The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-14

, lighted to meet an old New Yorker Qhe kind you know Edger Fawcett used to write about, and to. this she replied that if had come little sooner I could have met Hr Levi P Morton. He has been sitting by me for some time. He Is an old friend of mine We talked on and finally met on common ground. Our religion was the same. We were neither suffragette nor had we taken up The New Thought
 "She was waiting for her two daughters to come down from the Astor gallery, where bazar was being held by Mrs. George Gould, Mrs. Vanderbilt and oth- CTS for the benefit of crippled children. When I arose to leave she cordially shook my hand and gave me her name and address, saying that in ideas we were very close together Her name is of a lineage that goes back farther in the ancestral line than the Goulds and Vanderbilts.
 T entered New York with the Chan ler-Cavlierie episode and in reading about their differences I thought of what Ameie Rivers, who was one time the wife of John Armstrong Chanler, brother of Robert, said in her story, o Witness of the Sun Married love is liked cham pagne with the sparkle out she said. The Chanler brothers must have found 1t pretty fiat.
 My first meeting with some of the women of New York was through the courtesy of Mrs. William Gerry Sledge, president general of the Daughters of the Cateret club of Jersey City, given to the delegates of the Congress of Ances- tral and Patriotic societies of New Jersey on the two hundredth and fiftieth anni- versary of the founding of the City of Bergen.
 q was introduced to the receiving line as a Daughter of 1872 and also as a Daughter of the Confederacy, and marched with the Daughters of 1872 from the Fourth regiment armory to the Dutch Reformed church, founded in 16S0 A luncheon was served to the visiting daughters by the ladies of the church and it was a delicious one. Especially good
 
 Dutch maidens
 "One of the big gatherings of wom- en was the meeting of the suffragettes in Carnegie hall-the second annual convention of the woman suffrage party.
 There were few men at this meeting, but the women predominated with an overflowing house. The wealth apd cul- ture of New York was represented. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, a native of Ala bama, presided. Remembering she was from Alabama there flashed into my mind what Mrs. Joseph F. Johnston, wife of the junior United States senator from Ala bama, said last spring on coming to Bir- mingham to have her house in readiness for the home coming of her liege lord. During a few minutes chat about Wash ington Mrs. Johnston, who is always sym pathetic, said of President Taft that she did not think he was finding the office of President an easy one That he had had the Daughters of the Revolution, Daughters of 1912 and when she left he had the suffragettes. The sweet little Kentucky woman by whose courtesy I was at this meeting, and who by instinct and training was against woman suffrage, yet this daughter. a prominent society garet Chanler Aldrich was on the stage An ardent suffraget would not say any, thing against the growing movement in favor of women voting, she only said If her name was "Catt' she would certainly