Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-08

used as headquarters. A big automobile
was pulled up in front of the tent, and
all during the afternoon hours one or
other Of the speakers among the suf-
fragettes was making a speech. They
were decidedly worth listening to- these
speeches, no matter what views the lis
tener entertained with regard to the
cause the speakers advocated. But they
were not listened to, except in a spirit
Of derision. Rough gangs of men and
boys stood around the automobile and
hooted. The speakers paid no attention,
but went on speaking amid gibes and
jeers. The gang of Rube-like cops scat
tered around the grounds offered no pro-
lection whatever to the women.
When the speeches were over the wom-
en-, with the big Votes for Women
In Indian file all over the grounds. De-
risive remarks. such as Pipe de COILS in
de bread line!' and Hey, Vilet, yer
out o. step!' and that sort of thing were
march. And yet they trudged along.
some of them with mesaphOnes. through
which all along the line of march they
continued to address the gliding throngs
There's lot of psychology in the
problem as to just why these cultivated
women do this sort of thing: rather. how
they can do it and stand it. They weren't
having bit of fun; that was obvious.
No dlmmest light of fanaticism shone in
the eyes Of any of them; they were all
trig. calm-eyed, handsomely dressed
American women OF the highest type. You
could imagine them at home supervising
the putting up of the autumn preserves.
II was and is all very queer. l asked
some of them whom knew to enlighten
me, but they told me to listen to their
speeches. and that thereby would be en-
lightened. The speeches were goOd-but
they didn't tell me just how and why
such women can endure the kind OF thing
that suffragettes in and around New
York must endure and probably will have
to endure for several hundreds of years
to come.
NN Il day next week ground is going
~ TO be broken for an eighteen-story
hotel-the piece of ground is in the fif-
ties. near Broadway-that is going to be
u winner.
There will be 400 rooms in the hotel.
Each room will be spacious and hand
somely furnished. Each room will have
a fine bathroom. And the cost per diem
for occupying each of these rooms will
be 81 a day-no more. no less. for any of
the rooms. whether they be on the ground
or the top floor. 1t is patterned after a
hotel which was started In London two
years ago. where the room and bath,
handsomely appointed, cost the equtva-
lent Of our $2-eight shillings a day. That
hotel in London has been damned to
the gun'ls since the first day It was
opened. and there is a waiting list OF
applicants for rooms there all the time.
consisting of nearly 400 names Several
hundred applications for rooms at this
New York two-dollar- day hotel have
already been filed with the proprietor,
although the first shOvelful of earth has
not yet been removed from the site and
a real estate man who generally knows
what he is talking about told me that
the man who is building this hotel Is
going to make at least 20 per cent OH
his investment from the first day that he
opens the doors.
There Is to he no bar and no restau-
rant. Ii will consist of just rooms and
bath and a handsome exchange. Botl