The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-05-09
Former Minnesota College
Students Plan Gypsy
Tour" of West.
MISS ELSA UELAND
AT HEAD OF PLAN
Example SCI BY English Women
VIII Be Followed BY Their
American Cousins.

inspired BY the example OF their Eng
hsh sisters, American college girls who
have taken up the sUffragist cause will
make campaign IN the Northwest dur-
Ing the coming sumner quite UNIQUE IN
American politics Charterins q roomy
wagon OF the prairie schooner -rvpe- rnev
viii tour the country, Living q gypsy life
and pleading for wonau's suffraze-
The scheme Is being worked I'D BY
Miss Elsa Iceland, . graduate Of the
University OF Minnesota, who is nov
engaged in settlement work IN New
York, and It is probable that. II finances
are needed, Mrs. Oliver H P. Belmont
who has been taken Up with enthusiasm
/ BY Miss Anna Shaw, president OF the
I National American Woman Suffrage
Association. viii furnish the necessary
funds.
A Morse Woman
/ Miss Iceland. who Is Of Morse parent
| age. got her idea from an English girl,
I Miss Ray Costello. who was the origi-
/ 1ator Ct the scheme n England. and
I who r inks Il would meet with great
| success in this country Miss Costello
| is now on a visit TO America She al
tended the suffragist convention IN
I Washington she VIII remain n this
; country to study conditions for q month
4 OF so and return 70 England 20 work n
I the campaign there Miss Costello, al
/ though still quite young. is a member
1 Of the executive COMMITTEES OF the Non
/ militant SuffragisL ASS Jc5ation Of Eng
{ land
we have not quite completed oE
plans for the gypsy tour Miss LELAND
paign. but several Minnesota gradU-
[ ates and q number Of other gin college
I graduates now In New York have de-
/ termined 10 make the experiment Our
D rrfnr
{ kots, where one Of the issues in the
State campaign IS votes for omen
Il shall leave New York for my home
T n Minnesota IN June and look over the
& situation. We VIII have 70 figure on tas
( cost and on an itinerary that viii give
I US the best use OF or time The best
! as possible. the courses OF the rivers
I because then We VIII have an itinerary
/ on which the towns are closest To-
/ sether-
VIII Have ChaperOn.
IF IL IS necessary 70 have a chap
l eron. and I suppose II viii be, my sis
/ ter and her husband have promised 70
/ chaperon US We VII live II, the wagon
4 and forase On the country as we 80
1 along. OF course, I dOE't mean 10 say
I We viii beg our food We VIII buy as
much as We can on the way
Should We ind tl2t We can accom-
pIfsh anything BY holding open meet
I fngE in the JOWu5 We pass through a2c
[ by an Intimate campaign among the
/ wives Of farmers and TaCClnen. We viii
1 branch out into other States and make
/ q regular business Of wagon campaign
/ ing
! Miss Costello IS firmly convinced that
1 the r-y-psv-xagon scheme win prove
/ s11ccessfuI IN America, as Il EaSet1 Eng
land She and four college companions
I orig mated the scheme several years
ago II England and now that British
] s71fTraRfsrs have g string OF wagons
/ that they sent all over the country dur
Ing the SIMMER months these wagons
! have become as u1s1ch pan o the
/ F-nrIisl, rsm0aiEns IN rural districts as
| ere the cart-Iaii campaigns IN large
/ American cities during the closing days
/ OF hot campaigns