New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-11-15
SUFFRAGE ARMY GROWS
Equal Suffrage Society Holds It's
Annual MEETING.

NO. m not going to the annual meeting
or the Equal Franchise Society I can't
stand seeing any more pads passed
around said one suffragist to another in
the corridors OF the building at No / Madi-
son avenue yesterday. The meeting was
held in the assembly room of that building
and the pads were passed around while
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Batch, chairman of
the legislative committee, made plea for
the sinews of war.
We need $1,000 for our work in Albany
this winter" she said. and we've got to
raise IT here to-day 1T is very important
for lis TO be on hand at the capital during
the whole of the session. we want to lose
no chance of prodding legislators. If we
get money enough to enable us to keep at
them We'll get our bill out of committee
this year and next year it viii go through
the Legislature We shall be voting in less
than five years.
No one would say how much money the
pads brought in. a member of the society
asked why members were required to pay
fiVe cents for the report of the legislative
| committee. which brought Mrs. BlatCh TO
her feet again. 1T gets on my nerves, "
she said. the way Mrs. Mackay doesn't
| charge YOU enough for things. If | had
my way you'd all have to pay to hear the
society's winter lectures"
Mrs. Mackay, in a wide black hat and a
trailing tunic gown Of black and white
presided over the meeting. In her report
rs president she announced an addition of
424 members to the 246 the society had a
| year ago.
Mrs Mackay laid stress on the fact that
the organization was free from all a1li-
ances. Il believe she said. lin an indie
pendent future. l believe, too, that the
time has come for to spread out, to
present our plea to all those men and
women in the Senatorial and Assembly
districts of this state who believe with US,
but who have not yet been able to find an
opportunity of enrolling themselves in our
army"
Mrs John Winters Brannan. Miss Caro-
line LeXow, Mrs. Henry Wise Miller, Mrs.
W. Bourke Cochran and Mrs. James W
Finch read reports Mrs Mackay an
uounced that the winter programme would
begin on January with a lecture at Max
inc Elliotts Theatre by Miss Sara Barn
well Elliott the history of woman suf-
frage in the United States Miss Ida NJ.
TarbeH viii speak on January 10, Charles
ZuebIin on February ,. Miss A. ]. 6. Per
Shaw on March . and on March IS Dr.
Edward Howard Griggs will wind up with
d talk on why We Should Win the
Fight
The society has a balance in the treas
ury of 1885, 81. Expenditures during the
year amounted TO S4,0S0 q Clarence H.
Mackay, who was reelected a member of
the board of directors. modestly occupied
a seat in the back of the hall.
The newly elected board is as follows:
Mrs Richard Aldrich, Mrs. Harriet Stan
ton Batch. Mrs. John Winters Brannan
Peter Townsend Barlow, Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait Mrs. ". Bourke Cochran, Mrs.
J. G. Finch, Mrs Robert Goelet, Colonel
George Harvey, Clarence H. Mackay, Mrs.
Mackay. Mrs. Howard Mansfield. Mrs.
Henry Wise Miller, the Rev. DR.. j. H. Mel
ish. Mrs. Frederick Nathan, Mrs Prilip
Lydig, RolIo Ogden, Mrs. Y. Simkhovitch,
W P Trent, Mrs. Egerton l. Winthrop,
jr., and DR.. Stephen S. Wise.