New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-01
FAREWELL FOR MRS. Gait
Luncheon Given Before She Sails
on Trip Around World.

An ocean liner two feet long. which would
cause any hoy 70 break the Tenth Com
mandment. occupied the place OF honor a
tho farewell luncheon in the Hotel Aston
yesterday for Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait
who Will sail next month on her suffrage
propaganda trip around the world. Deco
rated with the suffrage colors and with
huge lunches of vioIets. II foated proudly
above a sea Of good things to eat and
drink. tn which some Of tho Iunchers. as
the speeches went on contributed some
furtive tears
Mrs Gait who will go from here "a
Stockholm. 10 preside over the convention
Of The international Woman Suffrage Coun-
ell, and from there Will start on her trip,
had to listen to some heartfelt tributes
from her followers in tho woman suffrage
party. Everybody gave her praise. and the
district leaders gave her gavel-a gor-
geous silver mounted affair of dark wood,
with yellow votes-for- women sash tied
around it's waist Mrs Gait told the givers
she was glad it Was stout gavel. for she
might have TO use 1t on the heads Of the
customs officers i'm Germany.
THE last time | took gavcl into that
country" she said. three inspectors and
two higher officials spent an hour in con-
sultaton before they would admit II. In
Germany meetings arc not opened with
gaveI, but with "A bell. and when the IN
spectors asked me what that thing was
could only tell them il was a hammer. Evil
IDENTIFY they thought an American woman
with a hammer dangerous person TO
admit
Mrs Gait predicted that suffrage was
coming fast. THE awakening OF democ-
racy Is bringing the entranchisemcnt OF
women with it," she said. Conditions and
Influences over which we have no control
arc really doing mere to give women the
vote than all our work for it. The dreadful
fire last Saturday was an education. max
ing some who never thought OF these things
before ray that women should have part
I'm taking care of their sisters. We who
have leisure should be the sponsors, the
helpers of those who have no leisure, and
the truest way of helping is to invest our
sex with the political weapons which will
make governors. legislators. aldermen, po-
licemen. party leaders and Tammany Hall
respect us as force TO be reckoned with"
NfTS. JdileS Lees lsfUlfdN, ClidE HAL VI
the Borough Of Manhattan. who has been
associated closely with Mrs. Gait in her
work. had hard work to get through her
speech without crying.
Il believe | have "A Tree American spirit,
she said. but | thrill to-day with some
thing OF that oldtime feaity which made
men say, The king can do no wrong The
queen can do no wrong. Only one thing
helps me to-day. and that is that Mrs Gait
is coming back and we Of the party she
has founded must make good while she is
gone.
I'VE must justify her faith in the work"
Miss Mary Garrett Hay, who will sail
with Mrs Gait a week from today but
who will return in July, was one OF the
speakers Others were Mrs Frederick Ma
Il ali and DR.. Anna Shaw. Mrs. William
Warren Penfied, who will be acting chair
man of the party during Mrs. Cats alb
sence, presided
The Mems League for Woman Suffrage
was represented at the luncheon, and the
husbands of several % the speakers sat At
the round tables down below and listened
proudly while their wives Grated