New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-16
FARMERET7ES SEEK JOBSI
Mrs. Belmont Closes School and
Moves Headquarters.
FOLLOWERS sup IN THE AIR"
Right Hand Man at the Farm
Thought Job Permanent Till
Car Came for Her Trunk.

1uOu&ub oOp Si AGhChb III
Car Came for Her Trunk.
Mrs o. r. p Belmont In not builder Of
airships, but there are several hundred
persons In New York to-day who assert
that through her they are up in the air"
Seventeen Of these persons are the former
pupils OF the disbanded Brockholst School
OF Agriculture The rest are the paid-up
members Of the 18th Assembly District
Club of the Political Equality Association,
which. to their huge indignation. Is TO be
moved 70 Mrs Belmonts new suffrage
headquarters at No. 10 East Ast street,
in the 9th Assembly District
The final six of the seventeen dismissed
pupils arrived in New York yesterday
from Mrs Belmonts farm at Hampstead.
Long Island. where the school was but
is not.
Miss Ieonora Brokaw, who has been re-
garded al the star pupil ever since she
went there at the schools opening last
March. came day before yesterday. She
said yesterday, when seen at htue
restaurant at Bank and Washington
streets, where she had gone 10 seek
place as cashier. that her dismissal ana
the breaking up of the school came as
complete surprise. She had all along sup
posed that Mrs Belmont intended to make
it a permanent institution.
at was obliged to send Miss Brokaw
away" Mrs Belmont said yesterday at the
Offices OF the National Woman Suffrage AS
socia ton. No 800 Fifth avenue. she was
insubordinate and troublesome. | gave her
weeks notice some time ago, but she
refused to go. At last 7 sent my motor car
to the cottage where the girls lived, WIN
instructions to the man 10 take her anu
leave her. with her trunk, at the rall"eJ
station IN Westbury. He did So woulo
not have dismissed her had ] not known
that she had a home and parents in New
ark | would not dismiss a girl VINO had
no place TO CO."
Mrs. Belmont added that with her school
OF agriculture and the various branches OF
her suffrage organization she had too many
irons in the fire, ana felt compelled to coli
quarters in 4lst street.
One Ex.Student Talks.
One OF the Brockholt pupils, dism.ssel
five weeks ago, is an English woman OF
thirty-fve, a governess. She talked freely
about the school at Brockholt, but refused
to have her name used. saying that pub
licity would harm her in her work.
II am surprised that any fault has been
found with Miss Brokaw," she said. II
looked upon Lee-we all called her Lee-as
a splendid girl She was Mrs. Belmonts
right-hand man all summer long She had
in charge all the marketing OF the vega-
tables.
She was trusted to drive the bargains
with the marketmen who bought, and TO see
10 other business We ali liked her, ano
il seemed that Mrs Belmont reposed great
confidence in her.
1T was little more than a month ago
the governess continued, when We at ire
school began receiving letters from Mr.,
Belmonts secretary, telling us TO pack our
trunks and report at Mrs. Bemonts office
In New York, there 70 resign from inc
school Two girls received these letters
first; a few days later three others we're
dismissed and so on. I was greatly sur
prised and when in obedience 10 my letter
came TO New York asked Mr.. Mcmahon.
Mrs Belnont's man Of business. the mean
ing Of II. for 1 had hoped and expected 70
study agriculture seriously there and be-
come a farmer.
"Mr Mcmahon told me that next spring
the school would be opened on larger
scale Doubtless Mrs. Belmont found II
TOO expensive TO keep us there through
the winter, when there is not much farm
ing But the abruptness with which We
were dismissed is very distasteful. | have
been fortunate i'm finding a place as gov
erness. but I don't know what some OK
the six who were sent away to-day will
do.
There was one girl named Maisie-f
know she had no money-and there was
little widow Mrs Marie Miller, who gave
I'D her occupation as nurse 10 enter the
school and was heartbroken at it's being
closed. She hasn't the money to enter Cor
nell. and she had set her heart on learn
ing farming and getting little land OF
her own By and by.
This ex-farmerette added that she had
no fault TO find with her treatment at
said. THE conditions there were pleas
ant. and We didn't have much houseworll
TO do-chiefy outdoor work. But there
wasn't much regular instruction in farm
ing while | was there. though az Miss VIII
Jams the instructor, left there three days
after I arrived. I don't know much about
her methods. I never knew why she was
sent away, but her going left us without
anIr head"