The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-03-22
WOMEN VOTERS DAY
THn arr WHAT THEY WANT
" rtRRI TOWN VILLAGE.
short and sharp campaign FOR Ecttcr
watrr supply and Fire Protection
,iarkcd Their Ballots Iikc old Cam.
po,snrr. and Not Ono Was Thrown n out

TARryiowN. March FL. This villas,
vii have $1,000 to enlarge its water
supplv and las new mains for fire pro-
lection and Washington Engine Company
wall have new S. 800 automobile COM
hinarion fire lighting machine. thanks to
women Who voted to-day. II was a
day OF triumph for them. They came,
they voted and they won.
Never before in the history OF the
village have women gone into campaign
Ar 'hcy Wen, into the one which closed
tonight And they were only enlisted
IN tho fight six DAYS On March Is tho
Wourn's Civic League hold a meeting
., which they asked ID. s Merritt, engineer
for the Water Board to make talk on
Tarrvtown's water supply and it's needs.
Mr Merritt wis tn" right man for the
,oh and ~. old 50 efficiently of the need
Of better water supply that after he had
finished the women crowded around him
and pledged their support for the propo-
stlons And they kept their word
The next day women were being button
holod on the street By enthusiastic workers
ard no was not taken for an answer
Nearly every woman in Tarrytown was
talked with and a notice was published
IN the local papers calling on the women
TO go TO the polls and do their duty. The
women needed the call. and to-day out
Of 800 votes cast tho women cast more
than third of them.
The Women's Civic League i. not
suffrage organization Some members
favor suffrage and others oppose il
They stand for the betterment of the
village. and il it is necessary to Use the
ballot to accomplish this they embrace
the opportunity. Men of the village
are smiling tonight. and they are also
admitting that the women did it DR.
y n. Freelard. president of the Board
of Water Commissioners. said "Thc
women carried the day, and without
their ballots our propositions for a larger
wafer supply would not have been car
ned"
Boniires are burning in the streets.
marching clubs of iubiiunt residents
have been formed and with permission
of Village President +. r. Pierson they
are marc hing through the avenues with
drums ami torches. and in front Of the
home OF every woman taxpayer the men
-top and give three cheers. cucb aemon-
IxF
ne-.si ard the women are highly Glazed
over their first success.
Miss Sarah Walker, acting president
OF the Womeh's Civic League said to-
night -Isl't ii fine that we won? The
remarkable part is that we did not carry
IN systematic canvas 1t was our first
experience We favored the propositions
and we urged the women To vote our
women are TO he congratulated. This
II just the forerunner of better things
10 come We will now go in for cleaner
and better streets, new high school
and other improvements which will
need a campaign Of education We
are ready TO do our part and We think
We shall wil
Miss Helen Gould. although not able
'-red IN tie election. and every man
an her place Went to the polls and with
lin went Lis wife if she owned property.
b." fhird district. in which she resides.
gaye the propositions the larges, ma jori-
ties n proportion TO the vote east and
much Of the credit is given to her
Some Of the women vo,ers came TO the
fols with their h':sbands, others came in
groups and others were brought in auto
mobiles. In every polling place the men
offered TO assist the women to know how
hey should mark their ballots but the
women already knew and in the count
not one defective ballot was found
W unusual incident happened in the
inst district, where two women went
n 10 vote. one was deaf and the other
was blind The one who was blind could
hear her Instructions and she old the ballot
c'rks what she wanted Both voted and
The results showed that thoir ballots were
marked right. One colored woman voted
She was Mrs Ella n. Hatcher of Franklin
e.roet
here are about two hundred women
itorer'y owners in Tarrytown Among
'tem are Miss Helen Gould. Mrs. Ella
Hopkiu. Mrs 4 Polhemus Cobb. Mrs
Giherson and Mrs. Raymond Mac
Nahon
Mss Gould, whose residence is in the
lhrd district, did not put in an appear
"hce a. the polling place in the rooms
NJ ihe Washington Irving Fife and Drum
'orra on sheldon avenue Mrs Pol,
n"'Hns cobb. Mrs. Giberson and Mrs
hopEus however. cast their votes in
rcd F"'rles meat market. on South
Washington street. District 2. and sc
on about eighty other women.
Il "as the testimony of the inspectors
Ut aH oi the districts that the womer
VINO '"-' votes understood what had te
T." don" IN the way of marking their
biIl"'- and didn't take long to do it
't"N ol them spoiled ballots by putting
mo "o. -"s in the wrong square, but thai
'ah' a' any harm because in Tarry
''"h "'"ry voter is allowed to try three
'"' h" nspectoTs will exchange
'' '"d ballot for fresh one tw,ce
N' 'h"'N.rd has to 20 as it is fixed
'' Nr'h Iarrytown the Rockefeller
..f l.Jl"d by John Wirth won out
".''' r' 'c.ycd 2G5 ajorty. The propoH
''H 2" anprorrate s. 500 for an automo
''" IN" engine for Rockcfeller's hos'
''''Hr} '1rr"d