New-York tribune., 1911-11-16
feds" RAISE $4,000
Convention Adds to Endowment
for Girls Education.
CHAIRMAN DEFENDS MAYOR
Miss Hay Heads Off filings at
ti-Suffrage Speech of
Day Before.

nen MISS Mary Garrett hay preSluenl
Of the New York state Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs. asked the delegates at yester-
Astor to please move up to the front of
the hall" they did so unsuspectingly. think
ing some extra nice speech was about to
he made 4 minute afterward some of
them wished they hadn't for Miss Hay i'm
mediately began to auction off chances to
contribute to the Feds" scholarship en-
dowment fund with a vigor that charmed
$4,000 out of their pockets in less than
half an hour.
Don't be backward in coming forward"
cried Miss Hay. Here we started a year
ago TO raise $4,000 to keep two nice girls
in college. and we've got only 10000 I
want you to pledge that additional s15,O
to-day"
81 pledge $500" said Mrs Cornelius
zabriskie, one of the Feds" former presi-
dents, who started the endowment fund
last year with gift Of $1,000. Later in
the morning yesterday Mrs Zabriskie gave
another 800, which made her contribution
$500. Pledges of S1OO came thick and fast
from all over the room Mrs William Cum
ming Story promised 500 for the New York
City Federation of Womens Clubs.
81 am sure" she said. "there are one
hundred women in the organization who
love me well enough TO give 81 each"
I'm one who does" cried Miss Hay. as
she laid down dollar. And now let us
have more pledges"
isn't Miss Hay fine auctioneer!" :" ex-
claimed the women on the platform.
"Sh-h Don't divert their minds from the
money giving" cautioned Miss Hay who's
ready with the next pledge?",
THE Equal Franchise Society Of Flush
ing, Long Island gives $780, said a dele
gate from that organization.
Good! Now let's hear from the antis,"
said Miss Hay.
There was no response TO this hint.
Miss Elsie Oerzen, one of the scholar
ship girls. now in her third year at Bar
nard College. was on the platform and
made a speech. 1t was brief and to the
point.
Il thank you very much for what you
have done for me-" she said
Echoes of the Mayors anti-suffrage
speech Of Tuesday were heard several
| times yesterday Mrs. John Francis
Younger, the corresponding secretary said
that she had been requested to read a
poem which appeared in one OF Tues
| days evening papers. 1t was a fling at
| the Mayors speech, each verse ending
with: Does your husband know you're
| out?"
During the reading Miss Hays eyes
| flashed at what she manifestly considered
| discourtesy to the Mayor as the conven-
gavel down. Yesterdays programme Is
! closed" she said crispy.
Many of the women did not like the
| Mayors structures. as was evident when
| Mrs Charles II. Steckler. the recording
| secretary, read the minutes of the pre-
viouS day.
You heard his honor's Speech" she
said. Shall 1 read it TO you to-day?"
mo. No" came from all over the
room. The speech was omitted
A long programme filled the day Luther
Halsey Gulick, head of the department OF
| child hygiene of the Russell Sage Foun-
| dation, told the women TO see to IL that
| the school floors were washed up. Mrs
| Archibald Shaw made an earnest plea
| that the girls Of New York might have
| the use of the armories one evening in
! the week for games and dancing Attor-
| ney General Carmody was to address the
| convention for the Democratic clubs. but
| he couldn't come. so Charles A. Towne
! former Congressman from Minnesota, sub
| stituted for him.
Mr. Towne said he wasn't going Ia
prejudice his cause by declaring himself
on woman suffrage. But" he added
God knows am so conscious of the dere-
| Lotions Of men that I'd like to be able to
look across the breakfast table and say.
| You are as much to blame as l."
job Hedges, speaking for the Republi-
can clubs, kept the women in shrieks of
| laughter for twenty minutes. They didn't
always agree with him. however.
I'D rather think wrong on politics than
not think at sll," he declared
NO! No! No. indeed,' cried his hear
! ers
Every seat i'm the grand ballroom of the
| Hotel Astor was filed last night and the
boxes We're crowded TO hear the debate on
suffrage between Mrs. William Force Scott
! and DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, president of
the National Woman Suffrage Association.
! Mrs. Scott, speaking for the antis, de
scribed conditions in the equal franchise
| states Of the West, which, she said, proved
| that woman suffrage was "a menace to the
! family, a revolution against the home"
Consider the states IN which suffrage
| has been granted to women-how they lie
geographically, all snug up against each
| other" said DIR. Shaw, replying. "Consd-
er that suffrage is granted by men. those
wise creatures able to govern themselves
! and us too DO you think the men Of Col
| orado. lying so near Wyoming, have given
their women the right to vote II its effect
| i'm Wyoming had been TO ruin the home
Have our men no more sense than that?
| | think they have"