New-York tribune., 1910-01-30
ANTE-MEAT PLEDGE
SUFFR4GETTES' Plan.
Rain Prepents Meeting but
frdor an Cause Unchecked.

.,rs're not ducks" explained Miss M.r,,
DonneIly. secretary Of the Nat,ops,
corrosive woulen's Suffrage Union. $50
- we're forced to call of the meeting for
saturday afternoon and postpone it to Mon
sew afternoon at 3 o'clock"
This was yesterday afternoon. when III.
am was drizzling down, and even IN.
.sro-es for Women sign in front NJ +b.
,ss5ouarters. st No. l22 East sd street
red a forlorn. bedraggled appearance but
,,si6e the women quickly forgot the had
,esther. and worked enthusiastically over
,bejr plans for Mondays meeting.
Miss Donnelly. siiss Helen Murphy yrs
saphia VI. Doehinger- Mrs. Sadie McKav
NcKeene and others will address the mass
meeting on Monday, it is planned. and the
women expect Madison Square to be packed
with meat boycotters.'
I'VE will circulate pledges for the sign
ers 10 abstain from meat for thirty days."
they said. That is the first step, and you'u
see there'H be more than thousand house
keepers ready and anxious to sign
Anybody who has anything to say on
that subject viii be welcome to the suf
frsgette platform-that is. ANYBODY who
will come around TO their headquarters he
fore the meeting and satisfy the leaders
Of allegiance to the cause of woman's suf-
frage.
Why. last time. would you believe it7''
said Mrs. Loebinser, Indignantly. "a man
tunped on the platform. and said he wasn't
for votes for women but was against the
high prices for food. You'd think he'd have
had the courtesy to stay off our platform.
but he didn't"
The women in charge OF the meeting saw
that they have received hundreds of letters
from housekcepers. indorsing the proposed
meat boycott and advocating other means
OF reforming the method of handling food
sfufs in New York.
Were going TO present other resolutions
a. that meeting in Madison Square" said
Miss Donneily. One will call upon the
Health Department for a bigger force of
inspectors Of meat, and we're going to take
steps 10 acQuaint Mayor Gaynor with the
fact that the women of this city would
like 10 have all the meat here stamped
with the date of killing. so we can tell
fresh meat from the cold storage article"
Eggs should be stamped by farmers with
the date upon which they were laid, and
fowls should be tagged with the date of
killing. say the suffragettes, and they mean
to present these propositions 10 the meet
ing on Monday
We'll ask Mayor Gaynor," said Mrs
Loebinger. TO appoint women food inspec-
tors and they'll see that the housekeeper
gets z square deal
When mere man standing around the
headquarters suggested that the Mayor
was in favor OF cutting down expenses and
might refuse TO appoint more inspectors
Mrs Loebinger and Miss Donnelly Joined in
-ha -i-inu nar ne T-ninn
women 10 volunteer for such service. at
least for trial.
Alderman Frank Bowling, they said, was
going TO help them on Tuesday by intro
ducng in the Board Of Aldermen an ordi-
nance calling for the stamping of meat
and eggs with dates which would tell the
story TO the housekeeper.
Well be down there on Tuesday in
force" said Miss Donnelly, ito encourage
Alderman Dowling. And we think Mayor
Gaynor will be for 1t, too. Such an ener-
getic Mayor wouldn't try to economic in
that way, I'm sure
Meanwhile the wholesale meat dealers
say that their prices on beef will probably
hold steady this week. at an average of
around l-3 TO 81 cents a pound. and retail
dealers expect beef TO stand at about 4
cents W. Pork retreated from 20 TO IS
cents. and lamb from % to Is cents last
week and the dealers look for these prod
ucts % stand at last weeks figures, ap-
proximately.
Butter and eggs. say the dealers, which
went down about ! cent a dozen and a
pound. respectively, on Saturday, may drop
e little more on Monday if the arrivals are
large, but will probably hover arour- 80
cents pound for the one and "a cents
dozen for the other.
Practically all the large milk concerns
had their price down to s cents a quart
yesterday, and dealers expected that the
largest TWO concerns holding out, namely
the Borden company and the Sheffield
Farms. would come TO the same price this
week