiienc.. didn't seem In lie very
tired. 20 Miss Moe-ch proc.,-isi 70 state
IN the order 81 their discovery every
argument in favor Of votes for women
I known 10 the fighters for fTar chIE@ No
balloon ps,sss.d while she Was talking.
hut hardly hal Mrs. lee DeFC rest as
cended the ro-trum when shout went
w from a group 81 rewsboys AT the SUI o.
way station. Here she comes PgFir'-
-Oh. ye~- walled Mrs DeForest. ~
the balloon whirlai towards them az
a height ~ ~ feet. There's III" er"my
TO woman suffrage ! might well wait
tcre-t you more than ! can"
After that the talk was all Of aeronau-
tics No one would listen TO the wrong.
81 women The siIrrs gettee TALKED a
while longer 10 swiftly dirnin ishin g
audience and then took their banners
and their pink and blu" circulars 90
went home