New-York tribune., 1910-11-09
ALL NEW WORKERS LOVELY.
Women Watchers at Polls Enjoy
Courtesy of Mere Man.
MUCH LIKE AFTERNOON TEA
All Done Duty Most Attentive, !"
but Too Many Persons Came
TO Look at En-, Men Said.

The man who glued his ear to the tele-
phone at the headquarters Of the Volunteer
watchers Association. No. I Madison ave-
nue.. yesterday morning. ready 10 hear and
respond 10 calls for help from che women
watchers at the polls, had a duh day OF it.
From no. Il Bowery. where Miss Elizabeth
Ellsworth Cook was stationed, up to -Helrs
Kitchen" and the eashouse district quite
a Chester1eldan air pervaded every polling
place that held woman.
reporter who inquired at No $50 Sixth
avenue for the woman watcher was re-
huked for his language by the pstrolman
~ the door. You mean the lady watcher" q"
safe the bluecoat- In fact. broad ShOul-
dered ward worker AT No S0e Second ave
nue., where Miss lnez Milholland and Miss
Vida Milholland alteTnated in looking out
for fraudulent voters, put fl in a nutshell
when he explained. I'VE treat the ladies
as courteous as we can"
Men Perfectly Lovely"
Artemas Ward. jr-. voted before 9 o'clock.
81 No. $50 Sixth avenue, but early as he
was he found Miss Sarah Henry there
before him. Miss Henry. who was ap-
pointed by the Independence League, was
on hand before s o'clock She said when
she left al night that the men were per
fectly lovely all day. The only excite
nent at that polling place was when a
rude bulldog OF the superior sex tried 10
ejec; a ladylike but determined cat and got
8 good dose Of votes for women arEu-
ment from her for his pains.
Equally serene was the little italian bar
her shop where Miss Maude Jngersoll,
daughter Of the late Robert G. Ingersoll.
spent the day as watcher. Miss Lucy N.
CASTOR. Of the anti-cigarette forces might
have objected TO the atmosphere. but Miss
Ingersoll didn't In fact, when she got
there before daylight and noticed a man
holding an unlighted cigar she asked him
Sc he didn't want to smoke. Once inside
the guard rail she gave her attention to
the card indexes and the voters.
- Finds Experience Great"
I'm here in the interests Of good gov
eminent" she said. casting her yes over
the cohorts OF Charles Murphy. whose dis
trict that il. and I like the experience
Its great
Miss Cook, Cornell graduate. bankers as
sistant "a twenty-one and Nice-president of
the Equality League cf Self-Supporting
Women. who has been spending her months
vacation in strenuous suffrage work was
stationed at the place where she acted
watcher on registration day. on that day
she cha iienged thiTty-three men. Never
+helcss. she had a quiet time yesterday
one Of the few men whom she directed TO
swear in their votes was a giant in stature,
and any one Of them would have made four
Of Miss Cook. who IS but tiny, hut they did
her bidding meekly.
As the day wore on ii took an afternoon
tea effect from the automobiles which car
ried nice little packets of sandwiches 10
the women watchers that they might not
EtarVe In the morning Mrs. Frederick
Nathan was out in her own automobile,
and in the afternoon Mrs. Harriet Stanton
Blatoh and Mrs. John Winters Brennan
took i,p the good work, using the car of
Mrs. Thomas Chadbourne. jr. The latter
car a big yellow affair, with Miss Alberta
1{ill in a black and yellow hat riding with /
The chauffeur IN front TO direct him, took /
tnei fancy Of the populace on the |
Fast Side immensely. 1t also put the |
finishing touch TO the awe OF the men
a the polling places. BY common consent
They put aside the rule that no person /
not duly accredited shall so behind the